The setting is Vienna in 1914 before the outbreak of war. The aristocratic and somewhat jaded Prince Nicki, pursued by all the ladies, begins a flirtation with Mitzi, a crippled harpist who works in a suburban wine-garden, and who is in turn idolized by Schani, an uncouth and violently jealous butcher. Their first encounter significantly takes place in front of St. Stephen's Cathedral on Corpus Christi day, with Nicki among the emperor's cavalry regiment. Later, in the refracted light of falling apple blossoms in the wine-garden--scenes of a distilled, ethereal beauty--Nicki gradually wins her faith and love. Meanwhile, amidst the sumptuous and corrupt milieu of the family palace, Nicki is drawn into complicity against his will, as his unscrupulous mother informs him he must marry Cecelia, the daughter of a wealthy commoner, in order to revive the family fortune. Mitzi has a vision of The Iron Man (a symbol of the declining power and position of the Hapsburg dynasty) and falls before the crucifix in fear; but her love remains steadfast, and she protests her faith though abused by her mother and Schani. Infuriated by her rejection, Schani threatens to kill Nicki on his wedding day unless Mitzi agrees to marry him. Following the processional splendor of the cathedral wedding, Schani appears to carry out his threat, but Mitzi arrives in time to stop him; and through the downpouring rain Nicki sadly gazes on his true love in the crowd as he drives away with his bride.

　　Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. Ordered off the case, Joe turns in his badge and investigates alone. Soon he is a close friend of the Malatesta family, all delightful people, especially lovely cousin Anna. Uncertain whether Sylvio is guilty or innocent, Joe is now torn between old and new loyalties. Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

　　佛利奇·牟司是一个工作作风懒散、被动的员工，在一个类似生物科学研究所的单位工作。一位同事去世以后，他被提升起来专为这个集团的创始人兼负责人——阿日牟司·史韦特写演讲稿。他把这个作为从感情上疏远他妻子的借口：他发现他妻子正在和一个名叫杰夫·利科奇科的牙医有婚外情，当牟司忙于写演讲稿的同时而科奇科正沉迷于一个名叫艾尔莫原新病人的恋情之中，艾尔莫是一位精神病，每天满街游荡四处勾引寂寞的已婚妇……
　　史蒂文.索德伯格(Steven Soderbergh)不仅在半自传体的《性、谎言和录像带》和《兹佐伯利斯一家》（由其一家三口主演的影片，表现他们的家庭生活）中积极剖析自己的生活，还主动承认自己在《卡夫卡》、《控制之下》和《兹佐伯利斯一家》中所进行的艺术实验没有让观众满意，但他坚信这三部影片连同他的早期短片对他的事业及成长至关重要。
　　史蒂文.索德伯格(Steven Soderbergh)1986年所执导的作品，成为当年电影的票房毒药。本片又取名《变态城》，确实片中的BT镜头令人费解。例如：光着屁股在大街上骑自行车，在床上拒绝和妻子做爱，而自渎，等等场面确实有够变态。很多朋友看完这部作品感觉凌乱，不明白什么意思。导演肯定有他自己的意图，要不这部片子也不叫《变态城》了，呵呵。本片中由导演索德伯格本人的亲身担任主要演出，并且饰演了两个重要的角色，男主角生活凌乱，思想变态。

　　当州长爱上了脱衣女郎

　　2008年金融危机下，美国内华达州昂皮尔小镇的重要经济支柱石膏厂倒闭，人去镇空，这里的邮政编码也被取消。丈夫去世后，几乎在在昂皮尔小镇度过了一生的弗恩（弗兰西斯·麦克多蒙德饰）无力独撑生活。为了将生活成本压到最低，她将简陋的家当搬上了改装后的厢式货车，开始了一边打工、一边西行的公路生活。她在亚马逊流水线上、在游乐园的咖啡厅里、在国家森林公园做临时工。一路上，她和许多厢式货车寄居者相遇、相识，彼此帮助，并缔结了友谊。

　　这是一个讲述亲情和奋斗的故事，窘困的父亲为了养活家人而被迫偷盗，导致自尊心极强的儿子离家出走。影片对家庭关系，贫富分化都有细致的描述。电影是由 William H. Armstrong的同名小说改编拍摄而成，讲述了30年代一个美国黑人家庭的种种经历。故事则是关于一个男孩的信念、努力和坚毅的决心,主角是美国一个黑人佃农家庭的１１岁少年.当时是一个经济萧条的年代，这个家庭的生计也面临艰难的考验，只有忠心的义犬 Sounder 依然守在一家人的身旁。佃农父亲为了让一家人能够维持温饱，不得已之下偷了别人的食物，但还是被人发现并因此遭到法律制裁，被送到劳动集中营服刑。少年为了探望父亲，就和 Sounder展开一场长途跋涉的漫长旅程，在这段旅程当中，少年经历了许多前所未有的体验，尤其还遇到一位热心助人的老师教他阅读，少年就在种种历练中不断蜕变成长，即使面对逆境，依然对未来生活怀抱着无限的理想与希望。2003年迪斯尼重拍了这部经典影片。
　　The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.
　　获奖记录
　　《Sounder》1973年得到奥斯卡最佳影片、最佳男女主角和最佳改编剧本的提名。在2006年美国电影学院百年百部励志电影中名列第六十一位。

