生命中最特别的朋友

　　由于受不了严谨的校纪校规，女孩伊莎贝尔（凯特·哈德森 Kate Hudson 饰）毅然离开了电影学院，过上了她所渴望的自由生活。伊莎贝尔的姐姐罗茜妮（娜奥米·沃茨 Naomi Watts 饰）定居于法国巴黎，身怀六甲的她惨遭画家丈夫查尔斯（梅尔维尔·珀波 Melvil Poupaud 饰）的背叛，愤怒的罗茜妮决定离婚，她给伊莎贝尔写了一封信，希望自己的妹妹能够来到自己身边，支持和陪伴她度过这一段艰难时期。
　　一次偶然中，伊莎贝尔结识了名叫埃德加（蒂埃里·莱尔米特 Thierry Lhermitte 饰）的法国外交官，尽管埃德加已经是一个七十岁高龄的老人了，但伊莎贝尔依旧拜倒在了他的慷慨大方和风度翩翩之中。尽管伊莎贝尔和埃德加之间的恋情并不被他人所看好，但伊莎贝尔依然坚持着自己的想法和信念，直到某一日，她发现，埃德加竟然是自己的亲戚。

　　纽约百老汇，戏剧导演Oscar Jaffe（约翰·巴里摩尔 John Barrymore 饰）捧红了女演员Lily Garland（卡洛·朗白 Carole Lombard 饰），两人成为百老汇票房保证，同时也是一对情侣。合作三年后，Lily因为受不了Oscar对她私人生活的过度干预，偷偷跑去了好莱坞演电影。Oscar一怒之下起用了新的女演员，可惜票房很差，还在芝加哥欠下了债。在从芝加哥回纽约的二十世纪列车上，Oscar机缘巧合又和Lily在同一列火车上。Oscar试图挽回Lily，不管是爱情还是演戏，但Lily已经有了另外的恋人，也对重新和Oscar合作不感兴趣。这列火车上碰巧有一位脑子不大好使的大富翁，Oscar利用这个富翁给他开了张支票，试图以这张支票来让Lily签了演戏的合约。然而这位所谓“大富翁”原来不过是个精神病人，Oscar手中的支票毫无价值。心灰意冷的Oscar决定开枪自尽......

　　Wealthy Rollo Treadway (Buster Keaton) suddenly decides to propose to his neighbor across the street, Betsy O'Brien (Kathryn McGuire), and sends his servant to book passage for a honeymoon sea cruise to Honolulu. When Betsy rejects his sudden offer however, he decides to go on the trip anyway, boarding without delay that night. Because the pier number is partially covered, he ends up on the wrong ship, the Navigator, which Betsy's rich father (Frederick Vroom) has just sold to a small country at war.
　　Agents for the other small nation in the conflict decide to set the ship adrift that same night. When Betsy's father checks up on the ship, he is captured and tied up by the saboteurs. Betsy hears his cry for help and boards the ship to look for him, just before it is cut loose.
　　The Navigator drifts out into the Pacific Ocean. The two unwitting passengers eventually find each other. At first, they have great difficulty looking after themselves, but adapt after a few weeks. At one point, they sight a navy ship and hoist a brightly-colored flag, not realizing it signals that the ship is under quarantine. As a result, the other vessel turns away.
　　Finally, the ship grounds itself near an inhabited tropical island and springs a leak. While Rollo dons a deep sea diving suit and submerges to patch the hole, the black natives canoe out and take Betsy captive. When Rollo emerges from the ocean, the natives are scared off, enabling him to rescue Betsy and take her back to the ship. The natives return and try to board the ship. After a fierce struggle, Rollo and Betsy try to escape in a small dinghy. It starts to sink, and the natives swiftly overtake them in their canoes. Just when all seems lost, a navy submarine surfaces right underneath them and they are saved.

　　A group of Czech artists choose to ignore the realities of Nazi occupation in this brooding experimental war drama. When a pretty female refugee comes to town seeking help, she awakens the sexual desires of all the men, but the only one who helps her is a sympathetic sculptor. When she is allegedly killed, the man sends the artists who refused to aid the woman death masks of the victim. All later conclude that the woman was not mortal.

　　Kleinman（Woody Allen饰）住在一个小镇上，他是一个小小的不起眼的记账员。一天夜里，他被邻居们叫醒，邻居们想请他帮忙把一个在小镇上杀了好多个人的陌生人抓起来。但当他穿好衣服出门准备加入邻居们擒贼的队伍中去的时候，他发现，邻居们在一时之间好像都消失了。与此同时，一个马戏团来到了镇上，展开马戏表演。Paul和Imy是其中的两个表演者。经过一场斗殴，Imy在一个晚上离开了马戏团。渐渐的，她发现了Kleinma一个人表情狰狞地蜷缩在角落里。