Three idiots 三傻大闹宝莱坞

Farhan, Raju, and Rancho are three engineering students who share a room in a hostel at the Imperial College of Engineering. Farhan is studying engineering to pursue his father's wishes over his own — to become a wildlife photographer. Raju is studying to raise his family's fortunes while Rancho, driven by his passion for machines and devices, studies for joy of it. However, due to this different approach Rancho incurs the wrath of dean of college, Professor Viru "Virus". Virus labels Rancho and his friends as "idiots" and attempts on a number of occasions to break up their friendship. Meanwhile, Rancho falls in love with Virus' daughter Pia and infuriates Virus.

Ten years later, having lost contact with Rancho, Raju and Farhan begin a journey to find him. When they find Rancho's house in Shimla, they find a completely different Rancho. From him they come to know that their friend was a destitute servant boy "Chhote" who loved learning, while he, the real Rancho, disliked study. The family agreed to let the servant boy study in Rancho's place. In return, the real Rancho would pocket the qualifications and after graduating, the servant boy will cease all contact. The real Rancho reveals that Chhote is now a school-teacher in Ladakh. Raju and Farhan find Pia and arrive in Rancho’s school. Pia and the fake Rancho rekindle their love.

法涵、拉朱和兰彻是共住一室的皇家工程学院学生。法涵迫于父亲压力就读工程学校，但他的兴趣是动物摄影，拉朱则是为了改变家中命运而读书，兰彻则是因为对机械装置的热爱而读书。皇家工程学院是一所印度传统的名校，这里检验学生的唯一标准就只有第一（指成绩）！成绩不好就意味着没有未来！而兰彻却不随波逐流，他用他的善良、开朗、幽默和智慧影响着周围的人。他用所学的物理知识来教训野蛮的学长，他用智慧打破了学院墨守成规的传统观念。最后他用智慧成为了印度科学界的一位天才科学家（具有400项专利），他实现了自己的梦想，也做回了真正的自己。而法涵和拉朱也分别成为野生动物摄影家和工程师。

推荐理由：习惯了印度电影的唱歌跳舞情景，这一影片展示的印度学校生活让人耳目一新。同时看着三位主角的追梦旅程，你一定会深受感动。追求卓越，成功就会在不经意间追上你……

The Shawshank Redemption 刺激1995 （这一译名不太常见，《肖申克的救赎》这一译名大家应该更熟悉了。）

Andy Dufresne, a mild mannered New England banker, is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. Despised at first by the other inmates because of his introverted manner, Andy slowly forges an unlikely friendship with Red, a seasoned lifer and his gang. Soon, Andy also becomes popular with the prison guards, including the vicious Captain Hadley who offers him protection against the jail's rougher convicts in exchange for financial counseling. The prison warden also takes advantage of Andy's banking knowledge by exchanging privileges for creative bookkeeping. Over a twenty year period, Andy is able to maintain his sanity and dignity in prison not by physical force but by mental force. His smarts and confidence keep him going and he is able to teach the other prisoners that hope is the ultimate means of survival.

1946年，年轻的银行家安迪被冤枉杀了他的妻子和其情人，这意味着他要在肖申克的监狱渡过余生。在那里Andy结交了朋友瑞德。

银行家出身的安迪很快就在监狱里很吃得开，他懂得如何帮助狱卒逃税，懂得如何帮监狱长将他收到的非法收入“洗白”，很快，安迪就成为了狱长的私人助理。虚伪的狱长杀死可以证明安迪无罪的小偷，只因他想安迪一直留在监狱帮他做帐。

后来安迪通过自己的救赎获得自由，同时也让其他犯人明白希望是获得救赎的唯一途径。

推荐理由：才华、毅力两样，是任何人在任何境况下得到自由的最佳通途。

The Butterfly Effect 蝴蝶效应

Evan Treborn has lost track of time. From an early age, crucial moments of his life have disappeared into a black hole of forgetting, his boyhood marred by a series of terrifying events he can't remember. What remains is the ghost of memory and the broken lives around him--the lives of his childhood friends, Kayleigh, Lenny and Tommy. Throughout his childhood, Evan was under the care of a psychologist who encouraged him to keep a journal, detailing the events of his day-to-day life. Now in college, Evan reads from one of his journals and finds himself thrust suddenly, inexplicably back in time. He comes to realize that the notebooks he keeps under his bed are a vehicle by which he can return to the past and reclaim his memories. But these recollections only leave Evan feeling responsible for the damaged lives of his friends, most crucially that of Kayleigh, his childhood sweetheart who he continued to love into adulthood. Determined to do something now that he was incapable of doing then, Evan purposely travels back in time, his present-day mind occupying his childhood body, in an attempt to re-write history and spare his friends and loved ones these traumatic experiences.

