影片详细描述了愤世嫉俗的检察官（休斯顿饰演）与年轻无知的杀手（福尔摩斯饰演）之间的冲突，后者在监狱中的服刑不仅威胁到他对生活的信念，还威胁到他的理智。影片讲述了背叛和复仇，情节紧凑、冷酷无情，表明囚犯的荣誉感和正义感与当局并无太大区别：“有人必须付出代价”这句话很容易挂在卡洛夫等复仇心切的强盗和休斯顿等自以为是的执法者嘴上。但这里没有肤浅的说教；相反，快节奏、残酷现实的氛围和精湛的表演唤起了一场智慧和权力的悲剧之战，双方同样正确和错误，被迫做他们生活中所要求他们做的事情，唯一的出路就是死亡。霍克斯后来的担忧在这里得到了充分体现——对专业精神的骄傲、团体内的忠诚和背叛、被迫在没有女人的情况下生活的男性所面临的困难。

1946年的法兰克福，一群逃过纳粹大屠杀的犹太幸存者，梦想到美国重新展开生活。能言善道的大卫为此召集友人，准备趁此艰难时期，一展自己三寸不烂之舌的推销才华，狠狠海削德国人一笔。眼看资金即将筹足，光明未来也就在不远处，大卫却被怀疑是纳粹帮凶而被召去问讯调查，他把过去说得天花乱坠、天衣无缝，但一切究竟是为了摆脱嫌疑，还是掩饰阴影？ 　　德国名导山姆贾巴尔斯基继《洞里春光》后，又一部荒谬讽刺的社会喜剧。影片改编自德瑞小说家Michel Bergmann的作品，角色灵感源自作者亲友的亲身经历，深入刻划二战主题中鲜少被讨论的一群人──大屠杀过后仍居住在德国的犹太人们。面对战后人事全非的创伤，不悲情控诉，而豁达自嘲地以荒诞的德式幽默，回应难以被述说的辛酸历史。如果生活让人无法忍受，那么就用轻盈的谎言点缀它。

朱丽安是姐姐，在女性杂志社工作，平常为妇女权益呐喊；妹妹玛丽安却是个激进的恐怖分子，在被捕后愤然上吊自杀。但这对姐妹在小时候的性格完全相反，一个叛逆，一个温顺，成年后两姐妹的路途却南辕北辙，朱丽安还对妹妹一直抱有成见，两姐妹关系对立冷漠，直到妹妹的去世，才引发姐姐对妹妹生活真相的追查。 　　幕后制作： 　　德国女导演特洛塔的女性主义电影，借助一对德国姐妹的不同命运，来揭示德国社会的政治现实和历史关系，风格压抑沉重。导演以小喻大，利用姐妹的个人对立来影射整个德国历史和现实的格格不入造成的隔阂感，色调阴沉，多特写镜头，带有浓厚的女权意识。两姐妹的少女生活片段里含有引射东西德的政治寓意，较为晦涩难明。

1977年，一个商人被绑架后又被谋杀，杀他的是左翼的称为RAF的恐怖分子Armee Fraktion（红色帮派），他们绑架商人是为了试图以交换他们被抓的领导人。当诱拐的努力和一次劫持飞机相继努力失败后，RAF的3位非常杰出的领导人，安德烈亚斯巴德，古德兰·恩斯林和吉恩·卡尔泪谱，全部在监狱自杀。这3人实际上是被政府授命谋杀的。

Characterized by deconstructivism and philosophical references and by briefly exposing the good, bad, and ugly periods of the country's history, this post-modern film portrays the abstract need for guidance of Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Characterized by deconstructivism and philosophical references and by briefly exposing the good, bad, and ugly periods of the country's history, this post-modern film portrays the abstract need for guidance of Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall.

1939年，希特勒的军队关闭了边境，85名美国传教士在德国为他们的教会服务。这些传教士逃离纳粹德国是现代摩门教历史上发生的最戏剧性的事件之一。

Ramadan convinces Gervais to give him the rights for a German adaptation of Extras. However, as he attempts to progress the show to production, he comes up against the fact that the Germans aren't particularly known for their humour.

Based on a non-fiction bestseller of the same name by Rolf Hochhuth, Eine Liebe In Deutschland is about a tragic and forbidden love affair between Stanislaw, a Polish POW (Piotr Lysak) and Paulina (Hanna Schygulla) a fruit-and-vegetable vendor in a small town in Germany along the border with Switzerland. Their affair would have gone undetected except for the busybody women of the village, and when Stanislaw is picked up by a German stormtrooper (Armin Müller-Stahl) and brought in for a mock trial, he is given a chance to prove his racial purity and so perhaps escape execution. As for Paulina, she is ostracized by the villagers and imprisoned for consorting with someone who was not of the same high Aryan caste as herself. Depressing, yet politically relevant to Poland of the early 1980s, this film by acclaimed director Andrzej Wajda) is an effective and emotional statement on the nature of oppression.