一个男人在物欲横流的世界中经历诱惑，迷茫，放纵，超脱的过程。 　　导演泰伦斯·马力克力邀克里斯蒂安·贝尔，凯特·布兰切特，娜塔莉·波特曼加盟，影片入围第65届德国柏林电影节主竞赛单元，被不少影评人看好是当届金熊奖的热门候选。

讲述一个处于晚年的电影导演的生活故事，包含初恋、第二次恋爱、母亲、死亡、与他合作过的一些演员，时间跨越60、80年代和现在，一种不适应的空虚感导致他现在无法拍电影。

　　电影导演圭多（马塞洛·马斯楚安尼 Marcello Mastroianni 饰）在完成了一部影片之后感到筋疲力尽，他来到一处疗养地休息，同时开始构思下一部电影。他受到恶梦的困扰，精神不振，灵感也陷入停滞。他让情妇卡拉（桑德拉·米洛 Sandra Milo 饰）也来到疗养地和他作伴，但卡拉的到来反而增添了他的烦恼。此时，充满朝气的年轻女郎克劳迪娅（克劳迪娅·卡汀娜 Claudia Cardinale 饰）的出现，令圭多压抑的世界乍现出一抹亮色。然而随着圭多妻子路易莎（阿努克·艾梅 Anouk Aimée 饰）以及许多电影圈人士纷纷来到疗养地，圭多不堪忍受个人感情生活的混乱与电影拍摄的双重压力，他的精神危机愈演愈烈，梦境与幻觉不断侵入他的现实生活……

　　本片荣获1964年奥斯卡最佳外语片和最佳服装设计（黑白片）两项大奖。

《真事改编》根据同名畅销小说改编，女作家Delphine（艾玛纽尔·塞尼耶扮演）出版新书尝到走红的滋味后，脑中的灵感也随之蒸发，再也写不出一个字，此时又面临匿名读者来信骚扰，一句句威胁口吻重击她脆弱的心灵。

这时瓦克斯曼（伍迪•艾伦 饰）的事业并不如意，生活有点潦倒。他常常想起当年自己的风采，那段峥嵘岁月里他曾得过两届的奥斯卡奖。他拼命在无奈的生活中挣扎，幸好有前妻艾丽为他推荐，有机会执导一部新电影。出资拍片的人正是艾丽的男友，但瓦克斯曼对这位大老板的身份感到十分不满。但为了能重新振作，再次冲击电影界，瓦克斯曼还是作好出击的准备。可是当一切都准备妥当的时候，他无端失明了，他又如何能导演好一部电影呢，疾病却不能阻止瓦克斯曼前进的步伐，他要隐瞒病情，把电影拍完。到头来，老板兼情敌又会否知道他的秘密呢？

Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its previews, the movie is considered a critical, artistic and surefire commercial success. As such, Alex seemingly has his choice of what his next project will be. As he makes the rounds both in the Hollywood community and European movie centers for ideas, he fantasizes about movie scenarios of those everyday situations he is in.

Colin is a painting student in Italy, introverted and suffering from a void in his life. He no longer paints. One weekend, he decides to return to France to spend a day with his friends whom he has not seen for a long time. But this little party will not go as hoped. The gap that has grown between him and them continues to widen, to the point where continuing to look away is no longer possible.

Ariel is a painter who finds herself stuck in a creative slump that threatens her sanity. Meanwhile, her ego takes the shape of an Astronaut, looking for something that might awaken her from this creative and psychological state