罗塞塔（瓦伦蒂娜•斯卡里希 Valentina Scalici 饰）和卢恰诺（朱塞佩•伊拉西塔诺 Giuseppe Ieracitano 饰）是一对相依为命的姐弟，她们的母亲因为逼女儿卖淫而锒铛入狱。此事遭媒体曝光后，两人随后被两个警察送上了去孤儿院的列车。其中一个警察因事先行告退，将姐弟俩托付给警察安东尼奥（恩里克•洛维索 Enrico Lo Verso 饰）独自看护。姐姐背负着雏妓的心理压力，但是弟弟却总是我行我素，两人常常发生争执。安东尼奥总是默默旁观，小心翼翼地呵护着两颗稚嫩的童心。在经历了抢劫、酒店驱逐，学校开除、哮喘疾病等一连串霉运后，安东尼奥似乎跟姐弟俩建立一种亦父亦友的关系，然而一张报纸却让他们的世界陷入崩溃的边缘……
　　本片获第45届戛纳电影节评委会大奖。

　　The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements: water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive: Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna.
　　The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator,
　　the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination.
　　Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.

　　一个曾经丧失人性的刑讯逼供者.在几十年之后接受电台记者的采访重新回忆自己那段罪孽深重的过去.他以前拷问别人,现在却接受这个记者的“拷问”.在这个下午,拷问的不仅仅是他本人,也拷问了人性,拷问了整个社会制度。

　　"Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
　　"The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport  both in their professional and daily lives  between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps.
　　The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial." -Steve Grayson
　　"my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty." - Jonathan Rosenbaum

　　The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth to a baby boy. Giulio's mother is against them: at first she takes her son abroad with an excuse and then has her grandson kidnapped making Luisa think the boy died in a fire.

　　范恩（斯婷·费舍尔·克里斯滕森 Stine Fischer Christensen 饰）怎么都想不到，自己竟然会成为大导演弗里德曼（乌尔里希·诺登 Ulrich Noethen 饰）眼中的缪斯，弗里德曼将她钦点为下一部戏的最佳女主角，并且在她的身上赋予了极大的热情。
　　在戏中，范恩扮演了一个个性热情奔放的性情女子，可是生活中的范恩性格却正与此相反。为了达到更好的演出效果，弗里德曼开始用各种各样过激的手段刺激范恩的精神，迫使她打开心扉。这样的刺激很快就显现出了效果，改变后的范恩也因此找到了自己的如意郎君。但对于范恩的母亲来说，性情宛如陌生人一般的女儿带给她的只有痛苦和伤悲。面对自己逐渐失控的精神领域，范恩无能为力。

　　威尔斯唯一一部公映的彩色电影，故事依旧奇情：澳门富商从秘书口中听到一个爱情传说，有人为了香灯有后愿意付钱找人与妻子上床。传说归传说，但澳门富商却要使这个不朽故事成真，找来美女珍．摩露，当正是自己妻子，要她找人轰烈地做爱做的事。乍听下来真是一场天方夜谭，但影片拍来感人至深，53岁的威尔斯与成熟的珍．摩露演出动人不已，最后一个镜头更被影迷形容是「魔术」，令影片入围柏林国际电影节竞逐最佳电影金熊奖。
　　The only colour film by Welles publicly released is another showcase of the absurdity of human nature. A Macau millionaire is told a legend about someone who is willing to pay a huge sum for someone who would sleep with his wife in order to produce an heir. In an act to make the legend real and to immortalise it, the millionaire finds Jeanne Moreau to be his wife and starts to search for the man who would make love to her. A potent performance by Welles and Moreau makes the film purely magical; a Golden Berlin Bear nominee for Berlin International Film Festival.

　　Y.是一位40多岁的以色列导演，他来到沙漠尽头的一个偏远村庄，想要展示他的一部电影。在那里，他遇到了文化部官员Yahalom，并发现自己正在打两场失败的战斗：一场是反对他的国家对于自由的消亡，另一场则是反抗他母亲的死亡。

　　故事发生在车水马龙灯红酒绿的大都市巴黎，来自乡村的少年来此投奔哥哥乔治（蒂埃里·钮维 Thierry Neuvic 饰），却因为不知道哥哥公寓的密码而被关在了门外，就在这时，哥哥的女友安（朱丽叶·比诺什 Juliette Binoche 饰）出现在了少年的面前，带少年进入了公寓。
　　少年粗暴的对待乞丐玛利亚（吕明妮塔·杰尔吉乌 Luminita Gheorghiu 饰），遭到了黑人教师阿玛度（Ona Lu Yenke 饰）的严厉批评，之后，警察来了，反而逮捕的玛利亚和阿玛度。玛利亚因此而返回自己位于罗马尼亚的家乡，回到了丈夫道格拉斯（Bob Nicolescu 饰）身边。安的隔壁住了一个被虐待的孩子，向安求救，安不知该如何是好。镜头下的人们，每个人都有着自己的故事。