现就职于纽约的邮局职工雅各布·辛格（蒂姆·罗宾斯 Tim Robbins 饰），曾是在越战中险象环生的退伍老兵。不堪回首的破碎记忆时刻刺痛着他的每一根神经，失败的第一次婚姻，夭折死去的儿子，以及折磨他最深的越战后遗症。他常常出现在越战服役期间被追杀的幻觉，熟悉又陌生 的种种细节，亦幻亦真。他的现任妻子试图帮助雅各布忘却这段痛苦的记忆，然而这些穿梭在梦境和现实里的情节遭遇，让雅各布彻底失去了理智。每当生死攸关的时刻，雅各布总会在另外一个时空醒来。孰真孰假的错觉，让他游离在现实和幻想的世界中不能自拔。

This very Kafka-esque film is Keaton's response to the Fatty Arbuckle scandal.[citation needed] Even though the central character's intentions are good, he cannot win, no matter how inventively he tries. He gets into various scraps with police officers throughout the film. Eventually, he unwittingly throws a bomb into a police parade and ends up being chased by a horde of cops.At the end of the film, Keaton's character locks up the cops in the police station. However, the girl he is trying to woo disapproves of his behavior and gives him the cold shoulder. Therefore, he unlocks the police station and is immediately pulled in by the cops. The film ends with the title "The End" written on a tombstone with Keaton's pork pie hat propped on it.One of Keaton's most iconic and brilliantly-constructed short films, Cops was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry in 1997.

故事发生在繁华的大都市上海，阿霞（周文倩 饰）的父亲（刘家桢 饰）背叛了她的母亲（吕丽萍 饰），母亲一怒之下决定离婚，并且带着阿霞离开了家。无处可去的母女两人只得选择投奔娘家。可是，阿霞的外婆（郑振瑶 饰）是一个思想非常传统的女人，她坚定的认为离婚是一桩丑事，并且冷酷的将母女两人逐出门外。之后，阿霞的母亲遇见了老李（孙海英 饰），两人带着各自的孩子组成了新的家庭，遗憾的是，阿霞在这个新家里备受欺侮，完全没有获得任何的温暖，最终，这个家也不能待了。此时，阿霞的父亲回心转意，希望妻子能够原谅自己，和自己再续前缘，但是阿霞对于父亲失望透顶。

讲述1945年日本投降后，被关押在战俘营的男子与自己的妻子怀抱着对爱的坚持，期待重逢的故事。