A female American reporter searches for her missing brother against the backdrop of violence and human smuggling across the US/Mexican border. Inspired by true events.
John Muller, medical school dropout and brilliant crook, plans a holdup which goes a little bit wrong, and finds vindictive gambler Rocky Stansyck after him. At the end of his tether, he stumbles onto a lucky chance to assume an impenetrable new identity as psychiatrist Victor Bartok. But irony piles on as Muller finds it's out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Salomé (1923), a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist (here, as in Wilde's play, called Jokaanan) at the request of his stepdaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after.
Salomé is often called one of the first art films to be made in the U.S.[citation needed] The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting (even for the period), minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary props make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of the characters' individual heightened desires than on conventional plot development.
Despite the film being only a little over an hour in length and having no real action to speak of, it cost over $350,000 to make. All the sets were constructed indoors to be able to have complete control over the lighting. The film was shot completely in black and white, matching the illustrations done by Aubrey Beardsley in the printed edition of Wilde's play. The costumes, designed by Natacha Rambova, used material only from Maison Lewis of Paris, such as the real silver lamé loincloths worn by the guards.
No major studio would be associated with the film, and it was years after its completion before it was released, by a minor independent distributor. It was a complete failure at the time and marked the end of Nazimova's producing career.
A longstanding rumor, which seems to have started while the film was still in production, suggests that its cast is comprised entirely of gay and bisexual actors in an homage to Oscar Wilde, as per star and producer Nazimova's demand. It is, of course, impossible to say, but one of the extras in Salomé reported that a number of the cast members—both featured and extras—were indeed gay, but not an unusual percentage of them, and certainly not all of them. What can be said is that Nazimova herself was a lesbian, the two guard characters (who, next to Salomé, have the most screen time) are at least played very stereotypically gay, and several of the female courtiers are men in drag.
Salomé was screened in 1989 at the New York International Festival of Lesbian and Gay films and in 1990 at the New York Gay Experimental Film Festival.
In 2000, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
胡格(杰森·罗巴兹 Jason Robards 饰)遭到了信赖的朋友塔格里(L·Q·琼斯 L.Q. Jones 饰)和布温(斯特罗瑟·马丁 Strother Martin 饰)的背叛,身无分文险些丧命。在一片荒漠之中,胡格意外的发现了一处水源,于是,他打起了卖水的主意。
牧师约书亚(大卫·沃纳 David Warner 饰)指责胡格不应该将公共资源据为己有,于是胡格前往附近的小镇,将这片地买了下来,紧接着,他又凭借着三寸不烂之舌说服了当地的银行家投资兴建旅店。与此同时,胡格邂逅了被小镇上的居民居住出镇的妓女西堤(斯黛拉·斯蒂文斯 Stella Stevens 饰),胡格收留了她,两人之间产生了真挚的感情。
在美国职业棒球大联盟MLB中,比利(布拉德•皮特 Brad Pitt 饰)所属的奥克兰运动家队败给了财大气粗的纽约扬基队,这让他深受打击。雪上加霜的是三名主力纷纷被重金挖走,未来的赛季前途渺茫。在管理层会议上,大家一头雾水,只有他暗下决心改造球队。一次偶然的机会,他认识了耶鲁大学经济学硕士彼得(乔纳•希尔 Jonah Hill 饰),两者对于球队运营的理念不谋而合。凭借直觉和经验,他仿佛找到了破解金元棒球的钥匙。他聘请彼得作为自己的顾问,一起研究如何打造最高胜率的球队。他们用数学建模的方式,逐渐开始挖掘上垒率的潜在明星,并通过软磨硬泡将他们招致麾下。他们不在乎高层的冷嘲热讽,只是专心地为球队寻找信心和实力的根源,终于新的赛季开始了……
影片改编自迈克尔•刘易斯的《魔球—逆境中致胜的智慧》(Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game)。
汤尼(雷·米兰德 Ray Milland饰)和玛戈(格蕾丝·凯利 Grace Kelly 饰)是貌合神离的一对夫妻。汤尼常常为了他的事业和爱好,把娇妻忘在一边,二人感情亮出红灯。而生活寂寥的玛戈和作家马克不可避免的擦出爱之火花,他们约会、通信,不料竟被汤尼发现。汤尼没有 声张,只是写了一封匿名信给妻子以示警告。然而现在马克竟然造访家中,为了一雪耻辱,加之图谋得到妻子玛戈的丰厚财产,汤尼暗生毒计。 汤尼向旧时同学列斯开出了一千英镑的价钱,让其参与他布下的一整套严密杀人计划。这套计划有设计精妙的凶手不在场证据,电话、钥匙,窗帘,统统成为这个阴谋的道具设置。然而计划终究赶不上变化,列斯不但得不到赏金,还要赔上自己的性命。而汤尼却也急中生了智……
道林格雷(彼得·弗斯 Peter Firth 饰)是一个出生非常卑微的穷小子,在一次机缘巧合之下结识了著名画家巴兹尔(约翰·吉尔古德 John Gielgud 饰)和绅士亨利,在两人的引荐之下,道林格雷接触到了巴黎上流社交圈的奢靡生活,就此无法自拔。巴兹尔为道林格雷画了一副肖像画,将他美丽的身体描摹得栩栩如生,这幅画已经流入市场就引发了圈内各路人士的热烈讨论与赞美,道林格雷也就此成为了圈中名人。
之后,道林格雷邂逅了名为塞西莉亚的女子,塞西莉亚是一位美丽的剧场演员,没过多久,两人就坠入了情网之中,决定邂逅步入婚姻的殿堂。当亨利得知道林格雷即将结婚的消息大为震惊,他用花言巧语诱骗道林格雷抛弃塞西莉亚,最终导致了他们两人感情的破裂。