1953年的纽约,杀虫人比尔(Peter Weller 饰)进行着孤独的个人写作,只有两个好友知晓他的文学尝试。比尔的妻子琼(Judy Davis 饰)沉迷于注射杀虫粉,比尔为她拜访了戒毒医生班威,不久被麻醉品管理处传讯,在那里他遇到了能说话的虫子,它指出比尔的真实身份是一名间谍,比尔惊慌失措的逃回家,开枪误杀妻子,只得按照怪异生物的指点远赴中东的“区间”避难。当地的黑肉场场主、美国作家和他酷似琼的妻子、同性恋商人、以及集市上的女人看起来无不是一桩阴谋的一部分,比尔在自己那台会说话的打字机“克拉克诺瓦”的帮助下进行创作,并不断接近阴谋的真相,在又一次失去了琼以后,比尔发现了区间同班威医生的联系。 本片获1993年伦敦电影节年度女演员奖,1992年加拿大吉尼奖最佳导演、最佳摄影等多项褒奖。根据威廉·罗伯斯同名小说改编。
The "Jack Squad” is the urban tale of three women who have nothing but money on their minds after each one has a loss of financial in***e. Childhood best friends Kennedy, Mona, and Dawn embark on a plan to seduce and rob wealthy men. Using cunning acts of seduction and betrayal, the girls go full speed ahead with charm and sex as their weapons to be***e financially independent. Soon, however, everything backfires when they get involved with a vicious Under-Lord and a murder counters their actions. The women be***e enveloped in a world of deceit and murder, as they discover that what ***es around goes around. It is now up to them to figure out what the next step is and how to get out of this vicious cycle of death before it is too late.
An expert at sleight of hand and with a keen eye for identifying charlatans and tricksters, our story begins as Harry has fallen on hard times in recent years, professionally and ethically losing his way. He’s resorted to making his living as a fake medium and fraudulent ghost hunter, conducting séances for unsuspecting families who think their lives have been made a misery by ghostly mischief making. Harry’s duplicitous lifestyle has also had serious consequences when after leading a séance for a tragic soldier a young man commits suicide on the doorstep of Harry’s home. A couple of months later, Harry is offered the chance to investigate the haunting of a local MP’s home as the case threatens to ruin the politician’s reputation. With the prospects of leading his political party, Edward Curtis can ill-afford the scandal as his wife Grace begins to hallucinate and act bizarrely and very much out of character as she believes their family home to be haunted. There’s a possibility Grace may be committed to an asylum in scandalous circumstances if Harry doesn’t take on the investigation. Ghosts from Harry’s past influence his decision to take the case and he begins to think it might be time to take a new path. Together with the Curtis family maid, Sarah Grey, whose own mother has fallen prey to con artist mediums in the past, their detection and investigative skills complement one another and they make a formidable partnership. Smart, driven and open-minded, Sarah is a strong-minded woman who can handle herself when unravelling the mysteries behind the hauntings, which are seriously affecting Grace’s health and well-being. Harry also calls on the services of his old friend, Albert, during the investigation. An African pharmacist with a sideline in voodoo con-artistry, Albert has a keen interest in medical and scientific discoveries, which Harry exploits to the maximum. Journalist Vernon Wall also finds himself in Harry’s orbit. Cynical and hard-bitten, although clever at winning the trust of the people he’s interviewing, Vernon is keen to learn about Harry’s techniques and sensing a political scandal sets out to inveigle his way into his life by extracting information from Sarah.
基于各种原因,自幕府末期至昭和初期,日本大批穷苦人家的女孩被贩卖到南洋当妓女,世称“南洋姐”。她们的命运坎坷,受尽人世间的屈辱。有些人客死他乡,有些即使回到故乡,却仍要承受世俗鄙夷的目光。 女性史学家三谷圭子(栗原小卷 饰)为了调查和解开这段历史,走访了九州天草的崎津町 ,不过她的采访并不顺利,曾经历那个年代的老人们对此皆闭口不谈,讳莫如深。偶然间,她在路边冷饮店邂逅曾当过南洋姐的阿崎婆(田中绢代 饰),经过一段时间的试探和交往,原本紧锁心门的老婆婆终于向圭子敞开心扉,一同回首那段不堪回首的悲伤往事…… 改编自山崎朋子的小说《山打根8号娼馆 底层女性史序章(サンダカン八番娼館- 底辺女性史序章)》,影片荣获1973年亚太电影节最佳影片奖、1975年柏林国际电影节最佳女演员奖等多个奖项。
Sophie is a twenty-year-old American woman who has lived all her solitary life in a bubble. During a vacation in Palermo with her sister, she meets Giulio and his group of Sicilian friends. Anxious to let go and live life to the hilt, Sophie decides to walk along the edge of disaster and gets sucked into a vortex of risky behavior that turns a mere romp on the wild side into a heart-pumping fight for survival – and redemption.
瑞秋(凯伦·皮斯托里斯 Caren Pistorius 饰)和丈夫正在分居之中,目前由她独自抚养着年幼的儿子凯伊(加布里埃尔·贝特曼 Gabriel Bateman 饰)。离婚事宜的商讨令瑞秋心力交瘁,睡过头的她眼看着就要迟到,却不巧碰上了高速公路大堵车。 明明是绿灯,瑞秋却被停在她前面的一辆大卡车拦住了去路,失去耐心的瑞秋狂按喇叭,哪知道却惹恼了卡车司机(罗素·克劳 Russell Crowe 饰)。卡车司机命令瑞秋为她的不礼貌而道歉,瑞秋拒绝了,此时的瑞秋还并没有意识到,自己已经引火烧身。卡车司机是一名精神病患者,刚刚放火烧死了要同自己离婚的前妻一家子。他掉包了瑞秋的手机,开始对她进行人肉搜索和疯狂报复。
改革开放初期,罗心刚(杨在葆 饰)在广交会上发现本厂生产的凤凰牌产品无人问津,而本厂文革中遭冷遇的设计师申华(刘信义 饰)设计的产品却成了畅销货。罗心刚深受启发,他三顾茅庐请已被迫离厂的申华出山,同时纠正以前人们戴有色眼镜看人的错误观念。他决心走市场化道路,转变过去“皇帝女儿不愁嫁”的传统思想。罗的行动遭到传统势力的阻挠,别人认为他的行为背离了社会主义市场经济原则,面对种种困难,罗心刚始终坚持自已的信念。当看到共青团员巧珍(殷新 饰)因缺乏信仰脖子上带上十字架,他深感十年动乱在青年一代身上造成的信仰危机。改革是多方面的,且刻不容缓。在他人造谣告状,不得已面临下台的千人大会上,罗心刚说出了那段泣血的台词......
雷奈尔(赖尼尔·迪亚兹 Reinier Díaz 饰)有一大家子人需要靠他养活,然而,想要在这个残酷的世界中生存下去并非容易之事,无奈之下,雷奈尔只得成为了一名站街男妓,依靠出卖自己的肉体和青春获得短暂的温饱。 约斯瓦尼(米尔顿·加西亚 Milton García 饰)和妻子之间的感情并不融洽,与此同时,他亦是以放高利贷为生的岳父手下的一名打手,每天喊打喊杀的生活让约斯瓦尼疲惫不堪。一次偶然中,这两个性格地位截然不同的男人相遇了,命运让他们相遇,令他们相爱,在古巴热烈的阳光之下,两个男人陷入欲望的漩涡无法自拔。然而,属于他们的道路注定布满了荆棘,两人为了忠于内心的情感,皆付出了惨痛的代价。