出身标准富有阶级家庭的墨西哥青年胡里奥（Gael García Bernal 饰）与德诺（Diego Luna 饰）是一对儿死党，他们各自精力旺盛的女友结伴出国旅行，丢下两人为消磨漫长的无聊暑假犯愁。在德诺家举办的一次总统也亲临现场的宴会上，两人结识了德诺表哥的西班牙妻子露莎，并向她兜售通往传说中号称“天堂之门”的海滩之旅。一别多日，露莎惊闻丈夫出轨伤心欲绝，遂致电德诺要求参加海滩之旅。三人马上出发，于路露莎同两位大男孩无话不谈，并先后与德诺、胡里奥发生了关系，这让德诺与胡里奥的友情产生了裂痕，他们发现女友曾经同对方偷情后愤怒不已，但还是一同到达了天堂之门。这个夏天过后，一些关于青春的记忆永远留在了那片海滩上…… 本片获2002年洛杉矶电影节最佳外语片等几十项褒奖。

This film is based on a true story about a British teenager who allegedly poisoned family, friends, and co-workers. Graham is highly intelligent, but completely amoral. He becomes interested in science, especially chemistry, and begins to read avidly. Something of a social misfit, he is fascinated by morbid subjects such as poisons and murder. His family environment is intolerable to him and, in particular, his stepmother torments him. He decides to poison those who annoy him, first with antimony and later with thallium. He smugly thinks himself cleverer than all those around him, but nevertheless he is caught and sentenced to 'rehabilitation' at a psychiatric institution. Once there, he undertakes to deceive the new eminent psychiatrist sent there to 'cure' him, thereby securing his release.

一场车祸夺去了两个动物学家兄弟的妻子，随后，他们一边迷恋着那个在车祸中失去一条腿的女人，一边用摄影机记录各种动物尸体腐烂的过程。在影片静态的画面中，那些鳄鱼、小狗、天鹅、斑马的尸体一点点地变黑、干瘪、喷出腐水、爬出蛆虫。最终，女人那条剩下的腿也“渐渐死去”、被截除，她在生下一对属于两兄弟的双胞胎之后死去。两兄弟则在镜头前注射毒剂，把自己的尸体作为最后一种研究和展示对象。

The ghost of "patient zero", who allegedly first brought AIDS to North America - materialises and tries to contact old friends. Meanwhile, the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton, who drank from the Fountain of Youth and now works as Chief Taxidermist at the Toronto Natural history Museum, is trying to organise an exhibition about the disease for the museum's "Hall of Contagion".