Η συναισθηματικά αυτοκαταστροφική πορεία της ζωής ενός πυγμάχου, του Τζέικ Λα Μότα, τον οποίο η βία και ο θυμός οδηγούν στην κορυφή μέσα στο ρινγκ αλλά καταστρέφουν τη ζωή του έξω από αυτό. Ο Τζέικ θα βιώσει την άνοδο και την πτώση ενός ειδώλου, στην προσπάθειά του να αντιμετωπίσει τον σκληρότερο εχθρό του, δηλαδή τον ίδιο του τον εαυτό

Carefree single guy Charlie Waters rooms with two lovely prostitutes, Barbara Miller and Susan Peters, and lives to gamble. Along with his glum betting buddy, Bill Denny, Charlie sets out on a gambling streak in search of the ever-elusive big payday. While Charlie and Bill have some lucky moments, they also have to contend with serious setbacks that threaten to derail their hedonistic betting binge.

The act of a woman with a broken nose, who suddenly jumps out of a taxi and throws herself off the bridge in Belgrade, connects the lives of three witnesses.

Camille falls on the nose. A stupid fall, apparently benign, but Camille feels her nose moving, growing, inside. The fear of looking like Fabio and his big adolescent body, his grandmother deformed by the disease, the pigs of the old man, seized her. Fear of losing shape.