Juin 1941. Alors que l'offensive allemande en URSS, l'opération Barbarossa, vient de commencer, cinq amis se retrouvent dans un café à Berlin pour une dernière soirée. Le lieutenant Wilhelm Winter va partir sur le front avec son petit frère Friedhelm. Charlotte, secrètement amoureuse de Wilhelm, va également s'y rendre en tant qu'infirmière. Quant à Greta Müller, elle va rester à Berlin pour tenter de percer dans la chanson et aider son amant, Viktor Goldstein, à échapper aux persécutions antisémites. Sûrs de la victoire rapide de la Wehrmacht sur l'Armée rouge, les amis se promettent de se retrouver dans le même café à Noël pour la victoire.
The story is told from the viewpoint of Lt. Werner (Herbert Grönemeyer), who has been assigned as a war correspondent on the German submarine U-96 in October 1941. He meets its captain (Jürgen Prochnow), chief engineer (Klaus Wennemann), and the crew in a French nightclub. Thomsen (Otto Sander), another captain, gives a crude drunken speech to celebrate his Ritterkreuz award, in which he openly mocks not only Winston Churchill but implicitly Adolf Hitler as well.
In 1984 East Germany, Stasi Captain (Hauptmann) HGW XX/7, Gerd Wiesler, suggests to his superiors that he begin to spy on the playwright Georg Dreyman. Wiesler and his team bug the apartment, set up surveillance equipment in an attic and begin reporting Dreyman's activities. Dreyman had escaped state scrutiny due to his pro-Communist views and international recognition. Wiesler soon learns the real reason behind the surveillance: Minister of Culture Bruno Hempf covets Dreyman's girlfriend, actress Christa-Maria Sieland, and is trying to eliminate Dreyman as a romantic rival. While Wiesler's superior, Lt. Col. Anton Grubitz, sees an opportunity for advancement, Wiesler, an idealist, is horrified, asking Grubitz "Is this why we joined?" Minister Hempf coerces Sieland into having sex with him by exploiting her vulnerability as an insecure actress whose livelihood is dependent on state approval of stagecraft. After discovering Sieland's relationship with Hempf (through Wiesler's covert intervention), Dreyman implores her not to meet him again. Sieland flees to a nearby bar where Wiesler, posing as a fan, urges her to be true to herself. She returns home and reconciles with Dreyman, rejecting Hempf.
In the future of 2026, wealthy industrialists rule the vast city of Metropolis from high-rise tower complexes, while a lower class of underground-dwelling workers toil constantly to operate the machines that provide its power. Joh Fredersen is the city's master. Joh's son Freder idles away his time in a pleasure garden with other rich children. Freder is interrupted by the arrival of a young woman named Maria, who has brought a group of workers' children to witness the lifestyle led by the rich. Maria and the children are quickly ushered away, but Freder is fascinated by Maria and goes to the workers' portion of the city to find her.
A group of children are playing an elimination game in the courtyard of an apartment building in Berlin using a chant about a murderer of children. A woman sets the table for dinner, waiting for her daughter to come home from school. A wanted poster warns of a serial killer preying on children, as anxious parents wait outside a school.
Edward Morrison vient d'Amérique du Sud à Londres, pour rendre visite à sa sœur Alice. Mais arrivée chez elle, il trouve une nouvelle locataire, Janet Winters. Elle lui apprend qu'Alice s'est suicidée en se jetant sous un camion. Morrison l'interroge ainsi que des témoins. Le principal témoin oculaire, Sam Hotkins, pense qu'elle a été assassinée. En discutant avec Harry Brenton, son ancien fiancé, Morrisson se fait une meilleure idée. la piste le mène à un bar où il rencontre entre autres, la barmaid Myrna Collins, le propriétaire du bar Gaston, les employés Dan Low et John Evans. Tout le monde semble suspect, une tentative d'assassinat de Dan Low contre Morrison le confirme. Janet Winters est danseuse dans cet établissement, Morrison l'interroge chez elle sans rien apprendre. Morrison, qui est soutenue par Mary, la fille de Sam Hotkins, découvre le corps de Winters assassinée. Soudain le téléphone sonne. Alice dit être à l'autre bout du fil, dans une maison de campagne, elle ne peut pas en dire plus. Avec la police et l'inspecteur Brown, Morrison et Mary Hotkins pensent avoir trouvé cette maison et y rencontrent David Stone. Morrison soupçonne que son épouse Edna a quelque chose à voir avec l'affaire. Elle tient une école de danse dans laquelle Alice a pris des cours. Morrisson part pour Paris, car David Stone est mort au moulin de Garascon. Il y croise de nouveau la bande d'Evans. Encore une fois, il échappe de justesse à une tentative d'assassinat. Après la dénonciation de Donald Rutley, l'oncle de Janet Winters, Morrisson peut finalement découvrir toute la vérité.
