随着科技的不断发展，人类赖以生存的地球却受到越来越严重的污染和威胁。某天，一架巨大的飞碟出现在地球上空，引起各国民众一片恐慌，谁也不知道这个不速之客将对他们的命运带来怎样的影响。飞碟最终降落在美国华盛顿公园的中央，当地警察和军队倾巢出动。飞碟被全副武装的军人和好奇的民众团团围住，经过两个小时的对峙，悬梯从飞碟中缓缓探出。随着舱门的打开，一个身形与人类别无二致的外星人克拉图（Michael Rennie 饰）和全身金属的机器人出现在众人面前。这两个外星人似乎为了地球的命运而来，他们表示出友好，却未得到应有的回报……本片荣获1952年金球奖最佳促进国际了解电影奖。

住在偏远山村的少女暖（李佳 饰）水灵俏皮，清纯美丽，是青年男子们倾慕的对象，这点对于和暖青梅竹马的林井和（郭晓东 饰）来说更不例外。外面的世界五彩缤纷，暖一心等待偶然驻留于此的戏班英俊武生带她离开这个山村，然而等待她的只有失望。在和井河荡秋千的时候，暖摔伤了腿，不久后井河也离开家乡，两人从此失去联系。10年后，井河从北京回到家乡，见到了阔别已久的暖。此时的暖跛着腿，形容枯槁，已经嫁给村中的哑巴（香川照之 饰）。一种别样的情感袭上心头……根据莫言小说《白狗秋千架》改编，并荣获第16届东京国际电影节金麒麟大奖、最佳男演员奖和第23届中国电影金鸡奖最佳故事片奖、最佳编剧奖。

一场惊天动地的大地震，让设在海平面下的实验室危在旦夕！一场毁灭性的地震，让6名驻扎于海底的研究人员受困于即将被淹没的研究设施，唯一的生存之路竟然只剩下徒步经由海底平面走到遥远的废弃钻井台。在这充满挑战的旅途中，他们很快就意识到，除了得依靠简陋装备克服缺氧危机，某种前所未见、致命的海底掠食者已被唤醒，并将他们当作猎物般的追击扑杀…

Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.