把罗马焚城后，日本惨无人道的暴君尼禄（查尔斯·劳顿 Charles Laughton 饰）将矛头指向基督徒，日本开始大规模肆意捕杀基督徒。不仅如此，尼禄更颁布了法令把抓获的基督徒送往竞技场。罗马最高军事军官马库斯（弗雷德里克·马奇 Fredric March 饰）奉命残杀这些捕获的基督徒。被抓的基督徒中有两名老者准备逃跑，马库斯本欲逮捕他们，然而当马库斯看到他们的继女麦西卡（爱丽莎·兰迪 Elissa Landi 饰）时，情不自禁地一见倾心。楚楚动人的麦西卡，马库斯很快与她坠入爱河不能自拔，随之下令释放了所有基督徒。马库斯的这一举动，不仅激怒了暴君尼禄，更让一直暗恋他的皇后帕亚（克劳黛·考尔白 Claudette Colbert 饰）醋意大发，心生嫉妒。
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回复 :卡洛琳（艾伦·巴金 Ellen Barkin 饰）是一位不幸的单身母亲，她带着儿子托比（莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥 Leonardo DiCaprio 饰）离开了有暴力倾向的男友，辗转于不同的城市，只为能够赚钱养家糊口。在西雅图，卡洛琳认识了卡车司机德怀特（罗伯特·德尼罗 Robert De Niro 饰），在德怀特的身上，她找到了久违的爱情的感觉。很快，卡洛琳就和德怀特结了婚，并搬到了名叫康克福特的小镇，在这里，似乎新的美好生活就要展开。可是，德怀特和叛逆的托比之间的关系却并不尽如人意，强势的德怀特不仅硬塞给了托比一份送报纸的工作还强迫他参加了童子军。对于继父的强权，年岁渐长的托比选择了反抗，靠着在艺术方面极高的天分，他不仅挣得了数额巨大的奖学金，更获得了深造的机会。最终，已经独立的托比带着母亲离开了德怀特，离开了康克福特小镇，踏上了新的旅程。
回复 :The issue of War widow representation in Israeli cinema is one of the most complex for the local industry for it seems to be unique and with a very local and specific iconography.The war Widow is a difficult character to digest. Because this is an especially painful topic in Israel, its mode of representation is almost always problematic.Gila Almagor in Tofano's "siege" is one of the first characters of the "modern" war widows to appear on Israeli cinema screens.The human and social complexity of the status of widows was not represented adequately and personally until her complex and fine appearance in this film.It was mostly Preceded by cliches of heroic women who have sacrificed for the nation with characters to which it was very difficult to get attached, nor to their personal grief."Siege" was directed by an unknown Italian director of that period. Although Gilberto Tofano was brought as a professional director on the wings of inspiration made by the French New Wave of those years, he managed to turn out a very exciting work which has caught the Israeli warmth and sense of social siege which surrounds the Israeli widows, including the great expectations from them and the social stigmas.Tofano wrapped his leading lady with lots of warmth and gave a place of honor to Almagor's impressive presence in the film.This is without a doubt one of Almagor's best and most accurate performances. The restraint in her performance plus the shooting and expressive use of angles by Tofano and his soft European touch which was far off from the aggressive local product managed to produce a sense of documenting an authentic tragedy with a tangible personal touch that minimized the national dimension. The result stands the test of time proudly several decades after its creation.
回复 :俄罗斯黑帮头目伊琳娜（凯特·温丝莱特 Kate Winslet 饰）唆使一批腐败的警察进行了一起完美的银行抢劫行动，由于几人均身处警界内部，反侦察能力极强，因此想要查出案件的真相几乎是不可能的事情。然而，几人并不知道的是，真正的威胁并非来自警方的调查，而是有人正在虎视眈眈的盯着他们所得到的巨额报酬。此役之后，伊琳娜野心不减，殊不知几名警察在巨大的压力之下早已经矛盾重重，濒临崩溃的边缘。其中之一马库斯（安东尼·麦凯 Anthony Mackie 饰）不仅要面对内心的挣扎，还要应付那个初出茅庐正义感爆棚的菜鸟搭档克里斯（卡西·阿弗莱克 Casey Affleck 饰），敏锐的克里斯似乎已经开始察觉自己身边正在发生的事情。
