In the Mohave Desert, Olga runs a gas station, lunch counter, and auto camp with her younger sister Myra. In a 24-hour period, Olga must deal with Myra's desire to go to a town dance with a cad, the appearance by happenstance of George, an old boyfriend whose conduct is never above suspicion, and the overnight presence of two women recently divorced in Reno, who, with a chauffeur, are carrying valuable jewels. George gets wind of the jewels and plays with Olga's heartstrings to set up a robbery. Myra arranges to sneak off with her beau. It's hot, and the heat lightening is crackling on the horizon. Is Olga's life of peace and hard work in the desert about to change for the worse?

　　里奥（马龙·白兰度 Marlon Brando 饰）和达德（卡尔·莫尔登 Karl Malden 饰）共同参加了一场抢劫计划，哪知道达德出卖了里奥，导致里奥锒铛入狱。一晃眼五年过去，在狱友莫德斯（Larry Duran 饰）的帮助下，里奥越狱成功，他的内心里一直都没有忘记过达德的背叛，而此时的达德早已成为了镇上的成功人士。
　　越狱后的里奥拾起了老本行，加入了以鲍勃为首的犯罪团伙，并且在一次偶然之中结识了达德的继女路易莎（皮纳·佩利塞尔 Pina Pellicer 饰），两人之间碰撞出了爱情的火花，这让达德找到了对里奥赶尽杀绝的机会。在达德的暗中操纵下，里奥在一次被投入了监狱，最终，两人站在了决斗的战场上。

　　影片不仅讲述了一段浪漫的爱情，也讲了年轻一辈与父辈不同价值观之间的碰撞，一部充满人性的电影。影片同名主题曲成为美国几代人的记忆，而那位系着黄丝巾的女主角也一跃成为无数男人的梦中情人。

　　一部真人实事搬上大萤幕的传记电影。主角杰利路易斯是由丹尼斯奎德所饰，而饰演其13岁小妻子的女孩则是美丽的薇诺娜瑞德。丹尼斯在该片有相当迷人的表演，并且充分的表现了他个人在音乐方面较不为人知的才华。1950年代，摇滚乐被视为是一种违反上帝的野蛮音乐。杰利路易斯，一位傲慢、自大却才华洋溢、备受瞩目的摇滚乐手。他自由、不受旧有风俗规范的表演曲风，在当时出乎意料的大受欢迎，知名度甚至掩盖了同时期摇滚巨星猫王的风采，并为合作夥伴及唱片老板赚进大把钞票。但这样的局势却维持不久，因为...他娶了一个足以当他女儿的13岁小女孩，在当时保守的民风下，这当然是不被允许的，杰利路易斯也因此面临了人生道路上的抉择。

　　齐克、杰瑞和斯莫奇三个工人在同一个汽车工厂工作，经常一起喝酒。一天晚上他们偷用妻子的钱去饮酒作乐时，突然想到一个主意：抢劫工会办公室的保险箱！起初以为行动失败，因为只得手了600块钱，但随后齐克意识到他们可以钓到更“大”的鱼。他们决计勒索工会。结果让他们震怒的是，工会竟宣称他们偷走了一万元的巨额！

　　导演是伊利亚·卡赞，取材于约翰·史坦贝克的作品，是圣经中该隐和亚伯故事的变异，演变成一部十分深沉有力的家庭伦理电影。故事讲述第一次世界大战前的加州，一名聪明伶俐而多愁善感的农家青年，由于一直得不至严厉父亲的爱，故意想法打击天真的双胞胎弟弟，把母亲未死而沦为老鸨的真相揭露出来，最后导致家破人亡的悲剧。

