影片以黑帮老大（马尔科姆·麦克道威尔 Malcolm McDowell 饰）第一人称的角度讲述了六十年代伦敦血雨腥风的黑帮恩怨。
名不见经传的街头小混混（保罗·贝坦尼 Paul Bettany 饰）幸运地成为了在当时伦敦城呼风唤雨的黑帮老大佛莱迪（大卫·休里斯 David Thewlis 饰）的手下。纸醉金迷的生活诱惑着他，金钱和地位更加让他心驰神往。佛莱迪似乎拥有一切至高无上的权利，走到哪里都只手遮天，吃香喝辣。不仅如此，佛莱迪生活奢侈又有品味，笔挺的西装和优雅的举止，更加使得小混混充满着羡慕和妒忌。渐渐地，这赤裸裸的欲望开始膨胀变质，在勾心斗角的黑帮势力开始交锋的时候，他甚至趁机想取代老大的位置。

英国人弗兰克•科顿在北非发现一个神奇的魔方，回到家后，弗兰克通过某种神秘的仪式打开了魔方和另一个世界的通道，魔鬼赛诺贝斯降临人间，弗兰克也为其所杀。在此之后，弗兰克的哥哥莱瑞和妻子朱莉搬到这座房子里。朱莉是莱瑞的新任妻子，她曾背着丈夫和弗兰克有染。 莱瑞搬家具时不慎弄伤右手，血滴到阁楼地板上，偏巧使埋在下面的弗兰克得以复苏。为了使情人恢复本来面貌，朱莉开始想方设法为其奉上活人的血肉……

电影改编自《华尔街日报》战地记者丹尼尔•珀尔的妻子所写的回忆录。丹尼尔（丹·福特曼 Dan Futterman饰）前往巴基斯坦调查报道一桩恐怖分子的新闻，却不幸遭到绑架，不久后惨遭杀害。妻子玛林娜（安吉丽娜·朱莉 Angelina Jolie饰）却一直在祈求丈夫能平安归来，寻找丈夫的信念一直支撑着这个已有着身孕的准妈妈。
她坚毅地书写回忆录，里面布满着和丹尼尔相识相知的点滴，更令丹尼尔的新闻理想和奔赴真相的勇气跃然纸上，她要让孩子知道，自己的父亲，曾经是一个称职的新闻人。玛琳娜终于能够坚强而平静的接受丈夫的遇害，同时，她不仅要让孩子远离种族仇恨和战争烟尘，还回到法国继续自己的事业，抚养孩子长大成人。

Richard is King. A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.

英国摄制的间谍动作片，根据佛德烈．福赛的畅销小说改编，描述苏联的情报局计划展开一场惊天大阴谋，目的是要摧毁北大西洋公约组织和英美两国的友好关系。他们派出一名高级情报员乔装混入英国的一个小镇，伺机在当地的美军基地装置核弹加以破坏。迈克．凯恩饰演的英国间谍侦破这个阴谋，乃千方百计阻止奸计得逞。有趣的是饰演苏联特务的皮尔斯．布鲁斯南，日后却成为苏联特务的克星007。导演约翰．麦肯西处理气氛尚称紧凑，而冰天雪地的外景则增加了戏剧场景的可看性。

英国皇家莎士比亚剧团（Royal Shakespeare Company）2014年重排的历史剧，在莎士比亚故乡，同时也是RSC总部的Stratford-upon-Avon，皇家莎士比亚剧院（Royal Shakespeare Theatre）现场向英国和欧美的影院进行直播（RSC Live）。
英国皇家莎士比亚剧团从2013年起，陆续推出“王与国”（King and Country）系列话剧，重排莎士比亚最著名的四部历史剧：《理查二世》、《亨利四世（上）》、《亨利四世（下）》和《亨利五世》，藉由2016年纪念莎士比亚逝世400周年之际，将该系列的四部戏带到伦敦巴比肯中心，中国的北京、上海和香港，美国纽约百老汇进行巡演（由大卫·田纳特主演的《理查二世》未能赴中国巡演）。

