盘老五、石牯和赵良是三个普通的放排人。在十年动乱中，他们带着浩劫创伤，漂流在萧水上。烦恼、苦闷与不平缠绕着他们，无法解脱，只好无聊地吵嘴，发泄地殴斗，苦闷地酗酒。夜晚，木排停靠在荒野，石牯上岸去找他那被区革委会主任李家栋逼迫出嫁的未婚妻改秀，遇到了被监督劳动、已经奄奄一息的老区长陈鸣鹤，赶来寻找石牯的盘老五毅然决定，把老区长转移到一个安全的地方。改秀虽然被迫出嫁，但一直是抗婚不从。她闻讯逃出，在河边等到木排，与石牯团聚。改秀上木排后，胆小怕事的赵良担心李家栋追查，盘老五又见义勇为，同意承担起一切后果，这样，才把改秀留到了木排上，跟他们一起漂流。石牯和改秀这对年轻人的遭遇，不禁勾起了盘老五对自己年轻时爱情悲剧的回忆：三十多年前，他与纯真的少女吴爱花有着一段甜美的爱情。但是，他因为散了排而背上了磨盘债，他不忍让吴爱花跟着自己受苦，就主动离散了。他与吴爱花的爱情，成为一段幸福而痛苦的记忆，永远铭刻在盘老五的心中。木排漂流到双河街，盘老五为了急救生命垂危的徐区长，要去买人参，但偏偏钱又不够。平时非常小气的赵良，竟然慷慨解囊，把给女儿办嫁妆的钱掏了出来。在面铺，盘老五突然遇到了吴爱花，谁能想到，这时的吴爱花已经沦为一个讨饭婆子！30年的沧桑变迁，在两个人中间隔起了一道无形的屏障，使他们变得生疏了、冷漠了。可是，旧时有爱情，今天的苦难，却又象一根无形的链条把他们的心紧紧连在一起。吴爱花述说了自己的不幸身世，盘老五向她解释了当年离去的原因，他用诚挚的热情和力量，唤起了爱花生活的信念。吴爱花接受了盘老五给徐区长送人参的委托，可人参又被李家栋一伙劫去。盘老五冒着生命危险夺回人参。大雨如注，山洪暴发，木排在洪流中狂奔。盘老五发现洪水中的浮木，他把伙伴们推下木排逃生，自己驾排向前冲去。清晨，石牯、改秀、赵良在河滩上寻找着，呼喊着盘老五。

北方謙三のハードボイルド小説を映画化。しがないサラリーマンのオオツカ。ある日彼は上司の命令を受けて、姿を消した先輩社員の行方を捜すために新潟へ向かう。それはいつもと同じ、ただの出張のハズだったが…。

作过一次临时演员后，小康（李康生）罹患歪脖子的怪病，父亲（苗天）带其四处求医。 　　父亲虽已有妻、子，却是贪恋年轻男孩身体的同性恋者，家庭对他早已名存实亡，已丧失承担责任的能力（或认为并没什么责任要承担），可是对于小康，他又不自觉扮演起传统意义上的“父亲”角色，却也只能是失职的。小康是年轻的同性恋者，可是却并不清楚自己期望从同性处获得怎样一种安慰，父母的貌合神离不但令他对男女关系失掉信心，对同性关系的理解也盲从地认为只是两具肉体的短暂吸引、结合。而作为被丈夫（同时代男人）与儿子（更年轻的男人）同时冷落的母亲（陆筱琳），则只能默默忍受肉体与精神的双重饥渴与孤独。

作过一次临时演员后，小康（李康生）罹患歪脖子的怪病，父亲（苗天）带其四处求医。 　　父亲虽已有妻、子，却是贪恋年轻男孩身体的同性恋者，家庭对他早已名存实亡，已丧失承担责任的能力（或认为并没什么责任要承担），可是对于小康，他又不自觉扮演起传统意义上的“父亲”角色，却也只能是失职的。小康是年轻的同性恋者，可是却并不清楚自己期望从同性处获得怎样一种安慰，父母的貌合神离不但令他对男女关系失掉信心，对同性关系的理解也盲从地认为只是两具肉体的短暂吸引、结合。而作为被丈夫（同时代男人）与儿子（更年轻的男人）同时冷落的母亲（陆筱琳），则只能默默忍受肉体与精神的双重饥渴与孤独。

