简介： 1839年，运送黑奴的阿米斯塔德号在大洋上遭遇暴风雨，黑奴们趁乱暴动，将船员砍杀，控制了阿米斯塔德号后试图驶回家乡，然而六周后，他们阴差阳错抵达了美国，幸存下来的44名黑奴被美国军方逮捕，并将面临杀人罪的指控。此时，西班牙女王向美国总统要求引渡这些属于西班牙的黑奴；两名海军军官也宣称黑奴是他们的战利品；另有人拿出了在古巴购买这些黑奴的证明。各方争执之际，废奴会的领袖之一、同时也是船公司负责人的乔德森（摩根·弗里曼 Morgan Freeman 饰）与友人塔培安雇佣了律师罗杰，希望证明这些黑奴来自非洲，从而在废奴观念深入人心的大环境下为他们谋取自由……
简介： When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, befriends Gen. Arroyo and meets Harriet. Bierce is a famous writer, who knowing that he is dying, wishes to keep his identity secret so he can determine his own fate. Though he likes Arroyo, Bierce tries to provoke the General's anger whenever possible in an attempt to get himself killed, thus avoiding suffering through his illness. Winslow is intrigued by both Bierce and Arroyo, and the men are in turn attracted to her. She becomes romantically involved with Arroyo. When Winslow learns of Bierce's true identity (a writer whose work she has loved and respected for years), she is singlemindedly determined to fulfill his dying wish.
简介： After the corrupt former Mayor is killed by the peasants, poor janitor Juan Vargas is appointed new Mayor of a desert town in central Mexico. Although he tries to bring the motto of the ruling party to town (modernity, peace and progress) he realizes soon that there's nothing to do against corruption... except to become corrupt. Step by step, helped by his pistol, Juan Vargas becomes the law and the worst Major in the town's history. 故事讲述墨西哥农民杀死腐败的前市长后，不幸的看门人阿瓦尔加斯在墨西哥中部被任命为一个沙漠镇的新市长，他努力提倡执政党的新意识，到任不久就立下反对腐败的座右铭，但反对也开始变得腐败，一步步在他的枪手帮助下，阿瓦尔加斯成为法郎和镇上历史最恶劣的一页。