A young writer goes to Paris. He meets in the train a young woman forced to marry a wealthy casino manager in Monte Carlo. His true love for the girl is about to direct him to Monte Carlo and to turn himself into a compulsive gambler. He'll lose his money, his integrity and his principles to save this girl from her future while fighting the demon of gambling with the most powerful weapon a man can have love.
This is commonly known as Jean Renoir's first American film (1941), although Renoir scholar Alexander Sesonske has established that Renoir's creative role in the project was severely hampered by producer Darryl F. Zanuck and that he didn't regard much of the film as his own. (The ending, for instance, was written by Zanuck and directed by Irving Pichel.) Nevertheless, the film has certain beauties and pleasures. Part of it was shot in Georgia's Okefenokee swamp, and the treatment of the small community living ~Censored~ is often pungent and distinctive.
Story follows young man Strahinja who is in love with a local beauty Radojka, but their relationship has an obstacle - her father Zivan, who considers Strahinja as nothing but a loser. To prove that he's able to take care of himself and his future bride, Strahinja agrees to take vacancy in village mill... But, mill is known as a place where no one meets the dawn alive...
Charles Dexter Ward's wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries. The husband is a chemical engineer and the smells from his experiments (and the delivery of what appear to be human remains at all hours) are beginning to arouse the attention of neighbors and local law enforcement officials. When the detective and wife find a diary of the husband's ancestor from 1771 and reports of gruesome murders in the area begin to surface they begin to suspect that some very unnatural experiments are being conducted in the old house. Based on an H.P. Lovecraft
德比埃菲尔侯爵的小女儿卡洛琳(玛蒂妮·卡洛 Martine Carol 饰)即将迎来自己16岁的生日,为了庆祝这个特殊的日子,侯爵夫人筹备了一场非常盛大的生日派对。实际上,侯爵夫人有着自己的算盘,她打算在这场派对中把自己的大女儿嫁给名为加斯多(雅克·达克米纳 Jacques Dacqmine 饰)的侯爵,也算了却了自己一个心愿。 哪知道,加斯多伯爵在误打误撞之中闯入了卡洛琳的闺房,就这样,这两人在阴差阳错之下展开了一段孽缘。法国大革命的硝烟很快就蔓延到了这些贵族们的生活之中,被加斯多虏获了芳心的卡洛琳一直没有放弃过寻找爱人的踪迹,然而,当她再次见到加斯多时,这个薄情的男人已经变心了,心痛欲绝的卡洛琳转而嫁给了一直在追求着她的贝迪亚(Jacques Clancy 饰)。
故事发生在十九世纪的英格兰,落魄的意大利贵族艾莫雷戈(杰瑞米·诺森 Jeremy Northam 饰)迎娶了美国富豪亚当(尼克·诺特 Nick Nolte 饰)的女儿玛姬(凯特·贝金赛尔 Kate Beckinsale 饰)。玛姬有一位闺中密友名为夏洛特(乌玛·瑟曼 U ma Thurman 饰),巧合的是,夏洛特竟然是艾莫雷戈曾经的恋人。 之后,亚当取了夏洛特为妻,一家人就这样生活在了一起。一次偶然之中,玛姬发现了艾莫雷戈和夏洛特之间的旧情,霎时间,她对丈夫的信任破裂了。实际上,亚当亦知晓此事,只是为了保护女儿不受伤害,他选择了守口如瓶。对于艾莫雷戈来说,事情就更加复杂了,亚当和玛姬之间坚实的父女之情让他始终觉得自己是插足其中的第三者。