十大最值得一看的英式发音电影
1. If Only 如果能再爱一次
Peter Wyndham(Nicholls饰)与女友Emily(Jennifer Love Hewitt饰)像任何一对平凡的情侣一样，每天忙着自己的生活，很少时间独处。一次争吵过后，前来道歉的Peter犹豫着要不要上出租车，因为这份犹豫女友选择离开。不到一分种，出租车在前面街口与一辆卡车相撞，女友香消玉陨。悲痛万分的Peter在次日清晨醒来发现又回到了之前的一天，女友安然无恙，一切按照既定步骤发展。如果再来一次，Peter不敢想着居然成为事实。他放下一切业务，与女友登山、散步、彼此倾诉，爱意缠绵。到了那个决定性的夜晚，那辆夺命的出租车上，他毫不犹豫地上车，并且在致命的一击。
Ian Wyndham (Nicholls) is a British Businessman who lives with his musician girlfriend, Samantha Andrews (Hewitt) in London. Ian takes Sam forgranted making Sam feeling vulnerable in the role of the one who loves more. Taking us through a day in Ian and Sam's life, the film opens by showing different events such as Sam getting burnt on a kettle, Ian's watch breaking, Sam getting Coca-Cola spilt on her and Ian being interrupted by Sam during an important meeting at work.
As the day progresses we see Sam gets in a passing taxi and as Ian tries to get in beside her he notices that the driver is the same man who he traveled with earlier that day. The man gives Ian an ominous smile and as the clock hits 11 PM, Sam closes the door, leaving Ian standing there. As he watches the taxi drive away, Ian makes one last attempt to reconcile with Sam and runs after the taxi as it stops at a traffic light. Before he gets there, the lights change and the taxi begins driving again. As it speeds up, the taxi is struck violently by another car and comes to a stop on the middle of the street. Ian halts and falls on his knees in shock.
2. An Education 成长教育
In 1961 London, Jenny Mellor is a 16-year-old schoolgirl, on track to enter Oxford University when she meets a charming older man, David Goldman, who pursues her romantically. He takes her to concerts, clubs, and fine restaurants, and easily charms her parents into approving of the relationship. When Jenny recognizes that David is a con man who makes money through a variety of shady practices, she is initially shocked but silences her misgivings in the face of David's persuasive charm.
When David proposes marriage, Jenny accepts and leaves school. She then discovers David is already married. When she reveals her discovery to David, he drops out of sight. Jenny despairs, feeling she has thrown her life away, but with the help of her favourite teacher, resumes her studies and is accepted at Oxford the following year.
16岁的珍妮是一个聪明开朗的小姑娘，就读于英国伦敦乡下一所女子学校的预科班，她的成绩很好，是众所期待考上牛津大学的"种子选手"。某天，她遇见了成熟时髦、风趣迷人的男人大卫，并闪电般地与他陷入爱河不可自拔。大卫带她见识了大都市的灯红酒绿和浮华奢靡，这一直是她非常向往的生活。在此之前她从来未曾想过，这种生活如此轻易就能得到。很快她就沉迷其中不可自拔，备考牛津的念头也被抛诸到九霄云外。与大卫一起的日子看起来是如此美妙，但是某一天，真相却如一记砖头重重地敲在珍妮头上。她从一个天真活泼的女学生变成了一个世故圆滑的女人，她开始反思这种生活是否真的是她想要的……
3. Kate & Leopold 穿越时空爱上你
In 1876, Leopold Alexis Elijah Walker Thomas Gareth Mountbatten, Duke of Albany, is a stifled dreamer. Strict Uncle Millard (Paxton Whitehead) has no patience for Leopold's disrespect for the monarchy, chastising him and telling him he must marry a rich American, as the Mountbatten family finances are depleted. His uncle has told him that on his "thirtieth birthday he had become a blemish to the family name".
The Duke finds Stuart Besser (Liev Schreiber)， an amateur physicist (and descendant of Leopold, according to deleted scenes) perusing his schematic diagrams and taking photographs of them. He had seen him earlier at Roebling's speech about the Brooklyn Bridge. Leopold follows Stuart and tries to save him from what he thinks is a suicide, falling after him into the portal that brought the man there in the first place.
Leopold awakens in 21st century New York. He is at first confused and thinks that he has been kidnapped. Stuart says that he has created formulae to forecast portals in the temporal universe and that Leopold must stay inside his apartment until the portal opens again a week later. As Stuart takes his dog out, he is injured by falling into the elevator shaft, and is eventually institutionalized for speaking about his scientific discovery.
