The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.
A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the pastor, and tries to embarrass him in various ways, including being caught with the local girl, Majka.
In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People's Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis's time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery, The Flowers of St. Francis is a timeless and moving portrait of the search for spiritual enlightenment.
故事从慈祥的爷爷给生病的孙子讲故事说起,爷爷带来一本厚厚的童话故事书《公主新娘》。这个世代相传的童话故事讲述了一段爱与冒险的真爱故事。善良美丽的少女布卡特(罗宾·怀特 Robin Wright 饰)住在宁静的小村庄弗洛林,她与少年维斯特雷(加利·艾尔维斯 Cary Elwes 饰)青梅竹马两小无猜,两人很快陷入热恋。然而贫穷的维斯特雷希望给布卡特更好的生活,于是扬帆远航离开了村庄。但是维斯特雷的船并没有到达目的地,传言说他死在了海盗的手里。五年后,伤心欲绝的布卡特成为了王子胡姆普丁克(克里斯·萨兰登 Chris Sarandon饰)的未婚妻,可她并不爱他,她的心里仍苦苦思念着真爱维斯特雷。一次意外让布卡特再次遇见了维斯特雷,然而邪恶的王子却绑架了布卡特,并逼迫她嫁给自己。此时的维斯特雷已是一位勇敢强壮的海盗,为救真爱,他与武艺超群的剑客埃尼戈·蒙托亚(曼迪·帕廷金 Mandy Patinkin饰)、力大无比的巨人菲兹克(安德烈·捷安特 André the Giant饰)一起踏上了拯救公主之路。
本部童话式爱情冒险电影《公主新娘》,荣获1988年第60届奥斯卡金像奖最佳原创歌曲提名,1987年第12届多伦多国际电影节人民选择奖-最佳故事片奖以及1988年第15届美国电影电视土星奖最佳奇幻电影。
教授格雷迪(迈克尔·道格拉斯 Michael Douglas 饰)曾经被尊称为“奇迹小子”,因为他7年前出版的小说如此优秀,在文坛上轰动一时。这表面看来是一件好事,却让格雷迪背上了沉重的思想包袱,他害怕自己的新作品落差太大,于是一直把它压在箱底,不敢发表。如今,妻子已经离他而去,他有一个情人萨拉(弗兰西斯·麦克多蒙德 Frances McDormand 饰)。这个情人,是他的校长,同时也是上司的妻子。
格雷迪怎么也没想到,一把年纪了,倒霉事才陆续朝他招手。萨拉告诉他肚里怀上了他的骨肉。更糟糕的是他被恶狗所咬,不过也因此和学生詹姆斯(托比·马奎尔 Tobey Maguire 饰)开始一段感情真挚的忘年交。在詹姆斯身上,格雷迪发现了可贵的文学潜质。另一方面,编辑克莱特里(小罗伯特·唐尼 Robert Downey Jr. 饰)催命鬼似的向格雷迪催稿。众多事情使格雷迪的生活就像六国大封相。他该如何厘清头绪,从乱麻中重新整理下人生呢?
萨曼莎(娜奥米·沃茨 Naomi Watts 饰)和丈夫卡姆龙(安德鲁·林肯 Andrew Lincoln 饰)有一个幸福的家庭,向往自由生活的他们每年都会带着孩子们四处旅行。这一年,夫妻两人决定去泰国度假,哪知道在一场意外种,萨曼莎脊椎受伤,导致的结果是她的胸部以下彻底的瘫痪了,萨曼莎将永远的告别她挚爱的户外运动,下半生只能在轮椅上度过了。
巨大的打击让萨曼莎一改往日的开朗和乐观,陷入了抑郁质中,她甚至想到了死。一天,孩子们从外面带回来一只受伤的小喜鹊交给萨曼莎照料,眼前这个脆弱的小生命,激起了萨曼莎的保护欲,同时也重新唤醒了她的求生欲。
Philippe Clarence, a famous Parisian dressmaker, seduces his friend's fiancee. But, for the 1st time in his life, this is for real. The film is also a sharp picture of the fashion world.
A philandering young dress designer plays fast and loose with the hearts of all the fair maidens he encounters, and leaves them in a Paris lurch. But when he meets the fiancée of his best friend, he falls deeply and truly in love with her. The girl is soon faced with two choices marry the reliable fiancée whom she doesn't love, or run off with the dress designer with whom she is infatuated. She sees that she also has a third option and makes the wise choice...she rejects both. The dress designer is not too well equipped for accepting rejection, and he makes a bad decision.