The Best of Enemies

ในสงครามโลกครั้งที่หนึ่ง นายพลฝรั่งเศสสั่งให้ทหารโจมตีตำแหน่งที่มั่นของเยอรมัน แม้จะรู้ว่าเป็นภารกิจที่แทบเป็นไปไม่ได้ เมื่อการโจมตีล้มเหลวอย่างน่าเศร้า นายพลกลับสั่งลงโทษประหารทหารสามนายเพื่อเป็นแพะรับบาป ผู้พันแด็กซ์ ทนายความในชีวิตพลเรือน พยายามปกป้องลูกน้องของเขาจากการตัดสินที่ไม่ยุติธรรมนี้ เผยให้เห็นความไร้เหตุผลและความโหดร้ายของอำนาจในสงคราม

Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.

A widowed professor living in Paris develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.

Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.

A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.

A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.

อดีตนักโทษหญิงได้กลับคืนสู่สังคมที่ไม่มีวันให้อภัยเธอ จึงตัดสินใจออกตามหาน้องสาวที่เคยจำใจทิ้งไว้เบื้องหลัง