　　試想這樣的情境，你搭便車，結果由於要開長時間的車，於是司機跟你輪流開車。輪到你開的時候，開著開著，發現司機居然死了...
　　一不做二不休，將屍體棄置荒野後，你弄成他（有那麼一點點《職業：記者》的橋段，但兩者的出發點與情境完全不同，再說這裡證件上也沒有照片，要變換身份更容易），繼續開著車。當你去加油時，順道載了一個女子，在你還在腦裡想著這女子的美貌時，她居然轉過來對你說，他是該車主的前女友（還是前妻，反正是這樣的關係）！你當然絕望，雖然你老實地說，你根本沒有殺害車主（但誰會相信？）
　　然而更詭異的還在後頭（劇情真的是在不斷迴轉，雖然你只是很單純地想從東岸到西岸跟跑去好萊塢發展的女友結婚），正當你以為你找到一個同夥來解決你的困境，畢竟對你來說，到底車主留下七百多塊還是應該是三千塊，你都不在意，因為你的目的地是去找女友結婚呀。但是她的陰謀卻讓你害怕：車主久未謀面的父親死了，報紙說這家人在找車主來繼承幾十萬的財產...她於是要你假冒到底（這...這似乎在另一部美國片，且有點公路電影的影片中看到類似的情節，在那裡，主角殺害的已經不是原車主，而是另一個貪財之徒，最後他對號入座地到了當地，警方要逮捕的，也就是自稱某某的人，而他以為他因為殺了某某而被定罪，但不然，他是殺了殺某某的人而被捕...無奈吧。然而這到底是哪部片，有人能幫我解答嗎？），但你的良心過不去，畢竟假扮他的這幾天已經夠你累的了。但她卻以報警來要脅你。於是在汽車旅館內發生了另一件離奇死案：隔著反鎖的房，你居然誤殺了她！！
　　連掩飾都不了，現在你只求她的死會反轉回他身上，最好案情就會這樣被猜測：他殺了她，然後不知何因而死於荒地...
　　所以，我想，片名應該翻譯成《迴轉》好了。（文/肥內）

　　本片讲述远在1887年美国与印第安人签订和约，答应援助正受到各种如天灾、疾病、粮食短缺等问题的印第安人，驻扎在奥克拉荷马保留区。但美国政府忽略了这项协约，于是夏安族的酋长决定，返回原来的拥有比较丰盛农产的居住地。这样一来，就破坏了协议，引起了军队和夏安族的冲突，使美国内部陷入动荡与不安中。美国人与印第安人的摩擦日益增多，这时幸好有一位军官请内政部长随行化解冲突，把印第安人原居住地也划为保留区，美国与印第安人之间终于和平起来。此片是由名导演约翰．福特所拍摄的史诗型影片，在导演细腻的描写下，人性的尊严充分表达出来，并以写实手法充分诠释了当时的历史背景。

