故事主角是一個生活在30年代法國巴黎的12歲孤兒雨果．卡柏瑞，他住在火車站的高牆內，在熙攘的人群中穿梭，藏身于大鐘後方，冷眼觀察來往過客，隱姓埋名，滿腦子秘密。 他的父親在修理博物館機器人的過程中離奇死去，為了找出父親留給他的資訊，雨果也開始修理這個機器人，然而這卻引出更複雜、驚人的秘密，雨果的命運就此改變。 薩夏拜倫柯恩飾演的警察以誇張的表情和聲音成為最有看點的角色，這個警察一開始是個凶狠的獨裁者，專門追捕流浪兒童，又因在戰場上受過傷而很自卑孤獨。薩夏說：「一開始看到這個角色我一直在想為什麼他這麼喜歡追捕流浪兒童，後來我們商討決定把他塑造成戰場上受過身體和心靈創傷的人，因此他才會有扭曲和複雜的人格。」

Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.

Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns.

A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. This is a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with a few moments of solitude in a garden.

Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Lena soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her way. But she has yet to confront the worst of them: Her unstoppable family has decided, by any means necessary, to make her happy.