上世纪70年代初，与家人音讯全无隔绝多年的劳改犯陆焉识（陈道明 饰）在一次农场转迁途中逃跑回家。这对怀抱芭蕾舞梦想的女儿丹丹（张慧雯 饰）带来了巨大压力，她阻止母亲冯婉瑜（巩俐 饰）与父亲的相见。因此夫妻二人近在咫尺却又相隔天涯。文革结束后，陆焉识终于平反回家，但是他却发现女儿早已放弃了芭蕾的梦想成了一名工厂女工，而深爱的妻子因为患病已经不认识自己。深厚的感情、生活的变故，迫使陆焉识做出了对他来说最荒唐却又最合理的人生选择……
　　本片是张艺谋导演加盟乐视影业后的第一部作品，被编剧邹静之誉为苦心之作。

　　A heartbroken Christmas-tree salesman returns to New York City hoping to put his past behind him. Living in a trailer and working the night shift, he begins to spiral downwards until the saving of a mysterious woman and some colorful customers rescue him from self-destruction.

　　此为一部揭露电影圈内幕电影的杰作，对好莱坞的批判一针见血。影片由三段故事组成，均围绕着大制作片家柯克．道格拉斯的身边发生，三段戏的主角分别是拉娜．特纳演的女明星、迪克．鲍威尔演的编剧和巴里．沙利文演的导演。力图东山再起的大制片家道格拉斯制作的下一部巨片要求他们三人参一脚，三人一齐到片厂等候他的电话作决定。就在等候的过程中，三人分别回忆他们跟大制片家之间因爱生恨的关系，从而描绘了这位影坛大亨的真面目。本片剧本结构严谨，导演文森特．明尼里指导演员和处理气氛均相当了出色，曾获五项奥斯卡金像奖。

　　It has been said that most great twentieth century novels include scenes in a hotel, a symptom of the vast uprooting that has occurred in the last century: James Ivory begins Quartet with a montage of the hotels of Montparnasse, a quiet prelude before our introduction to the violently lost souls who inhabit them.
　　Adapted from the 1928 autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is the story of a love quadrangle between a complicated young West Indian woman named Marya (played by Isabelle Adjani), her husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins), a manipulative English art patron named Heidler (Alan Bates), and his painter wife Lois (Maggie Smith). The film is set in the Golden Age of Paris, Hemingway's "moveable feast" of cafe culture and extravagant nightlife, glitter and literati: yet underneath is the outline of something sinister beneath the polished brasses and brasseries.
　　When Marya's husband is put in a Paris prison on charges of selling stolen art works, she is left indigent and is taken in by Heidler and his wife: the predatory Englishman (whose character Rhys bases on the novelist Ford Madox Ford) is quick to take advantage of the new living arrangement, and Marya finds herself in a stranglehold between husband and wife. Lovers alternately gravitate toward and are repelled by each other, now professing their love, now confessing their brutal indifference -- all the while keeping up appearances. The film explores the vast territory between the "nice" and the "good," between outward refinement and inner darkness: after one violent episode, Lois asks Marya not to speak of it to the Paris crowd. "Is that all you're worried about?" demands an outraged Marya. "Yes," Lois replies with icy candor, "as a matter of fact."
　　Adjani won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her performances in Quartet: her Marya is a volatile compound of French schoolgirl and scorned mistress, veering between tremulous joy and hysterical outburst. Smith shines in one of her most memorable roles: she imbues Lois with a Katherine-of-Aragon impotent rage, as humiliated as she is powerless in the face of her husband's choices. Her interactions with Bates are scenes from a marriage that has moved from disillusionment to pale acceptance.
　　Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory's screenplay uses Rhys's novel as a foundation from which it constructs a world that is both true to the novel and distinctive in its own right, painting a society that has lost its inhibitions and inadvertently lost its soul. We are taken to mirrored cafes, then move through the looking glass: Marya, in one scene, is offered a job as a model and then finds herself in a sadomasochistic pornographer's studio. The film, as photographed by Pierre Lhomme, creates thoroughly cinematic moments that Rhy's novel could not have attempted: in one of the Ivory's most memorable scenes, a black American chanteuse (extraordinarily played by Armelia McQueen) entertains Parisian patrons with a big and brassy jazz song, neither subtle nor elegant. Ivory keeps the camera on the singer's act: there is something in her unguarded smile that makes the danger beneath Montparnasse manners seem more acute.

