婚姻究竟是否恋爱的坟墓呢？有人觉得一纸婚书等于一张长期饭票，亦有人觉得是一条末路。因此当不信婚姻的大卫（谢利奥康奴）被亲密同居女友（碧姬韦逊）提出结婚的计划时，他要面对他一生中最大的决择，他究竟最后选择去接受还是去逃避呢？

　　马洛（迪克·鲍威尔 Dick Powell 饰）是一名独来独往的私家侦探，某日，马里特（Douglas Walton 饰）找到了马洛聘他当自己的保镖，结果马洛却莫名其妙的挨了一顿打。之后，一个叫安（安妮·雪莉 Anne Shirley 饰）的女孩现身，她告诉马洛，他所遭遇的一切和她的继母格雷尔夫人及其所拥有的翡翠有着千丝万缕的关联。对翡翠深感好奇的马洛决定将这一连串的事件调查个水落石出。
　　在安的协助下，马洛对事件的全貌渐渐的有了了解，而隐藏在背后的，是安的父亲（迈尔斯·曼德 Miles Mander 饰）。不仅如此，不久之前，马洛受雇寻找一个名叫维尔马的女子的下落，这名女子竟然也被牵连进了翡翠的案件之中。

《南太平洋》背景为二次世界大战美国海军占领南太平洋一小岛之时；岛上最有钱的迪贝克战前已前土著女子结婚生下两子，但孩子的母亲去世得早。海军少尉护士奈莉．佛布许来自保守的阿肯色州小镇，爱上了迪贝克，但因为其二个混血儿拖油瓶，不禁略略犹疑。她对迪贝克倾心不已，但面对母亲严来信，只得狠心拒绝。岛上另外一个大出风头的人物是万事通型的“血腥玛丽”广受美国驻军欢迎；一个来自费城的盖博中尉对玛丽的女儿莉亚深有好感，但是也顾虑其土著身份；玛丽以一首小岛情歌替女儿做了媒，使盖博捐弃了成见，热情挥洒热情。但随着两段异国恋情越形白热，结婚成家的压力也越来越明显；迪贝克在向奈莉求婚被拒后自愿与盖博深入战区探军情；盖博中弹身亡，迪贝克亦一度失踪，使得奈莉认清她对迪贝克的感情；她日夜陪伴迪贝克的幼子女，与他们培养出感情，更对自己将迪贝克逼上敌阵后悔不已。幸亏迪贝克安然返归，有情人终成眷属。

　　Jack Linden (Mark Ruffalo) and Hank Evans (Peter Krause) are best friends who both teach at the same university in a small New England town. They both have young children and Jack's wife, Terry (Laura Dern) is close with Hank's wife, Edith (Naomi Watts). But while things appear happy on the surface, there are smouldering pockets of discontent underneath. Financial struggle and domestic boredom has drained the passion from Jack and Terry's marriage, while Hank's numerous infidelities and self-absorption has prompted Edith to find both comfort and sexual fulfilment with Jack. As Jack begins spending more and more time with Edith, it becomes obvious to Terry, whose anger culminates in a sexual encounter with Hank. Now that the deception has come full circle, both couples are left to decide the futures of their shattered unions...

　　Last at the Festival with 2017’s rural noir Dark River, a selection in the Platform programme, writer-director Clio Barnard returns to the Bradford, West Yorkshire setting of her earlier films for this tumultuous, fiercely affecting midlife love story.
　　A bundle of good humour and nervous energy, Ali (Adeel Akhtar) is a British Pakistani working-class landlord who forges close bonds with his tenants. One day, while picking up one of his tenants’ children from school, he offers a lift to Ava (Claire Rushbrook), an Irish-born teacher and single mother of five. They bond almost instantly through their love of music, though Ali favours the high energy of Buzzcocks and hip-hop while Ava takes refuge in the quieter comforts of Bob Dylan and Karen Dalton. Despite their divergent backgrounds, differences in their stages of life, and the colour of their skin, despite the fact of Ali’s failing marriage and Ava’s fraught relationship with her adult and adolescent children, each finds themself irresistibly drawn to the other. But can their mutual desire transcend a barrage of personal obstacles?
　　Inspired by people Barnard encountered while making her acclaimed features The Arbor and The Selfish Giant, Ali Ava is a film that feels profoundly rooted in lived experience, blending a tender emotional complexity with an at times bracing depiction of trauma and grief. Akhtar and Rushbrook’s finely hued performances speak to the setting’s cultural diversity and tribal loyalties while yielding a vulnerability that’s alternately heart-wrenching and joyous. Their story serves as a reminder that it is sometimes the least likely connections that are the ones most worth pursuing.

