1989年，美国作家比尔·波特来到西安，深入终南山寻访隐士。当时，终南七十二峪，藏着中国仅存的200多位隐士。2001年，《空谷幽兰》中文版出版，在中国向往和潜心住山修行的僧侣道友中产生了深远的影响。25年后，比尔·波特重访终南山。 　　影片攝制组在3年内14次深入终南山寻访。全片仅使用数码单反相机的视频记录功能进行拍摄。坚持定焦镜头，坚持固定机位，拒绝推、拉、摇、移，拒绝人工照明。没有音乐，没有特技。叙事平淡，回避戏剧性。真实还原隐士的简单生活，朴素地表现其淡定的内心和静寂的气氛。

新西班牙电影早期经典之一，柏林电影节银熊奖。 　　Surprising and intelligent spanish movie. The main character of "El anacoreta" is a man (wonderful Fernan Gómez) who has decided to live in his bathroom and not going outside never (well, the bathroom is pretty big). The movie follows this special man in his routine life and specially when he writes messages to anonymous addressees, putting them in bottles and throwing them by the WC. One of these messages arrives to "destiny" as one girl from Italia picks one bottle from the sea and comes to visit the man. The movie has two special points of interest: 1) its amazing originality and 2) its wonderful portrait of a man loneliness. "El anacoreta" is one of the best spanish movies of the 70s.

In fourteenth-century England, peasant girl Christine Carpenter is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary that the local priest (who lusts after her) suggests she be walled up in the church as an anchoress, a holy woman with responsibility for blessing the villagers. But when the priest has Christine's mother tried as a witch, she digs herself out of her cell, a crime for which the punishment is death.

In the late 18th century some members of the British gentry used to employ professional anchorites to inhabit their garden grounds as some kind of decorative element. Richard, the last descendant of an impoverished noble family, inhabits a tiny flat in London - together with Jeremy, his "ornamental hermit". Their unity is menaced massively when they get to know Lavinia, the lovely girl from next door, who is a young art student, struggling for acknowledgement.

In the late 18th century some members of the British gentry used to employ professional anchorites to inhabit their garden grounds as some kind of decorative element. Richard, the last descendant of an impoverished noble family, inhabits a tiny flat in London - together with Jeremy, his "ornamental hermit". Their unity is menaced massively when they get to know Lavinia, the lovely girl from next door, who is a young art student, struggling for acknowledgement.

一个爱尔兰商人为了私利将某美国边境的小镇卖给了一些不法之徒。可随着这些狂徒趋于猖獗，镇上被杀害的人越来越多时，商人和他的家人最终也将面临着不法分子的胁迫。

未来世界，大部分人类生活在火星上，这些城市被穹顶的力场保护起来，免受火星大气不适宜居住的影响。一场巨大的沙尘暴冲破穹顶并摧毁火星纽约，火星洛杉矶科研总指挥米兰达的女儿艾莉和她的朋友艾达躲进了地堡里。

一个爱尔兰商人为了私利将某美国边境的小镇卖给了一些不法之徒。可随着这些狂徒趋于猖獗，镇上被杀害的人越来越多时，商人和他的家人最终也将面临着不法分子的胁迫。

未来世界，大部分人类生活在火星上，这些城市被穹顶的力场保护起来，免受火星大气不适宜居住的影响。一场巨大的沙尘暴冲破穹顶并摧毁火星纽约，火星洛杉矶科研总指挥米兰达的女儿艾莉和她的朋友艾达躲进了地堡里。

2008年金融危机下，美国内华达州昂皮尔小镇的重要经济支柱石膏厂倒闭，人去镇空，这里的邮政编码也被取消。丈夫去世后，几乎在在昂皮尔小镇度过了一生的弗恩（弗兰西斯·麦克多蒙德饰）无力独撑生活。为了将生活成本压到最低，她将简陋的家当搬上了改装后的厢式货车，开始了一边打工、一边西行的公路生活。她在亚马逊流水线上、在游乐园的咖啡厅里、在国家森林公园做临时工。一路上，她和许多厢式货车寄居者相遇、相识，彼此帮助，并缔结了友谊。