刚刚搬到伦敦的托尼(詹姆斯·福克斯 James Fox 饰)雇佣了名为巴雷特(德克·博加德 Dirk Bogarde 饰)的男子作为家中的仆人,将家里上下大大小小的一切事物交给他打理,聪明肯干的巴雷特没有让托尼失望,很快便获得了主人的信任。 托尼的女友苏珊(温蒂·克雷格 Wendy Craig 饰)并不喜欢巴雷特,因为她隐约察觉到,托尼和巴雷特的妹妹薇拉(莎拉·米尔斯 Sarah Miles 饰)之间有着说不清道不明的暧昧关系。之后,托尼震惊的发现原来薇拉系巴雷特的情人,深感受到欺骗的托尼解雇了巴雷特。一次偶然中,托尼和巴雷特在一间小酒馆重逢了,他们重新建立了主仆关系,但这表面平和的关系里实则充满了刀光剑影。
He is 30 and just got out of jail after 12 years of detention. She is almost 24 and has a simple life away from the city. One day, he comes to her and she let him stay with her. That's complicated when your older brother needs to get back to a normal life. Between tenderness and bursts of laughter, his anger is sometimes out of control. However, she wants to help him. As for him, he wants to meets with his sister again.
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division of Poland under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
After the death of his wife, an 80-year-old man checks into the Plaza Hotel to celebrate their first anniversary apart, hiring a male escort to take her place.
Late sixteenth century. A Tameme Indian man and a noble Spanish woman flee through the forests of the New World in search of freedom. Their frantic journey softens the tension between them and dissolves their longstanding differences and creates intimate bonds that threaten their very survival.