《补锅打铜锣》由《打钢锣》、《补锅》两剧组成。前者写收成季节，生产队派蔡九打锣通知各户关好鸡鸭，不要放它们出来吃队里的谷子。林大娘明知故犯，蔡九对之进行教育，使她认识错误。后者写刘大娘对补锅行业缺乏正确认识，不愿将女儿嫁给补锅匠，后经事实教育，提高了认识。
伊尼奥和罗莎是一对新婚夫妇，没想到他们结婚才几个月，西班牙内战爆发。伊尼奥作为亲共分子被弗朗哥独裁政府抓捕，在被押解的路上，伊尼奥想办法逃回了家中。为躲避再一次被捕，伊尼奥在罗莎的帮助下，藏身于自家的地洞里长达30年。
Siskel and Ebert once ran a special show entitled "Movies I'm Embarrassed to Admit I Liked." I suppose that if I composed such a list of guilty pleasures, this one would be one of them . . . but upon reflection, it's really a lot better than that. Fifteen year-old science prodigy Mitch (Gabe Jarret) is recruited by ambitious college professor William Atherton (in yet another of his patented roles as a loathsome character) to work on the professor's prize laser project, not knowing that the prof is really developing a government weapon. Along the way, Mitch is befriended by Chris (Val Kilmer), another prodigy a few years his senior who teaches the Mitch how to loosen up. This could have degenerated into nothing more than just another teen revenge comedy, but there's so much more: the dialogue is laced with sharp wit there are some lovely scenes that have nothing to do with the story yet are carefully set up, almost as blackouts (e.g., Mitch goes to a lecture at which a few students have left tape recorders instead of attending later, at another lecture there are more tape recorders than students and, in a final scene, one large tape recorder gives the lecture to a room populated by nothing but other small recorders!) and throw-away scenes that make you want to stop and back up the tape (e.g., Chris off-handedly cutting a slice off a bar of solid nitrogen to make a slug for the coffee machine). It's also one of the few movies to boast the presence of the memorable Michelle Meyerink -- as Jordan, the "girl-nerd" who made being smart and female something to be emulated. And there's Tears for Fears great song, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" providing the perfect coda as the closing credits begin to roll . . . . Yes: really now, what's there to be embarrassed about?
自称来自牛津大学的精神病医生兼学者爱德华·纽盖特（吉姆·斯特吉斯 Jim Sturgess 饰）辗转来到了地处偏远的斯通赫斯特精神病院，他希望跟随卓有成就的塞拉斯·莱姆教授（本·金斯利 Ben Kingsley 饰）学习相关治疗方法。塞拉斯神情阴郁，所采用的治疗方法更与当时盛行的方法迥然不同，不过似乎病患的精神状况都得到了一定程度的缓解和康复。在此期间，爱德华被美丽端庄的贵妇人伊莉莎·格拉芙（凯特·贝金赛尔 Kate Beckinsale 饰）所吸引，这名女子因心因性的歇斯底里症状饱受折磨。初来乍到的爱德华隐隐察觉这座病院的诡异之处，而他随后不久更发现了病院背后那可怕惊人的秘密…… 本片根据爱伦·坡的短篇小说《塔尔博士和费瑟尔教授的疗法》改编。
