故事发生在1990年夏天前东德图林根州附近的乡村。即将年满19岁的玛丽亚和男友约翰内斯住在约翰内斯父母的农场里，她宁愿沉浸在书本中，也不愿专注于毕业。随着德国的统一，人们有一种新时代来临的感觉。 当玛丽亚遇到住在隔壁的农民亨纳时，玛丽亚与这个比她年龄大一倍、任性、有魅力的男人燃起强烈的激情。在充满未知的气氛中，爱情诞生了：一种充满渴望和欲望的秘密激情，吞噬了前进道路上的一切。
怀揣着成为艺术家的梦想，托德（威廉·阿瑟东 William Atherton 饰）来到了好莱坞，在这里，他成为了一名布景绘制员，并且解释了在旅馆里做会计的霍梅尔（唐纳德·萨瑟兰 Donald Sutherland 饰）。这两个男人之间脆弱的友谊很快就因为一个名叫菲耶（凯伦·布莱克 Karen Black 饰）的女人的出现而产生了裂痕。 菲耶渴望成为电影明星，但是苍白的现实让她不得不干起了应召女郎的勾当。菲耶的堕落让托德十分的愤怒，似乎是为了和托德对着干，菲耶选择了懦弱的霍梅尔，和他开始了同居的生活。虽然和霍梅尔住在了一起，但菲耶始终没有停止过在外面寻欢作乐。
一个靠开出租车勉强维持生计的小商贩，在和银行顾问的会面中得知，自己为了挽救作坊获得贷款而准备支付给银行顾问的一笔贿金翻倍了，道德监管委员会在审查他对银行家敲诈的投诉时，竟然也要从中分一杯羹。被逼迫至理性边缘的商贩，开枪打死了银行家，紧接着饮枪自尽。这个事件在广播上引起了全国上下关于公民社会的讨论。与此同时，六个出租车司机和他们的乘客正在黑夜中行驶，每个人都希望找到美好生活的方向。 整部影片发生在24小时之内，人们坐着出租车，去偷情、去谋杀，抑或去奔赴自己生命的未知……每个故事都是手持拍摄的一镜到底。为了实现这一技术，导演带着剧组人员开车驶遍了保加利亚首都索菲亚的大街小巷。每年保加利亚出品的影片极少，电影产业缺乏国家资金投入，然而这并没有减弱这部小成本电影的艺术成就。导演史蒂芬•柯曼达瑞夫正在用身体力行的方式，为保加利亚电影产业和现实生活寻找着方向。
一对兄妹被他们已故作家母亲最邪恶的文学作品——召唤女巫——所恐吓。
Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career. Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.) As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played. The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument). Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.
故事改编自现代作家曲波的作品《林海雪原》，讲述了东北民主联军一支小分队，在团参谋长少剑波的率领下，深入林海雪原执行剿匪任务，侦察排长杨子荣历经打虎上山、黑话舌战、飞跃天险等冒险，与威虎山座山雕为首的匪兵斗智斗勇的故事。
昭和初年，私家偵探魚塚被一老婦人委託調查被綁架女兒的下落。偵探追查下去，卻發現事件和一部消失了的電影《永遠的謎》有關，這部電影比號稱日本最早起用女性演員，歸山敎正的《生之光輝》更早有女演員表演，但被警察禁映而消失。鏡頭跟著主角深入淺草的遊樂區，探索默片年代的戲院，解說的辯士、現場配樂的樂隊、放映前的雜耍表演，當年的電影是很「綜合」的娛樂…… 完全和電影業無關的新人導演林海象一鳴驚人的處女作，比《星光夢裏人》早近三十年採用仿默片的拍法，全部黑白攝影，人物對白全部用字幕卡代替，聲軌只有配樂、效果音等，引領觀眾暢遊世紀初的夢工場。
