十八世纪末期的纽约，警察们还延用古老的办案方式，对罪犯刑讯逼供，年青的警察伊卡布·克瑞恩（约翰尼·戴普 饰）笃信科学的办案方式，因此受到市内同行的排挤，被派到一个叫断头谷的小镇办理一起连环凶杀案。
　　断头谷一直流传着关于“无头骑士”的传说，据说，他是因为嗜血而战的黑森林雇佣军，被敌人割去头颅后，他的孤魂一直在断头谷游荡，在月黑风高之夜，他会骑着快马、 拿着大斧将经过此地的行人的头颅割下。两个月内，小镇中已经三个人惨遭毒手。
　　克瑞恩住进了当地富豪范塔索（迈克尔·甘伯恩 饰）家中，他对“无头骑士”的传说不以为然，但是，又有人接二连三的死去，他还亲眼目睹了“无头骑士”砍掉小镇治安官的头颅，他不得不相信传说的存在，也坚定了要查出真相的决心。
　　经过一番调查，克瑞恩将疑点放在了范塔索身上，同时，他和范塔索的女儿卡翠娜（克里斯蒂娜·里奇 饰）刚刚萌芽的爱情也被残酷的现实所摧毁。
　　就在克瑞恩以为一切真相大白，黯然神伤中准备离开断头谷时，事情发生了意想不到的变化……

　　畅销书《行为的驱使力》的作者玛格丽特·福特是位精神分析专家，为帮助她的病人比利，一个因赌博欠债、生命受到威胁的赌徒，她实地深入赌场了解赌徒的心理状况，并在那里认识了比利的债主迈克。油嘴滑舌的迈克满嘴甜言蜜语，极力拖玛格丽特下水。在迈克的诱引下，玛格丽特自身的一部分似乎复 苏了，达到了某种“解放”。她参加了一个所谓的赌博骗局，试图从中渔利，但这个精心设计的骗局却出了漏子：玛格丽特不小心杀死了一个警察，这下玛格丽特可亏大了。后来，玛格丽特发现这一切原来都是一个大骗局，她被迈克坑了。为捞回亏掉的钱，玛格丽特也设了一个局，却被迈克识破，她不得不开枪将其打死。没有了债主的玛格丽特成了一个道地的赌徒，她用迈克教她的方法去获得自己想得到的东西。

　　故事发生在1964年的6月，一辆载有三位民权主义者的车辆被三K党所劫持，之后一行人音信全无。鲁帕特（吉恩·哈克曼 Gene Hackman 饰）和艾伦（威廉·达福 Willem Dafoe 饰）是两帮调查局的探员，他们被指派调查这起恶劣的事件，然而，当两人到达小镇开始调查时，却发现他们的工作遭遇了重重的困难，没有人愿意相信他们，更没有人能够提供有价值的线索。
　　皮尔（布拉德·道里夫 Brad Dourif 饰）是小镇的副镇长，同时亦是一名坚定的三K党成员，个性粗暴邪恶的他常常将软弱温和的妻子（弗兰西斯·麦克多蒙德 Frances McDormand 饰）揍得遍体鳞伤。鲁帕特十分同情皮尔妻子的遭遇，随着时间的推移，皮尔的妻子渐渐对鲁帕特产生了感情，这让鲁帕特和艾伦看到了案件的突破口。

　　由布莱恩·德·帕尔马（Brian De Palma）指导， 保罗·施拉德（Paul Schrader）编剧的《迷情记》（Obsession / 1976）是一部文艺气息相当浓厚的悬疑片。帕尔马导演一反常态，并没有在影片中过分卖弄血腥暴力，而是以细腻的手法把一个奇异的故事拍得如梦如幻，韵味十足。
　　本片的摄影保持了帕尔马导演一如既往的高水准。而本片的配乐则是由著名大师伯纳德·赫尔曼（Bernard Herrmann）创作而成，他的音符亦是为影片迷离而神秘的气质加分不少。
　　包括导演及编剧在内的主创们都坦率承认，《迷情记》是受到了传奇导演阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克（Alfred Hitchcock）的《迷魂记》（Vertigo / 1958）的影响而摄制上映的影片，是一部带有致敬色彩的门徒式电影。

被迫与她的男朋友，雷恩旅行，她开始体验与城市神话的爬行者相关的预感。雷恩相信某种超自然的东西被召唤了出来，而她是这一切的中心。

　　Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg follows a week in the life of Abel Rosenberg, an out-of-work American circus acrobat living in poverty-stricken Berlin following Germany's defeat in World War I. When his brother commits suicide, Abel seeks refuge in the apartment of an old acquaintance Professor Veregus. Desperate to make ends meet in the war-ravaged city, Abel takes a job in Veregus' clinic, where he discovers the horrific truth behind the work of the strangely beneficent professor and unlocks the chilling mystery that drove his brother to kill himself.

