被赌博毁灭了自己的生活的三个陌生人走到一起，因其命运也被连接起来。

马特（斯宾塞·屈塞 Spencer Tracy 饰）是报社的主编，思想先进的他反对种族歧视，提倡自由和平等。就是这样的一个男人，当他心爱的女儿乔伊（凯瑟琳·霍顿 Katharine Houghton 饰）带着男友约翰（西德尼·波蒂埃 Sidney Poitier 饰）来到自己 面前时，马特却彻底傻了眼。原来，约翰是一个黑人男孩，马特做梦也没有想到，那些平日里在小说和电视里看到的剧情，竟然发生在了自己的身上。 一边是信奉的自由主义，一边是骨子里无法消除的对于黑人的成见，马特陷入了两难之中，同时，约翰的父亲对于这门亲事也是极力反对。面对着巨大的压力，乔伊和约翰并没有气馁，看到了女儿的坚强，马特若有所思。

Rose（贝特·米德勒 Bette Midler 饰）从很小的时候起就不是人群中受欢迎的那一个，她十分自卑于自己的样貌，也从未获得过一段真正的友谊。在十七岁那一年，Rose对音乐燃起了热情，她加入了一支乐队，并且在旧金山一代打响了名气。Rose的音乐风格非常的随性和狂野，通过 尖叫和怒吼，她试图发泄出内心的郁闷。 随着时间的推移，Rose的名气越来越大，她的梦想终于实现了——成为一名天王巨星。然而，成名带给她的除了金钱和利益外，却也有压力与痛苦。她放纵自己的欲望，贪图于享受声色犬马的乐趣，而这所有的一切，都是因为，在内心的深处，Rose依然觉得，自己是一个不被爱着的孩子。

梅尔·吉布森扮演的农场主为了保住自己辛苦耕耘的农场，与妻子一道同大自然、银行家、土地开发商展开了一场激烈的斗争……这是一部催人上进的影片。

1812年，拿破仑的军队控制大部分的欧洲国家。在为数不多未被征服的国家中，俄国打算联合奥地利一起进行殊死抵抗。贵族安德烈公爵（梅尔·弗尔 Mel Ferrer 饰）就是这样怀揣一腔抱负的俄国军官。然而安德烈的挚友皮埃尔公爵（亨利·方达 Henry Fonda 饰）却毫不关心战事。他在父亲临终前成为遗产继承人，与贵族之女海伦（安妮塔·艾克伯格 Anita Ekberg 饰）结婚，却在婚后不久发现性格不合而分居。安德烈战役失败被释放归家看望难产而死的妻子。几个月后，彼埃尔与罗斯托夫伯爵一家在去打猎，叫上了安德烈。安德烈对伯爵的女儿娜塔莎（奥黛丽·赫本 Audrey Hepburn 饰）一见钟情。不久，娜塔莎接受了安德烈的求婚，然而安德烈很快重返军队。海伦的弟弟阿纳托里趁虚而入，骗得娜塔莎的爱，唆使娜塔莎与他私奔。俄法战争开始，娜塔莎遇到了深受重伤的安德烈，安德烈在临死前原谅了娜塔莎的背叛。战争结束后，皮埃尔回到了莫斯科，与娜塔莎结合在了一起。

简（凯瑟琳•海格尔 Katherine Heigl 饰）一家人乘飞机去法国尼斯旅行，途中父母谈起女儿的情事，令她很是不爽。在海滨宾馆的电梯间，简邂逅了身着泳装的帅哥斯宾塞（艾什顿•库彻 Ashton Kutcher 饰），两人一见钟情。他们相约在酒吧共进晚餐，但是刚好简的父母路过。简为了躲避他们的目光，情急之下编造了一个关于父亲的丑事，并不断圆谎。但随着她和斯宾塞情感加温，她还是对他袒露了实情。而斯宾塞却隐瞒了自己是杀手的事实。本来，斯宾塞要金盆洗手，但是最后一个任务，竟然就是对付简的父亲，自己未来的岳父。这令斯宾塞左右为难。与此同时，在这对如胶似漆的恋人周围，突然冒出了很多杀手，其中有喝得酩酊大醉的酒鬼，身材惹火的性感女郎，甚至邻居社区的小夫妻，纷纷对他下手……

