盛夏的度假时节，一位城市女人来到乡下滞留，这期间，城市女人诱惑了当地的农夫并教唆他杀死自己的妻子（Janet Gaynor 饰）以便贩卖掉农庄后私奔。被迷惑了心窍的男人早已忘记了那些同妻子共处的纯美时光，他将妻子带到河面蓄谋加害，却在要下毒手时幡然悔悟，伤心的妻子踏上了进城的列车，男人穷追不舍一同抵达城市。城市里真正是一片花花世界呵，这对夫妻在街上游走玩乐，在那些小小的玩笑中，甜蜜的冒险中，他们又找回了爱情的美妙共鸣……和好如初的两人返回乡村，不料却在归途遇上了肆虐的风浪……本片是德国导演茂瑙赴美发展后拍摄的第一部作品，曾被多家权威媒体评选为默片最佳杰作之一，获第一届奥斯卡最佳女演员、摄影等多项褒奖。

青年张宝根（姜武 饰）为了领取一套中奖得来的房子，离开家乡小镇来到上海，上海虽大，但宝根能投奔的只有自己的小阿姨金芳（陶虹 饰）。金芳为人斤斤计较，在收取了宝根租房款后勉强收留了他，但仍不时讥讽宝根的憨厚土气。在上海找工作时屡次碰壁，逐渐心灰意懒的宝根决意离开，在地下通道偶遇流浪歌手阿亮（伍佰 饰），最终因为阿亮的劝告而留下。不久，宝根在人头攒动的交易所发现了商机，开始每日向股民们提供快餐，生意竟然出乎意料的红火，宝根在街上又偶遇阿亮，热情地邀请他回到家里 ，但很快因为金芳的一张快嘴，阿亮又一次踏上了旅途。有了收入的宝根找到了留下的理由，而他和金芳之间，也渐渐加深了互相的了解……在快速旋转的大城市中，也许宝根真能实现自己的希望。

A comatose five-year-old girl journeys through an industrial wonderland to find her way back to consciousness.

In his bold, poetic approach, Clu Gulager manages to pack a decade's worth of experimentation into a fast, economical 20 minutes. Images dissolve and bleed into one another, freeze-frame and turn into paintings. Gulager also utilizes different camera speeds and even (and this is something I haven't seen before) the grain of the film to achieve his effects. Laszlo Kovacs' sun bleached photography helps immeasurably in streamlining such techniques into a powerfully eccentric, disturbingly compelling narrative. Far from pretentious (the word I'd use to describe most "experimental" films from the late sixties), this film comes off both as a celebration of childhood innocence and an uncompromising examination of its darkest extremes. And furthermore, Gulager and Kovacs achieve what may be the most unsettling final freeze frame ever.