ynopsis from Time Out Film Guide: Between the seemingly idyllic opening and closing scenes depicting a rural community, first at church, then at the village festival, Fleischmann attacks that community's prejudices and ignorance without remorse. His very precisely observed portrait of Bavarian life begins with little more than a display of the villagers' constant ribbing, bawdy humour, continuous gossip, and more than a hint of their slow-wittedness. With the return of a young man, their idle malice and childish clowning, always on the edge of unpleasantness, receive some focus: quite without foundation, the lad is victimised as a homosexual. The crippling conformity of their ingrained conservatism leads the villagers to reject anything 'different': a young widow is ostracised, more for her crippled lover and idiot son than her morals; a teacher is frozen out because she's educated; the casual destruction of the young 'homosexual' is given no more thought than the cutting up of a pig. Not Germany in the '30s but the '70s; nevertheless the political parallels are clear. An impressive film.

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.

一九三零年代的上海顺和纱厂，女工素芬（白杨 饰）与妇女补习学校教员张忠良（陶金 饰）喜结连理。 一九三七年七月七日，素芬诞下一子。忠良为子取名抗生后不久，便加入救护队离开上海，并机智地在南京大屠杀中幸存下来。 一九三八年，忠良母（吴茵 饰）带素芬和抗生回到丹阳乡下。但是乡下也不太平，忠良弟忠民（高正 饰）不肯做走狗，上山打起了游击。 一九四零年，侵略者吊死了忠良父。素芬只得背子随婆回到上海，以对忠良的思念和期盼为支撑，在苦难中挣扎求生。 一九四一年，被俘后成功逃脱的忠良辗转到达重庆，困苦中只得投靠故交王丽珍（舒绣文 饰），并慢慢被堕落的物质生活所引诱，开始迷失自己。 一九四五年，日本投降，忠良和丽珍先后回到上海，住进丽珍表姐何文艳（上官云珠 饰）家。就在忠良与文艳厮混时，走投无路的素芬歪打正着被招入文艳家帮佣……

1948 film by Jules Dassin

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

歌女小兰与盲母靠街头卖唱度日，生活艰难。青年白龙曾因驾车撞人入狱，出狱时听到小兰在唱《街头月》。小兰的歌声十分动听，白龙很感动，将身上所有的钱都给了盲母。一个流浪儿将钱抢走，盲母拼命争夺受伤，白龙将钱追回，二人交往渐多，互生好感。电台举办歌唱比赛，白龙鼓励小兰参加，听了小兰的试唱，电台执事十分高兴。小兰回到家中，盲母疑心她在外不轨，小兰负屈离家出走与白龙纵酒。白龙酒后驾车再次撞人入狱，小兰去参加比赛，却昏倒当场……

Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1996.

1961 film by Billy Wilder

1940 film directed by Ernst Lubitsch

朱妮（洛丽泰·扬 Loretta Young 饰）是美国最著名的“老姑娘”，一次偶然中，她和一位名叫提摩西（雷·米兰德 Ray Milland 饰）的男子搭乘同一辆车回城，没想到被记者拍到了，记者将他两误认为了夫妻，在报纸上大肆报道，很快便引起了轰动。
朱妮和提摩西发现，这一误会反而给他们带来了意料之外的福利，于是决定假扮夫妻维持这个谎言，可是，知道他们真正的生活在一起后才发现，两个人无论是生活习惯还是个性上都矛盾多多，在一次又一次的摩擦和争吵中，朱妮和提摩西都感到对方令自己难以忍受，可如今他们早已骑虎难下，两人该如何处理这段斩不断理还乱的关系呢？

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

1945 film by Marcel Carné

1923 film by Sam Taylor, Fred C. Newmeyer

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

《塞纳河畔》（La Seine a rencontré Paris，尤里斯·伊文思，1958年|31分钟|35毫米|黑白|有声）以浓厚的诗情画意和温暖的人道情怀描绘了巴黎风情。影片开始，摄影机宛如轻盈的小船航行在塞纳河上，划过充满乡野气息的城郊，缓缓进入巴黎市区。接着，摄影机在塞纳河两岸驻足，展现岸边的生活场景：一个男人正在给自己补鞋，成群的市民漫无目的地闲逛，几个小痞子目不转睛地盯视在岸边拍照的女模特，恋人们旁若无人地沉溺在甜蜜的二人世界。一阵急雨袭来，人们迅速跑开。本片的创意源自法国电影史学家乔治·萨杜尔，试图在塞纳河与巴黎相逢的地方表现巴黎的风土人情（本片原名《塞纳河与巴黎相逢》。本片并非描写塞纳河和巴黎景色的风光片，而是一首充满温暖和煦的柔情、宽容慈悲的人道情怀以及洞察世事的幽默感的诗篇。本片拍摄完成不久就曾在中国放映，而且是导演亲自带来的拷贝。那时，他应中国政府文化部邀请访问中国，并应邀担任中央新闻纪录电影制片厂艺术顾问。本片导演尤里斯·伊文思（Joris Ivens，1898—1989）生于荷兰，年轻时代曾到许多国家拍片，后半生主要生活在法国巴黎。伊文思与中国的关系十分密切，从1938年拍摄《四万万人民》到文革时期拍摄《愚公移山》再到新时期拍摄《风的故事》，他多次来到中国并用摄影机记录下了中国不同时期的社会变迁。