　　Shortly before he is to wed, millionaire John Willis is visited by Dr. Harry S. Blair, a psychiatrist who informs him that years before he was married to Nancy, John's wife-to-be, and warns him that she is mentally unbalanced.
　　Blair then relates the following story: After a whirlwind romance in Florida, Blair marries Nancy and starts a psychiatric practice in New York. One day, artist Norman Clyde comes to his office and tells him that an innocent man is about to be executed in Sing Sing Prison and that Nancy is the cause of his unjust incarceration. A distraught Clyde then explains himself to a curious Blair:
　　Three years before, Clyde meets Nancy, whose maiden name was Monks, when she enrolls in his art class. The moody Clyde soon falls in love with Nancy's honest charm and beauty. Nancy, a secretary, introduces Clyde to her boss, millionaire Andrew Bonner, and persuades Bonner to showcase Clyde's paintings at one of his private showings. To Nancy's delight, Clyde's painting, a depiction of the tragic figure Cassandra for which she modeled, wins first prize at the showing. The evening is perfect until an expensive bracelet is stolen from a guest, and Clyde later finds it in Nancy's purse. After Clyde confronts a confused Nancy about the theft, she relates the following story to explain her behavior:
　　As a young girl, Nancy lives with her housekeeper mother in the lavish Willis home and plays with Karen, the Willises' little daughter. Although Karen wants to invite Nancy to her upcoming birthday party, Mrs. Willis refuses to allow the lower-class Nancy to attend. A true friend, Karen promises to give Nancy one of the pins her guests are receiving. When Karen realizes there are no extra pins, however, she offers Nancy the beautiful locket she has just received from her mother. Nancy's subsequent joy is soon crushed when Mrs. Willis demands that she return the locket. Later, the locket is discovered missing, and Nancy is accused of theft. Although Nancy's mother soon finds the locket in Karen's dress, Mrs. Willis refuses to believe Nancy and forces her to "confess."
　　The adult Nancy then admits to Clyde that this childhood humiliation caused her unconscious desire to steal the bracelet at the party. After a forgiving Clyde returns the bracelet anonymously, he and Nancy continue their romance until the next party at the Bonners'. Suspecting that the absent Nancy is spending the evening in Bonner's arms, Clyde leaves the party to look for her and sees her exiting Mrs. Bonner's bedroom just after two gunshots are fired. Bonner is found murdered, and Mrs. Bonner's diamond necklace, stolen. Although Nancy and Clyde are questioned, valet Myron Dexter is eventually found guilty and is sentenced to die. Clyde, however, strongly suspects Nancy, but she angrily maintains her innocence and leaves for Florida.
　　Back in his office, Blair defends Nancy to Clyde but invites him to his house that evening. When confronted, Nancy denies everything and tells Blair that Clyde is merely jealous. The next day, Dexter is executed, and a guilt-ridden Clyde jumps from Blair's office window to his death.
　　To avoid scandal, Blair and Nancy move to England, and after World War II breaks out, Blair volunteers his medical services, while Nancy becomes an ambulance driver. Expressing concern over Blair's health, Nancy insists that they take a vacation at Lord and Lady Wyndham's manor house. Just as they are leaving, Blair learns that one of Lady Wyndham's valuable jewels has been stolen. Blair suspects Nancy but is unable to prove anything until a bomb destroys their flat and reveals her cache of stolen jewels.
　　Although confronted directly, Nancy continues to deny any guilt and divorces Blair after he suffers a nervous breakdown. Back in John's study, Blair, like Clyde before him, tries to convince John to abandon Nancy, who now uses the name Patton. John, however, believes Nancy when she tells him that Blair is still suffering from his breakdown.
　　Moments before the wedding is to start, Nancy's future mother-in-law, the unsuspecting Mrs. Willis, gives her the same locket that she once took away, and tells her that it is a precious family heirloom. The locket causes Nancy to be overcome with guilt, and she collapses at the altar in hysterics. As Nancy is later taken away to an institution, John sadly realizes the truth of Blair's story, but determines to see Nancy through her crisis.

　　玛丽（莫琳·奥沙利文 Maureen O'Sullivan 饰）和布里克（亨利·方达 Henry Fonda 饰）是一对即将结婚的小情侣，两人之间的感情非常的要好。布里克是一名出租车司机，他斥巨资买了一辆出租车，决定和自己的好友乔（阿兰·巴克斯特 Alan Barkeste 饰）一起开一家出租车公司。
　　就在玛丽和布里克准备结婚的前一夜，电影院发生了可怕的抢劫案，三名劫匪在打死了一名电影院员工之后开着出租车逃跑了。警方立刻对附近的所有出租车司机展开了排查，其中也包括布里克和乔。哪知道，在场的十一位目击证人全部指认布里克和乔就是抢劫犯，两人锒铛入狱。为了证明丈夫的清白，玛丽四处奔波搜集证据，却遭到了警方的阻挠。

　　一名议员被暗杀，凶手也当场死亡，3年后，当时的目击者陆续“正常”地死去，华伦·比提饰演的记者起初不以为然，但很快他也陷入危险中……
　　本片是部70年代政治题材的影片，它让我们一睹了政治权力之争的幕后玄机，全片气氛控制极好，情节扣人心弦，结尾更是出人意料。华伦·比提荣获1992年金球奖最佳男演员。

　　A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well.

