弗兰克（凯文?科斯特纳 Kevin Costner 饰）是前总统的保镖，他责任心强，公私分明，从不和雇主发生感情。但是歌手雷切尔（惠特尼?休斯顿 Whitney Houston饰）却打破了他的信条。雷切尔是一个魅力非凡的女歌星，无数人甘愿做她的裙下之臣。这天她收到匿名信，恐吓说要杀掉她。雷切尔惟有请来弗兰克做保镖。尽管二人之前并不认识，但在相处中，弗兰克还是被雷切尔的魅力征服，二人堕入爱河。然而职业的操守和理智，让弗兰克变得自制。他认为雷切尔是雇主，他的首要任务是保护她的安全，他刻意和雷切尔保持一定的距离，这一切伤透了雷切尔的心。她怀疑弗兰克的真情时，弗兰克却给了她一个坚定的答案。

清朝初年，朝廷有令民间不得习武，少林寺方丈深知这是清廷视武学发源地的少林寺为肉中刺欲除掉的结果，预感少林寺迟早会遭大劫，决定广收俗家弟子予以栽培，将少林绝学遍布民间，以期造成“野草烧不尽”之势。消息一号，渴望习武的血性男儿纷纷响应，其中以方世玉（傅声）、胡惠干（戚冠军）、洪熙官（韦弘）等人求武之心最诚，终入少林寺大门，与他们一同入寺的，还有胡德帝（姜大卫）、蔡德忠（狄龙）等反清义士。众人虽为大义而来，各人心里却有不同的小九九，并逐渐归入不同派别。而最终成为正义一方的方世玉与胡德帝等人以少林绝学了却了自己的仇恨后，发觉清兵已对少林寺展开偷袭行动，决意为少林寺赴汤蹈火。

At the age of eight, the now 25-year-old director caused an incident, which has remained traumatic as he became older. Although it seemed just a trivial matter, something one might expect from children, he obstinately questions his family, friends and teachers about what happened at that time. Worrying over the thoughts of dishonor he saw in his family’s eyes then, he has fostered a self-hatred over the years. As if reconstructing the past with his camera, he attempts to free himself of this self-hatred, shedding tears for himself at times and opening his own wounds, then healing them. What he has discovered through filmmaking was his once sealed “self.” The question now is, where to go from here?

曾参加过美国内战的退伍老兵埃森·爱德华兹（约翰·韦恩 John Wayne 饰）战争结束后返回家乡德克萨斯州，来到哥哥的农场希望与亲人重聚团圆。埃森一直暗恋着自己的嫂子，只把这份感情放在心底。然而一场科曼奇族的突袭，让埃森的心愿彻底粉碎。在这次印地安人的袭击中，埃森的哥嫂双双被杀，侄女黛比（娜塔利·伍德 Natalie Wood 饰）被掠，生死未卜。为了给自己心爱的嫂子复仇，也为了找到黛比的下落，埃森在哥哥养子马丁（杰弗里·亨特 Jeffrey Hunter 饰）的陪伴下，开始了艰难的搜寻岁月。埃森不惜耗时五年和花费千元赏金来寻找酋长斯卡的下落，然而埃森对印第安人彻骨的仇恨和几近疯狂的举动，让马丁开始怀疑叔叔搜索黛比的真正原因，马丁甚至担心，埃森会杀死已被印第安人同化的黛比。