玛丽安（朱莉•黛比 饰）是来自法国的摄影师，她的男朋友杰克（亚当•戈登堡 饰）是美国的室内设计师，两人在纽约生活了两年，感情逐渐趋于平淡。为了找回失落的激情，两人放下一切去欧洲度假。在享受了完美的旅行，二人感情重新苏醒之后，玛丽安决定转到巴黎看望父母，顺便领回自己的小猫，对巴黎颇有幻想的杰克欣然同意。
　　然而，种种匪夷所思的事情随之而来：玛丽安的父母作风大胆，话题百无禁忌；玛丽安的前男友们纷纷出现，一个比一个疯狂……短短两天，杰克对天堂巴黎的幻想破灭，他的美国基因无法接受这一切。最终，玛丽安和杰克不得不坐下来谈谈未来，这次谈话也许是一个艰难的开始，或者仅仅是一个无奈的结束。

　　It has been said that most great twentieth century novels include scenes in a hotel, a symptom of the vast uprooting that has occurred in the last century: James Ivory begins Quartet with a montage of the hotels of Montparnasse, a quiet prelude before our introduction to the violently lost souls who inhabit them.
　　Adapted from the 1928 autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is the story of a love quadrangle between a complicated young West Indian woman named Marya (played by Isabelle Adjani), her husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins), a manipulative English art patron named Heidler (Alan Bates), and his painter wife Lois (Maggie Smith). The film is set in the Golden Age of Paris, Hemingway's "moveable feast" of cafe culture and extravagant nightlife, glitter and literati: yet underneath is the outline of something sinister beneath the polished brasses and brasseries.
　　When Marya's husband is put in a Paris prison on charges of selling stolen art works, she is left indigent and is taken in by Heidler and his wife: the predatory Englishman (whose character Rhys bases on the novelist Ford Madox Ford) is quick to take advantage of the new living arrangement, and Marya finds herself in a stranglehold between husband and wife. Lovers alternately gravitate toward and are repelled by each other, now professing their love, now confessing their brutal indifference -- all the while keeping up appearances. The film explores the vast territory between the "nice" and the "good," between outward refinement and inner darkness: after one violent episode, Lois asks Marya not to speak of it to the Paris crowd. "Is that all you're worried about?" demands an outraged Marya. "Yes," Lois replies with icy candor, "as a matter of fact."
　　Adjani won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her performances in Quartet: her Marya is a volatile compound of French schoolgirl and scorned mistress, veering between tremulous joy and hysterical outburst. Smith shines in one of her most memorable roles: she imbues Lois with a Katherine-of-Aragon impotent rage, as humiliated as she is powerless in the face of her husband's choices. Her interactions with Bates are scenes from a marriage that has moved from disillusionment to pale acceptance.
　　Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory's screenplay uses Rhys's novel as a foundation from which it constructs a world that is both true to the novel and distinctive in its own right, painting a society that has lost its inhibitions and inadvertently lost its soul. We are taken to mirrored cafes, then move through the looking glass: Marya, in one scene, is offered a job as a model and then finds herself in a sadomasochistic pornographer's studio. The film, as photographed by Pierre Lhomme, creates thoroughly cinematic moments that Rhy's novel could not have attempted: in one of the Ivory's most memorable scenes, a black American chanteuse (extraordinarily played by Armelia McQueen) entertains Parisian patrons with a big and brassy jazz song, neither subtle nor elegant. Ivory keeps the camera on the singer's act: there is something in her unguarded smile that makes the danger beneath Montparnasse manners seem more acute.

　　父亲离世后，来到天桥摆摊卖手表的小康（李康生）同母亲一样，虽自觉与其并无多少情感，却无法摆脱其在精神上的无处不在。因为一块可以显示出巴黎与台北时差的手表，小康结识要去巴黎的湘琪（陈湘琪 饰），自此，精神抑压的他以为同巴黎（湘琪 饰）取得了某种形式的关联，获得某种虚空的安慰。
　　当小康通过把时钟调快7小时、观看电影《四百击》等形式来表达他对湘琪暧昧的思念时，远在巴黎的湘琪也并没能从生活中找到多少积极的意义。无论同性（叶童）还是异性，她均无法从他们身上得到想要的温暖。