莱伯特(休•杰克曼饰)是19世纪的一名落魄贵族公爵，在家人为他安排的相亲宴会上，他为了追踪一个陌生人，疯狂科学家斯图尔特，无意闯入时空隧道，来到了100多年后的21世纪，斯图尔特的意外住院使公爵面对陌生的环境举步维艰。机缘巧合下，他邂逅了斯图尔特的前女友凯特(梅格•瑞恩饰)：一个野心勃勃、独立聪明的广告界女强人，一连串的事情，使二人互相吸引，谱写出一段跨越时空的浪漫恋曲……但是，穿越时空的情感注定不会一帆风顺。为了顺应历史的发展，出院的斯图尔特不得不把莱伯特送回属于他的年代，莱伯特和凯特刚刚开始的恋情面临时空分离的危机。两人是命定的缘分还是刹那的相逢？两人能否穿越时空的阻隔在一起？
4. Trainspotting 猜火车
Set in Edinburgh, the film begins with Mark Renton's (Ewan McGregor) statement that unlike people who "choose life" (i.e. a traditional family lifestyle with children, financial stability and material possessions)， he has chosen an alternative lifestyle of a heroin addict. Renton's close circle of football enthusiast friends are introduced: Sick Boy, Spud and Renton are all heroin addicts, while Tommy and Begbie openly criticise heroin use, even as they indulge in binge drinking and chain smoking. After quitting heroin, Renton struggles to adjust. The return to sobriety forces Renton to view his friends much more critically as they spend time together sober engaging in unconventional activities.
After a tragic relapse, Renton moves to London and starts a job as a property letting agent. He begins to enjoy the vibrancy of London, still clean off heroin, and saves up money on the side. His happiness is short-lived, however, as his 'friends' continually bring their dramas to him.
本片描述了苏格兰爱丁堡一群吸毒青年垃圾式的生活现状。马克•瑞登(伊云•麦葵格饰)是一个十足的颓废青年，和一群狐朋狗友过着无所事事的生活，他们坑蒙拐骗、吸毒，共同养着一个父不详的婴儿，荒唐、堕落。某次吸毒的意外，婴儿死了，对马克带来很大的震撼；马克和好友土豆抢劫被抓，土豆坐牢，马克勒令戒毒。戒毒成功的马克成为房地产经济，开始过正常人的生活。然而，马克并没有摆脱过去的阴影，以前的朋友再次找到他，扰乱了他的生活，这使他不胜其烦，他决定彻底摆脱他们……
5. The Holiday 恋爱假期
Amanda Woods (Cameron Diaz) with her best friend Miles (Jack Black) owns a company that produces movie trailers. She handles editing while he provides incidental score, and scenes concerning her are occasionally accompanied by narration in the voice of Hal Douglas. Amanda is an extreme workaholic. Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet) is a society column editor for The Daily Telegraph in London. Both women are suffering from heartache: While Amanda discovers that her live-in boyfriend (Edward Burns) has cheated on her, due to their lackluster relationship, Iris learns that Jasper Bloom (Rufus Sewell)， the object of Iris' unrequited love, is engaged after he announces it at the office Christmas party. Seeking an escape, Iris posts an ad for her "quaint cottage in Surrey" on a home-swap website, which Amanda eagerly accepts.
爱丽斯(凯特•温斯莱特 Kate Winslet饰)住在英国伦敦的乡村，而阿曼达(卡梅隆•迪亚兹 Cameron Diaz饰)则是洛杉矶的美国丽人。她们在天南地北的两端，却遇上了同样的问题：在感情上遭受了挫败，令生活灰暗无光。二人在网上聊天，商议在圣诞节到来之前，到对方的环境去生活，交互双方的住所作为度假场地。于是，一场令人兴奋的旅行开始了。爱丽斯来到美国大都市，阿曼达则乘班机前往极具英伦情调的英国乡村。除了新鲜的生活环境，当地男生的魅力更让她们猝不及防。
6. Oliver Twist 雾都孤儿
Young orphan Oliver Twist is forcibly brought to a workhouse on his ninth birthday. He and the other resident children are treated poorly and given very little food. Facing starvation, the boys select Oliver (through a lottery) to ask for more food at the next meal, which he tentatively does. This results in Oliver being chastised, and the workhouse officials, who are wealthy, well-fed, hypocritical men, decide to get rid of him. After nearly being sold as an apprentice to a cruel chimney sweep, Oliver is sent to Mr. Sowerberry, a coffin-maker, whose wife and senior apprentice take an instant dislike to the newcomer. After more poor treatment, Oliver snaps and attacks Noah, the snotty older apprentice, for having insulted his mother. Knowing his life with the Sowerberrys will only get worse, Oliver escapes on foot.
