介绍：1850年，一个遥远的法属小岛发生了一桩命案，醉了酒的渔夫（埃米尔·库斯图里卡 Emir Kusturica饰）犯下杀人罪，被判以极刑然而这里山高皇帝远，没有铡刀之类的行刑工具，于是岛上的官员们求助于法国本部，让他们千里迢迢运来断头台。　　在这个等待的时间里，博爱善良的上尉夫人（朱丽叶·比诺什 Juliette Binoche饰）相信渔夫是一个本质不坏的人。她自从跟随丈夫来到这个荒凉的小岛之后，就一直料理着花园。如今她让渔夫帮她修整花园，干各种琐碎的家务活。渔夫和上尉夫人一同行善，还得到了居民的欢迎。上尉（丹尼尔·奥德耶 Daniel Auteuil饰）知道两人相处得日渐融洽，甚至萌生爱意，但出于对妻子无私的爱，他只是默默选择让妻子得到快乐。　　日子渐渐过去，断头台终于送到。上尉、上尉夫人和渔夫，也迎来了各人命运的转折。

介绍：故事发生在1860年的澳洲，彼时，糖尿病依旧是无法治愈的绝症一场意外夺去了伯爵之子哈瑞（鲁伯特·艾弗雷特 Rupert Everett 饰）的一只手臂，令从小热爱马匹的他再也无法驰骋于马背之上。哈瑞雇佣了名为奈德（雨果·维文 Hugo Weaving 饰）的马车夫，随着时间的流逝，两人之间产生了坚实的友谊。　　哈瑞爱慕名为莎拉（Catherine McClements 饰）的女子，然而，因为哈瑞患有糖尿病，令莎拉的母亲对这门亲事持有坚决反对的态度。日子一天天过去，哈瑞的身体日渐憔悴，在大限之日到来之前，他希望能够留下后代继承他的财产，于是，他想到了奈德，希望他能够代替自己，带给莎拉一个儿子。

介绍：德拉维尔蒙（杰拉·菲利浦 Gérard Philipe 饰）是一位年轻而又英俊的军官，无数的女人们臣服在他的花言巧语之下，而他的各种风流韵事亦在大街小巷里传得沸沸扬扬某日，德拉维尔蒙和好友勒鲁瓦打了一赌，赌他在这个月之内能够斩获一位女士的芳心，在舞会上，德拉维尔蒙将筹码压在了名叫玛莉路易斯（米歇尔·摩根 Michèle Morgan 饰）的女子身上，随即对她展开了热烈的攻势。　　玛丽路易斯还有另一位名叫杜维尔格（让·德赛利 Jean Desailly 饰）的追求者，他的存在激起了德拉维尔蒙的胜负心，这一次，他表现的格外卖力。哪知道随着时间的推移，德拉维尔蒙竟然真的爱上了风情万种的玛莉路易斯。

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.