Henriette and Louise, a foundling, are raised together as sisters. When Louise goes blind, Henriette swears to take care of her forever. They go to Paris to see if Louise's blindness can be cured, but are separated when an aristocrat lusts after Henriette and abducts her. Only Chevalier de Vaudrey is kind to her, and they fall in love. The French Revolution replaces the corrupt Aristocracy with the equally corrupt Robespierre. De Vaudrey, who has always been good to peasants, is condemned to death for being an aristocrat, and Henriette for harboring him. Will revolutionary hero Danton, the only voice for mercy in the new regime, be able to save them from the guillotine?
中国青年程桓(理查德·巴塞尔梅斯 Richard Barthelmess 饰)远赴伦敦,希望能够在异国他乡传授佛教教义。哪知道理想丰满现实残酷,抑郁不得志的程桓不仅荒废了事业,还沾染上了鸦片,整日生活在颓废沮丧之中。
一次偶然中,程桓邂逅了名为露丝(丽莲·吉许 Lill ian Gish 饰)的美丽女孩。露丝有着极为凄惨的身世,她的父亲巴汀(唐纳德·克里斯普 Donald Crisp 饰)是一名个性凶残的酒鬼,常在喝得酩酊大醉之后对露丝大打出手。同样悲惨的遭遇让两颗孤独的心越靠越近,终于,不堪忍受父亲折磨的露丝离家出走,程桓收留了她。好景不长,巴汀很快就找到了露丝的踪迹,将她强行带回了家,等待着露丝的,将是又一轮如同狂风暴雨一般的折磨。
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated negro woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished negro youths. Within Our Gates was created in response to The Birth of a Nation which depicted southern whites in need of the Ku Klux Klan to protect them from blood thirsty blacks. Micheaux shows the reality of Dixie racism in 1920, where a black man could be lynched for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
1951年好莱坞,一切带有左翼观点的电影都深受“麦卡锡事件”影响,被列入所谓的黑名单中,众多无辜的电影人被迫害。刚入行的电影编剧彼得·阿普尔顿(金·凯瑞 Jim Carrey饰)本是好莱坞一位才华横溢的青年剧作家,可生不逢时的他因为一次在大学时的无心之举也被政府列入黑名 单之中。然而他的噩梦并没有结束,失业失恋的彼得在一次车祸中失去了所有的记忆。当彼得被好心人救起,带到一座名叫朗森的小镇时,小镇居民都把他误认成九年前在二战中牺牲的鲁克。而鲁克的父亲哈里(马丁·兰杜饰)更是欣喜若狂。彼得修复了哈里无心经营的电影院,也让他在电影中找到了生活的激情。鲁克原来的女友阿黛尔(劳瑞·霍尔登饰)更与彼得坠入情网。当一切都向着大团圆结局发展的时候,调查员却追踪到小镇,要求彼特立刻出庭。
尽管父亲是著名的婚外情调查专家,尽管见识过了无数的忠贞感情最终化为泡影,艾莲(奥黛丽·赫本 Audrey Hepburn 饰)却依旧对爱情有着无限的期望和憧憬,她甚至觉得,只有那些明知不道德却还要迎难而上的恋情才能算的上是真爱。一次偶然中,艾莲结识了父亲的调查对象法兰肯(加里·库柏 Gary Cooper 饰)——一个在情场上如鱼得水的风流浪子。
艾莲捏造了虚假的身份,开始在法兰肯面前扮演起了神秘女郎的角色,没想到,自己的纯情和真挚竟然猎得了这位浪子的真心。法兰肯拜托私家侦探调查艾莲的踪迹,没想到这位侦探正是艾莲的父亲。迫于父亲的压力,本来心心相印的两人只得分手,一对天设地造的情侣眼看这就要擦身而过。