　　曾在西班牙杀过人的水手Michael O'Hara（奥逊·威尔斯 Orson Welles 饰）回到了纽约，一天夜里他在路上救了遭到打劫的美女Elsa（丽塔·海华斯 Rita Hayworth 饰），于是Elsa让她的丈夫，律师Arthur Bannister（埃弗雷特·斯隆 Everett Sloane 饰）找到Michael，让他来船上当水手。Bannister一家刚从上海回到纽约，正要坐船前往旧金山。在海上航行的时候，Michael和Elsa情愫暗生。而Michael也认识了Arthur的朋友George Grisby（Glenn Anders 饰）。George知道Michael曾经杀过人后，想让Michael再杀一个人，并承诺给他五千美元的佣金，而他想让Michael杀的人，就是George自己。原来George想制造自己已经死了的假象，然后从现在的生活和他的妻子身边逃走。两人的计划看起来天衣无缝，George却失手杀死了Arthur的管家，随后George也真的被杀。Michael被认为是两个死者的凶手，法庭上，为Michael辩论的却是他的情敌Arthur，到底谁才是杀死George的真正凶手？

　　Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) is a take-charge captain of industry who has worked his way up in a San Francisco steel company from a position as a sheet metal worker. He loves his wife Irene (Helen Walker) very much and they have planned a vacation drive together. Irene cancels at the last minute claiming a toothache, but asks that Walter drive her cousin Jim Torrance (Tony Barrett) as far as Illinois. Walter agrees and he and Jim take off together but later Jim knocks Walter unconscious and takes the car only to be hit himself by a truck and killed, his body burned beyond recognition. Walter comes to and suffering a concussion and deep confusion from feeling betrayed by Irene hides out in a small Midwest town until guilt and peer pressure force him to go back to San Francisco and tell his story to the Police. But by the time Walter returns to San Francisco a clever detective Lieutenant Quincy (Charles Coburn) has uncovered some facts about Irene and her cousin' Jim. The police have been holding Irene for the murder of her husband Walter but release her considering that Walter was hiding out because he had killed Jim. Along the way to uncovering the truth in Court Walter realizes some hard fact about what he holds valuable and the trust he has put in those around him.

　　Accomplished novelist Richard Sykes struggles to come up with a concept for a new book while trying to resolve his troubled marriage to Haley. In the process, he seeks out friends and colleagues to assist him in overcoming his personal demons that may servr to make him or break him.

　　雷尼（约翰尼·德普 Johnny Depp 饰）的妻子出了轨，他发现她和另一个男人躺在床上，他提出了离婚。然而，婚姻的阴影并没能使雷尼恢复原气。他的文笔开始暗淡无光，找不到从前的创作激情。于是，他来到了一个湖畔小屋疗伤创作。然而这个小屋，却给他带来了新的麻烦。
　　首先是一个陌生人的造访令他十分恼火。那人声称雷尼抄袭了他的作品，雷尼百般解释也不能让他信服。于是雷尼翻箱倒柜，想找出原稿，却发现原稿离奇失踪。惊悚事件陆续有来，整个小屋，好像出于某种危险的情势中，雷尼非常害怕，然而却查不出缘由。是不是前妻和她的情人在作怪？他们到底有何目的？然而，真相却让雷尼自己都不敢相信。

　　In the Post-World War II, in Los Angeles, a criminal shots and kills a police officer in the middle of the night. Without any leads, the chief of the LAPD assigns Sgt. Chuck Jones and Sgt. Marty Brennan to investigate the murder and apprehend the culprits. When the dealer of electronics devices, Paul Reeves, is caught selling a stolen projector, the police identifies the criminal, and connects him to other unsolved robberies. Using the witnesses of his heists, they draw their face, but the true identity of the smart and intelligent criminal is not disclosed. The perseverance of Sgt. Marty Brennan in his investigation gives a clue where he might live.

