Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.

故事发生在1671年的法国，王公贵族们纸醉金迷的奢侈生活让百姓们陷入了水深火热和民不聊生的糟糕境地中，愤怒和反抗的情绪日益增加。可是，即便是在这样的情况下，库德王子（朱利安·格洛弗 Julian Glover 饰）满脑子里想着的，依旧是如何讨好自己的父亲路易十四（朱利安·山德斯 Julian Sands 饰）。为此，库德王子决定举办一个为期三天的壮大宴会，他将此任务全权交给了侍从瓦尔特（杰拉尔·德帕迪约 Gérard Depardieu 饰）处理。
瓦尔特出色的完成了王子交代给他的任务，宴会上的所有来宾都对他们的所闻所见感到满意和惊奇。一个名叫安妮（乌玛·瑟曼 Uma Thurman 饰）的贵妇的出现让瓦尔特坠入了情网，不幸的是，路易十四似乎也想要得到安妮。在如此强大的情敌面前，瓦尔特陷入了痛苦之中。

An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.

在2014年上映的《狐狸猎手》后，贝尼特·米勒一直未有新作品问世。近日其终于揭晓了拍摄计划，米勒将把查尔斯·狄更斯的经典中篇小说《圣诞颂歌》再度搬上大银幕，并已邀《莎翁情史》编剧汤姆·斯托帕德执笔。美国独立电影超级推手梅根·埃里森、斯科特·鲁丁，则将同米勒一道担任本片制作人。

以文艺片见长的罗伯特．本顿意外地执导了这部黑社会动作片，台前幕后的阵容惊人。摄影执导是大师级的拉斯托．阿曼多斯，主演明星包括达斯廷．霍夫曼、 布鲁斯．威利斯、 尼科尔．基德曼等大牌，叫人充满期待，然而影片的实际却有点雷大雨小之感。剧情描述在30年代美国经济大萧条的时候，比利．巴盖一直想在逆境中出人头地，凭机智的脑袋成为黑道枭雄舒滋的左右手，但是江湖的险恶却也让比利经常陷入生死边缘的危机，为了活命还不得不绞尽脑汁。全片的气氛比较文艺腔，也偏向小人物奋斗史，而非帮派血战的格局。

1990 film by Tom Stoppard

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.

克里斯托弗（本尼迪克特•康伯巴奇 Benedict Cumberbatch 饰）是个信仰骑士时代的传统道德的贵族绅士，正直隐忍，洁身自好。而西尔维亚（丽贝卡•豪尔 Rebecca Hall 饰）是个典型的交际花，有着众多情人的她过着终日纸醉金迷的生活。然而意外的怀孕让她不得不为了挽救名声，嫁给了保守的克里斯托弗。婚后枯燥无味的生活和丈夫的冷漠隐忍都让西尔维亚抓狂，她开始用尽一切手段来刺激克里斯托弗。西尔维亚与旧情人私奔成了二人矛盾的开始，然而两人的宗教信仰都不允许其离婚。就这样，这段勉强维持的婚姻让两个人陷入了无尽的折磨中。意外的机会克里斯托弗认识了思想激进，学识深厚的现代女性瓦伦仃（阿德莱德•克莱蒙丝 Adelaide Clemens 饰），进一步的接触让这两个看似不同世界的人相爱了，可世俗的羁绊却阻挠着两人对这段感情的进一步发展。同时西尔维亚也意识到了婚姻的危机，开始收敛自己的生活努力的挽救婚姻，向丈夫示好。一战的到来，克里斯托弗参军让这段三角关系爱情面临考验和抉择。
该片改编自福特•麦多克斯•福特的同名小说。

Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship progresses, Shakespeare's comedy soon transforms into tragedy.

In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vronsky to whom she is immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.