　　Gwen Cummings is a successful New York writer living life in the fast lane and everyone's favorite party girl. She shares this roller-coaster lifestyle of hopping from dance club to bar to hangover with boyfriend Jasper-handsome, magnetic and equally attracted to life on the wild side. Life is just an exercise in debauchery-until Gwen's ungraceful display at her sister Lily's wedding, when she gets drunk, commandeers the limo and earns herself a DUI and 28 days in court-ordered rehab. There, Gwen comes face to face with a unique set of rules (like no cell phones) and rituals (like chanting) embraced by an assortment of fascinating fellow re-habbers: Eddie, Gerhardt, Oliver, Andrea, Roshanda, and Billie Jean. A jaded city girl to the core, Gwen is determined not to conform. Then she meets Counselor Cornell, who begins to break through her carefully constructed defenses and force her to take a closer look at who she really is. Ultimately, through the companionship of! her group as well as a devastating loss, Gwen gradually loses her cynicism and begins the long struggle to take back her life. Maybe, she discovers, your insides can match your outsides.

　　Salomé (1923), a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist (here, as in Wilde's play, called Jokaanan) at the request of his stepdaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after.
　　Salomé is often called one of the first art films to be made in the U.S.[citation needed] The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting (even for the period), minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary props make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of the characters' individual heightened desires than on conventional plot development.
　　Despite the film being only a little over an hour in length and having no real action to speak of, it cost over $350,000 to make. All the sets were constructed indoors to be able to have complete control over the lighting. The film was shot completely in black and white, matching the illustrations done by Aubrey Beardsley in the printed edition of Wilde's play. The costumes, designed by Natacha Rambova, used material only from Maison Lewis of Paris, such as the real silver lamé loincloths worn by the guards.
　　No major studio would be associated with the film, and it was years after its completion before it was released, by a minor independent distributor. It was a complete failure at the time and marked the end of Nazimova's producing career.
　　A longstanding rumor, which seems to have started while the film was still in production, suggests that its cast is comprised entirely of gay and bisexual actors in an homage to Oscar Wilde, as per star and producer Nazimova's demand. It is, of course, impossible to say, but one of the extras in Salomé reported that a number of the cast members—both featured and extras—were indeed gay, but not an unusual percentage of them, and certainly not all of them. What can be said is that Nazimova herself was a lesbian, the two guard characters (who, next to Salomé, have the most screen time) are at least played very stereotypically gay, and several of the female courtiers are men in drag.
　　Salomé was screened in 1989 at the New York International Festival of Lesbian and Gay films and in 1990 at the New York Gay Experimental Film Festival.
　　In 2000, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

　　皮默和史康多这对兄弟是从外地来到美国求生存的意大利裔美籍人，两兄弟在纽泽西开了一家意大利餐厅。两人最大的愿望就是藉著餐厅的开幕、顾客的光临，来赚更多的钱，实现他们的「美国梦」。虽然两兄弟对共同经营的事业抱著很大的野心，但却得不到顾客青睐；眼看顾客都进了别人的餐厅，自已餐厅却是面临倒闭收场，于是两兄弟想到一个好方法来挽救餐厅。他们费尽心思邀请名人，准备开个一场华丽晚宴，可惜，唯一美中不足的事还是发生了。

　　Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or a mistake.

　　该片是一部中西部哥特风电影，安东尼奥·坎帕斯(《克里斯汀》)执导，讲述俄亥俄州偏远之地Knockemstiff，男主角Willard Russell绝望地想拯救濒死的妻子，不惜屈服于牺牲，而他的儿子(霍兰德)正从一个在学校被虐待的孩子成长为知道何时出手的男人，角色包括一对连环杀手夫妇、一个考验人的信仰的传教士、一个腐败的当地警长(斯坦)。时间从二战末期到1960年代，地点从南俄亥俄州乡村到西维吉尼亚。

　　After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The first of the two was 'The Fall of Babylon', which depicts the conflict between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Cyrus the Great of Persia.

