该电影背景设定在 911 紧急呼叫中心的一个早上。呼叫接线员乔·贝勒（吉伦哈尔饰）试图拯救一名危在旦夕的呼叫者，但他很快发现事实并非如此，而面对真相是摆脱困境的唯一办法。

Best friends and lovers Miguel and Johnny have known each other since childhood. They spend their time skateboarding with their friends in throbbing Mexico City where they sell their own blood and get donors for the ER black market as a way to make money. But when an important transaction goes wrong, Miguel’s mother sends him out of the country. Away from Johnny, Miguel will find the path to his own destiny.

早上，虔诚的农场主陶尔（Max von Sydow 饰）夫妻做过了祷告，随后安排女儿卡琳骑马为教堂送一些蜡烛，卡琳穿上了新制的盛装，邀请家里的养女英格丽同行。有孕在身的英格丽性格放纵，并一直嫉妒卡琳的明媚人生，出行前，英格丽在食物中塞进了一只蛤蟆。行至一片森林前，英格丽让卡琳独自上路而自己尾随观察。林中的三个牧羊人看到孤身一人的卡琳顿起歹意，他们奸污后又打死了卡琳，掳走她的外套。傍晚，三名牧羊人投宿陶尔家中，向陶尔妻子兜售卡琳的衣物，惊慌的英格丽亦同时回到家中，她向陶尔忏悔了自己诅咒卡琳的罪行。陶尔沐浴更衣，以白桦树枝抽打自己后，决意用很双手为女儿报仇……　　本片获1961年奥斯卡最佳外语片奖，1960年戛纳电影节特别推荐奖。

“The Chosen Ones” turns on 15-year-old, Ulises, who is being groomed by his father to enamor young girls, tricking them into prostitution. But he falls in love with Sofia, his first victim, who’s just 14. To save her, his father demands he seduces a second girl, entangling Ulises in the world of juvenile prostitution that he was trying to avoid, from which escape come at a very high price.

Julian is a 12-year-old boy whose family is just scraping by in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany in the early 1960s . When his mother and younger sister go away for a while, he is left mostly alone in the apartment while his father works in the coal mine. He has to confront the confusing world of adults and older boys and the older girl next door on his own. Finally events build up and threaten to tear the family apart.

The film tells the story of three people for a year a son (Magimel) diagnosed with cancer, a mother (Deneuve) suffering from helplessness and a doctor (Cécile de France) to do her job One year and four seasons for these three characters to deal with the disease, to tame it, and to understand what it means to die while alive.

伊尼奥和罗莎是一对新婚夫妇，没想到他们结婚才几个月，西班牙内战爆发。伊尼奥作为亲共分子被弗朗哥独裁政府抓捕，在被押解的路上，伊尼奥想办法逃回了家中。为躲避再一次被捕，伊尼奥在罗莎的帮助下，藏身于自家的地洞里长达30年。

当高中高年级学生布莱德·李在毕业典礼当晚失踪时，他的女朋友被迫质疑她认为她知道的关于他和他们的关系以及她自己的信仰的一切，希望能找到他。

马里奥的前妻离开了他，他的深情和挽留似乎已经没有什么用了，与此同时作为导演的他正在排演一场关于探戈的音乐剧，虽然情绪低落外加脚伤，马里奥依然专注于工作。有黑道背景的安杰罗来找马里奥，他希望投资这部作品，为的是让自己热爱舞蹈的情人伊莲娜演上主角。安杰罗是个可怕的人物，马里奥只能同意他的要求，没有想到的是，在充满情欲性感热情的探戈排演中，马里奥与伊莲娜之间爱意丛生。不知是否是安杰罗的安排，在排演的众多演员中，也似乎出现了一位类似杀手的危险人物，马里奥和伊莲娜陷入了爱情游戏的危机中。　　所有的故事情节随着音乐剧的排演慢慢展开，台前幕后已然融为一体，剧情和现实在切换间也有了意想不到的结局。

甫成年的朱利歐告別鄉村來到里斯本討生活，無奈工作難尋，只能認份地跟著叔叔學做鞋匠。與年輕而命運相仿的管家伊爾達相戀後，對生存與生活的殘酷命題有了更深刻的體悟……葡萄牙新電影先驅，對當時經濟與社會提出最真摯也最具挑戰性的大膽詰問，有評論認為由此開端的電影浪潮，間接引發了終結獨裁的康乃馨革命。