本（弗雷德里克·劳 Frederick Lau 饰）和大卫（大卫·史崔梭德 Devid Striesow 饰）是情同手足的兄弟，两人和母亲过着相依为命的生活。和普通人不一样，大卫虽然表面上是一位22岁的青年，可是他的心智却如同三岁小孩。这么多年来，本和大卫之间的感情非常的要好，在生活的方方面面，大卫都得到了本的精心照拂，如果没有本，大卫可能会过上和现在有着天壤之别的生活。 一场意外中，两兄弟的母亲过世了。按照法律条款，大卫要被送到福利所，他在那里的日子可想而知，于是，本带着大卫踏上了旅途，他们的目的只有一个，那就是寻找他们失踪多年的亲生父亲。

亚娜（莱娜·克棱克 Lena Klenke 饰）是一名17岁的美丽少女，和其他同龄的女孩子不同，亚娜看上去非常的苍白安静，原来，亚娜患有先天性心脏病，无法从事任何激烈的运动，并且不知道哪一天、哪一个瞬间就会被死神夺走生命。 枯燥乏味的生活让亚娜感到非常的窒息，渐渐丧失了对生活的热情，直到有一天，她看到了纯种马奔跑的场面，这充满了生命力的场景让她的心情久久不能平息，亚娜爱上了赛马这项运动。保罗（迪特·哈勒沃登 Dieter Hallervorden 饰）是一名经验丰富的驯马师，他明白赛马对于亚娜来说有多么的重要，也在亚娜的身上看到了杰出的赛马天赋，可是，赛马是一项非常激烈的竞技运动，亚娜的身体能够负担的了吗？

英国驻肯尼亚大使馆的外交官贾斯汀（拉尔夫·费因斯 Ralph Fiennes 饰）为人随和、生活平淡，平日只爱在自己的园子里打理花草树木。然而，有一天，厄运降临到这名超然物外的男人身上。他的妻子泰莎（蕾切尔·薇兹 Rachel Weisz 饰）――一名主持正义的律师，被发 现陈尸郊外，调查结果为被其情人杀害。 贾斯汀遭此晴天霹雳，愤怒过后的他仔细考虑，觉得官方的说法漏洞百出，于是这名平和温柔的男人誓要找出妻子身亡的真相。泰勒经过重重困难取证，终于逐渐接近事件的真相，原来泰莎发现了这里一间有着深厚政治背景的英国药厂在这里利用爱滋病人试验他们的新药，并导致了数以百计的艾滋病患者惨死！

十六岁的少年亚里克斯（宝拉·比尔 Paula Beer 饰）一直生活在一个非常不和谐的家庭之中，父母整日争吵不休，终于有一天，亚里克斯忍无可忍爆发了，而爆发的结果就是，他被送入了青少年精神治疗应急中心。 在精神病院里，亚里克斯邂逅了另外三个小伙伴——拥有着非常悲惨的过去的17岁女孩劳拉（婕拉·海斯 Jella Haase 饰）、异常的内向害羞，曾经在学校里经历过校园暴力的费贾（莫里兹·雷由 Moritz Leu 饰）和有着暴力倾向的迪莫（杰尼斯·纽沃纳 Jannis Niewöhner 饰）。负责照顾他们的是名叫沃尔夫（克雷蒙斯·施伊克 Clemens Schick 饰）的年轻心理医生，在精神病院里，他们将度过一个非常特别的圣诞节。

一场因做工粗糙的钻石引发的抢劫案将梅尔和弗兰妮共同卷入到与时间的赛跑中。梅尔是一名职业罪犯，也是个单身母亲。她劫持了一惊一乍的弗兰妮作为她的人质，而警探英格里德对她们紧追不舍。一路上，这对摩擦不断的组合在柏林遇到了也想抢走钱和钻石的地下组织，而她们必须处理掉这些赃物。警探和地下组织越来越近，此时弗兰妮对梅尔萌生了好感，决定帮助这个劫持自己的人。二人很快成了完美的搭档。梅尔劫持了帅气的警察哈利作她的人质，弗兰妮立刻爱上了他——局势变得异常混乱，美好的结局恐怕还远在天涯。

1957年巴黎，著名服装设计师克里斯汀·迪奥因心脏病发突然去世，留下摇摇欲坠的Dior品牌。迪奥的学徒、21岁的伊夫·圣罗兰（皮埃 尔·尼内饰）临危受命，成为Dior最年轻的首席服装设计师。他的个人处女秀“Trapeze”一鸣惊人，让世界都注意到了他的存在，也促成了他和皮埃 尔·贝尔杰（圭洛姆·加里尼）的遇见。他们既是恋人也是事业拍档，在1962年创建了后来叱咤时尚界的奢侈品牌YSL。尽管内心的魔鬼时时困扰他，圣罗兰开始用他的服装改变整个世界…… ◎QAF

一个建筑师试图压抑自己对一个性感女人的热情。

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)

Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim's former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary.

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