本片根据英国作家狄更斯1838年的名著《雾都孤儿》改编。孤儿奥利弗(巴尼•克拉克 Barney Clark 饰)由教会抚养长大，9岁时被送去童工厂拣填絮，后被卖给棺材铺当学徒，屡受欺侮。奥利弗从棺材铺逃跑，步行七十英里到达伦敦，遇见小偷“机灵鬼”(哈利 •伊登 Harry Eden 饰)，并被收入犹太老头费金(本•金斯利 Ben Kinsley 饰)的盗窃团伙。奥利弗第一次出徒便被诬陷偷窃布朗罗先生(爱德华•哈德威克 Edward Hardwicke饰)的丝帕，并被打昏在地。被好心的布朗罗先生带回家收养，却在替布朗罗先生跑差途中被费金的同僚比尔(杰米•福尔曼 Jamie Foreman饰)抓获。比尔逼迫奥利弗协助他与同伙托比(马克•斯特朗 Mark Strong 饰)入夜行窃布朗罗先生家。小奥利弗不从，眼看命在旦夕……
7. The English Patient 英国病人
The historical backdrop for this novel is the Second World War in Northern Africa and Italy. Hana, a young Canadian Army nurse, lives in the abandoned Villa San Girolamo in Italy, which is filled with hidden, undetonated bombs. In her care is the man nicknamed "the English patient," of whom all she knows is that he was burned beyond recognition in a plane crash before being taken to the hospital by a Bedouin tribe. He also claimed to be English. The only possession that the patient has is a copy of Herodotus' histories that survived the fire. He has annotated these histories and is constantly remembering his explorations in the desert in great detail, but cannot state his own name. The patient is, in fact, László de Almásy, a Hungarian desert explorer who was part of a British cartography group. He chose, however, to erase his identity and nationality.
一段爱情，在战火中燃烧，逾越了道德，改变了战局。艾马殊(拉尔夫•费因斯 Ralph Fiennes 饰)是一个历史学者，跟随探险家来到撒哈拉沙漠考察，结识了绘制地图的飞机师杰佛和他妻子凯瑟琳(克里斯汀•斯科特•托马斯 Kristin Scott Thomas 饰)。凯瑟琳的才气和美丽让艾马殊深深着迷，两人在沙漠一个幽深洞穴参观壁画时，更加发现彼此志趣相投。道德最终战胜了激情。凯瑟琳和艾马殊分手后，杰弗发现了妻子的外遇。伤心的杰弗开着飞机企图与妻子和艾马殊同归于尽，艾马殊幸运躲过一劫，却造成凯瑟琳身受重伤、自己命丧黄泉。艾马殊赶到深爱的人身边，把她安置到山洞里，承诺一定会走出沙漠，找到援助。但是，事情却不像想象中容易。他为了救人，担当了卖国罪名，惹来了杀身之祸，而凯瑟琳会不会等来获救的曙光？艾马殊又将承担起怎样的罪责？
8. Penelope 真爱之吻
Generations ago, an embittered witch placed a curse on the Wilhern family because their son had impregnated her daughter, one of their servants. The son sought to marry her, but his family talked him out of it and married him off to another. The witch's daughter, overwrought, threw herself off a cliff. The witch cursed the Wilherns so that the next girl born into the clan would have the aspect of a pig. For five generations, only sons were born into the family, until Penelope (Christina Ricci) was born, stricken with the curse. It is said that the curse can only be lifted if one of her own learns to love her, which is interpreted by her parents to mean a man of noble birth.
