介绍：故事发生在1817年的英国，一个奇装异服的女子现身于小镇之中，没有人知道她从哪里来，也没有人知道她到底是谁善良的沃瑞尔夫人收留了无家可归的女子，并且通过她的种种举动开始猜测女子的真实身份。最终，人们认定了这个女人是从某个遥远的东方古国里出逃的落难公主，并且称之为卡拉布公主（菲比·凯茨 Phoebe Cates 饰），对于自己的这一身份，卡拉布从来都没有明确否认过。　　卡拉布公主的名气越来越大，吸引了记者古奇的注意，甚至连摄政王都倾心于她的美貌和智慧。渐渐的，所有人都开始弄不清楚，面前的这个女人，究竟是真的高贵的公主，还是只是一个聪明的骗子。

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.

介绍：约翰（比利·查平 Billy Chapin 饰）和佩尔（萨莉·简·布鲁斯 Sally Jane Bruce 饰）是一对苦命的兄妹，他们的父亲本（彼得·格雷夫斯 Peter Graves 饰）因抢劫和被判处绞刑在被逮捕前，本把赃款藏在了佩尔的布娃娃里，并让他们承诺永远不泄露这个秘密。本的狱友哈利（罗伯特·米彻姆 Robert Mitchum 饰）是一个败絮其中的牧师，偶然间他得知了这笔赃款的去向，出狱后，哈利找到了本的妻子薇拉（谢利·温特斯 Shelley Winters 饰），他想方设法得到了薇拉的芳心成为了约翰和佩尔的继父，就此，哈利的阴谋开始了。哈利杀死了对于他来说毫无价值的薇拉，将他弃尸河底，又对兄妹两人威逼利诱想要套出赃款的秘密。在所有努力都没有成果之际，恼羞成怒的哈利露出的本来面目。约翰和佩尔划着小船逃离了哈利，他们一路流浪来到了一个陌生的小镇，专门收养弃婴的善良妇人理查德（丽莲·吉许 Lillian Gish 饰）收留了兄妹两，然而平静的生活没过多久，哈利罪恶的脚步也踏上了这块纯洁的土地。

介绍：玛姬（艾米丽·沃森 Emily Watson 饰）和汤姆（伊弗兰·梅勒蒂斯 Ifan Meredith 饰）是一对感情十分要好的兄妹父亲爱德华（伯纳德·希尔 Bernard Hill 饰）破产后，汤姆被迫放弃了优渥的留学机会，靠着自己的双手努力支撑起整个家庭的负担，妹妹玛姬亦从一个衣食无忧的天真女孩成长为了勤劳贤惠的女人，最终，汤姆终于攒够了钱赎回了磨坊。　　玛姬和律师的儿子菲利普（詹姆斯·弗莱恩 James Frain 饰）相互抱有好感，但汤姆却认为律师正是造成他们家破人亡的罪魁祸首，因而极力反对妹妹同其交往。之后，不幸的玛姬又爱上了表妹的未婚夫，暴怒的汤姆将她逐出门外。一场暴雨引发了洪水泛滥，汤姆被困在磨坊之中，玛姬心急如焚。