　　1962年，格蕾丝（妮可·基德曼 Nicole Kidman 饰）大婚已经有六年，她的一颦一笑已经成为20世纪王妃的经典影像，但此时，她正在力图使自己的过去与现在和解。她渴望重返大银幕，却因如今身兼三职——两个孩子的母亲、欧洲公国的王妃、雷尼尔三世（蒂姆·罗斯 Tim Roth 饰）的妻子——而踌躇不前。
　　希区柯克（罗杰·阿什顿-格里菲斯 Roger Ashton-Griffiths 饰）建议她重返好莱坞，这个提议令格蕾丝陷入苦恼。当时丈夫雷尼尔的现代化改革措施遭到了法国总统戴高乐的抵制，戴高乐要对摩纳哥课以重税，并推动武力以保证此项措施得以实行。
　　逐渐膨胀的国际性危机和法国迫近的入侵脚步，不仅是格蕾丝家庭、婚姻、国家的危机，也是她个人生活的危机。这是一个远离美国家乡的银幕明星不得不做出艰难决定的时刻，是回去做那个受全球瞩目和万千影迷爱戴的大明星，还是拥抱她的新身份，拥抱她对于丈夫、子女，以及这个世界第二小却是她的家、她的王国的责任……

　　故事发生在1671年的法国，王公贵族们纸醉金迷的奢侈生活让百姓们陷入了水深火热和民不聊生的糟糕境地中，愤怒和反抗的情绪日益增加。可是，即便是在这样的情况下，库德王子（朱利安·格洛弗 Julian Glover 饰）满脑子里想着的，依旧是如何讨好自己的父亲路易十四（朱利安·山德斯 Julian Sands 饰）。为此，库德王子决定举办一个为期三天的壮大宴会，他将此任务全权交给了侍从瓦尔特（杰拉尔·德帕迪约 Gérard Depardieu 饰）处理。
　　瓦尔特出色的完成了王子交代给他的任务，宴会上的所有来宾都对他们的所闻所见感到满意和惊奇。一个名叫安妮（乌玛·瑟曼 Uma Thurman 饰）的贵妇的出现让瓦尔特坠入了情网，不幸的是，路易十四似乎也想要得到安妮。在如此强大的情敌面前，瓦尔特陷入了痛苦之中。

　　Charlie, a young aristocrat in turn of the century England, meets a boy named Frank on the road to Portsmouth. What Charlie doesn't realize is that Frank is actually Frances, who's donned a disguise to escape working at a brothel. Charlie takes Frank/Frances into his home, and when he discovers her true identity, the two become lovers. He sends her to London to be trained by his mistress in the art of sex, but she learns much more about her identity as a woman. Before the opening credits, explicitly on-screen it reads: "Based on the famous Victorian erotic novel by an anonymous writer".

　　Atlanta, 1873. It's another day (Melanie's funeral, in fact), and Scarlett is determined to win back Rhett (who's spending a lot of time with Belle Watling). First, she goes to Tara and spats with Sue Ellen over Tara. Then she goes to Charleston, presenting herself to Rhett's mother and friends, to Rhett's dismay. But when she's caught in a compromising position with Ashely, she retires to her mother's people in Savannah, and her overbearing grandfather Robelard, while Rhett courts a new bride. Scarlett also seeks out her O'Hara relatives and meets her cousin Colum, a priest (and gunrunner). And knowing them, she goes to Ireland. There she meets the handsome Earl of Fenton, who owns Ballyhara, the ancestral home of the O'Haras. And when Scarlett buys it from him, she becomes the financial and spiritual head of the family. But her newfound happiness is short-lived as disasters strike, and she must rely on Rhett's love for her to save her from the gallows.

　　影片故事发生在当代巴黎，德国电影制作人托马斯（罗戈夫斯基饰）通过与一位名叫阿加特（阿黛尔饰）的年轻女子的激烈恋情拥抱了自己的性取向，这种冲动模糊了他与丈夫马丁（本·卫肖饰）之间的界限。当马丁开始自己的婚外情时，他成功地重新获得了丈夫的关注，同时也引起了托马斯的嫉妒。 与 矛盾的情绪作斗争，托马斯必须要么接受他婚姻的局限，要么接受这段关系已经走到尽头。
　　萨克斯对人类体验的扎根考察，着重于身体和情感吸引力之间的异同，并提出了 将艺术与艺术家分开的问题。 优雅的电影摄影与非常复杂的表演巧妙地平衡，让他的角色在安静、不舒服的时刻安顿下来，直面他们的不完美。 段落是一个非常亲密的作品，拒绝回避生活的混乱。

　　The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.

