因杀人而入狱的塞勒（尼古拉斯•凯奇 Nicolas Cage 饰）终于熬过几年铁窗生涯获释了，心上人罗拉（劳拉•邓恩 Laura Dern 饰）迎接了他的出狱。有情人又得以团聚，但罗拉的母亲玛丽一直都不喜欢塞勒，一直在阻挠女儿和塞勒来往。两人只好相约私奔，来到了南方。
　　玛丽找来了侦探男友约翰尼追踪他们，企图将罗拉带回去。两人在私奔过程中，都向对方袒露了自己生活中曾经有过的阴暗岁月，那些岁月里都混杂着血腥、暴力和性，但他们都充分体谅了对方。塞勒此时正为一个毒品贩子桑托干活，桑托怕约翰尼因跟踪塞勒而发现他们的交易场所，因此将约翰尼干掉了。另一个毒贩鲍比为了除掉塞勒，设了一个圈套正等待着塞勒上钩。

　　Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson
　　If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.
　　[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.
　　To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.
　　More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.
　　(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)
　　In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.
　　(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)
　　I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.
　　(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)
　　See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)

比尔（布鲁斯·威利斯 Bruce Willis 饰）是一名心理医生，这个特殊的职业让他接触过许多精神抑郁生活压抑的病人，他们的压力在无形之中也转嫁到了比尔的身上，终于，当病人蜜雪儿（Kathleen Wilhoite 饰）在比尔眼前坠楼身亡后，比尔意识到，休息的时间到了。
　　沮丧的比尔决定去找老友鲍勃（斯科特·巴库拉 Scott Bakula 饰）叙叙旧，不幸的是，在两人见面后没多久，鲍勃便被某个凶徒残忍的谋杀了，丝状可怖。为了查明老友死亡的真相，比尔展开了缜密的调查，在此过程中，一个名叫罗丝（珍·玛奇 Jane March 饰）的神秘女子浮出了水面，然而比尔不知道的是，当他逐步接近真相的同时，危险也在接近着他。

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　　泽德期待着获得体育奖学金，而艾迪生正在为西布鲁克的国际助威比赛做准备。然后，突然，外星生物出现在西布鲁克周围，这不仅仅是友好的竞争。

　　当她考虑放弃她的艺术梦想时，杰米画了一个视觉板，带来她的成功和爱-但发现，她画中的神秘人不是她所想的。

　　盖瑞（文斯•沃恩 饰）在球场上遇见了布鲁克（詹妮弗•安妮斯顿 饰）并对她一见钟情。两人很快同居了。不久两人就在各种生活的琐碎事情中矛盾重重，艺术家气质的布鲁克看不惯盖瑞的不拘小节，矛盾再一次升级，布鲁克提出分手。
　　由于房子是共同的财产，他们都没有搬离房子。布鲁克不断约会帅气的男孩，盖瑞也把屋子弄得乌烟瘴气，更带脱衣女郎回家，但彼此心中还是爱着对方。在朋友的劝解下，他们出售了房子，并要在两个星期之内搬走。
　　凡事粗心的盖瑞终于在与朋友的聊天中得知了布鲁克的真实想法，当他想布鲁克剖白心意的时候，却遭到了布鲁克的拒绝……

　　三十年代的德州，女教师兼新秀作家普莱丝跟傲慢自大的流行小说作家罗伯特．霍华德产生了一段执迷不悔的爱情。霍华曾写过《王者之剑》等畅销书，成功令他感到困扰。而普莱丝年轻漂亮，个性也独立倔强，两人碰在一起竟产生了电光火石的效果 ，两个爱好幻想的作家，经常把他们的梦想和真实情况搞乱了。

　　在本片中，罗依德扮演一名百货公司的店员。该公司为了商业宣传，请了一位特技演员前来表演从楼下爬到大楼屋顶的绝技，不料那位特技演员途中与交通警员发生了纠纷而无法赶到。百货公司为了向围观的群众有所交代，只好由罗依德权充演员，在众目睽睽之下表演特技。

确定恋爱关系一年后，凯莉和约瑟夫为了旧金山的家族企业离开农场，两人也即将步入婚姻殿堂

　　Richard Fleischer repeatedly turned down Dino De Laurentiis' overtures to direct the film. He ultimately relented when he realized that the best way to make the film was to shoot it straight and tell the story as truthfully as he could.

特拉维斯（本杰明·沃克BenjaminWalker饰）与加比（泰莉莎·帕尔墨TeresaPalmer饰）在海边的一个寂静小镇上毗邻而居，两人在接触中越来越依赖彼此，渐渐发展出一段刻骨铭心的爱情故事。

　　蒂莉•加德纳（英迪娅·埃斯利 India Eisley 饰）的父母在一次坠机事故中丧生，这使得她萎靡不振。而南塔克特岛的司机尼科（K·J·阿帕 K.J. Apa 饰）的出现改变了这一切，并使得蒂莉与其坠入了爱河。但随着与尼科的相处，蒂莉渐渐发现他的身份似乎并不简单，并且与导致蒂莉父母双亡的坠机事件有着千丝万缕的联系。而另一方面。一心为蒂莉父亲复仇的联邦调查局探员坎特雷尔（詹姆斯·瑞马尔 James Remar 饰）的介入使得事情变得更加复杂。在南塔克特岛上，一场危机似乎蓄势待发......

　　爱斯米兰达是一个性格活泼热情似火的吉普赛女郎，生性善良的她赢得了许多人的赞美和喜爱。巴黎圣母院的神父克洛德觊觎爱斯米兰达的美貌已久，终于按奈不住派出手下样貌丑陋的撞钟人卡西莫多，将爱斯米兰达强行掠夺至巴黎圣母院，谁知道半途杀出了英俊勇敢的上尉菲比斯，后者令爱斯米兰达一见倾心。
　　菲比斯遭到了蒙面歹徒的袭击，而爱斯米兰达居然成为了罪魁祸首。爱斯米兰达被判处绞刑，在行刑之前，卡西莫多救走了身陷囹圄的爱斯米兰达，将她藏到了巴黎圣母院之内。起初，爱斯米兰达对卡西莫多充满了戒备，但随着时间的推移，她渐渐了解到，在卡西莫多丑陋的外表下，隐藏这一颗金子一样的心。

“石油大亨”讲述的是吉姆·麦克尼利的故事，他是一个在1939年闯入充满活力而残酷的西德克萨斯油田的年轻人，在队伍中努力工作，最终成为了一个强大的冒险者

乔治（詹姆斯•斯图尔特 James Stewart 饰）在圣诞节前准备自杀，这时上帝传来旨意，派天使拯救他，并让他了解到自己一生的使命——拯救那些不幸的人。乔治小时候左耳有疾，在贝德福德镇上的一家药店...

韩素瑛在丈夫于战争中身亡后，便在香港一家医院当医生，偶然在鸡尾酒会里认识美国新闻记者马克，才又尝到了恋爱的滋味。当两人正陶醉于爱情时，朝鲜战争爆发，马克也被派往战区工作，却从此一去不回

　　佐莎·马梅特、斯科特·斯比德曼出演奇幻爱情电影[幽灵女孩](Shadow Girl，暂译)。作品由克劳迪娅·迈克斯自编自导。女孩霍莉在其母亲去世后，身体逐渐变得隐形，她作为狗仔摄影记者在阴影中生活了十余年，直到遇见了一个落魄的前MMA综合格斗冠军，而这个男人是唯一能看见她的人。