英国皇家莎士比亚剧团（Royal Shakespeare Company）2014年重排的历史剧，在莎士比亚故乡，同时也是RSC总部的Stratford-upon-Avon，皇家莎士比亚剧院（Royal Shakespeare Theatre）现场向英国和欧美的影院进行直播（RSC Live）。
英国皇家莎士比亚剧团从2013年起，陆续推出“王与国”（King and Country）系列话剧，重排莎士比亚最著名的四部历史剧：《理查二世》、《亨利四世（上）》、《亨利四世（下）》和《亨利五世》，藉由2016年纪念莎士比亚逝世400周年之际，将该系列的四部戏带到伦敦巴比肯中心，中国的北京、上海和香港，美国纽约百老汇进行巡演（由大卫·田纳特主演的《理查二世》未能赴中国巡演）。

第一集中，少女克莉斯蒂的家庭遭受魔鬼赛诺贝斯的摧残，亲人相继死亡，她本人也被送入精神病院治疗。除了医生助手凯尔外，没人相信克莉斯蒂的离奇故事。当疯狂的医生菲利普•切诺德从助手口中得知少女的经历后，他决定将恶魔重新带回人间。业已死亡的继母朱莉（Clare Higgins 饰），在这个变态狂人的喂养下再次复活…

十数年前，一群年轻人来到肯特郡的森林，抗议政府在此修建高速公路。随着夜幕降临，他们却遭到恐怖与无情的屠杀。
转眼来到2009年。居住在加利福尼亚的美丽女子苏珊·戈登（查瑞丝玛·卡朋特 Charisma Carpenter 饰）是美国著名的推理小说作家，因某种原因，她的新作迟迟无法完成。在出版商查尔斯（理查德·瑞尼斯福德 Richard Raynesford 饰）的帮助下，她和丈夫大卫（保罗·斯卡福 Paul Sculfor 饰）搬到英国肯特郡一桩乡间别墅居住。远离了城市的喧嚣，苏珊得到久违的平静。然而好景不长，她接连看到奇怪的景象，而周遭的怪异事件也令她恐慌非常。事态愈演愈烈，一切似乎和当年的惨剧息息相关……

The play picks up where Henry IV, Part One left off. Its focus is on Prince Hal's journey toward kingship, and his ultimate rejection of Falstaff. However, unlike Part One, Hal and Falstaff's stories are almost entirely separate, as the two characters meet only twice and very briefly. The tone of much of the play is elegiac, focusing on Falstaff's age and his closeness to death.
Falstaff is still drinking and engaging in petty criminality in the London underworld. Falstaff appears, followed by a new character, a young page whom Prince Hal has assigned him as a joke. Falstaff enquires what the doctor has said about the analysis of his urine, and the page cryptically informs him that the urine is healthier than the patient. Falstaff promises to outfit the page in "vile apparel" (ragged clothing). He then complains of his insolubility, blaming it on "consumption of the purse." They go off, Falstaff vowing to find a wife "in the stews" (i.e., the local brothels).
He has a relationship with Doll Tearsheet, a prostitute. When news of a second rebellion arrives, Falstaff joins the army again, and goes to the country to raise forces. There he encounters Mouldy, Bullcalf, Feeble, Shadow and Wart, a band of rustic yokels who are to be conscripted into the loyalist army, with two of whom, Mouldy and Bullcalf, bribing their way out. He also visits an old school friend, Justice Shallow, and they reminisce about their youthful follies.
In the other storyline, Hal remains an acquaintance of London lowlife and seems unsuited to kingship. His father, King Henry IV, has apparently forgotten his reconciliation with his son in Henry IV, Part One, and is again disappointed in the young prince. Another rebellion is launched against Henry IV, but this time it is defeated, not by a battle, but by the duplicitous political machinations of Hal's brother, Prince John. King Henry then sickens and appears to die. Hal, seeing this, believes he is King and exits with the crown. King Henry, awakening, is devastated, thinking Hal cares only about becoming King. Hal convinces him otherwise and the old king subsequently dies contentedly.
The two storylines meet in the final scene, in which Falstaff, having learned that Hal is now King, travels to London in expectation of great rewards. But Hal rejects him, saying that he has now changed, and can no longer associate with such people. The London lowlifes, expecting a paradise of thieves under Hal's governance, are instead purged and imprisoned by the authorities.
[edit]Epilogue
At the end of the play, an epilogue thanks the audience and promises that the story will continue in a forthcoming play "with Sir John in it, and make you merry with fair Katharine of France; where, for all I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat". In fact, the subsequent play, Henry V, does not feature Falstaff. The Merry Wives of Windsor, set a hundred or more years after the Henry plays, does have "Sir John in it", but cannot be the play referred to, since the passage clearly describes the forthcoming story of Henry V and his wooing of Katherine of France. Falstaff does "die of a sweat" in Henry V, but in London at the beginning of the play. His death is offstage, described by another character and he never appears. His role as a cowardly soldier looking out for himself is taken by Ancient Pistol, his braggart sidekick in Henry IV, Part 2 and Merry Wives.

