史蒂夫·洛佩兹（小罗伯特·唐尼 Robert Downey Jr. 饰）是一名洛杉矶时报的记者，最近因为一次骑行意外而住进了医院。在病床上，他经常听见附近传来优美的小提琴声，从而结识了天才小提琴手纳萨尼尔·埃尔斯（杰米·福克斯 Jamie Foxx 饰），渐渐地他发现， 埃 尔斯原来曾进修于声名显赫的茱莉亚音乐学院，然而却因精神分裂症而辍学，如今只能流落街头卖艺为生。洛佩兹决意将埃尔斯的故事写成专栏，为此他开始留意埃尔斯的一举一动，在相互了解的过程中，两人渐渐建立了深厚友谊，洛佩兹为了帮助埃尔斯完成音乐梦想甚至抛家弃业，然而埃尔斯的精神疾病却始终是两人之间的羁绊……
　　本片根据史蒂夫·洛佩兹发表在报纸上的文章进行改编。

　　女孩布兰卡偷窃乞讨露宿街头，家对她而言只是妄想。当她在电视上看到领养的新闻，灵光乍现想要买个妈妈。于是她努力存钱，还找街头走唱的盲眼吉他手老皮帮忙。她成为老皮的眼睛，两人一起离开贫民窟，来到大城市打拼流浪。一路上遇见形形色色的人物，经历大大小小的冒险，布兰卡真的能够如愿买到心中理想的妈妈吗？

　　故事发生在六十年代的美国，勒维恩（奥斯卡·伊萨克 Oscar Isaac 饰）是一位名不见经传的民谣歌手，生活困顿的他无家可归亦没有固定的工作，每晚得靠朋友们的救济才得以寻得安身之处。可是，尽管陷入了窘境，但固执的勒维恩却不愿意了顺应大众的喜好而做出无奈的改变，也正因为此，他和交往多年的好友简（凯瑞·穆丽根 Carey Mulligan 饰）和吉姆（贾斯汀·丁伯莱克 Justin Timberlake 饰）之间的关系也跌落到了冰点，更让勒维恩感到烦心的是，简的腹中竟然怀上了自己的孩子。
　　之后，勒维恩前往芝加哥企图找到一份工作，却在面试之后惨遭拒绝，之后，一无所获的他回到了格林尼治村，继续回到曾经兼职的小酒馆打工。熟悉的场景，熟悉的音乐，熟悉的氛围，勒维恩经历了许多，却又好像什么都没有发生过。

　　家境贫寒的梅爱芳（廖子妤 饰）和梅艳芳（王丹妮 饰）是一对甜美可人、歌声动听的姐妹花，为了补贴家用，姐妹俩从小登台演出，声名渐起。及至成年，梅艳芳的魅力渐渐盖过姐姐，她也当之无愧成为家里的顶梁柱。这个天资丰厚的女孩，得到了唱片公司经理苏孝良（林家栋 饰）的垂青，更有金牌经纪人Florence（杨千嬅 饰）、服装设计师刘培基（古天乐 饰）、相识于微时的歌坛巨星张国荣（刘俊谦 饰）等人鼎力相助与悉心陪伴。从一个不谙世事的弱女子，逐渐成长为挡风遮雨的大姐大，梅艳芳的人生充满了传奇。
　　这个嫁给舞台的一代天后，身着华美婚纱，转身隐于聚光灯中……

故事講述決心踏上國際舞台的Band Four 主音Cat (謝安琪 飾)自小崇拜結他手父親King (泰迪羅賓 飾)，父親卻在她十歲時離家出走。廿多年後，Cat 媽病逝，父女在火葬場內重逢，此時，Cat多了9歲兒子Riley(陳諾霆 飾)，父親King攜帶了女兒樂弦(Anna hisbbuR 飾)回來。四人忽然同一屋簷下，一個家四種聲音，各有掙扎、秘密與恐懼，難以溝通。音樂是四人唯一的共通點，當透過音樂四人開始合拍互相聆聽時，Band Four 卻面臨更大難關 ??

　　帕拉迪姆大巴”是巴黎一处著名夜店的名字。影片主人公是上世纪八十年代四位少年时代的好友，讲述了他们组成的摇滚乐队从成名到毁灭的故事。

　　Set in a small Quebec town in the late-1920′s, this emotional drama follows the life and exploits of Celeste Beaumont, a talented young pianist who gains local celebrity at the town movie theater for her gifts as a silent film pianist.   Awkward Pierre Blaudell is her biggest fan and eventually marries her.   Shortly after this she bears his son, Pierre, who joins the army.   She insists on joining him at the base and his meddlesome, snooty parents insist she give them her son.   Pierre is killed in the war, and Celeste flees to New York where she finds steady employment as a jazz pianist.   She finds a life-long companion with a black musician and chronicles her experiences in a diary that she passes on to her son after he grows up.   Her son becomes a painter and once his own son, Antoine, is grown, reads him the story of Celeste, the youth’s grandmother.   Intrigued, Antoine heads to the Big Apple in hopes of finding her.
　　This movie is an emotional drama about how Antoine, played beautifully by François Méthé, discovers the details of his heritage.   This film won many awards in Canada and at Cannes in 1988.   François Méthé, who was about 11-years-old, never acted again after this movie.
　　From IMDb:
　　A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn’t seen since infancy.   He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents.   The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents.   As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who’s about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father’s silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.

　　普通百姓刘成（刘佩琦）为让从小拉小提琴的儿子刘小春（唐韵）的小提琴技艺有较大提升，带着他从江南来到北京，拜了性格怪异的江老师（王志文）为师，在学习过程中，刘小春逐渐与江老师成为忘年好友。风情万种的莉莉（陈红）与刘成父子俩住得很近，她让刘小春逐渐萌发生出莫名的爱恋。
　　刘成偶然聆听过一位年轻人的精彩演奏后，登门拜访了其恩师余教授（陈凯歌），并说服对方收下刘小春为徒。刘小春怀着无奈与遗憾离开了江老师，投身余教授门下，却只收获了束缚与压抑，他开始怀疑“父亲的选择”，与父亲的关系越变越紧张。

　　十部必看的希腊电影经典之一。如果想了解希腊文化尤其是音乐此片必看。1984年柏林电影节最佳导演银熊奖。
　　Considered to be one of the most powerful and emotional Greek movies, Rembetiko focuses on the life of an individual woman,a real person and through her personal story, it retells the story of Greece,from 1920 to 1955:the national disaster in Asia Minor,the one million refugees who came to Greece,the World War II,the Nazi occupation,the Civil War.The tragedy and the glory of a nation during the century.And all these bound with the music of rembetiko,the music of the outcasts.Great direction,great performances,great music.A voyage to history of the first half of the 20th century, but also a voyage to the origins of rembetiko.Realistic and dreamy.An original Greek epic.