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奇境
702There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and its father acts as if the responsibility is too much for him. Eileen is bitter, complaining about her husband and the dog next door; Bill's a doormat. His West Indian neighbor offers him a drink; her own grown son locks himself in his room most of the time. Will anyone connect during this Guy Fawkes weekend? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com> -
亡命刺杀令
969The series centres around crime syndicates that temporarily release contracted prison inmates to carry out political assassinations for those in power, except that the crime syndicates are run by politicians. The series also puts a spotlight on the real-world predicament concerning fake news and how easily truth can be manufactured and disseminated to the public in today's age of information. -
小颤抖
190卡罗斯在一家理发店做帮工,独立日前夕遇到了客人胡里奥,四眼相对萌生情意。小店打烊后胡里奥回来寻找卡罗斯,两人在一起度过了美好的夜晚,尽管彼此都知道,这只是一阵注定短暂的心灵颤抖。 -
超杀新女友
97摩根(英格丽·江格曼 Ingrid Jungermann 饰)和金姆(格蕾丝·雷克斯 Grace Rex 饰)共同运营着一个电台,电台的主要内容是关注那些发生在布鲁克林的真实凶杀案,尤其是凶手为女性的那些。摩根是一个玩世不恭的花花公子,虽然他曾经和金姆有过一段无疾而终的恋情,但现在两人依然形影不离。 一次偶然中,摩根邂逅了一个名为西蒙(施拉·万德 Sheila Vand 饰)的女人。这个神秘的女人所散发的危险气息深深吸引了摩根,让他为她神魂颠倒。在一旁将这一切看在眼底的金姆隐隐约约觉得西蒙有些不对劲,于是暗中展开了调查。哪知道不查不知道,一查吓一跳,西蒙黑暗的过去和可怕的真实身份渐渐浮出了水面。 -
死神假期
145Because 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) -
我心狂野1990
932因杀人而入狱的塞勒(尼古拉斯•凯奇 Nicolas Cage 饰)终于熬过几年铁窗生涯获释了,心上人罗拉(劳拉•邓恩 Laura Dern 饰)迎接了他的出狱。有情人又得以团聚,但罗拉的母亲玛丽一直都不喜欢塞勒,一直在阻挠女儿和塞勒来往。两人只好相约私奔,来到了南方。 玛丽找来了侦探男友约翰尼追踪他们,企图将罗拉带回去。两人在私奔过程中,都向对方袒露了自己生活中曾经有过的阴暗岁月,那些岁月里都混杂着血腥、暴力和性,但他们都充分体谅了对方。塞勒此时正为一个毒品贩子桑托干活,桑托怕约翰尼因跟踪塞勒而发现他们的交易场所,因此将约翰尼干掉了。另一个毒贩鲍比为了除掉塞勒,设了一个圈套正等待着塞勒上钩。 -
飞逝的狮子
327《飞逝的狮子》(Le Lion Volatil,阿涅斯-瓦尔达,2003年/12分钟/彩色。一部喜剧短片,故事发生在瓦尔达居住的巴黎十四区,情节围绕丹菲尔—罗什露广场上的一尊狮子雕像展开,这尊狮子雕像见证了从广场经过的人们的种种活动:相遇、相识…… -
帕米拉·安德森: 我的爱情故事
589通过私人视频和日记,帕米拉·安德森亲述了她的成名史、坎坷的爱情之路以及臭名昭著的性爱录像带丑闻。 -
司汤达综合症
1781817年,法国大作家司汤达来到意大利,在佛罗伦萨终日沉醉于文艺复兴时期的大师杰作。一天,他到圣十字教堂参观米开朗基罗、伽利略和马基雅维利的陵墓,刚走出教堂大门,突然感到头脑纷乱,心脏剧烈颤动,每走一步都像要摔倒。医生诊断这是由于频繁欣赏艺术珍品使心理过于激动所至,这种 因强烈的美感而引发的罕见病症从此被称为“司汤达综合症”。 直到今天,佛罗伦萨的医生仍会不时碰到“司汤达综合症”患者,病情严重的甚至要住几天医院。他们多半是狂爱艺术且极具鉴赏力的游客,野心勃勃,要在几天之内扫遍这座文艺复兴中心城市的艺术宝藏,结果却在接踵而来的视觉冲击中不堪重负。但意大利人对“司汤达综合症”有百分之百的免疫力,对他们来说,文艺复兴的辉煌,像空气一样无所不在,从幼年到迟暮,他们的生活里一直流动着达芬奇、米开朗基罗、拉斐尔那个天才时代的气息 电影中的女警官,和当年的司汤达一样,被乌菲齐美术馆美不胜收的藏品折磨得当场昏倒。佛罗伦萨警校肯定不设心理测试这一关,否则她无法毕业。而歹徒又怎么知道她有这个毛病?大概是阿金托透露给他的…… -
叶卡捷琳娜大帝第二季
350Новый великолепный фильм о Золотом веке Екатерины – настоящий подарок для зрителей. Эпоха роскоши и красоты, авантюристов и мечтателей, великих подвигов и головокружительных взлетов... Екатерина царствует уже шестой год. Хрупкая принцесса Фике превратилась в Великую государыню Екатерину Алексеевну. Ей нет еще и сорока лет, и она не утратила надежду выйти замуж и родить нового наследника трона - цесаревич Павел слишком похож на своего покойного отца, и это вызывает тревогу императрицы. Ее окружают интриги и дворцовые тайны, но она упрямо ведет огромный корабль российского государства своим курсом. Екатерина взошла на престол, чтобы стать Великой, и ничто не остановит ее на этом пути. Единственная женщина на троне России, слава которой пережила века. Ни о ком больше не слагалось столько сказок и мифов, не ходило столько слухов – но какой же была она на самом деле – императрица, русская не по крови, а по собственной воле? Фильм "Екатерина. Взлет" откроет самую волнующую страницу жизни любящей женщины и великой императрицы. Екатерина ведет жестокую борьбу за власть, объявляет войны, подавляет мятежи… На ее плечах – тяжкое бремя власти. В ее руках – судьба России. Но женщина всегда остается женщиной. Любовь – страстная, мучительная, опасная – живет в ее сердце и толкает на рискованные шаги. Какой ценой заплатит императрица за свое счастье, как она распорядится судьбой российского престола? От ее решений зависит будущее великой страны.