　　威廉被派到上海去調查斯芬克斯保險公司的一樁偽造證件案，由於他染上了一種奇特的病毒，使他能夠一清二楚地知道嫌疑犯的心理活動。瑪麗婭是斯芬克斯的雇員，這家公司發行一種特殊的證件「papelles」，這是保險、護照與信用卡的混合體。沒有這種證件的人就只能生活在被指派的次等區域內，那裡條件極其惡劣，基本就是沙漠般的荒地，這些低等公民被禁止進入文明地帶。
　　經過調查，威廉發現正是瑪麗婭在把偽造的證件賣給那些斯芬克斯公司拒絕與之交易的人。他很明白把瑪麗婭交給組織是自己的職責，但是似乎還有一股更大的力量在悄悄發生作用。威廉深深地愛上了她，他無法就此一手將瑪麗婭送上絕路。
　　事情甚至更復雜，最令威廉驚訝的是，瑪麗婭竟然是從他死去的母親腦部DNA克隆而成。
　　這對情侶受到驅逐，為了躲避當局追捕，他們不得不亡命天涯……

　　丹（希斯•莱杰 饰）与美丽的糖果（艾比•考尼什 饰）相爱了。两人在一起之后一起出游，他们相处的时光充满了爱意。可是糖果是个吸毒者，她喜欢吸食海洛因，而且她还让男友丹一起吸食。他们利用吸毒后的极度兴奋的状态，企图为生活带来更多刺激。
　　即使糖果的父母指责丹没有把他们的女儿从毒海中营救出来，甚至与她一起泥足深陷。其实他们有尝试戒除毒瘾，可是他们又受到了丹的同性恋朋友卡斯珀（杰弗里•拉什 饰）的影响，毒瘾越来越大，生活变得越来越堕落……

　　Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson
　　If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.
　　[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.
　　To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.
　　More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.
　　(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)
　　In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.
　　(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)
　　I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.
　　(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)
　　See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)

　　娜奥米·沃茨说：“能够扮演戴安娜——这个全世界都热爱的、标志性的人物，我感到很荣幸，我非常期待迎接在银幕上扮演她的这项挑战。”
　　不过她扮演的这个戴安娜可不太讨好，故事说的是她和一位心脏外科医生哈斯那特·汗（Dr. Hasnat Kahn）从1995年开始的一段长达两年的不为人知的婚外情。哈斯那特·汗一直保守着秘密，直到2008年才通过英国的《每日电讯报》公开了这段秘密恋情。他声称戴安娜对这段关系十分认真，去巴基斯坦看他家人的时候穿上了当地传统服装，甚至有过为他而改信伊斯兰教的想法。不过哈斯那特·汗后来主动结束了这段关系，他说戴安娜“为此而心碎”，甚至偷偷跟踪纠缠他。
　　奥利弗·西斯贝格执导过《帝国的毁灭》（Downfall），这部《Caught in Flight》将由英国的Ecosse Films公司摄制，今年三月开始制作，计划前往巴基斯坦、安哥拉、巴黎等地拍摄，影片预算为1500万美元。

玛丽（艾丽·范宁 Elle Fanning 饰）是一个从小就沉迷于怪力乱神的鬼怪神话之中的鬼马少女，她继承了父母的先进思想，个性独立自强又桀骜不驯。为了让女儿接受更好的教育，玛丽的父亲将她送往了自己的友人威廉（德里克·里德尔 Derek Riddell 饰）家中，在那里，玛丽遇见了浑身充满了忧郁气质的年青诗人雪莱（道格拉斯·布斯 Douglas Booth 饰）。 　　玛丽很快就被雪莱迷得神魂颠倒，当她决定跟他私奔到伦敦后，玛丽才发现，原来雪莱早已经有了家庭。然而玛丽不在乎这些，她坚定的选择和雪莱在一起。因为背叛了家庭，雪莱失去了来自父亲的经济资助，贫穷没有拆散他和玛丽，令他们的感情分崩离析的，是雪莱的不忠。