« Entre Pyrénées et Atlantique coulent des rivières puissantes qu’on appelle les gaves. Les champs de maïs les assoiffent, les barrages bloquent la circulation du saumon. L’activité humaine bouleverse le cycle de l’eau et la biodiversité de la rivière.» 　　« Pour voir la rivière aujourd’hui, il faut filmer plus large que la rivière, il faut filmer le bassin versant, le cycle de l’eau. Il faut la faire exister dans ses extensions souterraines et aériennes, les nappes et les nuages, mais aussi la chercher jusque dans le champ de maïs, la frayère à saumons, les retenues qui la bloquent. Il faut la filmer suspendue entre mémoire d’un passé fastueux et peur d’un avenir desséché. Filmer les gaves, c’est filmer notre monde dans son intrication de beauté et de désastre. » (Dominique Marchais)

A young woman and man meet for lunch in restaurant nestled in the mountainous regions of Lebanon. Suddenly war seems to break out all around them. They are forced to retreat into nature.

« Entre Pyrénées et Atlantique coulent des rivières puissantes qu’on appelle les gaves. Les champs de maïs les assoiffent, les barrages bloquent la circulation du saumon. L’activité humaine bouleverse le cycle de l’eau et la biodiversité de la rivière.» 　　« Pour voir la rivière aujourd’hui, il faut filmer plus large que la rivière, il faut filmer le bassin versant, le cycle de l’eau. Il faut la faire exister dans ses extensions souterraines et aériennes, les nappes et les nuages, mais aussi la chercher jusque dans le champ de maïs, la frayère à saumons, les retenues qui la bloquent. Il faut la filmer suspendue entre mémoire d’un passé fastueux et peur d’un avenir desséché. Filmer les gaves, c’est filmer notre monde dans son intrication de beauté et de désastre. » (Dominique Marchais)

Film takes place at the end of XIX century in a tiny colony in a Yakut taiga. 　　A young healthy girl (a thief hunter) who occasionaly visits the village falls in love with one of the patients, a young one, and bears his child. But suddenly his wife appears, and in this strange love triangle the tragedy becomes ripe...

The River, of which the central theme is desire, is the most erotic film of the silent cinema. Wreathed with the laurels of worldwide success and with an Oscar for 7th Heaven, American filmmaker of Italo-Swiss origin, Frank Borzage (1894-1962) conceived this work with complete artistic freedom. The immense natural sets were built in the open-air on a lot at Fox Film in Westwood, Los Angeles. 　　The initial situation is of an Eden-like simplicity: the initiation into love of a male virgin, a man of the woods coming into contact with a mysterious female urbanite about whom we learn but little, other than that she "has lived life to the full" and that she is always monitored by the crow belonging to her lover who was imprisoned for murder. There follow the hazards of seduction and refusal, ruses and inhibitions, endless desires confessed, with many hitches, right up to metamorphosis into love. The whole narrative unfolds on the banks of a river which reveals the nudity of the bodies (sex), the mortal perils of the vortex (passion), the purification and promise of a harmonious fulfillment (the sea.) 　　When it first came out the film was pursued by misfortune: not quite knowing how to promote it, Fox disguised the work with a musical prologue and a spoken word ending, filmed behind the back of the cineaste (the 'talkie' version was unseen outside of the United States). The strong sensuality of the images shocked puritan America: The River was forbidden a screening in many States and a tacit consensus limited its distribution. Many newspapers passed over the film in silence, boycotted the publicity, and even the « New York Times » only granted it a small, embarrassed paragraph. 　　In Europe the reception was warmer and the French movie-goers, amongst them the young Marcel Carné, praised the film to the skies (7 weeks exclusive in Paris). The surrealist milieus around André Breton saw in this Woman With Raven, as which the film was distributed in France, more true audaciousness and insight than in the entire French avant-garde. For the duration of the season, the disturbing Mary Duncan (1895-1993) provoked flights of fantasy under the same heading as Louise Brooks. Then the film disappeared, became a legend. It is rumoured to have been lost, just like the other mythic title from Fox, Murnau's 4 Devils filmed at the same time.