爱丽斯(凯特•温斯莱特 Kate Winslet饰)住在英国伦敦的乡村，而阿曼达(卡梅隆•迪亚兹 Cameron Diaz饰)则是洛杉矶的美国丽人。她们在天南地北的两端，却遇上了同样的问题：在感情上遭受了挫败，令生活灰暗无光。二人在网上聊天，商议在圣诞节到来之前，到对方的环境去生活，交互双方的住所作为度假场地。于是，一场令人兴奋的旅行开始了。爱丽斯来到美国大都市，阿曼达则乘班机前往极具英伦情调的英国乡村。除了新鲜的生活环境，当地男生的魅力更让她们猝不及防。

　　马洛（迪克·鲍威尔 Dick Powell 饰）是一名独来独往的私家侦探，某日，马里特（Douglas Walton 饰）找到了马洛聘他当自己的保镖，结果马洛却莫名其妙的挨了一顿打。之后，一个叫安（安妮·雪莉 Anne Shirley 饰）的女孩现身，她告诉马洛，他所遭遇的一切和她的继母格雷尔夫人及其所拥有的翡翠有着千丝万缕的关联。对翡翠深感好奇的马洛决定将这一连串的事件调查个水落石出。
　　在安的协助下，马洛对事件的全貌渐渐的有了了解，而隐藏在背后的，是安的父亲（迈尔斯·曼德 Miles Mander 饰）。不仅如此，不久之前，马洛受雇寻找一个名叫维尔马的女子的下落，这名女子竟然也被牵连进了翡翠的案件之中。

　　Evelyn Prentice is the respected wife of a high-profile New York attorney. Despite the prestige and status she enjoys, she feels neglected and out of boredom becomes involved with an unscrupulous womanizing poet, who gives her the attention she craves. She eventually finds herself a victim of blackmail and becomes involved in his murder. When another woman is accused of the crime, she begs her husband to defend her.

　　甚少有电影提到二次大战美国的亚洲人集中营的事。本片就是少数中的少数，透过美国人和亚洲人的眼同时看见历史上的痛。一九三0年代，在纽约工会组织工作杰克（丹尼斯·奎德饰），有天在一桩爆炸案发生后，发现自己一直相信工会，其实也不一定全是对的。于是他离开美国东岸，来到洛杉矶。一名住在小日本区的日本妇人收留了他，让他在她的店里工作，这时杰克对她的女儿莉莉一见钟情，两人长久相处下，决定结婚，但当时加州的法律对于异族婚姻有相当多的限制，唯恐外国人藉此取得绿卡。为了想拥有合法的婚姻，他们索性搬到西雅图定居。m.yakutv.cc

　　In World War II Washington DC, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with scientist Pat Jamieson and becomes his assistant. Struggles bring them closer together.

　　在柏林的一家大饭店里。那时整个德国笼罩着经济危机的阴影。在豪华的大饭店里麇集许多来自不同阶层的人物。其中有陷入困境而避风头的财界巨擘普莱辛格，无奈色衰而想自尽的芭蕾舞演员格鲁辛斯卡娅，被赌博弄得倾家荡产而偷窃为生的旧男爵冯盖根，普莱辛格的旧属风烛残年的孤老克林格兰，以及年轻漂亮但贪婪自私的速记员弗兰苓等。
　　这部第5届奥斯卡最佳影片是米高梅在30年代初期首创“全明星电影”的代表作。全片以柏林的一家豪华大饭店为人生舞台，表现五组人物在同一天之中的离奇遭遇。叙事手法虽然中规中矩，但几位大明星的表演却相当精彩，充分掌握角色的个性和处境，其中有：面临事业危机的俄国芭蕾舞女星、嗜赌的男爵、患上绝症的小人物、企业家等。这些角色以三线交错的方式上演着人生的悲欢离合，剧情发展流畅，场景虽然局限在大饭店中，但人物穿梭流动自然。故事在后来的《柏林饭店》（Hotel Berlin）和《琼楼风月》（Weekend at the Waldorf）中再度出现，并被改编成百老汇歌舞剧。

　　一场意外让中国女孩莲花（黄柳霜 饰）结识了美国人艾伦（肯尼斯·哈兰 Kenneth Harlan 饰），艾伦刚刚从一场可怕的海难中死里逃生，善良的莲花收留并且不离不弃的照顾着艾伦，随着时间的推移，两人渐渐走到了一起。莲花一心希望艾伦在痊愈之后能够对带她回美国，但是家庭的变故让艾伦无法顾及莲花，匆匆的回国了。
　　艾伦走后，莲花才发现自己的腹中怀上了他的孩子，莲花决定不顾众人的反对和奚落，生下孩子独自抚养，在此过程中，莲花给艾伦写过无数封信，但都石沉大海。终于，艾伦再度出现在了莲花的眼前，可是和他一起出现的，还有艾伦的妻子。

