落花时节

　　九年前，杰西（伊桑·霍克 Ethan Hawke 饰）与席琳（朱莉·德尔佩 Julie Delpy 饰）在火车上不期而遇，怦然心动。在维也纳渡过疯狂而又浪漫的一夜后，他们在日出前分手，并相约在维也纳重逢。
　　九年之后，杰西已成为畅销书作家，而席琳则是法国环保组织成员。杰西在新书里娓娓道来的，正是九年前的浪漫夜晚。在巴黎促销新书时，杰西与席琳在书店相遇，然而他们只有一下午的时光相处，日落之前，杰西要乘飞机赶回美国。两人在午后的巴黎街头散步，在美丽的护城河上泛舟，无所不谈，兴致勃勃。可是就像命运的捉弄，快乐的时光像烟花一样醉人却短暂。
　　杰西对席琳一送再送，难以忘情；席琳用吉他和歌声，怀念着内心深处的爱恋。太阳就快落下去了，杰西就要误了飞机，又或许他更不想错过的，是命里注定的缘分。

　　精神病院的默奇逊院长即将退休，接手的是年轻有为的爱德华大夫（格利高里·派克 Gregory Peck 饰）。医院里年轻漂亮的女医生彼特森（英格丽·褒曼 Ingrid Bergman 饰）和他相爱，然而竟发现眼前的爱人不是爱德华大夫，而真实的爱德华的秘书，还前来指出这个冒牌人士是杀害爱德华的凶手。
　　面对恋人扑朔迷离的身份，彼特森始终不相信他是杀人凶手，然而默奇逊院长却用精神分析法印证了“事实”。更为棘手的是，这个假爱德华也相信自己有罪，他甚至连自己是谁，经历过的事情也不知道。
　　彼特森对自己的判断非常坚持，她决定要帮他找出事件真相。在警察的追捕下，她带他逃到了心理分析教授的家中，展开了一联串精彩的心理分析过程，他童年的阴影和爱德华大夫被杀的真相渐渐浮出水面。

　　告别一个阶段、离开一段关係、再见曾经的生活，从来都是漫长的过程。接受需要时间、重生需要勇气，最后的再见，总要一步一步走过去。婚姻来到尽头的母亲跟自己的儿子，来到法国南部的渡假屋作最后执拾，准备向这间满载幸福回忆的大屋诀别。还在哀悼逝去感情的妈妈，跟儿子关係渐变疏离。面对明媚却寂静的风光，一名男子的出现，为二人带来不同程度的震盪，美丽的记下了婚姻的终结、少年时代的告终和一个中产家庭的瓦解。

　　让娜（玛利亚•施奈德 Maria Schneider 饰）穿行大街而过，来到一个旅馆，怪诞的服务员给了她一串空房间的钥匙。她开门而入发现已经有个中年男人在那里。简单交流后两人目光如炽，在空荡的房间里激烈地亲热。结束后安娜来到火车站接男友汤姆，汤姆正在拍摄电影，准备记下与女友恋爱的发展过程。此后让娜经常到那间公寓与中年男人约会。中年男人保罗（马龙•白兰度 Marlon Brando 饰）来自巴黎，出轨的妻子在不久前自杀，他十分痛苦。让娜试图了解保罗，向他敞开心扉，而保罗却一再拒绝她的窥探亦不希望了解她。汤姆向让娜求婚，让娜答应了。两人在选择婚纱时，让娜因汤姆重视拍摄效果冷落自己，冲进大雨找到保罗……

　　故事发生在抗战时期，少女唐琪（林黛 饰）的父亲在战争中为了保卫祖国而英勇牺牲，母亲病重最终撒手人寰。孤苦无依的唐琪只得投靠住在天津的姨母。在那里，唐琪邂逅了名为醒亚的男子。经过了解，醒亚亦是一名孤儿，相似的人生经历让两颗孤独的心迅速靠近，碰撞出了爱情的火花。然而，唐琪的姨母擅自将她许配给了汉奸王科长，醒亚的姑父母也坚决反对两人之间的感情。为了避免沦为汉奸之妻的命运，唐琪毅然决然的离家出走，来到护士学校想要成为一名护士。
　　不幸的是，学校的校长是衣冠禽兽，他玷污了唐琪，致使心灰意冷的她沦落成为舞女。