The play picks up where Henry IV, Part One left off. Its focus is on Prince Hal's journey toward kingship, and his ultimate rejection of Falstaff. However, unlike Part One, Hal and Falstaff's stories are almost entirely separate, as the two characters meet only twice and very briefly. The tone of much of the play is elegiac, focusing on Falstaff's age and his closeness to death.
Falstaff is still drinking and engaging in petty criminality in the London underworld. Falstaff appears, followed by a new character, a young page whom Prince Hal has assigned him as a joke. Falstaff enquires what the doctor has said about the analysis of his urine, and the page cryptically informs him that the urine is healthier than the patient. Falstaff promises to outfit the page in "vile apparel" (ragged clothing). He then complains of his insolubility, blaming it on "consumption of the purse." They go off, Falstaff vowing to find a wife "in the stews" (i.e., the local brothels).
He has a relationship with Doll Tearsheet, a prostitute. When news of a second rebellion arrives, Falstaff joins the army again, and goes to the country to raise forces. There he encounters Mouldy, Bullcalf, Feeble, Shadow and Wart, a band of rustic yokels who are to be conscripted into the loyalist army, with two of whom, Mouldy and Bullcalf, bribing their way out. He also visits an old school friend, Justice Shallow, and they reminisce about their youthful follies.
In the other storyline, Hal remains an acquaintance of London lowlife and seems unsuited to kingship. His father, King Henry IV, has apparently forgotten his reconciliation with his son in Henry IV, Part One, and is again disappointed in the young prince. Another rebellion is launched against Henry IV, but this time it is defeated, not by a battle, but by the duplicitous political machinations of Hal's brother, Prince John. King Henry then sickens and appears to die. Hal, seeing this, believes he is King and exits with the crown. King Henry, awakening, is devastated, thinking Hal cares only about becoming King. Hal convinces him otherwise and the old king subsequently dies contentedly.
The two storylines meet in the final scene, in which Falstaff, having learned that Hal is now King, travels to London in expectation of great rewards. But Hal rejects him, saying that he has now changed, and can no longer associate with such people. The London lowlifes, expecting a paradise of thieves under Hal's governance, are instead purged and imprisoned by the authorities.
[edit]Epilogue
At the end of the play, an epilogue thanks the audience and promises that the story will continue in a forthcoming play "with Sir John in it, and make you merry with fair Katharine of France; where, for all I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat". In fact, the subsequent play, Henry V, does not feature Falstaff. The Merry Wives of Windsor, set a hundred or more years after the Henry plays, does have "Sir John in it", but cannot be the play referred to, since the passage clearly describes the forthcoming story of Henry V and his wooing of Katherine of France. Falstaff does "die of a sweat" in Henry V, but in London at the beginning of the play. His death is offstage, described by another character and he never appears. His role as a cowardly soldier looking out for himself is taken by Ancient Pistol, his braggart sidekick in Henry IV, Part 2 and Merry Wives.

As rebellion rages through the land a King must look to his miscreant son for aid.

But will the son leave behind the pleasures of youth to meet his appointment with destiny?

Rated R. Contains strong language, and talk of country matters

"Falstaff rocks!"
-NTV

Set in New York City in 1985, Act One of Millennium Approaches introduces us to the central characters . As the play opens, Louis Ironson, a neurotic , gay Jew learns his lover, WASP Prior Walter, has AIDS . As the play and Prior's illness progress, Louis becomes unable to cope and moves out. Meanwhile, closeted homosexual Mormon and Republican law clerk Joe Pitt is offered a major promotion by his mentor , the McCarthyist lawyer Roy Cohn . Joe doesn't immediately take the job because he feels he has to check with his Valium -addicted, agoraphobic wife, Harper, who is unwilling to move. Roy is himself deeply closeted , and soon discovers that he has AIDS .