　　约翰•舒勒（Edward José 饰）是华尔街一名年轻干练、事业有成的律师，某日他要作为特别代理人前往英国一段时间，因此不得不离开心爱的妻子（Mabel Frenyear 饰）和女儿（Runa Hodges 饰）。漫漫的旅途百无聊赖，约翰在船上邂逅了一个美丽妖艳的女人（Theda Bara蒂达•巴拉 饰），他迅速与之坠入情网，将妻子女儿抛在了脑后……
　　本片为弗兰克•鲍威尔根据吉卜林的长诗《勾魂妖妇》改编，拍摄之处，蒂达•巴拉名为奥多西亚•古德曼，她的妖艳表演使其迅速成为性感明星。为突出其神秘感，制片厂将“阿拉伯死神”（ARAB DEATH）的拼写颠倒排列成她的新名字蒂达•巴拉（Theda Bara）。

　　the story “centers on a hard-drinking, promiscuous salesman who becomes a quadriplegic after a tragic accident and struggles to come to terms with his predicament and with his future.”

　　Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time he has a family and many friends, but he also finds friction with a few of his parishioners. A young doctor grates at what he feels is the parson's interference in the scientific treatment of patients, and a mine owner resents Grey's protection of an old sharecropper whose small plot of land stands in the way of his continued mining. Grey must face a public health crisis and a lynch mob as a result, all seen and described through the eyes and memory of Grey's young nephew John.

　　惹事生非的叔父在父亲死后来访，两兄弟为了护卫秘密不惜远离家园。
　　影片的故事发生在美国南部佐治亚州一个村庄里，穆恩父子三人在这里过着平静的生活，终于有一天他们的生活被彻底改变了，穆恩失散多年的兄弟迪尔的到来导致了一系列的灾难，为了保守一个可怕的秘密，穆恩的两个儿子不得不离家出走……
　　关于导演
　　大卫·格林（David Gordon Green）1975年出生在阿肯萨斯州，曾经在North Carolina学校学习电影制作，并且导演了几部电影短片和纪录片。2000年，他的第一部故事片《乔治·华盛顿》获得了Discovery大奖，他的第二部电影——2003年的《All the Real Girls》，由于对情感的真实表现，荣获了当年Sundance电影节评审团特别奖。
　　《退潮》是他的第三部电影，从他的第一部电影以来，格林一直在努力寻找新的电影语言来塑造和表现人物及其经历，在这部电影中 格林与天才摄影师迪母（Tim orr）的合作，确立了影片真实的情感与客观、冷静的镜头语言的独特结合。格林讲述了一个几乎被遗忘的美国，一群为活着而挣扎的人们的故事，他在最平凡的环境出找到了真正的英雄，挖掘到了每一个普通角色的深度和情感。
　　相对与格林以前的作品，《退潮》在结构上显得要传统一些，剧中出现了完全反面的角色，并且由一条阴暗恐怖的线索贯穿始终；但同时也延续了格林许多大胆创新的实验手法：定格的使用、情节的前后呼应等等，加上极为真实的布景以及音响的配合……《退潮》是今 年最值得期待的影片之一。
　　影片的主题是成长
　　像《乔治·华盛顿》一样，《退潮》也是以孩子为影片的核心，格林是最善于青少年合作的导演之一，也许因为他自己也非常年轻，他非常理解青少年成长中的迷乱和强烈的情感渴求，并将起非常到位的表现在电影之中。
　　在这部电影中，饰演克莱斯的小演员杰米（Jamie Bell）在格林的引导下，精彩的表现出了一个男孩成长中的转变，他由最初那个爱闯祸的农村男孩发展成后来经历了家庭的变动（卑鄙的叔父的到来给家庭带来了灾难），主动承担起照顾弟弟的责任的成熟少年，准确地抓住了人物的内心关键，完美的表现出了一个男孩 从少年到成年的心理转变过程。
　　对天才导演的争议
　　格林一贯被称为天才导演，这一说法引起了很大争议，反对者提出格林只能算是有点小才，主要是他非常年轻，因此被捧得过高，实际上他的电影结构存在很大问题。而支持者则认为格林的影片非常真实，作为一个年轻导演，他的影片能够表现出如此深刻的内涵不得不 承认他是个天才。
　　幕后
　　这部电影的拍摄中有很多人受伤，饰演成年穆恩兄弟的Josh Lucas和Dermot Mulroney在彼此的打斗场景中都跌断了肋骨，而饰演克莱斯的Jamie Bell则一脚踩在了钉子上，不得不拄了几天的拐杖。