1955 film directed by Billy Wilder

After losing his job and wife, and spending time in a institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life and reconcile with his wife, but his father would be happy if he shared his obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles. Things get complicated when he meets a woman, who offers to help him reconnect with his wife, if he will do something very important for her in exchange.

美国游客Hayley（艾丽森·皮尔 Alison Pill 饰）在意大利旅行的时候，和意大利男子Michelangelo（弗拉维奥·帕伦蒂 Flavio Parenti 饰）坠入爱河，迅速订婚。Hayley的父母也从美国来到意大利和Michelangelo一家见面。Hayley的父亲Jerry（伍迪·艾伦 Woody Allen 饰）是一个退休的歌剧经纪人，他惊讶地发现Michelangelo父亲Giancarlo的歌剧才华，千方百计想把他推向市场......Antonio and Milly（亚历桑德拉·马斯特罗兰迪 Alessandra Mastronardi 饰）是一对新婚夫妇，从家乡来到罗马要开始新生活，Milly独自外出时却把手机弄丢了，找不到回去的路，更遇上了电影明星Luca Salta；而在酒店的Antonio则遇上了妓女Anna（佩妮洛普·克鲁兹 Penélope Cruz 饰），闹出了不少笑话......John（亚历克·鲍德温 Alec Baldwin 饰）回到了熟悉的意大利，认识了学建筑的学生Jack（杰西·艾森伯格 Jesse Eisenberg 饰），Jack正对他的女朋友的好友Monica（艾伦·佩吉 Ellen Page 饰）想入非非......一个普通的小职员Leopoldo（罗伯托·贝尼尼 Roberto Benigni 饰）一早醒来竟发现自己成了名人......在伦敦、巴塞罗那、巴黎之后，伍迪·艾伦又来到罗马，为您讲述发生在罗马的有趣故事。

Scott Hicks documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a number of friends and collaborators, who include Chuck Close, Ravi Shankar, and Martin Scorsese.

1954 film by George Cukor

In this wide-ranging third installment of Malcolm Gladwell's exploration of how people and social phenomena work, the New Yorker journalist takes a close look at what constitutes high levels of success. That is, what makes people at the top of their respective fields get there? As we've come to expect from Gladwell's previous books, the answer to the question is a bit complicated.
He says that upbringing, culture and even random luck have something to with success, but there is another important quality that anyone can control. Two chapters are dedicated to the "revelation" that IQ is only a baseline quality and success has little to nothing to do with having a high IQ or a low IQ. Rather, success is substantially a product of cultivating a high degree of what Robert Sternberg calls "practical intelligence" or what most refer to as "emotional intelligence."
Gladwell uses the example of Nobel laureates coming from unknown schools as often as ivy league schools. At this level of mastery IQ is no longer a factor. Success has little to do with where you were educated and everything to do with your level of practical/emotional intelligence and willingness to put in the 10,000 hours of practice required to reach mastery of your field.
All in all, it's an interesting read that isn't too heady and goes by pretty quickly, as the interesting anecdotes are what you would expect from Gladwell.

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his most prized possession.

John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife.

An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to take them seriously... a society that expects electroshock to cure the despair of a sensitive, questioning young artist whose search for identity becomes a terrifying descent toward madness.

1997 film by P. J. Hogan

While on a business trip in Los Angeles, Edward Lewis, a millionaire entrepreneur who makes a living buying and breaking up companies, picks up a prostitute, Vivian, while asking for directions; after, Edward hires Vivian to stay with him for the weekend to accompany him to a few social events, and the two get closer only to discover there are significant hurdles to overcome as they try to bridge the gap between their very different worlds.

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

1993 film directed by Nora Ephron

1980 film by Jeannot Szwarc

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.