A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known to man. The father operates a horse-drawn cart, but in a city that is modernizing after the destruction of the Korean War, automobiles are making carts obsolete. The children are experiencing difficulties as well. The eldest son has flunked the bar exam twice and is not hopeful of passing it a third time to become a lawyer. The eldest daughter is mute and married to an abusive husband. The younger daughter tries to pose as a rich university student to move up in life. The youngest son has a penchant for petty theft.
故事发生于美国和墨西哥接壤的边境地带,这里常年活跃着各个暴力团伙。巴蒂(克里斯·马奎特 Chris Marquette 饰)的父亲是负责管理这一片区的警察,在这里做警察,意味着随着都要面临死亡的威胁。这一天,巴蒂亲眼看着父亲受到黑帮的袭击,在自己面前死去了,愤怒之中,少年发誓一定要为父亲报仇,并且最终真的手刃了仇敌。
巴蒂还有一个弟弟雅各布(安东·尤金 Anton Yelchin 饰),父亲走后,巴蒂成为了他唯一的依靠。巴蒂拼命的工作赚钱,只为了能够供雅各布学习小提琴,并且最终将他送出国深造。一晃眼多年过去,当雅各布终于学成归来,回到当年生活的这个小镇时,他发现,自己的哥哥巴蒂早已经面目全非。
A circus operator and his gymnast friends belonging to a big circus company 'juggle' with their lives and try to bring back the extinct circus culture to the public.
故事发生在位于拉丁美洲的秘鲁,在当地殖民的西班牙总督订购了一辆外表非常夸张的黄金马车,马车拉着一个表演喜剧意大利剧团从荷兰远道而来,而美丽聪明的卡米娜(安娜·玛格纳妮 Anna Magnani 饰)就是剧团中的一员。 当地有一个非常有名的斗牛士,在剧团表演期间,观众的注意力全被这个斗牛士给吸引了,这让卡米娜感到非常的不高兴,但很快的,斗牛士就爱上了卡米娜。总动委托剧团前往总督府演出,实际上是为了取悦他的情人侯爵夫人。演出后,总督也爱上了卡米娜,再加上卡米娜本来的男友比利,三个男人为了争夺卡米娜而上演了一出好戏。
This utterly gorgeous Gothic melodrama would be widely hailed as a masterpiece, had it not been made in Italy during the Mussolini regime. A gross injustice, as Malombra - unlike Piccolo Mondo Antico, Mario Soldati's earlier film of an Antonio Fogazzaro novel - contains not one moment of triumphalist flag-waving or Fascist family values. Oddly akin to Rebecca in its atmosphere of death-haunted romance and voluptuous doom, it reaches a peak of visual refinement of which Hitchcock could only dream. Its star is Isa Miranda (famous, and not without reason, as Italy's answer to Garbo and Dietrich) playing a headstrong but unstable young noblewoman, confined by her uncle to a gloomy villa on the shores of Lake Como. A yellowed and crumbling letter, found in an old spinet, convinces her that she is the reincarnation of her uncle's first wife - another troubled beauty who died a virtual prisoner after being caught in a forbidden love affair. When a handsome young writer (Andrea Checchi) comes to stay, Miranda decides that HE is the reincarnation of the dead woman's lover. Gradually, she lures him into her web of sex and revenge... What more to say without spoiling the fun Miranda gives a performance to rival any of the great divas of Hollywood. Only Davis and Stanwyck, perhaps, could play a bad girl so boldly without losing all sympathy. The evocation of 19th century aristocracy, in its full decadent splendour, is visually and dramatically flawless - a model for such later Italian gems as Visconti's Senso and The Innocent. It helped, perhaps, that Soldati himself was a leading novelist. Blessed with an absolute respect for the classics he adapted, but in no way inhibited by them. He was also the guiding spirit of the now-forgotten 'calligraphic' movement, which brought the Italian cinema to such wondrous aesthetic heights during World War Two, only to collapse before the horror of Neo-Realism. Can we blame Soldati for giving up film-making in disgust and going back to writing novels So if you've ever felt (as I do) that Rossellini's much-touted Rome - Open City is the work of an amateur...well, Malombra is the film you have to see!
In 1477 Charles the Bolds dies, his only child is a girl which cannot rule wo a husband. Meanwhile in Austria, Emperor Frederick III and his antagonist Louis XI France battle over said marriage prospects, battles ensue, tragedy falls.