倒霉的比利（文森特•加洛 Vincent Gallo 饰）替人顶罪蹲了5年牢，今天，他出狱了。可是他的霉运似乎还没有结束，刚出狱的比利内急想上厕所小便时，不是厕所维修就是被拒绝；即使鬼鬼祟祟的躲到汽车后面想就地解决时汽车也马上开走了。
　　比利和双亲的关系并不好，但他一直想修复与父母的关系。即使坐牢，比利也想方设法瞒着家里，他告诉他们这5年自己在外打拼，已功成名就，并承诺将带着女友回家。为了实现承诺，他“绑架”了一名女孩蕾拉作为自己的女友。
　　可是，当比利带着蕾拉回到家里时，事情并没有预想中顺利。

　　丹尼斯（安德鲁·加菲尔德 Andrew Garfield 饰）独自一人抚养着儿子康纳（诺亚·洛马克斯 Noah Lomax 饰），父子两人和丹尼斯的母亲林恩（劳拉·邓恩 Laura Dern 饰）住在一起，日子过得虽然拮据但是平静。
　　金融危机爆发后，丹尼斯的人生彻底的跌入了低谷。面对着他再怎样努力都无法负担的房贷，无奈的丹尼斯只得申请破产，一家人被赶出了他们的家，流落街头，生活陷入了绝望之中。为了夺回属于他们的家园，丹尼斯发誓要不择一切手段，他遇见了贪婪邪恶的房地产经纪人瑞克（迈克尔·珊农 Michael Shannon 饰），成为了他的爪牙，讽刺的是，当初，正是瑞克让丹尼斯失去了他的家园，而如今丹尼斯所要干的，无非是和瑞克一样的事情。

　　萨巴斯丁（莱恩•菲利普 Ryan Phillippe 饰）和凯瑟琳（莎拉•米歇尔•盖拉 Sarah Michelle Gellar饰）本来是两个家庭的孩子，因为父母的结合成为了两姊弟。二人为了私心开始了一场游戏，如果萨巴斯丁输了，他的豪华跑车将归凯瑟琳所有；如果他赢了，凯瑟琳将要为他提供一夜服务。
　　这个游戏就是，萨巴斯丁必须把校长的女儿安妮（瑞茜•威瑟斯彭 Reese Witherspoon 饰）搞到手。尽管他上过曼哈顿地区的无数女孩，但是对于安妮，却有着一定的难度——她曾经在《十七岁》杂志上发表文章声称，要把童贞留到新婚夜。
　　对于这次有难度的猎艳行动，萨巴斯丁当然全力以赴，然而让他意外的是，游戏变得越来越复杂，超出了他的预计。

　　故事发生在70年代的美国，露丝（鲁妮·玛拉 Rooney Mara 饰）和男友鲍勃（卡西·阿弗莱克 Casey Affleck 饰）之间的感情十分要好，德克萨斯州灿烂的阳光之下，就在两人都以为这样的幸福生活会持续的时候，不幸降临了。
　　一次意外中，露丝误打误撞射杀了一名警察，面临严峻的审判，为了保护深爱的女人，鲍勃心甘情愿的入狱顶替了露丝的罪行。没多久，露丝就生下了一个可爱漂亮的女婴，这一消息为身陷囹圄的鲍勃带来了新的希望。随着时间的推移，鲍勃对露丝和女儿的思念越来越强烈，终于，一系列的意外让露丝下定了越狱的决心，然而，此时的鲍勃并不知道，铁窗之外的世界中，一切都已经物是人非。

　　影片由三个短片构成，片中演员均扮演他们本人。
　　《踏着我的摩托机车》：南尼骑着摩托车穿梭在大街小巷中，一次偶然中，他结识了女演员詹妮弗·比尔斯，可惜两人语言不通，无法交流。南尼开始看起了电影，他惊诧于一部名叫《连环杀手亨利的肖像》的影片的血腥和庸俗，和对其大唱赞歌的影评人，他找到了那名影评人。
　　《群岛》：南尼来到了一座小岛上，那里住着他热衷于研究小说《尤利西斯》的怪咖朋友谢拉多。最经，这位朋友竟然迷上了看肥皂剧，他不仅开始将肥皂剧与《尤利西斯》相提并论，更做出了一些更加疯狂的举动。
　　《医生》：因为皮肤病，南尼进了医院，可是他的病看过了许多人生都没有见好，荒谬的是，这些医生做出的诊断和开出的药方竟然大相径庭。

　　从马来西亚移居新加坡的阿玲在一间高中担任中文老师。她的家庭生活让她倍感沮丧：公公因为瘫痪无法说话，丈夫对她也日趋冷淡。夫妻二人多年来一直尝试怀孕，但情况一直没有得到好转，丈夫的不闻不问更让她感到孤独。伟伦是阿玲的一位学生，他通过中文课对老师产生了某种不可名状的情愫，两人的关系随着阿玲给伟伦的课外辅导产生了变化……

