四个女人分别嫁给了四兄弟。一个夏天在等待丈夫回家休假的过程中，四人分别述说了各自的婚姻状况。一个因自己红杏出墙引致与丈夫争吵，一个在巴黎与一个艺术家相恋并有了孩子但却拒绝结婚，一个讲述了夫妻俩被困电梯的故事，最后一个则要与情人男友私奔。　　伯格曼用室内剧的形式将女人们内心的秘密一一暴露出来，然而影片也强调这并不能减轻她们的压力和痛苦。这样的分享带来的只是苦难的交流和更难言的秘密。

赫伯特的女朋友离开他之后，赫伯特非常沮丧，开始找工作。他终于在一个大房子里找到了一个，里面住着许多女人。他能和所有这些女人住在同一个家吗？

婚姻失败的理查德（约翰•豪克斯 饰）与艺术家克里斯蒂娜（米兰达•朱莱 饰）被命运牵扯到了一起。尽管理查德因为婚姻的失败变得性格怪异，难以相处，另一方面儿子们的存在成为他努力生活的动力。克里斯蒂娜则有自己的艺术梦想，她是个前卫、天马行空的人，她希望自己的作品能被众人认同。两人的背景大相径庭，理查德还是被迷人的克里斯蒂娜深深吸引了，可是当他们走在一起后需要共同面对理查德的儿子们——14岁的彼得与7岁的罗比。这两名孩子都有着自己不为人知的一面，理查德极力了解自己的儿子们，成为儿子的榜样，但总是不得要领。　　一重重复杂的人际关系，理查德与克里斯蒂娜将如何面对？

咪咪屡屡在女孩团体里冲突闯祸，乐可却总困惑于自己能够爱谁。即将迎来一场大赛的艾玛苦练多年滑冰，却始终无法克服最难的招式。在即将到来的三个礼拜中，三人仿佛经历一场场摇晃又旋转的时光。做爱与恋爱、相聚或分离、交心或冷战，不间断地演练与挫折，宛如踩进一个不时短路的青春循环。　　芬兰导演艾莉．哈帕塞洛以周记式的叙事结构，探究女孩成长过程中，时而直率、时而反复不安的情感特色，直接却不带批判。透过灵动的摄影与乐曲，将少女独有的亲密和芥蒂描摹得淋漓尽致。三个年轻演员各有鲜明个性，幽微投射欲望、亲子与人际难题，一次次将观众抛向点餐台、溜冰场、派对舞池，与城市的寂寥黑夜。随着影片起舞，仿似也重新回味了青春时代的温度和或许未完成的人生轨迹。　　Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö want to live adventurous lives, loaded with experiences and passion. Emma, on the contrary, has given her whole life to figure skating. Nothing gets between her and success. But when the girls meet, life opens whole new paths, and they all rocket in new directions. While Mimmi and Emma experience the earth moving effects of first love, Rönkkö is on a quest to find pleasure. Three Fridays is all it takes to turn their worlds upside down.　　It kind of became my mission to depict girls in a much more complex and realistic way than we are used to seeing in cinema. And to create a film where girls are valued as exactly who they are. – Alli Haapasalo

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)

爱丽丝（艾伦·波斯蒂恩 Ellen Burstyn 饰）是一名全职太太，多年在家相夫教子，过着平静幸福的生活，然而，某日，她的丈夫在一场意外中去世了，带着十一岁的儿子汤米（阿尔弗雷德·卢特三世 Alfred Lutter III 饰），这对母子不得不步入冷酷的社会，开始为两人的未来打拼。　　年轻的时候，爱丽丝热爱唱歌，如今，她带着汤米来到了一座小城定居，在酒吧卖唱。某日，爱丽丝遇见了名为本（哈威·凯特尔 Harvey Keitel 饰）的男人，强壮自信的本唤醒了爱丽丝内心压抑已久的感情，就在她以为幸福的生活将要来临之时，却发现自己不过是坠入了另一个噩梦之中，面对接连而来的挫折，爱丽丝还能够坚强的生活下去吗？

黛比（瑞茜·威瑟斯彭饰）和彼得（阿什顿·库彻饰）是最好的朋友，但性格却截然不同。黛比渴望和儿子在洛杉矶过着普通生活；彼得则在不断变化的纽约奋力拼搏。他们决定交换房子并体验彼此的生活，一周后，他们发现自己向往的一切可能并不是内心真正需要的东西。

乔（劳伦斯·哈维 Laurence Harvey 饰）出身卑微，为此，他一直感到十分自卑。可是，这样的乔却偏偏爱上了大企业家的女儿苏珊（海瑟·西尔斯 Heather Sears 饰），身份的巨大悬殊令这段感情注定得不到祝福。为了阻止这段感情，苏珊的父亲为苏珊安排了同她门当户对的结婚对象，乔为此感到万分屈辱。　　美艳的女演员爱丽丝（西蒙·西涅莱 Simone Signoret 饰）出现在了乔的身边，两人的关系逐渐亲密，可这任然无法填补乔内心的空虚。乔深知身份和地位的重要，为此，他重新回到了苏珊的身边，希望能够借此挤入上流社会，最终，苏珊的父亲拗不过女儿的执着，答应了这门婚事。惨遭抛弃的爱丽丝失去了全部的希望，与一场意外中不幸身亡。

随着她母亲的去世和痛苦的离婚，安妮和她的女儿搬回她童年的家。起初一切似乎很好，但悲剧再次发生时，在一个雾蒙蒙的晚上，艾米丽失踪了从她的卧室。安妮声称她从黑暗中看到了什么东西，并带走了艾米丽……一个生物。

威廉·夏特纳和伦纳德·尼莫伊2001年为纪念DeKelley拍的纪录片，整部就是两个人对话，超级有爱，两位爷爷唠家常的纪录片，看到最后谈到两个人关于人生终点的看法，WS和LN一同坐在LN家里的院子里，晴空微风，绿树绿草，两位老人时而大笑时而严肃的交谈，让人感觉甜蜜又感动，这是ST所延伸的又一份美好。是经历了岁月越发耀眼的珍宝。