　　男孩亚历克斯（温斯洛·费格雷饰）是一位恐怖故事迷，他被邪恶的女巫（克里斯滕·里特饰）囚禁在魔法公寓里，要想活下去，他必须每晚讲一个恐怖故事。他与同样被囚禁在此处的亚丝敏（莉娅·朱厄特饰）联手，寻找逃脱的方法。

　　十九世纪末，残暴的地主Seamus Laurent屠杀了一个罗姆人部族，给他的家庭和村庄带来了诅咒。在接下来的日子里，镇民们被噩梦所困扰，Seamus的儿子Edward失踪，一个男孩被发现被谋杀。当地人怀疑是野生动物，但来访的病理学家约翰-麦克布赖德警告说，森林里潜伏着更邪恶的存在。

　　伊文蓝道（赖瑞德瑞克饰）一直梦想成为和父亲一样做个医生，当他真正成为小镇医生后，因为妻子突发无可救药的心脏病，使她陷入疯狂境界，为了挽救妻子，他开始实验活体心脏移植，结果一次计划出差错使他变成神经病送进精神病院，在院中他又悄悄进行解剖活人夺取心脏的恐怖实验，在对一位医生不用麻醉药开取心脏后，他逃出医院回到小镇，企图重拾他已经破碎的医生美梦。

　　故事发生在末日，病毒肆虐，凡是被感染的人都将被焚化，保罗一家人小心翼翼生活在森林里，突然有一天一个不速之客的造访，让他们的生活天翻地覆....

　　一名马童令人费解地戳瞎了6匹马的眼睛。“恋马”的情节围绕性唤醒、希腊神话和宗教展开。虽然精神病医师试图解释艾伦的残忍行为，但在此过程中，他必须面对自己的心魔。

　　一名年轻的单亲妈妈兼警探莫顿发现郊区的一间房子遭到一个复仇怨灵所诅咒，这使进入房子内的人都会惨死。进入被诅咒的屋子中的她们必须设法从中救出自己和她的儿子，以免受怨灵的袭击。

　　这晚，纽约州又一名机场管理员巴克暴毙在停机坪上，尸体乾瘪瘪的被人完全抽干了所有的血。这一事件震撼了新闻界，因为先前在缅因州也发生了类似的命案，于是，“吸血鬼复活”的传言传遍了美国的大街小巷，一时人人惊慌。这晚，在马里兰州雷雨之夜，身穿漆黑大披风的夜行者再次驾驶飞机犯案，又两位无辜的市民度惨死在他手中，犯案情节竟和《吸血鬼瑞菲》的电影情节一模一样。报社主编莫里森（丹尼•莫纳汉 Dan Monahan 饰）让拥有飞机执照的资深记者理查德（米高•佛瑞 Miguel Ferrer  饰）越州对这一事件进行深入报导，到底还有多少人命丧恶魔之手？

　　在北卡罗来纳州偏远的树林里，一个名叫所罗门的盲人少年独自生活，完全与世隔绝。 尽管身体有缺陷，所罗门仍然能够通过在他的腰部系一根长绳子来导航他的周围环境，该绳子被拴在他居住的小屋上。 所罗门只带着他的绳索，靠捕鱼、觅食和捕捉小动物作为食物而生存。 另一个激励他的是包含三个神秘规则的录音信息： 第一个规则：当你狩猎或拾荒时，为两个事物而做 —— 一是为了森林，一是为你。第二个规则：当你的意志几乎消失，想放弃时，在唱我们的歌中找到安慰。第三条规则：你永远不能放开绳子。

　　“B级片之王”罗杰·科尔曼（Roger Corman）改编自爱伦坡（Edgar Allan Poe）多个短篇故事的经典恐怖片。

　　两名高等法院的法官遭杀手谋杀，法学院高材生达比（朱莉娅•罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰）随后开始调查此案，起草一份该案的报告，名为《塘鹅报告》。达比找到了记者格兰（丹泽尔•华盛顿 Denzel Washington 饰），因为他是最后一名见到其中一名法官的人，希望能得到他的帮助调查此案。一天格兰接到了一个神秘人来电，此人自称知道谁是该案凶手，格兰跟踪到了此人，可惜未能拦下他。
　　此时，总统暗中命令相关人士不要插手此案。格兰由此起疑，随后调查到了总统和马氏集团关系密切，而且一切证据都表明，马氏与两位法官的死有着千丝万缕的关系！