伊万曾经有一个糟糕的童年，因为他的行为闯下了大祸，令他童年充满不堪回忆的往事。而事实上，他患有间歇性失忆症，确实只依稀记得一点可怕的情景，这些情景一直纠缠着他的正常生活。伊万接受心理学家建议，把琐碎生活记在记事本里，却偶然发现通过记事本回到过去。

这时他才清楚记起，童年时候的自己做了那么多的错事。他幻想着用现在的意识，潜入童年的身体，去弥补种种过失给人们带来的伤害，尤其是希望与当年暗恋的凯西最终走回一起。然而他一次次的跨越时空的更改，只能越来越招致现实世界的不可救药。一切就像蝴蝶效应般，牵一发而动全身。

推荐理由：“过去”——既想回忆又想忘记，每个人都有过光辉或者黑暗的过去，都会对现实产生无形的影响。然而过去已成现实，后悔已然晚矣。

Be cool 一酷到底

Streetwise mobster-turned-movie producer Chili Palmer is back, but this time Chili has abandoned the fickle movie industry and veered into the music business, tangling with Russian mobsters and gangster rappers and taking a talented, feisty young singer named Linda Moon under his wing. From the recording studio to an Aerosmith concert to the MTV Music Awards, he manipulates events to watch them play out the Chili way, using his signature blend of wise guy skills and negotiation tactics. It’s a dangerous business and everyone’s looking for their next big hit.

奇利·帕尔默是昔日黑帮数一数二的人物可是品味的代言人，西装革履、风度翩翩的他早就金盆洗手，干起了艺术行当，如今的大佬已经是好莱坞知名的电影制片人。

最近，在好莱坞混烦了的奇利又打起了进军乐坛的主意。当然，大佬是一定不会自己出马的，在圈子里找个合适的搭档，力捧一位有潜力的新秀，奇利的如意算盘打得还不错。

很快，他不仅找到了搭档--刚刚接手亡夫唱片公司的艾迪，还搞定了长相甜美性感、很具音乐天赋的黑人新秀琳达，眼看奇利的音乐事业就风升水起了。可凡是总少不了周折，疯狂爱钱的琳达的经理人拉吉、拉吉那个令人闻风丧胆的强悍保镖、一伙俄罗斯的暴徒和曾经也混黑帮的音乐兼职全都成了奇利音乐事业的拦路虎。此时，奇利才明白音乐圈也并不是那么好混的，甚至比在黑社会中立足还要困难。于是，奇利开始动用了以前在“道上”的各种手段，艰难的进行着自己的事业。

推荐理由：剪辑紧凑，画面流畅，配乐一流，轻松不落俗套，看起来相当放松。

Front of the class 叫我第一名

A story of Brad Cohen, he is a man who overcomes incredible obstacles to become a gifted teacher.

When he was growing up, Brad started making funny noises - all the time. Only Brad (and his supportive mother) knew he couldn't control it. He was teased, misunderstood and punished for disrupting class. By the time he is diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome, Brad has learned to hate school. When an understanding school principal offers encouragement, amazingly, Brad decides to become a teacher - the teacher he never had. But who in their right mind would put someone with Tourette's in front of the class?

Even after 24 schools turned him down, Brad refused to give up. Discover what happens when one school finally gives him a chance. Brad Cohen's resilience and determination changed his life.

电影改编自Brad Cohen的真实故事。Brad Cohen是一位有妥瑞氏症的年轻人，他凭借着对人生的乐观心态与追求梦想的执着，如愿成为人们眼里妥瑞症不可能从事的职业—教师。

电影中的主人公的父亲一直把患有妥瑞症的他视为一个无法安静的顽劣小孩，无论在教室、棒球场、父亲讲话时，他都会无法控制的发出怪声，父亲如此，更何况周围人的眼光，为此，他的母亲不停地跟新的校方交涉关于儿子在课时影响他人的举动是否需要休课的问题，并带着儿子与其他的妥瑞症患者交流，结果总是非常的消极，幸好12岁的他就与母亲达成共识，懂得了要正常生活追求梦想的人生哲学。后来他遇见了改变他一生的校长，并让他更坚定了自己的教师梦想。

推荐理由：本片根据真人故事改编，它告诉我们，即使有伤害，爱依然能让我们成长，自强不息者终将征服世界。

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 两杆大烟枪

A collection of law-dodging characters in London are brought together by coincidence when a streetwise young man loses half-a-million pounds in a card game. He has a week to get together the money or face losing some fingers. Desperate, he and his friends decide to rip off a gang who are planning to rip off a bunch of ganja farmers. It is very simple except the drug dealers want their money back, as do the thieves, and now there are three sets of criminals after their blood.