　　1950年，美国某岛上的一位当地居民卡尔夜间出海捕鱼时身亡，警长认为此事疑点诸多，颇有排日倾向的法医将日裔居民宫本一雄牵入此案，法院随即对宫本展开审判，岛报记者伊斯梅尔（Ethan Hawke 饰）因个人关系对审理十分在意，原来宫本之妻金田初枝（工藤夕贵 饰）是伊斯梅尔青梅竹马的恋人，后来美日宣战，岛上的日裔居民开始遭受排斥，金田一家也受到了不公对待，被遣往集中营看押劳动，伊斯梅尔仗义执言反被同胞威胁，这段恋情不得不随之终结。伊斯梅尔查询事发当夜岛上的天气记录，得到了比尔是死于意外的重要证据，但这就意味着他与初枝的复合再无可能。随着审判的进行，越来越多的证据指向宫本，同时平息不久的战争让当地人对日裔怀着有色眼镜看待，伊斯梅尔反复考虑做出了最后的决定……
　　本片获2000年芝加哥电影评论协会奖最佳摄影奖等多项褒奖。

　　讲述美国职业橄榄球联盟克利夫兰布朗队总经理桑尼，在高压下，为球队抢下选秀第一顺位的故事。

　　雷纳德曾经是名红极一时的职业橄榄球选手，但因某种原因被关进了监狱。狱长沃顿·海森（Warden Hazen）,（艾迪·阿尔伯特Eddie Albert饰）酷爱橄榄球，却生性残忍。他专门雇佣那些擅长玩橄榄球的狱警，让他们和犯人们进行“比赛”。可怜的犯人们根本不是对手，只能任由狱警欺负。富有反叛精神的雷纳德来到球队中后，顶住了沃顿的压力，不搞种族歧视，而是团结众人共同对抗沃顿的压迫。渐渐地，他赢得了伙伴们的尊重，成为球队的精神领袖。可他也因此招致了沃顿的嫉恨。到底是放弃比赛以重获自由，还是冒着在监狱里度过余生的危险而坚持下去呢？相信每个人都会得到相同的答案。影片中的橄榄球赛场面可谓经典：大量的暴力镜头，激烈的碰撞，紧张的气氛，受伤的队员躺在病床上还不忘收听广播为队友加油……一切都使人不由自主地沉浸在这场正义与邪恶的较量之中，忘记了时间的流逝。

　　威尔(休·格兰特 Hugh Grant 饰)是一个伦敦的有钱人。他继承了父亲的遗产，终日吃喝玩乐，游戏情场。然而，他内心却有着空虚和孤独。为了能够认识更多的女人，他想到了单亲家长会。那里单亲妈妈众多，他必然能游刃有余。带着这个目的，他假扮成单亲爸爸，加入了单亲家长会。
　　马克斯（尼古拉斯·霍尔特 Nicholas Hoult 饰）的母亲也是家长会里的成员。母亲每天早晨醒来，都会开始沮丧、落泪，想自杀。马克斯家庭不幸，加上常常受人欺负，身处劣境的他寄希望于威尔，把威尔当作可依赖的对象。他经常造访威尔家，坐在威尔身边默默的看电视。起初这一切让威尔觉得十分打扰。但是慢慢的，两颗孤独的心开始找到依靠，威尔和小男孩之间的友谊渐渐升温。

　　茱蒂戴维丝初登影坛光芒万丈之作。她饰演一位极具文学天份，并勇于对抗保守环境的女性，山姆尼尔则饰演她温柔的爱人。女主角从小就宣示她成为文学家的野心，在上世纪初女性尚未得到应有社会地位的年代，她的奋斗故事是一页女性主义成长的诗篇。

　　《亨利之书》讲述小男孩亨利为了保护邻居家的小姑娘不被她的父亲所伤，暗自策划了一场谋杀。

　　一位来自美国南部的年轻作家斯汀戈（彼特·麦尼科 Peter MacNicol 饰）为求生计来到布鲁克林，认识了居住在楼上的苏菲（梅丽尔·斯特里普 Meryl Streep 饰）和内森（凯文·克莱恩 Kevin Kline 饰）。他们很热情的表达希望和这位年轻的作家交朋友 ，斯汀戈欣然接受他们的邀请。逐渐地交往之后，他们之间相互建立了亲密友好的感情。在这个过程中斯汀戈了解到，苏菲常因内森的猜疑和暴怒伤心哭泣，但她非常的爱内森，最让她担心是：内森没有她以后的生活将不可想象。苏菲是波兰人，二战后来到美国，在这里认识了内森并和他相依为命，战时苏菲曾被关进纳粹集中营，而她的父亲、丈夫、儿女全部在这场战争中罹难。对于自己的受难和亲人一个个的悲惨命运，和这场战争中人间地狱般的种族大灭绝，苏菲的精神和肉体该如何抉择……