　　“水妖”的传说在西方家喻户晓，据说那是一群住在海、河或森林中的美丽少女。一栋公寓的门卫克里夫兰（保罗·吉亚玛提 Paul Giamatti 饰）在夜里巡逻时，发现在游泳池里有一位少女，他救她出来，得知她名叫斯托丽（布莱丝·达拉斯·霍华德 Bryce Dallas Howard 饰），原来就是传说中的水妖，正在被怪兽追逐。为了帮助斯托丽回到原来的世界，克里夫兰找来许多大厦住户帮助，也慢慢爱上了这个与众不同的女孩，可惜时间紧迫，斯托丽在这个世界耽搁越久，越会惹来怪兽袭击，甚至开始威胁这个世界人们的生命……

　　New York private detective Duncan "Mac" MacLain is blind but has keenly developed all his other senses. He pursues his work assisted by his faithful guide dog Friday, his butler, Alistair, and his assistant, Marty. Retired actress Norma Lawry, an old friend, comes to Mac seeking advice. Her headstrong 17-year-old step-daughter Barbara, herself a promising actress, is enamored with her leading man in a small theater production, the much older Lothario Paul Gerente. Paul, who had once been Norma's lover, has convinced Barbara that Norma actually wants Paul for herself and has only married her father Stephen for his money. At Mac's urging, Norma tried to reason with Paul, but he insists that he loves Barbara and laughs her off. Barbara is equally disdainful of her and agrees to meet Paul for dinner that night at his apartment.
　　Norma's husband Stephen Lawry is a scientist leaving that night on a trip to test a secret invention on which he has been working for the government and the war effort. Worried about Barbara, she uses a pretext not to accompany Stephen and goes to the apartment. When Barbara arrives, she finds Paul's dead body and thinks that Norma has killed him, even though Norma insists that he was dead when she arrived. Barbara threatens to call the police unless she leaves Stephen. Fearing that a scandal will hurt him, Norma agrees. Norma then turns to Mac, who goes to Paul's apartment with Friday and Marty, only to find the body and the rug under it missing. A man arrives to replace the rug and Mac hides in a closet, overhearing a telephone call to Norma's number from "Gabriel" to "Vera." Mac accidentally gives himself away, but with Friday's help overpowers Gabriel, who refuses to talk. Mac has Marty hide him to keep him under wraps.
　　Norma returns to her country home unexpectedly, which discourages an espionage ring that includes her butler, Hansen, from breaking into Stephen's safe and stealing his plans. They have killed Gerente, who was also an agent, and hidden the body. Mac arrives with Friday at Norma's house and pretends to be her curmudgeonly "Uncle Mac" who has come for a visit. His blindness lulls any suspicions Hansen might have about him. Shortly thereafter, Barbara comes home from an "emergency rehearsal", called to get her out of the house by her director, Cheli Scott, who inveigles an invitation to spend the night at the Lawry home. Unknown to Barbara and Norma, Cheli is the ringleader of the spies. Cheli ordered Paul killed because his affection for Barbara was beginning to limit his effectiveness, and she immediately suspects Mac is not what he seems.
　　Gabriel's wife Vera, the Lawrys' maid, is also a part of the plot. When Gabriel does not return home, Vera becomes hysterical with worry. Mac secretly asks Vera to meet him in the greenhouse, using her worry about Gabriel as a lure. She is observed by the others, however, and is killed by Hansen before she can reach Mac. The spies cut the house's telephone wires so that Mac and Norma cannot call the police, and Cheli has Mac locked up under guard. Using his blindness as a distraction, Mac overpowers his guard and releases Friday out a window with instructions to "go home and get Marty." Stephen arrives home and Cheli threatens his family if he does not give her the final step in creating his invention, which was not in the safe. Barbara finally realizes how much Norma actually cares for her. Mac tries to stall for time, but is locked in the cellar. When Hansen goes to kill him, Mac has broken the light bulb and his advantage of total darkness helps him overcome the spy. Marty and Friday return with the police. When Friday is spotted by a lookout, Mac overpowers him and is saved from being shot by another lookout by Friday. After the spies are captured, Stephen and Norma are off to Washington, D.C., with Barbara remaining behind to care for her new "Uncle Mac."