在一个平静的夜晚，一辆飞驰而来的汽车，撞碎了音乐教授约翰（威廉·麦鲍瑟 William Mapother 饰）的幸福生活，他的妻女以及美好的人生都被尚未成年的少女罗娜（布里特·马灵 Brit Marling 饰）夺去。这起事故，也让罗娜的心灵蒙受巨大打击。罪恶感让她过着最底层的生活，却始终逃脱不掉灵魂的谴责。偶然机会，她重逢约翰，并以清洁人员的名义走进约翰潦倒无望的生活。在一段时间相处过后，他们渐渐温暖了彼此漫布创痕的心。与此同时，人类发现了一颗与地球极为相似的行星，而那里似乎也住着人类另一个自己。这是希望，还是美好的梦想？
薇薇安（艾玛·汤普森 Emma Thompson 饰）是一位学识渊博的博士，让年轻的她没有想到的是，上帝竟然给对生活和学术充满了热情的自己开了一个天大的玩笑，经过医生的确证，她患上了卵巢癌，病情已经发展到了末期，几乎没有治愈的可能。
从悲伤、抗拒到最后的接受，薇薇安的内心犹如踏过了千山万水。尽管康复的希望渺茫，但她还是积极地接受了可能令她形销骨立的化疗治疗。在身体逐渐枯萎，头发接连落光的过程中，这位睿智的女性也不忘对自己的前半生进行捉摸和思考，她在有限的生命中看到了无限，最终调整好了心态，以平静之姿态，面对必然到来之死亡。
首部IMAX海下立体电影，为拍摄此片，水下摄影师携带重达近4吨的专用装备，下潜到了南澳大利亚和巴布亚新几内亚以及印度洋海域，历时110天、潜水350小时，首次成功采用IMAX 3D 摄影机在水下进行冒险拍摄。3D的视觉效果让观众与地球上最独特、最危险、最色彩斑斓的生物零距离接触，体验一次难得的深海旅行。
The Doll is an adaptation of the novel, The Doll (novel) by Bolesław Prus, which is regarded by many as one of the finest Polish novels ever written and, along with Pharaoh (novel), made Bolesław Prus a potential candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. The influence of Émile Zola is evident, and some have compared the novel to Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert both were Prus's contemporaries. The movie, however, may be more compared to Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, (The Red and the Black).
The Doll constitutes a panorama of life in Warsaw between 1878 and 1879, and at the same time is a subtle story of three generations of Polish idealists, their psychological complications, their involvement in the history of the nineteenth century, social dramas, moral problems and the experience of tragic existence. At the same time this story describes the disintegration of social relationships and the growing separation of a society whose aristocratic elite spreads the models of vanity and idleness. In the bad air of a backward country, anti-Semitic ideas are born, valuable individuals meet obstacles on their way, and scoundrels are successful.
This poetic love story follows a nouveau riche merchant, Stanislaw Wokulski, through a series of trials and tribulations occasioned by his obsessive passion for an aristocratic beauty, Izabela Lecka, played by the famous Polish actress, Beata Tyszkiewicz.
Plot:
As a descendant of an impoverished Polish noble family, young Wokulski is forced to work as a waiter at Hopfer's, a Warsaw restaurant, while dreaming of a life in science. After taking part in the failed 1863 Uprising against Tsarist Russia, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. On eventual return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman at Mincel's haberdashery. Marrying the late owner's widow (who eventually dies), he comes into money and uses it to set up a partnership with a Russian merchant he had met while in exile. The two merchants go to Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, and Wokulski makes a fortune supplying the Russian Army. The enterprising Wokulski now proves a romantic at heart, falling in love with Izabela, daughter of the vacuous, bankrupt aristocrat, Tomasz Łęcki. In his quest to win Izabela, Wokulski begins frequenting theatres and aristocratic salons and to help her financially distressed father, founds a company and sets the aristocrats up as shareholders in his business.The indolence of these aristocrats, who secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to Izabela's impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection. In the end she consents to accept him, but without true devotion or love.(wikipedia)
犹太天才数学家马克西·米利安·科恩（希恩·格莱特 Sean Gullette饰）痴迷沉醉于数字的世界，他认为一切自然界的事物都可以用数字解释。他潜心研究，试图透过数字推演出种种生命迹象背后的奥秘和规律。可越是逼近答案，他越是无法忍受致命的头痛。他发现了过去十年来股票市场的混乱波动，其实是由背后的一套数学模式在操纵。与此同时，他的研究引来了华尔街股票市场的炒家们和犹太神秘教派的注意。在介乎真实与虚拟的世界中，马克西正在走向疯狂。
1996年2月，阿伦诺夫斯基开始筹备这部成本只有六万美元的长片处女作。两年后，《死亡密码》以其新颖的创意和崭新的拍摄手法，一鸣惊人。先是斩获圣丹斯电影节的导演奖，翌年又摘得独立精神奖的最佳编剧处女作奖。2000年，他再次自编自导了《梦之安魂曲》，也赢得了不错的反响。2005年，他还入围“最需要关注的好莱坞100人”。