佩内洛普(克里斯蒂娜•里奇饰)出生在贵族家庭，可是她的家族被诅咒了她一出生便有着一个猪鼻子。佩内洛普对自己的样貌感到十分的自卑，她羞于与一切人交往，要想解除这个诅咒，便要得到一个出自真爱的吻，才能让佩内洛普恢复美貌。女儿长大了，佩内洛普的父母极力张罗她的婚事，佩内洛普也想找到个真正爱她的人解除魔咒。可是每个看到佩内洛普真面目的男子都落荒而逃，令佩内洛普与父母都感到十分难堪与沮丧。以往，每个见过佩内洛普真面目的男生都签约保证不会向外界透露这个秘密。可是某贵族继承人却走漏了风声。记者雷蒙当年想得知佩内洛普的真面目，却让佩内洛普的母亲击伤了右眼，此时他要与贵族继承人合作，雇人假扮相亲者与佩内洛普见面，以拍到她的真面目。但被雇佣的麦克斯(詹姆斯•麦卡沃伊饰)是个没落贵族，佩内洛普误以为他不在乎自己的面貌，备受感动。实际上麦克斯从未见过佩内洛普，两人隔着一块玻璃相处良久后彼此吸引住了，但他碍于与佩内洛普的身份相差甚异，默默离开了。最后佩内洛普又能否找到真爱，得到真爱之吻解除恶毒的魔咒呢？
9. Enemy at the Gates 兵临城下
In 1942, Vassili Zaitsev (Jude Law)， a shepherd from the Ural Mountains who is now a soldier in the Red Army, finds himself on the front lines of the Battle of Stalingrad. Sent on a suicidal charge against the invading Germans, he uses impressive marksmanship skills—taught to him by his grandfather from a young age—to save himself and commissar Danilov (Joseph Fiennes). Nikita Khrushchev (Bob Hoskins) arrives in Stalingrad to coordinate the city's defenses and demands ideas to improve morale. Danilov, now a senior Lieutenant, suggests that the people need figures to idolize, and publishes tales of Vassili's exploits in the army's newspaper that paint him as a national hero and propaganda icon. Vassili is transferred to the sniper division, and he and Danilov become friends. They also both become romantically interested in Tania (Rachel Weisz)， a citizen of Stalingrad who has become a Private in the local militia. Danilov has her transferred to an intelligence unit away from the battlefield.
斯大林格勒战役中，瓦西里(裘德•洛 Jude Law 饰)是一个威震部队的神枪手。他的好枪法百发百中，令敌人闻风丧胆。为了激励士气，树立榜样，瓦西里的战友——苏军文宣部军官丹尼洛夫(约瑟夫•费因斯 Joseph Fiennes 饰)在报纸上大量刊登瓦西里的英雄事迹，令瓦西里的形象更为高大。然而，坦妮娅(雷切尔•薇姿Rachel Weisz饰)的出现，让瓦西里和丹尼洛夫都同时迷恋上了这个飒爽女兵。但塔妮娅喜欢的是瓦西里，这让丹尼洛夫大为妒忌。另一方面，德军派出了他们的狙击手康尼(艾德•哈里斯 Ed Harris 饰)，让同是神枪手的他抗衡瓦西里。在硝烟弥漫的战场上，瓦西里和康尼开始了斗智斗勇的决斗。
10. Becoming Jane 成为简·奥斯汀
Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) is the youngest daughter of Reverend Austen and his wife (Julie Walters) and has yet to find a suitable husband. She wishes to be a writer, to the dismay of her mother and proud delight of her father (James Cromwell).
Thomas Lefroy (James McAvoy) is a promising lawyer with a bad reputation, which he describes as "typical" for peers of that era. After a bad first impression upon meeting him, Jane cannot stand the arrogant Irishman. She turns down the affections of numerous men, including Mr. Wisley (Laurence Fox)， the nephew of the wealthy Lady Gresham (Maggie Smith). Wisley proposes, but Jane ultimately rejects him due to lack of affection. The mischievous Tom — later the inspiration for Pride and Prejudice's Mr. Darcy — continues his advances and Jane begins to take the idea of marriage seriously. The two get to know each other gradually, however, and eventually they fall in love.
简•奥斯汀(安妮·海瑟薇 Anne Hathaway 饰)的一生是否如她的文字那样充满曲折的过程和完满的结局？《成为简》用传记方式描述她的一生：她的母亲竭力为她撮合婚事，对象是上层社会的有钱人。但是简不接受没有爱情的婚姻，认为女人要靠自己的能力去养活自身。于是，她拒绝贵族瓦斯莱先生的求婚，爱上了心灵相通的汤姆•勒弗罗伊(詹姆斯·麦卡沃伊 James McAvoy 饰)。好事多磨，有人从中作梗，导致汤姆家人并不赞成二人婚事，汤姆决定携简私奔。但是这样一来，汤姆的经济来源就会被切断，简亦将面临着世俗的压力和贫困的生活。到底二人在私奔路上会走得多远？会不会有美满的结局？