介绍：Professor Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as an alchemist in a circa-1700 university, despairs at still knowing nothing of the true secrets of nature...whereupon his old acquaintance Mephistopheles, servant of Lucifer, appears and grants him youth and a new life. But with youth, Faust's interest is diverted from science to women. And Mephistopheles, who has taken on the guise of the elderly Faust that was, sets many snares for his young friend's slippery soul... Written by Rod Crawford

介绍：Paris, 1315. The Tour de Nesle, a guard tower on the banks of the Seine, has become a symbol of mystery and fear. Each morning, at its base, the bodies of handsome young aristocrats are found floating in the river, all butchered by sword or arrow. One evening, two noblemen, Buridan and Philippe d'Aulnay, find themselves in the infamous tower, lured there on the expectation of a night of unbridled passion. Little do they realise that they are to be the next victims of a woman who is determined to take revenge against all men - Margaret of Burgundy, the present Queen of France. Although Philippe is killed, Buridan escapes, and intends to blackmail the Queen. Unless she makes him her prime minister, he will expose her crimes to Philippe's brother and her husband, King Louis X. When she moves to eliminate Burdan, Margaret makes a terrible discovery...　　In the twilight years of his long and pretty uneven career, the great avant-garde film director Abel Gance made a number of films which, whilst not as grand and artistically inspired as his early silent masterpieces (La Roue (1923), Napoléon (1927)), still compared very favourably with the work of his contemporaries.　　Of these, La Tour de Nesle is a film that still stands up remarkably well today - an ambitious historical drama based on the famous 1832 play by Alexandre Dumas. It makes a nice companion piece to Gance's subsequent historical romp, Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964).　　　　Needless to say, the film isn't to be commended on its historical accuracy. As any historian will tell you, the Alexandre Dumas version of French history is wildly fanciful, to say the least. However, this doesn't prevent La Tour de Nesle from being an entertaining and, at times, highly poignant, piece of cinema.　　Whilst the characterisation and dialogue leave much to be desired, the plot (a murky tale of cruel revenge and political intrigue) is gripping, and the film's artistic design is exceptional for a film of this period. Gance brings a strangely expressionistic touch to his use of colour and shade, something which adds to the darkly sinister nature of the plot, whilst imbuing the film with a striking sense of historical realism. A propos, Gance's assistant director Nelly Kaplan makes her screen début in a small role, shortly before she herself embarked on a successful film making career.

介绍：裘德（克里斯托弗·埃克莱斯顿 Christopher Eccleston饰）在农村长大，一心要用知识改变命运，考取大学成为了他的奋斗目标但是，年少的欲望却让他与当地一个姑娘发生了关系，大学梦也随之破碎。　　不久姑娘远走澳洲，寻觅更美好的生活。剩下裘德和他的梦想，继续在这里萌芽成长。裘德为了能考上大学，专门搬到大学城附近苦苦寻求机会。同时在这里，表妹苏（凯特·温丝莱特 Kate Winslet饰）让他暗暗倾心。迫于亲缘的关系，二人都不敢打破禁忌。当苏嫁给了他人，裘德终于冲破了心中压抑已久的感情。他们不理世俗，不想后果，只要一起。即使流浪到天涯都无所畏惧。然而，不幸终究来临。他们的孩子为这一切付上了沉重的代价，裘德和苏的感情，亦迎来了寒冷的严冬。

介绍：里奇（肖恩•克里斯汀森Shawn Christensen 饰）是一个早就对生命失去了全部热情的抑郁男子，终于，他再也无法忍受精神上的重负，决定自杀然而，就在他割了腕，徘徊在死亡线上的这个节骨眼，很久都没有联系的姐姐玛姬（埃米•罗森Emmy Rossum 饰）突然打来了电话，请求里奇去照顾她的小女儿索菲亚（法蒂玛•普泰西克 Fatima Ptacek 饰），一番天人交战之后，里奇决定先将自杀的事情放一放。　　就这样，里奇见到了索菲亚，这个早熟的小姑娘给予了他很深的影响，随着时间的推移，索菲亚和里奇之间建立了信任，可惜的是，索菲亚的依赖并不能够让里奇放弃自杀，他的下一个自杀计划已经提上了日程。

介绍：年轻的瓦伦汀（詹姆斯·麦卡沃伊 James McAvoy 饰）应聘成为大文豪列夫·托尔斯泰（克里斯托弗·普卢默 Christopher Plummer 饰）的秘书和助手，目睹了晚年文豪和他妻子索菲娅（海伦·米伦 Helen Mirren 饰）之间爱恨交织的深刻情感托尔斯泰不满索菲娅奢侈的生活习惯，索菲娅则看不惯托尔斯泰和“激进派”弟子弗拉基米尔·切科夫（保罗·吉亚玛提 Paul Giamatti 饰）的合作，围绕着托尔斯泰，两度力量始终较劲，瓦伦汀也被牵扯进去，分别为索菲娅和切科夫写日记，记录托翁晚年生活，同时也和托翁崇拜者玛莎（凯瑞·康顿 Kerry Condon 饰）产生了感情。疲惫的托尔斯泰终于选择离家出走，弥留在最后的车站，而索菲娅和切科夫的斗争直到最后一刻都未止息……