艾迪思维敏捷，是个玩牌高手。在三个好友的支持下，艾迪携巨资参加了黑社会的高额赌局，不想落入圈套，欠下50万的赌债。为了还清赌债，艾迪和朋友们绞尽脑汁，最终算计到一群毒贩身上，并为打劫购买了两杆老式烟枪。

不想这群不安分的毒贩，正惦念着他们毒品供应商的钱，并在同一天实施了打劫。在毒贩们费劲周折，把毒品供应商熨的整整齐齐的钱款拿到手后，艾迪他们幸运的坐享其成。可是他们不知道，这看似简单的抢劫案背后，更有厉害的角色参与其中。他们手里的两杆破烟枪也隐藏着不少故事。在无知与莽撞中置身漩涡的他们能侥幸脱身么？

推荐理由：笑料迭出的偶发事件里，穿插着小人物与大人物的辛酸幽默。

The Ten Commandments 十诫

The story relates the life of Moses, from the time he was discovered in the bullrushes as an infant by the pharoah's daughter, to his long, hard struggle to free the Hebrews from their slavery at the hands of the Egyptians. Moses starts out "in solid" as Pharoah's adopted son, but when he discovers his true Hebrew heritage, he attempts to make life easier for his people. Banished by his jealous half-brother Rameses, Moses returns fully bearded to Pharoah's court, warning that he's had a message from God and that the Egyptians had better free the Hebrews post-haste if they know what's good for them. Only after the Deadly Plagues have decimated Egypt does Rameses give in. As the Hebrews reach the Red Sea, they discover that Rameses has gone back on his word and plans to have them all killed. But Moses rescues his people with a little Divine legerdemain by parting the Seas. Later, Moses is again confronted by God on Mt. Sinai, who delivers unto him the Ten Commandments. Meanwhile, the Hebrews, led by the duplicitous Dathan, are forgetting their religion and behaving like libertines. "Where's your Moses now?" brays Dathan in the manner of a Lower East Side gangster. He soon finds out. DeMille's The Ten Commandments may not be the most subtle and sophisticated entertainment ever concocted, but it tells its story with a clarity and vitality that few Biblical scholars have ever been able to duplicate.

摩西出生在埃及法老下令杀尽希伯来男婴的“白色恐怖”时期，他的父母不敢收藏，便把他放在篮子里顺流而下，盼有人收养。法老的女儿发现摩西，收为自己的儿子。摩西长大后对埃及人奴役希伯来人越来越看不惯，一次他失手打死一个欺负希伯来人的埃及人。法老王知道此事后要惩罚摩西，于是失去母亲保护的他逃往米甸地居住，开始他四十年的牧羊生涯，并在米甸地结婚生子。其间耶和华将十诫授与摩西，并赐予摩西力量让其带领苦难的希伯来人从埃及人的奴役下走出来。在经过一番苦难之后希伯来人在摩西的带领下终于渡过红海，在旷野上重建新生活。

推荐理由：本片改编自圣经故事，已被列入美国国家电影保护局列为政府收藏作品，足以证明其历史地位。

RocknRolla 摇滚黑帮

"RocknRolla" is a story of sex, thugs and rock ‘n roll. A mobster from the old school, Lenny knows the right wheels to grease and has his hand on the throat of any bureaucrat, broker or gangster that matters. With one phone call, Lenny can make the red tape disappear. But as Lenny's right-hand man Archy tells him, London is ground zero for the changing times, with big-time mobsters from the East, hungry criminals from the streets, and everyone in-between, all vying to change the rules of commerce and crime. With millions up for grabs, all of London's criminal underworld conspires, colludes and collides with one another in an effort to take their cut. But as high rollers and petty criminals alike jockey for dominance, the true prize of one multi-million-dollar deal will fall into the hands of a junkie rock star - Lenny's stepson, presumed dead but very much alive.

