故事发生在二十世纪初的墨西哥革命中。一辆长途马车里，视频高贵的先生女士们对一位沉默寡言的农民大放厥词，视频然而突然农民摇身一变，显出家庭式匪帮头目胡安（Rod Steiger 饰）的真面目。胡安打劫后路遇爱尔兰革命军爆破专家约翰（James Coburn 饰），后者的爆破能力令抢劫梅萨维德银行如探囊取物，于是胡安苦苦尾随，不经意间却卷入了配合维拉革命军的梅萨维德暴动。胡安如愿与约翰搭档洗劫银行，但他所有的收获却是解放150名政治犯人。政府军上校刚特率军镇压革命，胡安与革命队伍付出了惨痛的代价。在逆境中，约翰与胡安产生了真正的革命情谊，二人在前往美国的路上折返阻击刚特上校，当约翰中弹之时，这位老战士看到了昔日在爱尔兰的温馨场景……本片获1972年意大利大卫奖最佳导演奖。
张栋梁
回复 :一个菜鸟女警在自己职业生涯的首天被分配到一个即将关闭的警局独自执勤最后一晚，原本充满期待的工作变成了一个活生生的噩梦。。。
满文军
回复 :在回家的途中，一位商人（瓦克拉·沃斯卡 Václav Voska 饰）遭遇了罕见的暴风雪，昏天黑地之中，商人误打误撞来到了一幢豪华神秘的城堡前。商人在城堡中受到了贵宾般的优厚待遇，但直到最后，商人仍然不知道城堡的主人究竟是谁。暴风雪停歇了，商人准备离开，临走之前，他决定在花园中摘一朵玫瑰送给自己最喜爱的小女儿贝儿（兹德娜·斯图登科娃 Zdena Studenková 饰），而令他没有想到的是，长相狰狞的野兽（Vlastimil Harapes 饰）出现在了他的面前向他索命。商人失魂落魄的回到了家，将自己的遭遇告诉了六个儿女，爱父心切的贝儿决定代替父亲，只身来到了城堡。然而，等待着贝儿的却并非死亡，而是更加盛情的款待，野兽对她唯一的要求，就是不要离开城堡半步。贝儿并不惧怕野兽，随着时间的推移，两人之间的关系越来越近。
林柔均
回复 :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.
