茉莉·布鲁姆（杰西卡·查斯坦 饰）年轻时专注滑雪，水平在全世界都名列前茅，然而在选拔赛上却不幸摔成重伤丧失了参加奥运会的机会。之后她决定在读法律学院之前给自己放一年的假，于是就跑去洛杉矶当了女招待，结果意外地进了组织牌局这一行。凭借自己的聪明头脑，茉莉在八年间通过开设赌局赚了数百万美元。来她赌局的都是一些好莱坞巨星和富豪巨贾，包括本·阿弗莱克、莱奥纳多·迪卡普里奥等。
本片根据茉莉·布鲁姆本人2014年出版的回忆录改编。

故事发生在位于意大利那不勒斯的一个贫穷而又破败的社区之中，莉拉（卢多维卡·纳斯蒂 Ludovica Nasti 饰）和爱莲娜（艾丽莎·德尔·杰尼奥 Elisa del Genio 饰）从小就生活在那里。莉拉出生在一个专制的家庭之中，父亲是一名鞋匠。虽然莉拉在班级里是公认的天才少女，但是在父亲的坚持之下，莉拉最终放弃了学业，在鞋店里成为了帮工。
和莉拉不同，爱莲娜在家人和老师的支持之下继续求学，虽然和莉拉走上了截然不同的人生道路，但爱莲娜的目光始终凝聚在莉拉的身上。在十六岁那一年，莉拉嫁给了苦苦追求她的富家子弟斯代凡诺（乔万尼·阿穆拉 Giovanni Amura 饰），可是等待着她的却并非美好的婚姻生活。

I ask no favors for my sex… All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.
—Sarah Moore Grimké, activist for women’s suffrage, 1837
As the United States Supreme Court leans increasingly to the right, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s vigorous dissenting opinions and ferocious 20-push-up workouts have earned this tiny, soft-spoken, intellectual giant the status of rock star and the title “Notorious RBG.” What many don’t know is Ginsburg’s strategic, trailblazing role in defining gender-discrimination law. Intent on systematically releasing women from second-class status, she argued six pivotal gender-bias cases in the 1970s before an all-male Supreme Court blind to sexism.
Now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.

故事讲述未来世界遭遇严重污染，人口出生率骤降，美国部分地区经历血腥革命后建立了男性极权社会Gilead，当权者实行一夫多妻制，女性被当做国有财产，有生育能力的女性称为“女仆”，被迫作为统治阶级的生育工具，女主角Offred就是其中之一，她周旋于统治者、统治者凶残的“妻子”、为统治者打理家务的年长女人“Martha”之间，想在活下去的同时找到自己被夺走的女儿。

1760年法国布列塔尼，才华洋溢的年轻女画家玛莉安（诺米·梅兰特饰）收到委托，需要在对方不知情的状况下，完成富家小姐艾洛伊兹（阿黛拉·哈内尔饰）出嫁前的肖像画。两人在孤岛相依为命，白天女画家悄悄观察小姐的一举一动，到了晚上才纵情下笔。两人在画与被画的亲密接触下，即便是在充满礼教束缚的时代，却也渐渐萌发了禁忌的暧昧情愫，随着大婚之日越来越近，她们的爱火却越烧越猛烈…

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Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to TOronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman -- but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, Cat's Eye is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life.

一个受过高等教育，每天要去京城最著名写字楼经营网络事业，资质不错，外貌美丽的单身女子，她的真实故事、她的奋斗经历，总是引人入胜的；有恋爱女孩的梦想，现代女性的自主，成熟女人的倔强；有一点风月浪漫，有一点世事残酷，有一点曲折离奇；其实她就在每个城市的每个办公室里，就在我们身边……

前言：
刚才，邻座的陌生人伸出一根短胖手指，指着我的手提电脑嚷道：“你打错了一个字！”我微笑，点头，说谢谢。
飞机这时候正穿越白亮的云层。
我想起五年前一个阴雨霏霏的午后，我乘坐同一航班飞往北京。邻座的人侧身看我的电脑时，我厌倦并坚定地背过身去。
我已不再是那个满面冷漠桀骜不驯的女子。
我自南方飞往北方，很多次。有时候，飞行是为了和最亲近的人相见；有时候飞行是纯粹的商务旅行。
我想，我的人生也许就是这样了。
为爱与生存奔波不止。
在我近十年的漂泊生涯里，这两桩最要紧的事情给了我最坚定支持。
爱与生存，它们是我的生命咖啡。
独自上路的十年，漂泊的十年。
我走过许多路，我见过许多人，我做过许多事情。
今天，我依然坐在前往北京的飞机上，我看见了时光流逝。
我像往常，随手写下这些字，记下当时的心境。
我知道，这些词汇、这些句子将成为某刻欢喜或感伤的纪念。
我因此感激文字，如同感激每一个曾经善待我的人。
在浩瀚都市争衡打拼的职业生涯里，文字是我闺中最亲密的伙伴。
文字陪我忍受求而不得的苦，安慰我身体伤病的痛，逾越前行途中的难，它让我从无处不在的孤单中跋涉出来；文字陪我度过一些欢喜的时刻，一些让人微微流泪的感动，一些轻盈的美，一些美不胜收的刹那芳华。
它像锦上的花，是我雪中的炭。
我要把这本书献给漂泊在外的异乡人。我们具有同样的表情，一样的心境。我们的飞翔将将开始，前途很长。
我们在路上。有美景可看。有朋友可交。
我们的奇迹正急不可待地渴望发生。
我要把这本书献给独自走路的女孩子。我们的行装同样沉重，脚步一样轻盈，我们的笑容灿烂，眼睛宛若孩童。
我们身历艰难，和男孩子一样渴望成功。
可以哭，但不可以放弃。
我要把这本书献给最亲近的人。献给正在相爱的人。献给将与爱邂逅的人。我们的爱情，真心实意。一诺千金。
我爱你。
黑可可
2002年12月19日

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From the bestselling author of Alias Grace and the MaddAddam trilogy, here is the #1 New York Times bestseller and seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author.
Now a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Includes a new introduction by Margaret Atwood.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable.
Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now….
Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and literary tour de force.

Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.
Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.