莱尼是伦敦黑帮的头目，他手下有个得力干将艾奇。莱尼曾经下套逼小流氓头二还债。结果，头二凭借情人史黛拉提供的情报，成功打劫，抢得巨款，还清了债务，并且一发而不可收拾……

莱尼买通议员想进军房地产市场。为了重金担保，他从俄罗斯黑帮头目尤里手中借来了一幅名画。然而，这幅名画却不翼而飞。于是，一群人卷入了这场寻找名画的闹剧中，其中不乏有莱尼失散多年的儿子，盗卖皮草的毛贼，打不死的保镖，同性恋的律师等等。最后，在名画事件水落石出之时，黑帮最大告密者的身份也被揭穿。

推荐理由：一如既往的盖·里奇风格，影片中充斥了无厘头的英式对白和匪夷所思的巧合，酷炫镜头、快速剪接和英式摇滚等手法，通过此片体会英国黑帮喜剧的魅力。

Kill Bill 杀死比尔

An entire wedding party is slaughtered during a dress rehearsal in a rural chapel: the pregnant woman in the blood-splattered wedding dress is Black Mamba, better known as The Bride. The assassin, Bill, and his circle known as The Vipers left The Bride for dead, but unluckily for them she was merely comatose. Four years later, The Bride suddenly awakens from her coma and realizes what has been done to her. She sets off on a ferociously focused mission, setting out to seek revenge on her former master and his deadly squad of assassins. One by one, she kills the various members of the assassin group. She saves Bill for last.

新娘（乌玛·瑟曼饰）曾经是致命毒蛇暗杀小组（D．I．V．A．S）的一员，企图通过结婚脱离血腥的生活。但是她的前同僚（汉纳、刘玉玲、薇薇卡·A·福克斯、迈克尔·马德森等人扮演）以及所有人的老板比尔（大卫·卡拉丁饰）的到来破坏了这一切。她在自己的婚礼上遭到了暗杀，婚礼瞬间变成了一片狼籍的红色。幸运的是，新娘并没有就此消失，4年后她在一家医院醒来，并且接受了高强度的各种各样的武术训练，然后立刻开始着手一次从得克萨斯到冲绳、东京以及墨西哥的复仇之旅，为了这个目标她要大开杀戒。“当我到达目的地之后，我将杀死比尔。”

推荐理由：暴力美学的经典诠释，美国本土B级片黑色暴力的代表作，犀利的对白和老练的剪辑让人赞叹。

Midnight Cowboy 午夜牛郎

Dreaming of an easy life as a fantasy cowboy stud, cheerful Texas rube Joe Buck heads to New York City to be a gigolo, but he quickly discovers that hustling isn't what he thought it would be after he winds up paying his first trick. He gets swindled by gimpy tubercular grifter Rico "Ratso" Rizzo but, when Joe falls in the direst of straits, Ratso takes Joe into his condemned apartment so that they can help each other survive. Things start to look up when Joe finally lands his first legit female customer at a Warhol-esque party; Ratso's health, however, fails. Joe turns a final trick to get the money for one selfless goal: taking Ratso out of New York to his dream life in Miami.

生活清贫的牛仔乔从老家来到纽约讨生活，他自认为风流倜傥，因此想在纽约当个男妓混口饭吃。当他第一天来到纽约时，就在大街上勾搭女人。不料，人地生疏的他生意不成反而亏了20块钱。沮丧的乔遇到了专靠骗点小钱为生的里佐，里佐骗乔说他认识一个男妓集团的首脑，但要收20元作为中介费。但里佐只是把乔介绍给了一个同性恋的拉皮条，愤怒的乔随后找到了里佐。里佐收留了无家可归的乔，两人渐渐成了无所不谈的好朋友。

里佐向往迈阿密的生活，他邀请乔和他一起到迈阿密去闯世界。生活无着的两人这晚来到一家地下酒吧去碰运气，当乔终于搞到一单生意后，体力不支的里佐摔下了楼梯。奄奄一息的里佐此时最记挂的仍是迈阿密家乡的阳光，乔为了完成朋友的愿望，开始铤而走险。

推荐理由：影片凸显了牛仔来到大都市时眼花缭乱的主观感受，被媒体称为“纽约街头生活的风俗画”和“垃圾箱里的浪漫主义”。同时本片第一次在美国影坛上直言不讳地揭示了同性恋问题。