　　Two differences between this Austrian version and the generally available American version are immediately obvious: they differ both in their length and in the language of the intertitles. The American version is only 1,883 metres long - at 18 frames per second a difference of some 7 minutes to the Austrian version with 2,045 metres. Whereas we originally presumed only a negligible difference, resulting from the varying length of the intertitles, a direct comparison has nevertheless shown that the Austrian version differs from the American version both in the montage and in the duration of individual scenes. Yet how could it happen that the later regional distribution of a canonical US silent film was longer than the "original version"?
　　The prevalent American version of Blind Husbands does not correspond to the version shown at the premiere of 1919. This little-known fact was already published by Richard Koszarski in 1983. The film was re-released by Universal Pictures in 1924, in a version that was 1,365 feet (416 metres) shorter. At 18 frames per second, this amounts to a time difference of 20 minutes! "Titles were altered, snippets of action removed and at least one major scene taken out entirely, where von Steuben and Margaret visit a small local chapel." (Koszarski)
　　From the present state of research we can assume that all the known American copies of the film derive from this shortened re-release version, a copy of which Universal donated to the Museum of Modern Art in 1941. According to Koszarski the original negative of the film was destroyed sometime between 1956 and 1961 and has therefore been irretrievably lost. This information casts an interesting light on the Austrian version, which can be dated to the period between the summer of 1921 and the winter of 1922. Furthermore, the copy is some 200 metres longer than the US version of 1924. If one follows the details given by Richard Koszarski and Arthur Lennig, this means that, as far as both its date and its length are concerned, the Austrian version lies almost exactly in the middle between the (lost) version shown at the premiere and the re-released one.A large part of the additional length of the film can be traced to cuts that were made to the 1924 version in almost every shot. Koszarski describes how the beginning and the end of scenes were trimmed, in order to "speed up" the film. However, more exciting was the discovery that the Austrian version contains shots that are missing in the American one - shots/countershots, intertitles - and furthermore shows differences in its montage (i.e. the placing of the individual shots within a sequence). All this indicates that Die Rache der Berge constitutes the oldest and most completely preserved material of the film.

　　Celestine, the chambermaid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man. But Mr Lanlaire is not a right choice: all the house is firmly controlled by Mme Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, ex-officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive, and does not share his mother's anti-republicans opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and also Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity ? Will sinister and inflexible Joseph let his views upon Celestine be ruined ? A quite disillusioned depiction of humanity.

　　洛拉（琳达·达内尔 Linda Darnell 饰）同老板波特（保罗·道格拉斯 Paul Douglas 饰）结了婚，婚后，洛拉才发现波特对自己的海誓山盟全是谎言，他不过将自己当做了摇钱树。瑞塔（Ann Sothern饰）则要强悍的多，凭借着剧本写作收入不菲，甚至快要赶上了丈夫乔治（柯克·道格拉斯 Kirk Douglas 饰）。洛拉（琳达·达内尔 Linda Darnell 饰）拥有过人的美貌，却依然生活在怀疑和困惑之中。 某日，三位太太带着孩子们正在野餐，一封未写收件人的信不期而至，写信的是名叫艾迪（西莱斯特·霍姆 Celeste Holm 饰）的女人，信上说她即将和三位太太其中一位的丈夫远走高飞，而三个女人却并不知道究竟是谁被背叛了。

　　琼（贝蒂·戴维斯 Bette Davis 饰）是衔着金汤匙出生的千金小姐，她的生活虽然富足，但并不快乐，因为她缺少一样东西，那就是自由。一次偶然中，琼邂逅了名为艾伦（杰克·卡森 Jack Carson 饰）的乐队指挥，琼一下子被他的风度翩翩给吸引了，两人火速发生了关系，并且决定私奔结婚。
　　女儿的失踪令琼的父亲感到非常的着急，他找来了技术十分了得的飞机师史蒂夫（詹姆斯·卡格尼 James Cagney 饰），委托他驾驶飞机将自己的女儿带回德州。哪知道琼误以为史蒂夫是绑架犯，千方百计的想要从飞机上逃走，闹出了一连串的笑话。祸不单行，在沙漠上空，史蒂夫的飞机发生了故障，一行人被迫降落在了茫茫的沙海之中。

　　当年以演侠盗著称的动作巨星埃罗尔·弗林饰演绰号“海鹰”的英国海盗船长，在17世纪英国与西班牙作战时下令击沉了法国大使乘坐的军舰，并自行放走在舰上当奴工的一群英国俘虏，因而惹祸上身，但也因为他的正义和勇敢而赢得大使千金的爱情。

　　故事发生在1900年的美国南方，瑞吉娜（贝蒂·戴维斯 Bette Davis 饰）和她的兄弟们都以贪婪而著称，他们决定合伙投资一个工厂项目，这个项目可以给他们带来巨额财富，却对当地居民无益甚至是压榨。由于瑞吉娜并没有足够多的钱，于是她将目标放到了自己的丈夫霍勒斯（赫伯特·马歇尔 Herbert Marshall 饰）的身上，派出了二人的独女亚历珊德拉（特雷莎·怀特 Teresa Wright 饰）请回了因重病在外地疗养的霍勒斯。 然而霍勒斯识破了瑞吉娜的用意，拒绝了投资，而她贪婪的兄弟们竟因此铤而走险。

　　马奇夫人（劳拉·邓恩 Laura Dern 饰）有着四个如花似玉的女儿，大女儿梅格（艾玛·沃森 Emma Watson 饰）拥 有着美丽的外表，和对于爱情的天真憧憬。二女儿乔（西尔莎·罗南 Saoirse Ronan 饰）满脑子塞着古灵精怪的念头，整天拿着蘸水笔东写西写，她的故事在全家上下都受到了热烈的欢迎。三女儿艾米（佛罗伦斯·珀 Florence Pugh 饰）渴望成为一名画家。最小的女儿贝斯（伊莱扎·斯坎伦 Eliza Scanlen 饰）虽然个性比起三个姐姐要来的内向的多，却拥有杰出的音乐天赋。
　　在马奇夫人的教导之下，四个姑娘渐渐成长为了拥有独立人格的杰出女性，她们热情、乐观、善良，每个人都在各自的道路上坚强而又坚定的前进着。