《小镇大街》故事围绕着北卡罗莱那州某小镇上的一群居民展开，他们平静的生活被一个陌生人的到来所打破。

朱一龙在学校里拍的一部小短剧，在里面饰演一对双胞胎隋昕和隋意，剧情大概是：隋昕认了女主卓小布当妹妹，女主慢慢喜欢上了他，但他有喜欢的人。隋意和隋昕是双胞胎，隋意在追女主好友并且追到了，女主误以为那是隋昕，所以心情不好后来看到他俩一起逛街之后就手机关机呆在家里。有一天隋昕打电话问女主周末校医院开吗，回答说不开，女主要陪他被拒。结尾，女主打开手机，发现里面都是隋昕的晚安消息。误会并不可怕，可怕的是偶然的放弃。

一位叫鲁提欧的中年酒吧老板因有同性恋倾向而因此引来一场家庭风暴，其子恰瓦则一心想赴美国淘金出人投地，极力怂恿他的好友艾贝与他一起前往美国淘金，但艾贝因已爱恋上了他的邻居女儿艾咪塔而无意与他一同前往美国。有一天，恰瓦忍无可忍，动手打伤了他父亲拼上的一位小白脸，怆惶逃离哀求他好友艾贝与他一起偷渡去美国淘金，艾贝也为了去搛点钱来迎娶自己的情人，乃和恰瓦一起偷渡来到了美国，而年轻美貌的艾咪塔在贪图金钱的母亲胁迫下，在艾贝去美国淘金后被迫答应下嫁给一位富人老头，但却不料此老头在结婚前夕突然暴毙……

Nan, a racketeer's daughter, is in love with The Kid, a shooting gallery showman. Despite Nan's prodding, The Kid has no ambitions about joining the rackets and making enough money to support Nan in the lifestyle she's accustomed to. Her attitude changes after her father implicates her in a murder and she's sent to prison. During her incarceration, her father convinces The Kid to join the gang in order to help free Nan. When Nan is released, she wants nothing more to do with the mob and tries to get The Kid to quit, but she may be too late.

This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.

A young Marine is kidnapped by terrorists in Lebanon. His twin brother, frustrated at his inability to get any kind of information from the government about his brother's plight, travels to Lebanon with a plan for his own rescue operation.

A family-run meat shop struggling to survive stumbles onto the secret of success - and is obliged to keep up with insatiable customer demand.

Alvin Merle, a womanizing Broadway matinée idol, is found strangled in his dressing room. The door is locked from the inside and there is no possible other way into the room. Merle is having an affair with his leading lady, while his wife, actress Ethel Wynn, appearing in another play in a theater around the corner, is doing the same with Frank Murray, the stage manager on Merle's play. Newspaper reporter Jim Ryan is investigating the case and meets Jean Royce, a young actress who had been fired from the play while in rehearsals. Everybody, including Michael, the old actor now relegated to being just a stage-doorman, has a motive. The explanation for the murder lies within the script of the play.

本片从两个孩子的视角出发，以季节更替为线索，分四个段落讲述了一个以土耳其小镇为背景的家庭故事。故事第一段展现了一户人家，家中11岁的女儿正是上小学的年纪。她还不习惯面对无情的社会现实以及生活给她的残忍伤害，但她必须学会适应。第二段发生在春天，女孩和小他四岁的弟弟相伴前往玉米地，他们的家人正在那里等着他们。穿越玉米地时，他们似乎体悟到了自然与旷野的神秘。第三段中，这对姐弟目睹了成人世界的复杂与黑暗。最后一段发生在家里，梦境与现实在这里平静地交错。本片以导演的个人回忆与自白为基础，辅以大量自然取景与固定镜头，可看出锡兰标志性的导演风格已初具雏形。 由于过去一段难以磨灭的痛苦经历，一对老夫妇分居已久。阔别多年后，终于有一天，他们再次相见，打算开诚布公地谈一谈，以期时间能够修补情感的裂痕。但是这次本应弥补伤痛的谈话，并没有像他们预期的那样进行。