　　菲利普（山姆·克拉弗林 Sam Claflin 饰）和自己的表兄阿姆布罗斯（迪诺·布加迪 Deano Bugatti 饰）之间的关系非常的好，两人经常来往。一天，菲利普震惊的收到了阿姆布罗斯的死讯，菲利普不相信这一切仅仅只是一场意外这么简单，于是决定亲自前往阿姆布罗斯留下的那豪华的别墅里去一探究竟。
　　在那里，菲利普遇见了表嫂蕾切尔（蕾切尔·薇姿 Rachel Weisz 饰），菲利普怀疑这个美丽且恶毒的女人为了继承丈夫的巨额遗产而谋杀了他。但在两人朝夕相处的过程里，菲利普渐渐爱上了风情万种的蕾切尔，慢慢的打消了疑虑。可这一切对于蕾切尔来说意味着什么呢？她脑袋里的算盘没有人知道。

　　靠替人送车为生的司机小王（姜武）在公路上偶遇搭顺风车的莫莉（莫文蔚），因对莫莉生出好感，他随莫莉去找其“黑社会”男友阿东（张震岳），不久，两人目睹阿东“黑吃黑”，小王不幸成了阿东手上的人质，后在警方的追踪下，阿东逃亡，并将莫莉托付给小王。警察审问小王和莫莉一番后，无果。
　　自此，莫莉接连不断地收到阿东的传呼，但每次她和小王赶到呼机上指示的会面地点时，都不见阿东的人影，在莫莉绝望之时，阿东留言要她去他的家乡。在阿东的家里，莫莉只见到阿东的遗物，并从中看到了阿东对她的爱和歉疚。

　　五彩斑斓、光怪陆离、人声鼎沸的拉斯维加斯赌城中央，黑头发、黄皮肤的女孩Wow（张静初 饰）站在赌桌的后方，面带笑容协助赌客们进行人生的大小赌博。与此同时，留着长发闲散自在的青年（罗伯特·斯沃兹曼 Robert Schwartzman 饰）踱入赌场，他坐在Wow的桌前，幽默风趣，故作愚笨，逗乐了这个来自东方的女孩。几分钟后，他约对方外出喝酒，Wow欣然同意。夜幕降临，华灯初上，一男一女坐在酒吧的角落了喝酒聊天，可是好景不长，青年的债主找上门来，将其拉到门外揍了一顿。久等半天，Wow结账出来，将负伤的青年带回自己的住处。
　　柔柔月色之下，他们的故事仍未结束……

　　不问江湖事多年的老张（关海山 饰）开了家临海的PUB，与女儿阿立（王祖贤 饰）及伙计阿列（钟镇涛 饰）过着简单快乐的生活，阿立与阿列是情侣。某日老张被旧搭档找上门，被迫战战兢兢出山，但事情中途还是突变，被他拉去做司机的阿列成杀人凶手。老张喊阿立同他及阿列一起偷渡时被抓，为救他，阿立 答应跟黑社会老大神爷（陈惠敏 饰），并哄骗阿列让他先去了菲律宾。
　　6年后，阿列在菲律宾成为名杀手，阿立则一副大姐大做派，身边跟有忠实小弟阿祥（梁朝伟 饰）。神爷听闻昔日搭档将在法庭上指证他，派人找来杀手做掉了那人，该杀手正是阿列。而在行动中，阿列无意间与阿立重逢，虽6年里从没忘情阿立，阿列神情仍是冷漠。时间难敌爱意，得知当年事情真相后，阿列再牵亦是时时将他思念的阿立之手。
　　不想重逢一幕被神爷的手下、一直想占阿立便宜的料哥（刘家辉 饰）尽收眼底。阿立收拾行装时，心存邪念的料哥冒了出来，但及时出现的阿详打碎了他的黄粱美梦，不过神爷亦因此被惊动。

　　On an archaeological dig in Iraq, author Agatha Christie uncovers a series of murders.

　　Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson
　　If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.
　　[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.
　　To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.
　　More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.
　　(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)
　　In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.
　　(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)
　　I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.
　　(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)
　　See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)

　　阿梅饰演当红新扎女歌手方敖儿Jannie，离开了一手捧红她的经理人占士，改签另一间规模更大的唱片公司，令占士相当气愤。但她并没忘本。
　　占士要捧红新人罗素与她对敌。当占士的公司出现问题时，她拔刀相助。最后两人冰释前嫌，更结成一对。阿梅在戏中有不少歌舞表演，开场不久便演绎了一首《别离的无奈》，片末又与罗素同台演出，唱了原与李中浩合唱的《迈向新一天》。
　　这套电影水平一般，最可观的是戏中阿梅的舞台表演。电影开首阿梅演绎《别离的无奈》，一脸冷傲，很有型！印象中没有看过阿梅在台上唱这首歌，这段戏虽不是现场演唱，但也很珍贵。片尾《迈向新一天》里阿梅与罗素载歌载舞，阿梅的舞姿很美。