在立志成为画家之前，梵高（柯克·道格拉斯 Kirk Douglas 饰）曾经是画廊里颇有前途的售画员，经过几次情感失败之后，他开始尝试成为一名画家。梵高悲天悯人的性格让他能与贫穷矿工们和谐相处，用画笔描绘他们的悲惨生活。他的画奔放热情、情感肆意，但却得不到主流画坛的欣赏。梵高邀请当时正崛起的印象派画家高更（安东尼·奎恩 Anthony Quinn 饰）一同去法国南方作画。多年来，弟弟提奥一直在经济上支持梵高，甚至为他资助高更去南方的所有费用。刚开始两人其乐融融，一起创作了很多高水准的作品，但因两人的个性互不相容，逐渐产生激烈争吵。高更试图离开，梵高为此精神受打击，试图持刀威胁高更，高更仓皇而逃，梵高最终自残割下了自己的耳朵。孤独、贫困的梵高受精神病所折磨，几度进入病院疗养。而他始终没有停止绘画，一直在等待大众的赏识，最终精神崩毁，开枪结束了生命。　　安东尼·奎因凭此片荣获第29届奥斯卡金像奖最佳男配角。

American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].

巴利斯（贾可·塞纳斯 Jacques Sernas 饰）是特洛伊城的王子，一次偶然中，他邂逅了美丽的海伦（罗桑娜·珀德斯塔 Rossana Podestà 饰），突破了重重的障碍和阻力，巴里斯最终将海伦带回了特洛伊城。　　哪知道，海伦的真实身份，竟然是斯巴达国王（尼尔·麦吉尼斯 Niall MacGinnis 饰）的宠妃，为了夺回心爱的女人，斯巴达国王向特洛伊城发起了进攻。英勇的希腊士兵如同潮水一般的涌入了特洛伊城，却遭遇了顽强的抵抗，最终大军无功而返。正在庆祝胜利的特洛伊人们并没有注意到，在撤退之时，希腊人留下了一匹大得有些离谱的木马。

著名的希腊神话故事，特洛伊城的巴利斯王子，爱上了美丽非凡的海伦，并不顾一切的将她带回了特洛伊城。谁知海伦本是巴斯达国王的爱妃，愤怒的巴斯达下令向特洛伊城发起进攻，一场残酷的战争拉开了序幕。英勇的希腊士兵如潮水涌向特洛伊城，结果无功而返，慌乱中，遗留下一匹巨大的木马。兴奋的特洛伊城士兵只顾高兴地庆祝着希腊士兵的撤退，对希腊的木马却完全视而不见。夜幕降临了，许多全副武装的希腊士兵悄悄地从大木马的腹中钻出来，向特洛伊城大举进攻……