　　鲁斯（菲丽希缇·琼斯 Felicity Jones 饰）渴望成为一名律师，并且凭借着自己的努力考上了哈佛大学的法学院。在法学院里，鲁斯因为身为女性而遭到了来自各方面的歧视和压力，只有他的丈夫马丁（艾米·汉莫 Armie Hammer 饰）坚定的支持着妻子的选择，因为他明白，鲁斯充满了天赋和正义感。
　　马丁被查出患上了癌症，病愈之后，他带着孩子们前往纽约工作。为了能够和自己的家人们生活在一起，鲁斯向学校提出希望能够转去哥伦比亚大学完成学业，却被拒绝了。之后，鲁斯离开了哈佛，成为了罗格斯大学的法学教授，可即便她是这样的优秀，依然没有律师行肯聘用她，只因为她是一个女人。

　　An electronics expert creates a huge bookie broadcast system for his crime boss, and takes over operations when his boss is murdered. His greed leads him on a deadly destructive path.

　　影片讲述了美国南方农民本德伦为遵守对妻子的承诺，率全家将其遗体运回家乡安葬的“苦难历程”。整整十天的行程灾难重重：大水差点把棺材冲走，后来拉车的骡子被淹死，大火将遗体焚化。结果长子失去了一条脚，老二发了疯，三子失去心爱的马，女儿打胎不成，反被药房伙计奸污，小儿子也没得到向往的小火车，而本德伦却装上了假牙并娶回了一位新太太。

　　Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) is a take-charge captain of industry who has worked his way up in a San Francisco steel company from a position as a sheet metal worker. He loves his wife Irene (Helen Walker) very much and they have planned a vacation drive together. Irene cancels at the last minute claiming a toothache, but asks that Walter drive her cousin Jim Torrance (Tony Barrett) as far as Illinois. Walter agrees and he and Jim take off together but later Jim knocks Walter unconscious and takes the car only to be hit himself by a truck and killed, his body burned beyond recognition. Walter comes to and suffering a concussion and deep confusion from feeling betrayed by Irene hides out in a small Midwest town until guilt and peer pressure force him to go back to San Francisco and tell his story to the Police. But by the time Walter returns to San Francisco a clever detective Lieutenant Quincy (Charles Coburn) has uncovered some facts about Irene and her cousin' Jim. The police have been holding Irene for the murder of her husband Walter but release her considering that Walter was hiding out because he had killed Jim. Along the way to uncovering the truth in Court Walter realizes some hard fact about what he holds valuable and the trust he has put in those around him.

　　堪萨斯州(霍珀饰)是一位特技协调员，负责在秘鲁一个小村庄拍摄西部影片中的马匹。在一个演员在特技表演中丧生的场景中发生了一场悲剧之后，堪萨斯州决定退出电影行业，与一名当地妇女留在秘鲁。堪萨斯人认为他已经找到了天堂，但很快就被召来帮忙处理一件奇怪的事情:秘鲁原住民用木棍做的“摄像机”“拍摄”他们自己的电影，并表演真实的西方电影暴力，因为他们不懂电影造假。这部电影触及了虚构与现实的对立，尤其是在电影方面。这部电影以一种挑战观众传统电影叙事理解的方式呈现，以非时间顺序的方式呈现故事，包括一些通常只在电影制作场景后才能看到的设备(粗略的编辑和“场景缺失”卡片)，以及使用刺耳的跳跃剪辑。

　　故事发生在二十世纪三十年代初期，莉莲（简·方达 Jane Fonda 饰）前往维也纳寻找自己曾经的好友茱莉亚（瓦妮莎·雷德格瑞夫 Vanessa Redgrave 饰），到达目的地之后，莉莲才知道，茱莉亚因为和法西斯支持者发生了激烈冲突而受伤住进了医院，之后不知所踪。
　　在莉莲回归自己的生活之后，她意外的收到了茱莉亚的来信，在信中，茱莉亚请求莉莲帮助自己投运五万美元给反纳粹组织，尽管这一举动在当时意味着巨大的危险，但是莉莲还是答应了茱莉亚，最终，两个多年未见的好友在柏林重逢。然而，没过多久，莉莲便受到了茱莉亚的死讯，在悲痛之中，莉莲明白，自己还有未完成的任务。

　　Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises happiness at last...thwarted by passive, then increasingly active opposition from one sister. Will Harry resort to desperate measures?

