本片故事取材于第二次世界大战中61000名盟军俘虏被迫建造泰——缅铁路的真实事件。年轻的苏格兰军官欧内斯特?戈登上尉在一次战役中被日军俘虏,他和少校坎贝尔等人一起被迫成为天皇的奴隶修建泰国至缅甸的一段铁路。在战俘集中营中,他们忍受着残酷的折磨,但也在生不如死的日子里结成了坚固的友谊。欧内斯特在集中营里办起了“丛林大学”将战俘们牢牢团结在一起。日军的残暴让他们忍无可忍,坎贝尔少校终于决定实施逃跑计划,但计划的失败使得曾经与他矛盾颇深的战友牺牲自己挽救了他的生命。
婉容从英国回来见失散十年的孪生妹妹惠林,却得到妹妹跳楼自杀的噩耗--还是带着两个月的身孕。婉容不相信惠 林会自杀,她连同警探陈皓一起深入调查。
1895年,甲午战争结束。日军偷袭澎湖,强迫清政府割让台湾。刘永福临危受命,赴台主持军务。此时的台湾人心惶惶,绿营武备松弛,官员竞相内渡。面对日军逼境,刘永福挺身而出,团结台湾志士,以孤军抗击日军的进攻。
乔治爵士(蒂姆·皮戈特-史密斯 Tim Pigott-Smith 饰)和海蒂(妮可莱特·谢里丹 Nicollette Sheridan 饰)决定举办一场热闹的乡村游园会,为了将游园会的气氛推向高潮,他们决定设置一场谋杀游戏。知名犯罪小说家阿瑞登(珍·斯塔普莱顿 Jean Stapleton 饰)同意为这场游戏提供一些好点子,她决定将案件的现场设置在乔治爵士所居住的纳塞庄园中,并且将案件的受害者一角给了年仅14岁的马琳(桑德拉·迪金森 Sandra Dickinson 饰)。 然而,就在一切都按照计划井然有序的进行时,赫邱勒(彼德·乌斯蒂诺夫 Peter Ustinov 饰)却接到了阿瑞登夫人的来电,他是她最信赖的朋友。在电话中,阿瑞登夫人坦诚,她所设置的谋杀游戏,有可能演变成一场真正的悲剧。
Two young lovers rob their way across the southland, posting their exploits to social media, and gaining fame and followers as a result.
《梦想演说家》讲述了当上天为你关上一扇门时,往往他会为你打开另外一扇门!故事讲述一位患有严重口吃和听力障碍的保安通过父母的关愛、尤其是“退伍不褪色军人”身份的父亲的严厉、激励、鼓励下,踏上人生征程,偶遇丰师父指导帮助;遇上生命中的另一半…加上自己坚强的毅力和奋斗不息的精神,战胜听力障碍的恐惧,克服了口吃顽疾,自学大学课程成才,并成为了一名出色的推销员和企业精英,在企业危机时刻,通过自己的营销口才力挽狂澜,历尽千辛万苦,最终跃身成为一代演说家的故事。
"Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide "The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps. The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial." -Steve Grayson "my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty." - Jonathan Rosenbaum
小鎮醫生穗積與滯銷漫畫家添田是至交好友,兩人同時喜歡上在水族店工作的朝子。穗積選擇退讓來成全添田與朝子,但兩人結婚沒多久,添田就開始搞外遇,甚至還虐待朝子。當穗積發現添田的所作所為,本想搶回朝子,卻反而陷入添田的騙局之中。儘管一再被添田欺騙並挑撥,穗積仍一心想與朝子在一起,然而一次事件卻讓這份純粹的愛轉變為憎恨…
扎根于社会、政治之上不可明言的故事,用客观的画面让观者自己去构建残酷的现实,以平淡的铺陈步步引向深刻的隐喻。叙事、画面,处处可见这位传奇导演对阿巴斯和马克马尔巴夫等追随者的影响。
瑞秋·布罗斯纳安加盟安东尼·拉莫斯([身在高地])出演喜剧科幻片[遥远](Distant,暂译)。故事讲述一个小行星矿工在陌生行星迫降后,必须与新环境的挑战作斗争,设法穿过恶劣的地形找到唯一幸存者———一个被困在逃生舱里的女人。本片由[冰刀双人组]导演威尔·斯佩克、乔什·戈登直执导,斯宾塞·科恩撰写剧本,下月开机。