A school crossing guard reprimands the PTA president for careless driving. He is later dismissed from his job on the basis of an anonymous note accusing him of being too friendly with little schoolgirls. His daughter's boyfriend takes up his cause, assuming that the PTA president sent the note out of spite. It turns out that the note was sent by a woman living across the street...
Norman Manners is suicidal, and is saved by a fire company when he jumps from a building. While recuperating, he is visited by Mr. J. Smith, who invites him to a recreational resort for those who wish to die, the Thanatos Palace Hotel. Borchter, the proprietor, tells Mr. Manners that he can stay for as long as it takes to become comfortably ready for death. He meets a beautiful...
人物传记形式纪录片，BBC通过展示20世纪政治、科学、文化艺术等各个领域伟大传奇人物的经历，向他们所作的贡献致敬，其中包括屠呦呦、居里夫人、爱因斯坦、巴勃罗·毕加索、纳尔逊·罗利赫拉赫拉·曼德拉，温斯顿·丘吉尔等人物，他们对于人类文明史跟社会进步有哪些不能被遗忘的贡献，以及对于个人的生命历程，他们又克服了那些困难，向青少年传递积极向上的正能量，有梦想就要勇敢。
这是一套足以让任何一个资深影迷和电影工作者都为之兴奋的产品，它系统地阐述在过去100多年里，电影艺术在欧洲从诞生到发展、壮大、开拓的过程，按照地域的划分系统性地对欧洲主要各国在电影艺术上的发展做了一个梳理。第一集首先就给观众讲述了电影艺术在1895年诞生的过程，由法国卢米埃尔兄弟所拍摄的《火车进站》、《工厂大门》等珍贵片段都被收录其中。第二集讲述的则是瑞典的电影，瑞典作为北欧最为重要的电影艺术发展国家，曾经诞生了伯格曼等著名大导演，但谁又曾想到，他们也经历过电影的低谷。1912年所有瑞典电影人聚集在一起的一次盛会真正让瑞典电影走向了世界的前沿。第三集则来到了法斯宾德、文德斯等的故乡德国，早期的表现主义电影正是从那里诞生而来，成为德国电影的标志之一。新浪潮运动的发源地法国是第四集的主角，它详细介绍了法国电影工业在战争后的复苏与巨大先导性，其中选用了许多...
Jordon and Eve Ross are a married couple who are constantly fighting. Their latest argument is interrupted by the sudden appearance of a wanted murderer named Lacey. He holds them captive all night. Lacey ends up being an effective marriage counselor. Through the night he convinces the couple to amend their differences. All of this is despite the fact that Lacey is wanted for m...
An arrogant detective, Charles Courtney, prides himself on never having committed a single mistake in his long and distinguished career. He keeps a shelf of labeled mementos from each of his cases. On the shelf there is an open space and a blank tag for what Courtney calls "The Perfect Crime". One day a defense lawyer stuns Courtney when he confronts him with evidence that the ...
Corrupt political boss murders the rebel father of 2 young men. The older brother faces difficult choices: swallow his pride to keep up the hardscrabble Appalachian farm & care for his developmentally disabled brother, or risk a quick death seeking retribution. When the older brother quietly leaves town to attend school, the arrogant boss is confident he's in the clear - no sch...
A patient at a mental hospital kills the head doctor and takes over, replacing the staff with fellow patients. Things get complicated when the niece of the real doctor makes an unexpected visit.
Barbie Hallem is a bored rich girl, who drinks too much, parties too much and flirts outrageously with any man she meets. And there's no reason to think she stops at flirting, even though she has a boyfriend. But her boyfriend is a drip. He won't punch out a guy when he sees her kissing him. The dullard even tries to take her home when she gets drunk at a party. What she wants ...
A continuation of the dramatic anthology series hosted by the master of suspense and mystery. When the series Alfred Hitchcock Presents was revived in 1962, the name was changed, but the format stayed fairly true to the original. In each episode, viewers would be strung along with the story, never knowing which way the final twist would turn.
Stella Ballister (Patricia Owens) receives the horrifying news that her husband met with an untimely demise while mountain climbing. Newly married, Stella asks for the retrieval of her husband's body - but the task proves impossible when the corpse accidentally falls into a deep crevasse, where no human eyes or hands can reach him. Mark (James Donald), having feelings for Stell...
Twice a month, Mrs. Bixby travels to Baltimore to visit an elderly aunt, her only living relative. Or so she tells her dentist husband. In fact, she visits the Colonel, her rich lover. Before returning home, he gives her a gift of a fur coat - along with a letter saying that they won't be seeing other any more. Mrs. Bixby decides to pawn the coat but her elaborate scheme to exp...
Great documentary features interviews with Martin Scorsese, Curtis Hanson, Francis Lawrence, William Friedkin, Guillermo Del Toro, John Carpenter and others as they discuss the films and style of the Master of Suspense. Various topics are discussed including how Hitchcock always had you cheer for the killer, how the good guy on conflicts, objects of desire, how sound was used a...
1922年，23岁的希区柯克执导他的首部电影《13号》，宣告了一代悬念大师的银幕初登场。曾执导过多部电影史纪录片的英国导演马克·卡曾斯以《13号》百年庆为契机，推出了这部致敬希区柯克的论文电影。影片出人意料地从希区柯克的角度出发，以口述方式（由著名影星阿利斯泰尔·麦高恩配音）、模拟了一出“希区柯克带你看希区柯克电影”的戏码。通过这个虚拟的主观视点，向影迷介绍希区柯克数量庞大的经典作品中的共通点、以及隐藏在趣味和高能背后的视听技巧，亦展现了卡曾斯本人的博学和洞察力。