　　Carmody一家一直在澳洲内陆过着游牧生活。儿子Sean负责牧羊。他和母亲Ida想找个农场定居下来。父亲Paddy还想继续像往常那样生活。后来这一家里发生了好多事。有孩子出生，还有父亲的酗酒赌博恶习，以及草原上进行的剪羊毛和赛马大赛，这些终于使得他们决定下来是定居还是继续游牧生活。
　　本片曾获第33届学院奖最佳影片、女主角Deborah Kerr、女配角Glynis Johns、导演Fred Zinnemann、原著改编5项提名，并在第18届金球奖角逐中获特别成就奖。

　　这部文艺电影透露着浓浓的美国南方历史风味。富豪吉姆（凯文•斯帕西饰）举办了一个盛大的圣诞派对，然而在这个热闹派对的午夜，却发生了一场命案。所有的矛头都指向了吉姆，吉姆委托当晚到场的记者约翰（约翰•库萨克饰）搜集证据帮助自己，在约翰的求证过程中，却发现了被害者和主人吉姆之间的秘密关系，当搜证继续进行，吉姆自己却曝出了一个内幕，使得案件继续陷入迷雾。在这个南方小镇的午夜，究竟隐藏着怎样的善与恶，爱与恨，怎样的人性与阴谋？

　　Edith Hardy uses charity funds for Wall Street investments in hopes of buying some new gowns. She loses all the money and borrows from wealthy oriental Tori. When her husband gives her the amount she borrowed, Tori won't take it back, branding her shoulder with a Japanese sign of his ownership. She shoots him. Her husband takes the blame. In court Edith reveals all to an angry mob. Written by Ed Stephan {stephan@cc.wwu.edu}
　　Richard Hardy, a hardworking stockbroker, labors overtime to keep up with the ruinous bills incurred by his beautiful but irresponsible wife Edith, a venal, spoiled socialite who is impervious to his pleas for fiscal restraint. Acting on what she believes to be an insider information, she impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the Red Cross charity she chairs for a stock tip. When she finds the money has been lost, she desperately turns to a Japanese ivory trader with whom she has been thoughtlessly flirting and persuades him to replace the money in exchange for an assignation. When her husband's long-awaited business deal finally materializes, she desperately tries to withdraw from their agreement by replacing the money. Angered and disappointed with her resistance to his advances, he uses a branding device to mark her shoulder as his property. Feeling violated, Edith shoots him in the shoulder and leaves. In order to protect his wife's reputation, Richard confesses to the crime and faces trial for attempted murder. Written by Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)

　　本片以四对夫妻为主角，刻画了上个世纪五十年代美国战后城郊生活的真实面目，在欣欣向荣的城郊开发区，每个人都穿着光鲜亮丽的衣服，住着轩敞舒适的宅邸，过着看似无忧无虑的生活，然而在幸福的表面之下，每个人却都被各自的心魔与困苦折磨着，英国摇滚传奇大卫·鲍威曾在一封信中提到这部电 影“我某天晚上在电视上看了一部叫做“No Down Payment”的老电影，很棒的一部电影，但如果这部电影所刻画的美式生活是真实的的话，那真是太令人抑郁了”。
　　本片故事开始于年轻夫妇大卫（杰弗瑞·亨特 饰）和珍（帕特里夏·欧文斯 饰）搬进日升山社区，在那里，他们认识了克莱策夫妇赫尔曼（帕特·亨格尔 饰）和贝蒂（芭芭拉·拉什 饰），弗拉格夫妇杰瑞（托尼·兰德尔 饰）和伊莎贝尔（谢瑞·诺丝 饰）以及布恩夫妇特洛伊（卡梅隆·米切尔 饰）和莱奥拉（乔安娜·伍德沃德 饰）。大卫是一个工程师，但他的上司一直劝说他当销售员，因为销售员可以获得更高的工资，他的妻子珍也希望他能去当销售员，这令他十分烦心，更让他烦恼的是，他一直怀疑自己貌美迷人的妻子对自己不忠，担心自己软弱的书呆子个性无法真正地留住妻子。赫尔曼是市议会的成员，在市中心开着一家器具店，他手下的日本裔伙计伊古想要搬进白人社区，恳求赫尔曼帮忙，赫尔曼虽然想要帮忙，却又害怕这事会在社区引起轩然大波，因此和妻子在商量的过程中争吵起来，两人信仰上的差异更是进一步加重了争吵。杰瑞是一名二手汽车销售中介，他沉迷酗酒，喜欢沾花惹草，总是希望自己能出人头地，干一番大事业，妻子伊莎贝尔希望他能停止喝酒，并脚踏实地，找一些稳定的工作，但杰瑞执迷不悟，并为了赚钱开始采取一些为人不齿的非常手段。特洛伊是一名退伍军人，他经营着一家十分成功的加油站，但真正的梦想是想当日升山的警察局长，他的妻子莱奥拉曾生下他的孩子，但因为当时二人并未结婚，莱奥拉不得不选择将孩子送走，夫妻俩常常因为此事而不时争吵，同时，特洛伊对大卫的妻子珍心怀好感，三番两次设法接近她，珍一直尽量与特洛伊保持距离，但特洛伊却没有因此而放弃，大卫和莱奥拉虽然察觉出了端倪，但也无法做出任何实质性的劝阻，四人微妙的关系最终演变成一场悲剧。

　　音乐教师Christine Radcliffe原以为 Karel Novak 在战争中被杀害，她是如此的爱他，一直坚持与他携手共老。可是当Karel 再次出现的时候，等来的却是来自他爱人的一颗子弹..