西元2274年人类居住在由电脑控制的城市中,在这个城市中无优无虑,可自由毫无拘束的追求享乐;但到30岁时每一个人必须接受考验,一个探究永恒、重生的试炼……
一站后期,由福斯特少校率领的法国雇佣兵被命令保护由马尼奥率领的一支考古远征队在阿拉伯进行的考古活动。但是考古队进行的主要工作是掘坟,去盗取阿拉伯珍贵的文物资源。福斯特虽然反对,但是作为一个军人,必须服从命令。
考古队的掘坟掀起了萨尔的愤怒,萨尔是一个强而有力的阿拉伯领导人,他要用那坟墓来唤醒他部落成员之间的宗教狂热,进而对外国人发起了一个猛烈的进攻,将外国入侵者打出国境。
为了静下心来研究学问,老实木讷的数学家大卫•萨莫(Dustin Hoffman 达斯汀•霍夫曼 饰)协同妻子艾米(Susan George 苏珊•乔治 饰)回到位于英国乡村的老房子。艾米性感大胆的穿着引来村中男人们粗鄙的目光,而大卫看似懦弱的外表更让他们有恃无恐。某日,他们借打猎之名将大卫引出家门,随后对艾米进行轮奸,面对这种种羞辱,大卫只能强颜欢笑。
某晚,低能儿尼尔斯误杀心仪的女孩,仓皇中他逃入大卫的房子。愤怒的村民要求大卫交出尼尔斯,在被拒绝之后,他们试图强行进入。愤怒的大卫忍无可忍,大开杀戒……
A murderous religious cult is way-laying travellers and stealing goods in nineteenth century India. As the disappearances mount and trade becomes difficult, the British East India Company is forced to act. But they give the job to an upper-class officer completely out-of-touch with the country rather than the obvious candidate who has been in India for years and well understand...
An aging cowboy realizes that the West he knew and loved will soon be no more--and that there will be no room for him, either.
This, the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original - Murder, My Sweet (1944), which tended to avoid some of the sleazier parts of the plot - but still concerns private eye Philip Marlowe's attempts to locate Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub and the girlfriend of Moose Malloy, a petty criminal just out of priso...