As the seven-hour play progresses, Prior is visited by ghosts and an angel who proclaim him to be a prophet ; Joe finds himself struggling to reconcile his religion with his sexuality ; Louis struggles with his guilt about leaving Prior and begins a relationship with Joe; Harper's mental health deteriorates as she realizes that Joe is gay; Joe's mother, Hannah, moves to New York to attempt to look after Harper and meets Prior after a failed attempt by Prior to confront Hannah's son; Harper begins to separate from Joe whom she has depended upon and finds strength she was unaware of; and Roy finds himself in the hospital, reduced to the companionship of the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg and his nurse, Belize, a former drag queen and Prior's best friend, who meanwhile has to deal with Louis's constant demands for updates on Prior's health. The subplot involving Cohn is the most political aspect of the play. Portrayed as a self-loathing, power-hungry hypocrite, he prides himself on his political connections and influence, which he has amassed through decades of corruption. In the play, he recollects with pride his role in having Ethel Rosenberg executed for espionage . As he lies alone in the hospital, dying of AIDS, the ghost of Rosenberg sings him a Yiddish lullaby and then brings him the news that the New York State Bar Association has just disbarred him, destroying his final hope of dying as a lawyer. The play ends on a note of optimism. After his friends procure for him a stash of AZT , in 1990 Prior is still alive and is managing to live with AIDS. With his friends, he looks at the statue of an angel in Bethesda Fountain and talks of the legend of the original fountain, and how it will flow again some day. The play is deliberately performed so that the moments requiring special effects often show their theatricality. Most of the actors play multiple characters ( eg, the actor playing Prior's nurse also appears as the Angel). There are heavy Biblical references and references to American society , as well as some fantastical scenes including voyages to Antarctica and Heaven , as well as key events happening in San Francisco and at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park .

Set in New York City in 1985, Act One of Millennium Approaches introduces us to the central characters . As the play opens, Louis Ironson, a neurotic , gay Jew learns his lover, WASP Prior Walter, has AIDS . As the play and Prior's illness progress, Louis becomes unable to cope and moves out. Meanwhile, closeted homosexual Mormon and Republican law clerk Joe Pitt is offered a major promotion by his mentor , the McCarthyist lawyer Roy Cohn . Joe doesn't immediately take the job because he feels he has to check with his Valium -addicted, agoraphobic wife, Harper, who is unwilling to move. Roy is himself deeply closeted , and soon discovers that he has AIDS .

As the seven-hour play progresses, Prior is visited by ghosts and an angel who proclaim him to be a prophet ; Joe finds himself struggling to reconcile his religion with his sexuality ; Louis struggles with his guilt about leaving Prior and begins a relationship with Joe; Harper's mental health deteriorates as she realizes that Joe is gay; Joe's mother, Hannah, moves to New York to attempt to look after Harper and meets Prior after a failed attempt by Prior to confront Hannah's son; Harper begins to separate from Joe whom she has depended upon and finds strength she was unaware of; and Roy finds himself in the hospital, reduced to the companionship of the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg and his nurse, Belize, a former drag queen and Prior's best friend, who meanwhile has to deal with Louis's constant demands for updates on Prior's health. The subplot involving Cohn is the most political aspect of the play. Portrayed as a self-loathing, power-hungry hypocrite, he prides himself on his political connections and influence, which he has amassed through decades of corruption. In the play, he recollects with pride his role in having Ethel Rosenberg executed for espionage . As he lies alone in the hospital, dying of AIDS, the ghost of Rosenberg sings him a Yiddish lullaby and then brings him the news that the New York State Bar Association has just disbarred him, destroying his final hope of dying as a lawyer. The play ends on a note of optimism. After his friends procure for him a stash of AZT , in 1990 Prior is still alive and is managing to live with AIDS. With his friends, he looks at the statue of an angel in Bethesda Fountain and talks of the legend of the original fountain, and how it will flow again some day. The play is deliberately performed so that the moments requiring special effects often show their theatricality. Most of the actors play multiple characters ( eg, the actor playing Prior's nurse also appears as the Angel). There are heavy Biblical references and references to American society , as well as some fantastical scenes including voyages to Antarctica and Heaven , as well as key events happening in San Francisco and at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park .

A grieving woman suffers terrifying visions of her own demise after she and her husband move into a country mansion.