马戏团的表演因为呆板无趣而失去了观众,他们面临着破产和倒闭的危险,谁都不知道会不会有“救星”从天而降。流浪汉查理(查理·卓别林 Charles Chaplin 饰)在游园会中被卷入了一个小偷的圈套中,招来警察的追捕。他像无头的苍蝇一样钻进了正在演出的马戏团。舞台上,查理 躲避警察的各种肢体动作,被观众当成马戏团的表演,他们非常喜欢查理的“表演”,热烈地鼓掌来。马戏团老板想让查理留下来,帮助马戏团起死回生。虽然查理并不想以马戏团为生,但是走投无路的他为了维持生计也只好接受了老板的提议。很快,查理的...
拳击手大卫•科登(Jamie Smith 饰)独自住在一间简陋的公寓出租房内,窗户对面住着一个美丽的舞女格萝蕾拉(Irene Kane 饰),大卫渐渐为之所吸引。某晚大卫比赛归来,突然发现格萝蕾拉正要被人强暴,他冲进去拯救了心上人。原来强暴者是格萝蕾拉所在夜总会的老板(Frank Silvera 饰),为了生计不得不忍辱负重。两个失意之人情谊相合,遂约定离开伤心地,寻找他们的幸福。大卫外出筹集旅费,而夜总会老板在得知格萝蕾拉即将离开的消息时勃然大怒,派出打手绑架了她……本片荣获1959年洛迦诺国...
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in ...
Two carefree young travellers make the mistake of their lives when they pick up a mysterious, and slightly psychotic, hitch-hiker who never closes his right eye -- even when he sleeps!...
The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years. Unusually, briefly covering the years after Capone was imprisoned....