世世代代都靠养蜂业的维持的苏玛斯市出现了杀人蜂,哈利斯和勒里向人们发出了警告，但是市民和农民却抱着怀态度，不愿意支持他们的工作，蜂群大举袭击了村民之后，人们终于清醒了，勒里猜度杀人蜂是在寻找栖息的地方，而杀人蜂确实是在寻找栖息之地。它们占据了展览厅，很多人包括哈利斯的家人都被困在其中，哈利斯和勒里能否把人们救出生天呢？

比利（丹尼斯·霍珀 Dennis Hopper 饰）和怀特（彼得·方达 Peter Fonda 饰）用一次毒品交易的钱骑着他们的机车上路了，他们的目的地，是新奥尔良的狂欢节。在路上，他们经过了离群索居的波西米亚人群落，短暂逗留的数天里目睹了他们自由放浪但也贫穷困苦的生活。在德克萨斯州，他们仅因为行为举止诡异就被警察关进了监狱，在那里，他们遇见了律师汉森（杰克·尼科尔森 Jack Nicholson 饰），汉森帮助他们逃离了牢狱之灾，他们怂恿汉森同他们一起上路。抵挡不住内心的骚动，汉森同意了。三人来到一个保守的小镇，在那里受尽了居民的白眼。不受欢迎的三人只得露宿荒野，夜里，当地的居民乔装袭击了他们，汉森被打死。比利和怀特虽然震惊，但这一切都没能阻止他们前进的脚步。到达目的地的两人并没有感到喜悦，有的只是无尽的空虚，沮丧的两人打道回府，但令人意外的是，一个卡车司机和他的双杆猎枪使得他们的行程截然而止。 这是影史上最伟大的公路电影，也是为数众多的公路电影的鼻祖。

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)

斯潘塞．特蕾西和凯瑟琳．赫本是五十年代最佳银幕情侣，本片是他俩合演的代表作之一。赫本饰演体育教师柏特，她同时也是勇气十足的新进运动员；特蕾西饰演她的经理人米基，他同时也是体育用品赞助商。米基决定用尽各种方法把柏特捧为体育皇后，中间自然产生了不少浪漫有趣的情节。在老牌导演乔治．库克挥洒自如的处理下，男女主角充分发挥了他们素有默契的喜剧感，当年不少著名的美国运动员也应邀客串亮相。

神经科专家库克维奇医师在一简陋的医院准备进行划时代的脑切除手术，却对院内粗糙的设备感到困挠。来自新奥尔良的贵妇维纳波夫人有意赞助库可维奇任职的医院，但库可维奇必须对其侄女凯瑟琳进行脑切除的手术，以治疗她的精神崩溃症状。饱受折磨的凯瑟琳会透露出什么惊人之语？维纳波夫人和凯瑟琳又为何有心结？

第77届奥斯卡终身成就奖获得者西德尼·吕美特（《十二怒汉》、《黄金万两》）经典之作 获戛纳电影节最佳男演员奖（拉尔夫·理查森、贾森·罗巴兹、迪安·斯托克韦尔三位男演员同获）、最佳女演员奖（凯瑟琳·赫本） 奥斯卡最佳女主角提名     凯瑟琳·赫本 影片改编自获诺贝尔文学奖的美国剧作家尤金·奥尼尔的同名自传戏，将一个男人自家中不可告人的秘密毫不留情、赤裸裸地公诸于世。这是一部关于一个戏剧演员青春岁月和他的家庭的伦理片，往事如同幽灵一样纠缠著他，彷佛在他心灵深处跟他在作祟，如果他不倾诉出来，就永远无法安宁。 影片立意深刻，细致感人，几位演员的表演精彩绝伦，颇具震撼力。