　　During WW II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis. After being freed she falls in love with and marries a German officer. When Berlin falls to the Russians, and her husband killed, she flees to America, carrying his unborn child, all the while not giving up hope that she will find her family, tied together by her mother's ring

塔米（谢琳·伍德蕾 Shailene Woodley 饰）和未婚夫理查德（山姆·克拉弗林 Sam Claflin 饰）都非常热爱极限运动，两人正驾驶着帆艇，准备完成横渡太平洋的宏伟任务。让两人没有想到的是，在途中，他们遭遇了飓风袭击，猛烈的风暴破坏了帆艇，还导致理查德身受重伤。 　　在理查德的不断鼓励和支持下，塔米决定振作起来，利用两人全部的野外生存知识进行自救。海上的生存环境极为的恶劣，不仅没吃没喝，理查德的伤也继续药物的治疗。在这样紧急的情况下，塔米还必须驾驶着已经损坏的帆艇驶往陆地。如果继续这样随波逐流下去，那么他们将会顺着洋流漂流进空无一人的太平洋。

　　科妮（罗姗娜·阿奎特 Rosanna Arquette 饰）是博迪（桑德拉·布洛克 Sandra Bullock 饰）最要好的朋友，在一场电视访谈中，她竟然大谈特谈自己和博迪的丈夫比尔（迈克尔·帕尔 Michael Paré 饰）之间的奸情，而之后，比尔也在电视节目中承认了自己的不忠，一怒之下，博迪带着女儿波尼斯（梅·惠特曼 Mae Whitman 饰）回到了母亲位于得克萨斯州的老家。
　　虽然是比尔有错在先，但博迪却遭到了众人的嘲笑和白眼，大家都很乐意看到曾经高高在上的校花在婚姻中灰头土脸的样子。在老家，博迪见到了自己的初恋情人贾斯汀（小哈里·康尼克 Harry Connick Jr. 饰），在博迪最黑暗的日子里，是贾斯汀给她带来了一丝丝的温暖。

　　1929年的越南是法国殖民地，一个15岁的法国少女（珍·玛奇 饰）在西贡女子寄宿学校读书。每逢假期她便回家，母亲办了一所很小的学校，收入甚少。她有两个哥哥，大哥比尔吸毒成瘾且横行霸道，二哥保罗生性懦弱，常受大哥的欺负。一天少女一如往常一样告别母亲乘上渡船回学校，在船上遇到一个坐黑色大轿车的中国阔少爷（梁家辉 饰），他是华侨富翁的独生子。中国男人喜欢这名白人少女便去搭讪，两人便搭上了。 少女在寄宿学校里知道有的女生在外卖淫，她也想找个有钱人试试，因此很主动地与男人交谈。上岸后两人逛了西贡，还一起上馆子吃中国饭菜，男人用汽车送她回学校。第二天刚放学，黑色汽车就等在校门口了。 两人很快就坠入爱河。男人把少女带到他的公馆，这是中国富人们常用来金屋藏娇的地方。他俩在这里幽会、洗澡、玩耍。有时晚上也不回学校，校方只好通知她的母亲，然而……

健身房经理卢（克里斯汀·斯图尔特 Kristen Stewart 饰）爱上了健美运动员杰姬（凯蒂·M·奥布莱恩 Katy M. O'Brian 饰），后者来到拉斯维加斯追寻健美梦想。她们卷入了一个暴力事件，背后正是卢的父亲缔造的犯罪网络。

男才女貌的Bea（西德妮·斯威尼 Sydney Sweeney 饰）和 Ben（格伦·鲍威尔 Glen Powell 饰）在初次约会时就发生一件天大误会，令二人恋人未满就变仇人。谁知天意弄人，他们竟在一场异地婚礼上重逢！面对亲朋戚友大大力的推波助澜，各怀鬼胎的二人决定顺 应民意假扮情侣。在仇人和情侣之间，你来我往，狠狠恋上。