The film is based on the short story Butterflies by Ian McEwan. A little girl has drowned in a nearby canal. A 19-year-old man, who lives in the same inner-city neighborhood, is the sole witness. Although he has made a statement to the police of everything he saw, the father of the little girl wants to talk to him today. The young man still has a few hours before the meeting, and lots of time to kill on this dreary Saturday. The events of the past days spring forth in his memory.

Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen works long days in a restaurant, while Lily does the housekeeping, daydreaming of setting up their own business, much to Chen's chagrin. When Chen lets his colleague Fok seduce him down a path of mounting gambling debts, he is recruited as a drug courier for a shadowy Chinese triad. Suddenly he realizes that getting their own enterprise could be their only means of escape.

A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.

《立体几何》描写一个男人根据其怪僻的数学家祖父在日记中遗留的指示，用一种近乎拓扑学中的变形方法让夫人消失。
原著来自于伊恩·麦克尤恩22岁处女作，短篇小说集《最初的爱情，最后的仪式》。

A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.

柏林围墙倒塌是历史性大事，本片以此为故事的楔子，倒叙在1955年发生于西柏林边境的一宗传奇。坎培尔．考特饰演年轻的英国邮局电子工程人员，奉派到美国占领区的柏林，参加一个由美国中情局和英国情报处策画的间谍行动，挖掘一条隧道到俄军占领区内窃听俄方的情报。与此同时，史考特跟德国女子伊莎贝拉罗塞里尼陷入热恋之中，不料她的前夫前来威胁，后来竟演变成杀人灭口，并将箱尸藏在隧道中。

2017 film by Richard Eyre

2017 film directed by Dominic Cooke

As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken into care by the authorities. Unfortunately she also dies and Julie and Jack (the older, teenage children) decide to hide her body in the basement so that they can have free reign of their household. Soon Tom has taken to dressing as a girl whilst Sue has become increasingly reticent, confiding only to her diary, meanwhile Jack and Julie sense an attraction developing for each other. However Julie's new beau, Derek, threatens to unearth the many dark secrets within this family as he becomes increasingly suspicious of Jack.