Talented kendoka Andre is torn between sporting success and the love for his disabled younger brother Freddie. When a new kendo master appears, who shows Andre a new pathway of success by dubious tactics, Freddie also runs into danger.
Before eleven years old Tilda's parents can put her beloved grandfather in an old people's home due to his progressing Alzheimer disease, she takes him on one last adventure that subliminally threatens to tear her family apart.
A mother is good. Several mothers at once are hell! Conny is 37 years old and has so far let her life being arranged by others - especially by her husband Lawrence. Lorenz has made the previous gray mouse, a trophy wife and offers her a carefree life. And so Conny falls from the clouds, when her husband announced her at dinner that he wants a divorce. Of necessity Conny pulls together the two children in the ancient house of Lorenz deceased mother and realized with horror that from now on everything will be different. Since it holds its own for non-viable, she clings to a clique of high-society mothers...
Macho Alex is smart and good-looking. He is known among women as an unscrupulous hunter. He wraps the women in rows around his fingers and then disappears into his sports car. For him, love is something for men who pee while sitting. The womanizer Alex then pushes it a little too far, because three love affairs at the same time are too many even for the greatest professional.
Brand, an author, who falls in love with Angela, his terminally ill wife's nurse and blunders into a dangerous spiral of passion and jealousy. A vindictive husband, an insistent chief inspector, a farsighted priest and a proud wife entrap Brand in a maelstrom of persecution, destruction and obliteration which can only end in life or death. It's a quest for redemption, the force which drives us all.
2차 세계대전 당시 독일과 소련이 대치했던 스탈린그라드 전장. 독일군의 강력한 공격으로 소련군이 궁지에 몰린 상황에서 폐허가 된 전쟁터를 헤매던 소련 선전장교 다닐로프(조셉 파인즈)는 우연히 명사수 바실리(주드 로)의 뛰어난 저격솜씨를 목격한다. 저하된 소련군의 사기를 되살리기 위해 영웅이 필요하다고 판단한 다닐로프는 바실리를 전문적인 저격수로 만들고 전장에 뿌려지는 전단을 통해 전설적인 영웅으로 부상시킨다. 바실리의 뛰어난 솜씨로 나치 장교들이 하나하나 죽어가자 독일군은 역시 저격수인 코니그 소령(에드 해리스)을 내세워 바실리를 없애려 한다. 바실리는 코니그와의 숨막히는 전쟁에 빠져드는 동시에 타냐(레이첼 와이즈)라는 소련 여군 병사를 사이에 두고 다닐로프와 묘한 연적관계에 놓이는데...
A complex and enigmatic plot that evokes the life of Bachmann. The story develops around an unusual triangular relationship, a threesome between a woman of unknown name, a man named Malina and a Hungarian, Ivan, with whom she falls in love. Ivan will be his last great love, but their need for exclusivity in love is so strong that it can not be understood or matched. Malina is a struggle, a confrontation between two worlds strange and hostile.
