迪杰(泰伦斯•霍华德 Terrence Dashon Howard 饰)是一个皮条客, 每天和妓女诺拉(塔恩•曼宁 Taryn Manning 饰)在汽车上接客,日子极为无聊,深感中年危机。在一次黑市交易中,迪杰买到了一个卡通电子钢琴,唤起了自己关于唱诗班的回忆。他得知嘻哈巨星凯尼布莱克(卢达•克里斯 Ludacris 饰)将在7月4日开演唱会。他希望能够录自己的demo小样,寄给这位嘻哈界的大腕。于是,迪杰开始重新组建乐队,找到昔日唱诗班的老友凯(安东尼•安德森 Anthony Anderson 饰),白人钢琴师布莱尔,孕妇莎戈(塔拉吉•P•汉森 Taraji P. Henson 饰)等人帮忙,一步一步实现着自己的理想。他把自己底层生活的经验变成了歌词,用激情荡漾的演绎,征服了媒体和乐迷,然而正当他即将大红时,却因为一次莫名其妙的官司锒铛入狱……
Joachim 是一个生活在巴黎、事业成功的电视编剧。四十岁生日的临晨,他决定放弃一切——孩子、友人、敌人、爱情与遗憾——去美国从零开始。之后,他带领“新滑稽艳舞团”(New Burlesque )回到故乡进行巡演。艳舞团团员因Joachim 而对法国巴黎充满向往。幽默的表演和脱衣舞娘丰满的身材令男女老少沉迷不已。尽管下榻的旅馆平庸不堪,使用的电梯音乐(musique d’ascenseur )乏善可陈,又缺乏资金,女演员依然营造出了新奇、热情而欢乐的气氛。但是,他们决定在巴黎演出压轴戏,将巡演推向高潮的梦想破裂了:Joachim 的老“朋友”背叛了他,取消了其预定的演戏场所。巴黎之行似乎注定来去匆匆,过去种种伤感的回忆突然被揭开…… Joachim, a former Parisian television producer had left everything behind - his children, friends, enemies, lovers and regrets to start a new life in America. But he returns with a team of New Burlesque strip-tease performers whom he has filled with romantic dreams of a tour of France, of Paris! Traveling from town to town, despite the cheap hotel rooms and lack of money, the curvaceous showgirls invent an extravagant fantasy world of warmth and hedonism that wins an enthusiastic response from men and women alike. But their dream of a tour culminating in a last grand show in Paris goes up in smoke when Joachim is betrayed by an old friend and loses the theatre where they were due to perform. An obligatory return journey to the capital violently reopens the old wounds of his past...
Marie, 19, is attracted by easy money. Without really realizing it, she becomes involved in prostitution. She decides not to tell her friend, Vincent, a young, nonchalant, 21-year-old skater who owes everyone money and just can’t seem to grow up. The maelstrom of life seizes Marie and Vincent, caught up in a society where money, appearance and perpetual self-delusion are everything. Vincent’s mute, autistic brother, Mika, also gets caught in the trap.
故事发生在阳光普照的得克萨斯州,比克(洛克·哈德森 Rock Hudson 饰)是成长和生活在那里的一名牧场主人,德州和煦的阳光将他的性格也照耀得温厚而老实。东部来的漂亮女人莱斯利(伊丽莎白·泰勒 Elizabeth Taylor 饰)吸引了比克的目光,常年生活在西部的他从未见过像她一样的女人,很快,两人就坠入了情网之中,并且最终携手步入了婚姻的殿堂,就这样,莱斯利成为了农场的女主人。
杰特(詹姆斯·迪恩 James Dean 饰)是在比克农场里打工的长工,一次偶然的机会里,他获得了一块可以自行开垦的荒地。哪知道杰特走了大运,在这块地的地底下竟然埋藏着价值连城的石油,杰特一夜暴富。