　　20世纪30年代，20岁的张乃莹（汤唯 饰）逃婚求学，却惨遭抛弃。投靠未婚夫汪恩甲（袁文康 饰）后的张乃莹依然躲不开被抛弃的命运，好在遇到了在报社工作的进步青年萧军（冯绍峰 饰），两人相知相爱。通过萧军张乃莹认识了女编辑白朗（田原 饰）、罗峰（祖峰 饰）夫妻以及聂绀弩（王千源 饰）等文学作家，改名“萧红”后的她得到了鲁迅（王志文 饰）、许广平（丁嘉丽 饰）夫妇的首肯，随后又结识了了胡风（冯雷 饰）、梅志（袁泉 饰）夫妇、蒋锡金（张译 饰）、丁玲（郝蕾 饰）、端木蕻良（朱亚文 饰）等人，在同时代作家的互相鼓励之下，虽然战事不断、颠沛流离，萧红却逐步走向了创作的“黄金时代”。

为了完成母亲的遗愿，莉娜在罗马度过大学开始前的暑假。她在那里发现了浪漫和奇遇，也迷上了意式冰淇淋。

赵刚和岩洁都是上山下乡的知青，赵刚来自北京的艺术团的帅气小伙，而岩洁是来自内蒙古的美丽豪爽的姑娘，俩人都热爱音乐，...

　　故事发生在16世纪的法国农村，马丁（伯纳德-皮亚里·唐纳狄欧 Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu 饰）是一个整天无所事事游手好闲的男人，有一天，他突然抛弃了妻子贝特朗德（娜塔莉·贝伊 Nathalie Baye 饰）和两个可爱的孩子，就此下落不明。
　　一晃眼7年过去，马丁既没有出现过，贝特朗德亦没有收到他的死讯。和他的突然失踪一样，一天，马丁又再度现身了。马丁告诉贝特朗德，这些年来他一直在帮助法国国王南征北伐，而让贝特朗德感到不可思议的是，马丁的行为举止仿佛变了一个人似的，温文尔雅又勤劳肯干。虽然村里的人都认为这个马丁是个冒牌货，但贝特朗德却坚信，这就是她七年前失踪的丈夫。

　　少女葛利叶（斯嘉丽•约翰逊 Scarlett Johansson 饰）家境贫寒，于是来到画家维梅尔（科林•费尔斯 Colin Firth 饰）家做女佣。维梅尔和妻子、岳母一起生活，她们常常摆出颐指气使的神情，妻子对正当青春的葛利叶更是戒心重重。在非常苛刻和压抑的氛围下，葛利叶在维梅尔家过得卑躬屈膝。
　　维梅尔的画带给了她一点生活的乐趣。她收拾主人画室的时候，流露出了对艺术的天分。她跟维梅尔谈论对画的理解，二人的交心让彼此的情意慢慢滋长。葛利叶知道不可能与维梅尔修得正果，但她愿意做模特奉献给维梅尔作画。她默默地，忍受着维梅尔给她的耳朵打上洞，戴上他妻子的珍珠耳环，画出这一刻的窒息的美丽。

　　国王被刺杀身亡之后，王后（莫尼卡·维蒂 Monica Vitti 饰）就一直生活在悲痛之中，一晃眼就是十年过去。这十年里，阴谋家门从来就没有放弃过对于王位的觊觎之心，一直想方设法将王后从王座上赶下来，这样你攻我守的日子令王后感到非常的疲惫。
　　一天，一个陌生男人闯进了王宫，让王后震惊的是，他竟然有着和国王十分相似的外表，原来，这名男子叫塞巴斯蒂安（佛朗哥·班塞罗里 Franco Branciaroli 饰），他受人蛊惑，企图前来刺杀王后。塞巴斯蒂安并不知道，死亡对于王后来说无异于是一种褒奖，王后超脱的态度令塞巴斯蒂安对其一见钟情，打消了杀死王后的念头。

Anartistishiredbyanightclubownertopaintaportraitofhisbeautifulwife.Whentheartistandwifefallinlove,thenightclubowner'sjealousyeruptsinviolence.Tosavethemselves,theloversaredriventoattempthismurder.