　　老虎古玛和桑哈出生在印度支那的原始森林里，本来正是无忧无虑的童年期，但是这里的古老石窟却招惹来一帮西方来的探险队。他们枪杀了他们的父亲。不幸的古玛被他们抬走了，剩下桑哈跟母亲慌乱逃生。古玛给辗转卖到了马戏团，被迫每天练习跳火圈之类的把戏。他想念家人，还不习惯被驯养的生活，境 况非常悲凉。
　　而他的兄弟桑哈，也没能逃脱被人类抓捕的命运。幸亏长官的儿子非常宠爱它，把它留在家中一起生活，让他免于颠簸的生活。然而，它毕竟是一只有野性的老虎，当家人发现了危险的苗头时，可怜的桑哈还是被送到了动物园。
　　几个月后，一场斗虎比赛开始了。两兄弟竟然意外被安排成竞技场上的对手。这次重逢让兄弟俩喜出望外，并开始了他们的逃脱计划。

　　苏格兰单身母亲艾达·麦格拉斯（霍利·亨特 饰）自六岁起就放弃了讲话，只通过钢琴倾诉满腔情感。1852年，麦格拉斯远嫁新西兰的斯图尔特（山姆·尼尔 饰），将钢琴也一并带了去。可是斯图尔特人手不够，只得将笨重的钢琴遗弃海滩。斯图尔特之友乔治·贝恩斯（哈维·凯特尔 饰）爱上了麦格拉斯，用八十英亩土地与斯图尔特交易。斯图尔特转让了钢琴，并命麦格拉斯教贝恩斯奏琴。钢琴课上，贝恩斯提议，如果麦格拉斯在教琴的时候允许某些出格的事情发生，一次课便可换回一个琴键……

　　弗里达（salma hayek 饰）是墨西哥著名的女画家，18岁之前她是一个快乐活泼的少女，跟其他人一样，享受着爱情的甜蜜。然而18岁的车祸让她遭遇重创，死里逃生的她从此跟病痛伴随一生。原来的小情人也离她而去。躺在病床18个月的她整日与画为伴，她的画充满了不可思议的活力与激情。那时候她也真正开始考虑卖画养活自己，她前去请求画家里维拉指导自己的画，对方激赏她的天分。他们也从师生转变成一生的伴侣，他们结婚了。婚后他们经历了墨西哥最动荡的革命时期，他们狂热地追随着共产主义的脚步，甚至当托洛斯基被斯大林逐出苏联后，他们不畏风险地予以热情接待。弗里达与托洛斯基朦胧的爱恋，以及她的女同性恋情结让她的感情史一样绚烂。
　　1954年，弗里达离开了这个充满了病痛的世界，但愿离去是幸。

　　45岁的约翰(Brad Armstrong) 首次发现了自己的白头发, 他觉得自己年老了吗? 他来了俱乐部, 走进了健身房里面看见了一位女子健身, 然后他不由自主的调戏了这个女子.

　　影片根据俄裔法国犹太人女作家伊莱娜·内米洛夫斯基的同名小说改编，讲述了在二战期间，德占法国发生的一段爱情故事。马提亚斯·修奈尔茨饰演的德国军官住进了法国乡下的一户人家，与米歇尔·威廉姆斯饰演的女主人产生了感情，然而两人的爱情却遭受战争和家人的阻隔、反对。

　　In 1900, Naomi Murdoch deserted her small-town family to go on the stage. Some ten years later, daughter Lily invites Naomi back to see her in the Riverdale high school play. Her arrival sets the whole town abuzz, wakes up old conflicts, and sets off new emotional storms.

　　深夜，邻家小狗威灵顿死在草坪上。我心疼地抱着它，却被主人误以为是凶手。我决定侦破这起谋杀案，并把探案的过程写成一本书……

　　杰瑞（瑙玛·希拉 Norma Shearer 饰）和泰德（切斯特·莫里斯 Chester Morris 饰）彼此相爱，与此同时，保罗（康拉德·纳格尔 Conrad Nagel 饰）也深深的爱慕着杰瑞。最终，杰瑞决定选择泰德，而拒绝了保罗，这让保罗感到非常的伤心。心烦意乱之中，保罗开车出了车祸，导致同行的多萝西（Judith Wood 饰）毁了容。出于愧疚，保罗决定和并不爱的多萝西结婚。
　　一晃眼多年过去，杰瑞和泰德之间的婚姻并不是他们想象中的那么幸福美满。泰德整天就流连于各大宴会之中不着家，而杰瑞只能借酒消愁。一天，杰瑞和保罗重逢了，此时的保罗依然深爱着杰瑞，两人之间开始了一段为世理所不容的感情。

　　Broke Edith murders and assumes the identity of her recently widowed, well-to-do twin sister Margaret, who had married Edith's former flame 20 years before. Can she fool the servants and the authorities and keep her new-found wealth?

　　Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
　　In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
　　Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
　　When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
　　Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
　　One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
　　Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
　　During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
　　One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
　　Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
　　Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
　　One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
　　Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".

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