In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.

Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ready to defend his territory. By planting booby traps galore, adorably mischievous Kevin stands his ground as his frantic mother attempts to race home before Christmas Day.

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.

焦雄屏，台湾著名电影学者、电影监制，也是台湾新电影走向国际影坛的重要推手。本书集纳了她二十余年来针对华语电影的精华论述，时间跨度一百年，地域囊括内地、香港与台湾两岸三地，论述对象包括从宏观的特定时期的电影风潮、电影现象，到具体的电影作者及电影作品，从中可见中国电影的几经兴衰与作者对中国电影前途与命运的忧虑和深思。
本书视野开阔，包容广泛，观点深刻，既是焦雄屏个人意义上的中国电影百年史，也是权威的华语电影解读文本。

发轫于20世纪60年代的法国电影新浪潮运动，是世界电影史上一个承前启后的革命性运动。它突破了传统电影一元化的结构，拓展了电影的创作领域，在形式和内容的突破上具有里程碑意义。这本书从新浪潮运动发生的背景谈起，详述其流派、演变、成果，及其在世界范围内对电影制作和电影美学产生的巨大而深远的影响，并对该运动的代表人物及其代表作品作了深入的剖析与探讨。

2001 film by Wang Xiaoshuai

2007 film by Gérard Krawczyk

1986 film by Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Peking, 1948. A winter night. A man returns home to find a letter awaiting him written by a woman before her death. in the letter she tells him the story of her love for him -a life-long passion that has not diminished over time, but one that he has never known. her story spans 18 years from the moment she -then a 13 year-old girl- sets her eyes on her new neighbor. she tells their brief but passionate love in her youthi the hardship she goes through raising their child alone, and their final encounter after the war, during which the man fails tor ecognize her and one which leaves her in despair. Now having lost her son, she no longer has the courage to live on. Only in a letter is she capable of telling him everything, for the first and the last time. shaken by the letter, the man searches his memory for the nameless woman.

2004 film by Dayyan Eng

Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.

A successful Japanese make-up artist collides with a tough-talking Shanghai taxi driver in this romantic dramedy that twists traditional roles by making the beauty expert a male and the cab driver a feisty female. Although he works in a glamorous industry, Naoki Mizushima can't help but notice that his life is anything but beautiful. Can the uncouth Lin Xi help him make over his life for the better?

Captain Barbossa, long believed to be dead, has come back to life and is headed to the edge of the Earth with Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann. But nothing is quite as it seems.

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

2007 film by Wong Kar-wai

A painter in Amsterdam receives flowers from a mysterious admirer, while a hitman and cop find themselves in conflict.

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.