　　1927年，乔治·瓦伦丁（让·杜雅尔丹 Jean Dujardin 饰），是默片的最佳男主角。每次他在舞台上，都会逗得观众捧腹大笑。他的爱犬是黄金配角，其他女演员只有靠边站的份。一次，面对媒体采访，他无意中邂逅了一位表现欲超强的女子佩皮·米勒（贝热尼丝·贝乔 Béré nice Bejo 饰），尽管后者抢镜出风头，但是他还是儒雅以待。不过，这则头条新闻却压过了他的新戏，老板极为不满，老婆也醋性大发。后来，佩皮闯荡好莱坞，恰好与乔治重逢，这令他心神不宁，演戏频频NG。后来，与老板闹僵的乔治，决定自立门户，自编自导自演。与此同时，佩皮却借助有声电影的契机迅速蹿红，成为了首屈一指的明星。最终，他的默片与她的有声片档期撞车，一场在新与旧、情感与票房的争夺战拉开序幕……
　　本片获69届金球奖最佳音乐片/喜剧片，让·杜雅尔丹获最佳音乐片/喜剧片影帝，及 64届戛纳影帝。

　　由于受不了严谨的校纪校规，女孩伊莎贝尔（凯特·哈德森 Kate Hudson 饰）毅然离开了电影学院，过上了她所渴望的自由生活。伊莎贝尔的姐姐罗茜妮（娜奥米·沃茨 Naomi Watts 饰）定居于法国巴黎，身怀六甲的她惨遭画家丈夫查尔斯（梅尔维尔·珀波 Melvil Poupaud 饰）的背叛，愤怒的罗茜妮决定离婚，她给伊莎贝尔写了一封信，希望自己的妹妹能够来到自己身边，支持和陪伴她度过这一段艰难时期。
　　一次偶然中，伊莎贝尔结识了名叫埃德加（蒂埃里·莱尔米特 Thierry Lhermitte 饰）的法国外交官，尽管埃德加已经是一个七十岁高龄的老人了，但伊莎贝尔依旧拜倒在了他的慷慨大方和风度翩翩之中。尽管伊莎贝尔和埃德加之间的恋情并不被他人所看好，但伊莎贝尔依然坚持着自己的想法和信念，直到某一日，她发现，埃德加竟然是自己的亲戚。

　　根据鲁茂·戈登的原作改编，让·雷诺阿的首部彩色长片，是他和他的侄子摄影师在印度境内拍摄的影片，也是让·雷诺阿的一次感官与视觉之旅。
　　故事围绕三个年轻女孩的成长忧伤出发，让·雷诺阿以细致的笔触叙述古老孟加拉河流域的传奇故事。影片直接启发了一代印度大师萨蒂亚吉特·雷伊投入电影创作。

　　劳拉•艾什（丽贝卡•罗梅恩 饰）与同党瑞西、威克斯在一个电影首映式上，出尽法宝要偷取一条佩戴在某位明星身上，价值千万的钻石项链。劳拉在神不知鬼不觉之间，把仿品成功与真品掉包。同党打算把女明星杀掉，劳拉出手阻止。两人较量时，劳拉把同党一同杀死了。
　　劳拉害怕自己的身份被识破，处处躲藏，直到她得到了另一个身份。一个与她相貌惊人相似的女人莉莉自杀了，当她目睹这一切之际，她决定盗用莉莉的身份。借助新的身份她的新生活开始了，她也成为了他人的妻子，感受到了家庭的温暖。
　　尼古拉斯（安东尼奥•班德拉斯 饰）的职业是记者，自他认识劳拉后，他对劳拉鲜为人知的过去非常感兴趣，企图要揭开她的底细，也因此迫使劳拉要对自己的身份作出抉择……

　　讲述一对好莱坞夫妇和他们的女儿安妮特的故事：丈夫亨利（亚当·德赖弗 Adam Driver 饰）是一位单口喜剧演员，妻子安则是一名歌剧明星（玛丽昂·歌迪亚 Marion Cotillard 饰），而他们神秘的女儿安妮特，又拥有怎样不同寻常的人生呢？