年轻的陈秋水（陈坤 饰）为少女王碧云（徐若瑄 饰）的弟弟雨萌当家庭教师，他清朗潇洒，有一套快乐的学习方法，两人一起唱歌学英文，简单快乐，很快就堕入爱河。然而陈秋水是左翼人士，为避难必须逃往大陆。虽然似乎是短暂的离别，但秋水离去前仍与王碧云私定终生，发誓矢志不渝。但离别似乎很漫长 。秋水甚至与台湾失去了联络，但等待和思念仍埋在他的心中。部队护士王金娣（李冰冰 饰）对他坦言爱意，并展开追求。战争结束后，王金娣跟随秋水调至西藏，一路照顾无微不至。秋水亦多次寻碧云未果，决定把旧情藏于心底，不辜负决心随他的王金娣，二人成婚，但命运的嘲弄却在不远处。秋水不知道，身在台湾的王碧云，终身未嫁，一生都在等待。

IN SHANGHAIIn Shanghai Lou Ye, 2001short FilmIn Shanghai or the eyes of a Chinese director of his city, Shanghai, Communist economic center , but also megalopolis with many faces ...Lou Ye is a great filmmaker. After having the success that we know for the sublime Suzhou River, the young director of the sixth generation is coupled to the design of this short film about Shanghai, the city of his heart , beautiful and multicultural . Camera in hand ( for lovers is a Sony DSR- PD150 DVCam ... ) for subjective , Lou Ye rhyme begins this urban plan by a girl asleep on a bed. Slowly the camera moves out of the suburb where this unknown young woman is given the arms of Morpheus , better visit this city that is Shanghai. The narrator who is also the hero says in voice-over that he loves this megalopolis . It focuses on the residents of these neighborhoods without cloth and without resources where most of the native population of Shanghai Lodge . Indeed the streets Zongshan Donglu which contains the Bund, Pudong, the famous Oriental Pearl is not the stock market and everyone. We must go farther Jingan District to discover the social wealth of this city . Why attach immense cold and nervous architectures while the Shanghai Blood flows through the veins of its rural ? It's a little message Lou Ye through this short film ."You can guess who they are, but we can never really know "Lou Ye eradicates a rare cinematic power of this often precarious and old people waiting on the bus every morning to go to work and make the Chinese economy humming .The old streets of the city like the nearby temple Cheung Hong Bund to the bank of the Huangpu , the filmmaker does not recognize the city. As if all these steel towers of the 21st century had absorbed the social essence of the " Paris of the East" .Lou Ye then takes us on a visit to the arcades , discos, clubs, dances, flashy locations and disconnected from the reality of ordinary people in the middle of poverty which is near workers and street vendors where people drown their defecation in water by putting the edge of an old tub ... This is a new look for the Western .Finally, after making stops in a dangerous Shanghai streets by night , the hero wakes up in the morning director in a corner near buildings unsafe and fixed on the face of a shy child , concluding : "The only thing that matters is Shanghai . "By these words Mr. Lou Ye, I bear you my esteem .

巴特勒（巴斯特·基顿 Buster Keaton 饰）是衔着金汤匙出生的富家公子，打小就过着养尊处优的生活，培养出了一副骄纵蛮横的性格。巴特勒的父亲觉得这样下去不行，于是将儿子送进了山里，要求他在那里打猎钓鱼，锻炼心性。十指不沾阳春水的巴特勒哪里会打猎钓鱼？虽然已经进山很久，但他依然颗粒无收，反倒是邂逅了一位山里的姑娘（萨丽·奥尼尔 Sally O'Neil 饰）。巴特勒被这个姑娘迷得神魂颠倒，对她展开了热烈的攻势，可是，苍白又瘦弱的他显然并不能够令姑娘的家人们满意，他们强烈的反对两人的婚事。巴特勒灵机一动，冒名顶替了和自己同名的拳击冠军的身份。

狱监保罗（汤姆?汉克斯 Tom Hanks 饰）这天迎来了一位不平凡的杀人犯――约翰?考夫利（迈克?克拉克?邓肯 Michael Clarke Duncan 饰）。约翰因杀了两名幼女被判死刑来到了这座著名的冷山监狱，监狱里有一片称为“绿里”的绿地，绿地那头就是刑场。约翰不仅不像想象中的凶残，相反，他出奇的温厚、机智。约翰的到来给狱中的各人带来了天翻地覆的变化：为老囚犯特里沃的小老鼠注入了生命的强度，给特里沃最后的人生带来最后的慰籍；神奇的拯救了被病痛折磨的保罗和马琳达；将金保斯从死神手中拉了回来……保罗这些天也从约翰身上看到了人生的真谛。约翰行刑的那天终于到了。