缺乏书面记录意味着我们对非洲古代历史的了解比地球上几乎任何其他地方都要少。文化历史学家Augustus Casely-Hayford博士利用文化、文物和传统来探索那段历史。
职业杀手丹尼已经到了退休的年纪却依旧认为自己是业界翘楚,工作没什么进展的他正在追求俱乐部经理安娜。某天,丹尼突然接到组织的任务派遣,他对此非常激动,结果发现只是去训练新人威尔。而这个威尔虽然天赋异禀、能力出众却也有着十足的个性,难以驯服。这对错配的搭档被要求除掉犯罪集团的一个高层人员。虽然两人性格天差地别,互相看不顺眼,但为了任务却也将就地相互配合。而令组织没有料到的是,丹尼的经验加上这个小孩的才华,让两人之间建立起了一种意想不到的默契。而这种默契再加上安娜的重要帮助使得三人发现了组织的真正目的。他们发现其实组织是想完成自己内部的更新换代,不仅利用他们出掉对手,更是在之后就要替换掉他们仨人。得知真相的三人联手捣毁了组织。
效力于某知名搜索引擎公司的程序员加利·史密斯(多姆纳尔·格利森 Domhnall Gleeson 饰)幸运地抽中老板纳森(奥斯卡•伊萨克 Oscar Isaac 饰)所开出的大奖,他将受邀前往位于深山的别墅中和老板共度假期。在与世隔绝的别墅中,纳森亲切地接待了这位员工。 事实上他邀请加利到来还有另一个目的,那就是协助他完成其所开发的智能机器人的测试。天才一般的纳森研制了具有独立思考能力的智能机器人伊娃(艾丽西亚·维坎德 Alicia Vikander 饰),为了确认她是否具有独立思考的能力,他希望加利能为伊娃进行著名的“图灵测试”。似乎从第一眼开始,加利便为这台有着宛如人类般姣好容颜的机器人所吸引。 在随后的交流中,他所面对的似乎不是冷冰冰的机器,而更像是一个被无辜囚禁起来的可怜少女……
Sir Humphrey Appleby receives his just reward when he's told by Sir Arnold Robinson that he is to be his successor as Cabinet Secretary. Jim Hacker has mixed feelings about the whole thing and while he appreciates all of the advice he's received from Sir Humphrey over the years, they have also had their fair share of disagreements. When the Prime Minister suddenly announces his resignation, Hacker decides to take a run at the party leadership. His primary campaign issue is new regulations from Brussels on the content of sausages which point to the demise of the British banger.
托尼亚(玛歌特·罗比 Margot Robbie 饰)成长在一个破碎的家庭之中,和母亲(阿丽森·詹尼 Allison Janney 饰)过着相依为命的日子。托尼亚的母亲是一个冷若冰霜而又独断专行的女人,她在年仅3岁的托尼亚身上看到了她成为一名花滑运动员的潜力,就这样,小小的女孩被送往了由戴安(朱丽安妮·尼科尔森 Julianne Nicholson 饰)执教的花滑队里,开始了训练。 托尼亚的全部童年几乎都是在冰上度过的,直到有一天她在溜冰场遇见了名为杰夫(塞巴斯蒂安·斯坦 Sebastian Stan 饰)的男子,两人很快就坠入了爱河。杰夫改变了托尼亚的人生,却也成为了她的灾难,从此托尼亚要面对的,除了日益艰巨的训练外,还有来自杰夫的拳脚。在一场比赛中,托尼亚完成了冰上三圈半的跳跃动作,成为了美国第一个完成了这个动作的运动员,托尼亚因此名声大噪。
故事背景设定在上海滩的三十年代。一个聪明机智的美国小伙,戈登(西恩·潘 Sean Penn 饰),远渡重洋来到中国,寻找能够发财的机会。与此同时,格格里亚(麦当娜 Madonna 饰)则是一个坚定的传教士护士,她怀揣着希望通过鸦片的神奇力量来缓解病人的痛苦。两人的命运在一次偶然的相遇中交汇,从而走到了一起。他们的目标是寻找一批失踪的鸦片,而这个任务将他们卷入与当地毒贩和黑社会的激烈斗争之中。与此同时,浪漫的爱情故事也在这个紧张的背景下展开。 传说中,上海的鸦片大王费拉第去世后,一大批鸦片被仆人吴中树偷走,下落成谜。一年后,为了帮助受伤的士兵,教会的伯恩斯和助手泰拉克小姐决定找到这批鸦片,以止痛。他们寻求了葛兰登韦西的协助。然而,韦西在找到费拉第的情妇中国娃娃后遭到了假冒警察的歹徒梅健的袭击,并遭到严刑逼问。受到打击后,韦西原本想放弃,但因与泰拉克小姐之间渐生的感情而改变主意,决定继续帮助她。
Katherine of Alexandria, brought up as a nomad and living in the desert, was aged just 11 when Emperor Maxentius saw her whilst out on patrol. Consumed by her beauty, impudence and uncanny talent for languages, he abducted the child, killing her family. The slaughter was witnessed by her young friend, Constantine, who would later become Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He never lost hope of finding Katherine. As a young woman, Katherine refused to submit to Maxentius' offers of marriage and she continually denounced his brutal enforcement of pagan religion upon the masses. Still obsessed with her beauty, Maxentius brought Katherine before 50 of Rome's finest scholars in an open court in Alexandria, where she eloquently demolished their arguments. When Constantine learned of Katherine's whereabouts and imprisonment at the hands of Maxentius, he led his army from York in a desperate bid to save her.
Celeste (Colette Laffont) is a computer clerk in a bank who becomes fascinated by the relationship between gold and power. Ruby (Julie Christie) is an enigmatic film star in quest of her childhood, her memories and the truth about her own identity. As their paths cross they come to sense that there could be a link between the male struggle for economic supremacy and the female ideal of mysterious but impotent beauty.