根据真实故事改编，美国历史上最不完善的银行抢案。　　本该是10分钟完成的银行抢劫犯罪，却变成了12小时的拉锯战。桑尼（阿尔·帕西诺饰）算是美国历史上最倒霉的银行抢劫犯了。一个盛夏的下午，桑尼与同伴塞勒（约翰·卡扎雷饰）闯入纽约市布鲁克林银行，准备实施抢劫。怎奈银行刚刚完成交易，金库内根本没有现钱。倒霉的桑尼与塞勒转而劫持人质，与警方对峙提出要求。但4小时后，劫案现场被围观群众和手忙脚乱的警察弄得像游乐园一样热闹。桑尼走出银行对警察的质问居然赢得了群众的喝彩。8小时后，银行劫案登上了电视节目的实况转播，大家仿佛拍电影一样高兴。而这时夜色降临，人质亦出现了斯德哥尔摩症候群，究竟这场闹剧将以什么方式结束？

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)

让-弗朗西斯·瑞切执导历史题材新作[巴黎皇帝](The Emperor of Paris,暂译 )正式开拍，文森特·卡索加盟出演男一号。影片围绕尤金·弗朗西斯·维多克的故事展开，作为法国家喻户晓的人物，维多克堪称一代罪犯专家。其被誉为现代犯罪之父，也是早期的私家侦探，更凭借丰富的犯罪经历任职警察部门，协力同行破获大量犯罪事件。

《黑色党徒》根据2014年罗恩·斯塔尔沃斯所著的自传改编，讲述了一名科罗拉多州的黑人警察，成功潜入当地的3K党组织做卧底的故事。

夏日的法国乡间，Jack和Veronique一同结伴旅行。他们搭上了一辆便车，但随后发生的事让他们发现自己被卷入了一场事关生死的猫鼠游戏之中。一对神秘夫妻，一个公路杀手，Jack和Veronique将如何突出重围？

A funny and irresistible story of a young girl who literally cannot see or hear her mother, even though she is living with her under the same roof. With the help of an eccentric psychiatrist, and a local, accidental hero, our heroine has to grow up, but falls in love and eventually takes hold of her future - despite not being able to see what's right in front of her.

1861年，Johnnie Gray（巴斯特·基顿 Buster Keaton 饰）是西部大西洋火车公司的一名员工，深爱着他的火车“将军号”，还有他的未婚妻（Marion Mack 饰）。南北战争爆发了，他的未婚妻让他去从军，军方却拒绝了他，认为让他开火车更有价值。他的未婚妻很生气，发誓除非看见他穿军装的样子，不然再也不和他说话。北军正在计划一个阴谋，准备劫走“将军号”，给南军来一次突袭。Johnnie发现了北军的诡计，更意外的在北军的阵营里解救了他的未婚妻。他必须将北军要突袭的情报带回南军的阵地，他一路上驾驶着“将军号”，遭遇重重追击。南北军大战一触即发......

哈瑞（理查德·威德马克 Richard Widmark 饰）是一名卑微的皮条客，然而，他从来都没有满足于现状过，而是不断地想找到能够发家致富的门道。一次偶然中，哈瑞结识了名叫乔治（Stanislaus Zbyszko 饰）的摔跤运动员，两人一拍即合，决定组织一场摔跤比赛以谋取暴利。　　哈瑞找来了当红摔跤手史瑞乐（Mike Mazurki 饰）对阵乔治的手下尼古拉斯（Ken Richmond 饰），一时间，这场巅峰对决成为了当地人人乐道的传奇。哈瑞的高调惹恼了垄断当地摔跤比赛收益的黑帮，除此之外，乔治的儿子也对哈瑞表示了强烈的不满，与此同时，酒吧老板菲力（Francis L. Sullivan 饰）亦想借此机会除掉这个和自己老婆海伦（乔姬·韦瑟斯 Googie Withers 饰）有一腿的无赖。一场意外的发生让乔治不幸去世，也让哈瑞惹上了杀身之祸。

故事发生在1920年代风云激荡的柏林，科学、文化、享乐主义的黄金年代。在上流社会沉浸在纸醉金迷的生活之时，黑暗的地下世界也暗流涌动。组织卖淫、贩毒、敲诈、抢劫…整个城市在黑恶势力的侵蚀下人心惶惶。只有一个人敢于与恶势力对抗。柏林1区的总警监Paul Lang，他无情地与犯罪团伙以及他们的新首领Immanues Tauss作斗争。在调查员们还用老思路办案时，有着参战经验的老兵Lang已经开始使用超越他时代的创新技术。一战给Lang留下了伤痕累累的过往，妻离子殁的Lang已无所畏惧。但在调查柏林最危险的案件的过程中，这场斗争却超乎了他的想象。

John Ruskin是英国维多利亚时代的艺术家、诗人、建筑师、思想家，还扶持培养了一批年轻艺术家，不过成为社会新闻的却是他与Effie Gray的婚姻，两人结婚6年之后Effie要求中止婚姻，理由是两人“从未真正成为夫妻”，这桩官司成为一时谈资。John Ruskin承认两人从没上过床，但为自己辩护说妻子的“某种状况”破坏了他的激情。Effie Gray离婚后，嫁给了受John Ruskin重视提拔的画家John Everett Millais。据艾玛·汤普森说，这部新片将从两人的新婚之夜开始，通过John Ruskin的经历和性格来解开这个谜团。　　2011.08.17.达科塔取代西尔莎成为《Effie》女主角.　　Dakota Fanning replacing Saoirse Ronan in Emma Thompson's 'Effie'　　August 16　　Source Deadline　　Just last November, one Casting Tidbits update revealed The Lovely Bones star Saoirse Ronan landed the title role in Effie, a biopic about Effie Gray, the wife of English art critic John Ruskin, who became entangled in a famous Victorian love triangle. Now Deadline reports Dakota Fanning will star in the period drama from writeractresa Thompson which chronicles the strange romance, or lack thereof, between Gray and Ruskin. Despite her beauty, Ruskin was said to be disgusted with Gray's body, did not consummate the marriage and annulled it, allowing her to marry Ruskin's protégé John Everett Millais.Though Orlando Bloom was once attached to play Millais, apparently Tom Sturridge (Pirate Radio) has stepped into the role. In addition, Thompson will also star in the film as Lady Eastlake, who takes Effie under her wing when it becomes clear the union was destroying the young woman. Her husbandGreg Wise (Johnny English) will play Ruskin while Julie Walters (Harry Potter franchise) and Derek Jacobi (The King's Speech) will play his parents. Finally, Edward Fox (Gandhi) is in talks to play Eastlake's husband Sir Charles a man who was not only fed up with Ruskin and his radical ideas, but also the main patron of the Royal Academy which held sway over what constituted fine art.　　Richard Laxton (An Englishman in New York) is directing the film which begins shooting in Scotland on October 17th with shooting to follow in London and Venice as well. The cast has been shuffled on this project for awhile with Carey Mulligan once attached to the title role as well, but a copyright infringement claim held up the film, which resulted in scheduling conflicts for the previously attached cast members. Producer Don Rosenfeld says, It’a Thompson’s first original script after doing several fine adaptations, and it gets to the heart of Victorian England. Though this sounds a bit more along the lines of her work on Sense and Sensibility as opposed to Nanny McPhee, her work on the page should make for a great British drama down the road.