In 1941, SS colonel Hans Landa, the "Jew Hunter", interrogates French dairy farmer Perrier LaPadite as to the whereabouts of the last unaccounted-for Jewish family in the neighborhood. Under threat of continued harassment from the Germans, LaPadite reveals that the Dreyfus family is hidden under the floor. Landa orders SS soldiers to shoot through the floorboards and kill the family. All are killed except Shosanna, who escapes and flees through the field. Landa watches her go, deciding not to shoot her at the last second.
Downfall begins with footage of the real Traudl Junge expressing guilt and shame for admiring Hitler in her youth. The film continues showing Hitler (Bruno Ganz) hiring Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara) as his secretary at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia in November 1942.
The story revolves around a male Kathakali dancer Kunhikuttan (Mohanlal), an admirable and respected performer but a member of a lower caste. He struggles to come to terms with the rejection and estrangement of his father, a member of an upper caste who denies his son. Poor, unhappy, and stuck in an arranged marriage that provides no relief, he gets by for the sake of his daughter. One night, whilst performing as Arjuna from the epic Mahabarata on stage, his dance is witnessed by Subhadra (Suhasini), a well educated member of an upper caste family. Defying the norms of India's rigid caste system, they have a son, but it soon becomes clear that Subhadra loves the character Arjuna from his stage performances, and not Kunhikuttan the dancer. More in love with the valiant, noble hero of the Mahabarata, than the dancer Kunhikuttan, she rejects him and refuses to let him see his son. Denied access to his son, and rejected by his father, Kunhikuttan returns to the stage, leaving behind his hero roles to play demonic characters, reaching within the dark corners of his mind, becoming increasingly resentful and full of anger, until one last dance which brings the feature to a stunning end.
Le film en trois parties est un docufiction sur la famille Mann. Au centre de l'histoire, il y a les frères écrivains Heinrich Mann et Thomas Mann et leurs familles. Les scènes fictives s'enchaînent avec les séquences documentaires, basées principalement sur des entretiens d'Elisabeth Mann-Borgese, la dernière personne vivante de la famille. Breloer mène les entretiens et amène la vieille dame sur les lieux du récit.
In the present, a teenage girl approaches a monument to a writer in a cemetery. In her arms is a memoir penned by a character known only as "The Author". She starts reading a chapter from the book. The Author begins narrating the tale from his desk in 1985 about a trip he made to the Grand Budapest Hotel in 1968.
Travis Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton) is walking alone across a vast South Texas desert landscape. Looking for water, he enters a saloon and collapses. He is treated by a doctor (Bernhard Wicki), but does not speak or respond to questions. The doctor finds a phone number on Travis, calls the Los Angeles number, and reaches his brother, Walt Henderson (Dean Stockwell), who agrees to pick him up. When Walt arrives in Texas, he discovers that Travis is gone. When he finds him wandering alone, Walt tells his silent brother that he will take him back to Los Angeles. They stop at a motel, but Travis wanders off again. Walt finds him, and the two drive to a diner, where Walt begins to question the still silent Travis more forcefully about his disappearance. Walt and his wife, Anne (Aurore Clément), have not heard from Travis in four years. After Travis abandoned his son Hunter (Hunter Carson), Walt and Anne took care of him for four years. Travis is visibly moved by the mention of his son, and tears flow from his eyes.
The title character Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, masters the art of forging a sword at the shop of Mime. Mime sends Siegfried home, but while preparing to leave, Siegfried hears the tales of the kingdom of Burgundy, the kings who rule there, as well as of Kriemhild, the princess of Burgundy. Siegfried announces he wants to win her hand in marriage, much to the amusement of the smiths. By way of physical violence, Siegfried demands to be told the way. Mime, who is envious of Siegfried's skill as a swordsmith, claims there is a shortcut through the Wood of Woden; in reality, this route will lead Siegfried away from Burgundy and expose him to attack from the magical creatures inhabiting the wood. During his journey, Siegfried discovers a dragon, and deviates from his path to slay it. He touches its hot, yellow blood and understands the language of the birds, one of which tells him to bathe in the dragon's blood in order to become invincible to attack — except for one spot on his shoulder blade, which is missed after being covered by a falling lime (linden) leaf.
Les parents de Bonifatius Kiesewetter veulent que leur fils étudie la médecine à Bonn. Au lieu de cela, il préfère s'intéresser à l'anatomie humaine dans les bordels. Cela semble être dans ses gènes, parce que juste dans le bordel où il va le plus souvent, son père était déjà un client.