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A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.

Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act on a TV variety show.

In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. But they fall in love. She gets involved in helping Jews escape from the Nazis. All get out of Berlin except the young man. There is a room in her apartment where he can't be seen through the windows and a chest converted into a sofa where she and her brothers played hide-and-seek as children. This real life hide-and-seek game has high stakes. The movie is said to be based on a true story.

A group of ordinary French survived a nuclear war and found themselves in the face of what was left of civilization.

The story follows the life of Leni Gruyten, a regular German woman during the 1930s and 40s. Through her interactions with friends, family, and other people she knows, the regular folks' perception of the Nazi era is shown.

Angelo (Dexter Fletcher) and two of his buddies set out to rob a Swiss bank, and from the start things don't go well. The man driving the getaway car packed up and left before anyone could connect him with the crime, and Angelo's other partner got shot and killed. The best he can do is grab someone's cash-filled briefcase and take a car and its driver hostage. It turns out that the driver is the daughter (Fabienne Babe) of the bank director, so he figures that she's good for ransom money and begins negotiations for that. Meanwhile, the briefcase he took at the bank turns out to have belonged to a man who is willing to hire killers to get it back for him. The situation grows increasingly perilous for him, and he decides to flee the scene but not before he has won the heart of his lovely hostage.

The siblings Christine and Stefan grew up separated from each other due to their parents' divorce and have no knowledge of each other. Later in life they meet and enters into a relationship.

In their wintry snowy resort, the financially notoriously clammy girlfriends Cecily and Laura see from their hotel window the established Munich businessman Karl Engelmann, a middle-aged man, with his BMW ancestor.

Three criminals escape from a French prison and hide in a coastal village where they have to wait for 12 hours until the boat that is supposed to take them to freedom arrives.

In a recently independent African state, whites still hold major positions in the administration: the brutal mercenary Tristan is in charge of the army; the cynical police commissioner Orlaville monitors the manoeuvres of the establishment; the director of the airport acts as factotum for Modimbo, the treacherous minister of information. As for trafficker Gravenoire, he is well-placed to grab an exclusive contract for the uranium mines of the country. All of them openly despise the black population and its weak government. Only health minister Doumbé is trying a bit impulsively to protect the interests of his country. When UNESCO delegate Avit Laurençon arrives, he is immediately entangled in a web of intrigue and passion in which his wife Laurence plays a significant role.

A camera team is desperately searching for swastika graffiti. Finally they find a man willing to paint one -- on the window of his fathers nightclub. And he tells them also, how his father made a career between 33 and 45, while he helped to hide a communist, and then how he went into the lunatic asylum, while both - his father and the communist - made their careers after 1945.