寶貝·珍妮·漢德森（貝蒂·戴維斯Bette Davis飾）曾是風靡一時的童星，整個漢德森家都依靠她的收入過活，這使她的性格變得日益扭曲和跋扈。比起珍妮，作為姐姐的布蘭奇·漢德森（瓊·克勞馥Joan Crawford飾）不過是一隻不足掛齒的醜小鴨，不僅妹妹對自己視若無睹，就連父親對她都大呼小叫態度惡劣，忍氣吞聲的布蘭奇在心中埋下了仇恨的種子。成年後的姐妹兩地位發生了逆轉，珍妮的愚蠢和怪癖讓她逐漸過氣，而頗有姿色的布蘭奇倒是在演藝圈獲得了空前的成功，儘管布蘭奇處處提攜珍妮，但珍妮無法平衡內心的落差，總是想方設法和姐姐作對。

　　一場突如其來的車禍使得布蘭奇永遠失去了雙腿，珍妮也因此變得瘋瘋癲癲，布蘭奇想把珍妮送進醫院，珍妮卻想消抹布蘭奇的存在，徹底的取代她的位置。最親近的兩個女人在一處隱秘的別墅裡開始了相互折磨的生活，而在這生活之下，似乎還隱藏著什麼不可告人的秘密。

Julian Berniers returns from Illinois with his young bride Lily Prine to the family in New Orleans. His spinster sisters Carrie and Anna welcome the couple, who arrive with expensive gifts. The sisters hope Julian will help with their expenses, and he tells them that while his profitable factory went out of business, he did manage to save money.

It turns out that Julian pulled off a real estate scam and took off with the money. Carrie is obsessed with her brother. Her jealousy of Lily pushes her to discover the shady land deal for herself and she does everything she can to wreck their marriage.

Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. Becoming an orphan in 1935, Collin moves to his dad's cousins Verena and Dolly. Verena is a rich, bossy businesswoman. Dolly, Collin and the maid revolt, moving to a tree house.

Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he escapes ...

An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about a restless young warehouse worker and would-be poet, Tom Wingfield, his fragile, reclusive sister, Laura, and his colorful but overbearing mother, Amanda, all living together in a shabby apartment in St. Louis during the Depression and struggling to dilute the grim realities of daily living by way of memories, fantasies, and grandiose dreams about the future.