No terceiro milênio, o mundo mudou. O clima, as nações, tudo entrou em revolta e o planeta se transformou em um deserto insalubre e desolado, conhecido como "A Terra Maldita". Milhões de pessoas habitavam as escassas megacidades, onde bandos errantes e selvagens urbanos geravam tamanha violência que o sistema judiciário não podia controlá-los. A lei como conhecemos entrou em colapso. Da decadência surgiu uma nova ordem, uma sociedade regida por uma nova força de elite da polícia, que atua como juiz, júri e carrasco, que são conhecidos como "Os Juízes". Dredd, o mais lendário dos juízes, é vítima de um plano que o incrimina como assassino e acaba banindo-o da cidade onde vive.

Joe Hallenbeck já foi agente do Serviço Secreto e agora trabalha como detetive particular. Sua mais nova cliente, uma dançarina exótica, acaba de ser assassinada e, ao lado do namorado da vítima, ele tenta encontrar os responsáveis pelo crime.

Principal suspeita do assassinato de seu marido, Mildred Pierce tem sua vida repassada em flashback. Vemos como era seu relacionamento com as filhas, o quanto dava duro para lhes dar tudo do bom e do melhor, e como uma delas a tratava mal, chegando a ter um relacionamento com seu padrasto. Oscar de Melhor Atriz para Joan Crawford.

Ao ser libertado temporariamente da prisão, um criminoso de rua consegue enganar os guardas e, em busca de vingança, vai atrás de sombras de seu passado, atrás de quem o transformou em um assassino sem piedade. Em uma batalha épica e sangrenta, ele busca de alguém que ele perdeu anos atrás, nas ruas de uma cidade que não perdoa.

Os nerds Lewia, Wormser, Poindexter, Lamar e Booger voltam nessa sequência, mas agora preparados para tirar férias e ainda participar da Conferência das Fraternidades Unidas. Má lá eles encontram os Alpha Betas unidos ao gerente do hotel, impedindo que os Tri-Lambs se hospedem no local. O que sobra para eles é a ala Ricky Ricardo do decadente Hotel Coral Essex. Isso provoca a ira dos rapazes, que planejam uma vingança.

A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.

Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore) é um cafetão que acaba sendo sentenciado a 20 anos de cadeia por conta de drogas e outros materiaIs contrabandeados plantados por seu inimigo, Willie Greene (D'Urville Martin), e policiais.

Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind bars. By the time he gets out of prison, he's determined to put together the pieces of his frame-up and dole out the justice he was denied to those responsible.

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.

Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."

Duell McCall is in New Mexico running afoul of local land baron.

McCall pauses long enough in his escape flight to come to the aid of black homesteader who is being victimized by the diabolical Foxworth.

Just as Nevada wins $7000 in yellowback bills, Ben Ide takes his $7000 and heads out to buy mining equipment. Burridge has his man Powell kill Ide and retrieve the money and Nevada finds Ide just as the posse arrives. Found with the money Nevada is arrested and Burridge now gets Powell to incite the local citizens to lynch Nevada.

Hoppy, California and Johnny partner up with brother and sister ranch owners, two of several who are having their access to water blocked by a dam owned by a greedy merchant in town, who is intent on driving them out and taking their land for himself.

Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle. Attracted to Herrick’s sister Helen, Jim decides to tell the Sheriff about the raid. But when his plan is overheard he is made a prisoner.

Superman's reputation is tarnished when a crook begins committing crimes in a Superman costume.

When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is provisionally released.

Louis Friedlander-directed film

Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an enemy of his own father, and his best friend, Sheriff Buck Gordon sets out to find the real killer in the face of pressure for a quick lynching of Clint.

When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.