年轻的X教授查尔斯（詹姆斯·麦卡沃伊 James McAvoy 饰）和万磁王埃里克（迈克尔·法斯宾德 Michael Fassbender 饰）是一对志向相投的好朋友。他们最早发现了自己的超能力，并与其他几个变种人一起在CIA工作。引发埃里克超能力的纳粹战争贩子肖（凯文·贝肯 Kevin Bacon 饰）一直试图挑起核战争，而想方设法挑起美苏两国的矛盾。埃里克和查尔斯一直与肖手下的变种人战斗，努力阻止肖的阴谋。肖怂恿苏联引发古巴导弹危机，查尔斯和埃里克获知消息后，在海湾与肖手下的变种人拉开了对决的一战。最终，肖被查尔斯和埃里克合力消灭。可是，在这个过程中，埃里克逐渐被肖的政治观点影响，与查尔斯产生裂痕。通过海湾的这一战，埃里克和查尔斯最终决裂，一方变成支持人类与变种人和平共存的X教授；另一方坚持通过消灭人类换来变种人兴起的观点，自称万磁王......

故事发生在1961年的德国，刚刚退伍的军人埃米尔（丹尼斯·莫因 Dennis Mojen 饰）来到了位于巴伯斯贝格的DEFA电影公司，他的哥哥亚历山大（肯·杜肯 Ken Duken 饰）在这里为弟弟谋得了一份差事，很显然，一个埃米尔闻所未闻的新世界即将在他的眼前展开。 在一次群演任务中，埃米尔认识了名叫米露（艾米丽亚·舒勒 Emilia Schüle 饰）的女孩，米露是当红女星碧翠丝（艾莲娜·萨尔瓦·冈萨雷斯 Ellenie Salvo González 饰）的舞蹈替身。米露优美的舞姿和温柔的个性很快就令埃米尔坠入了情网，在一连串火热的攻势之后，米露总算答应同埃米尔共进晚餐。可是，米露第二天就要回法国了，埃米尔决定在自己的爱人离开之前，送给她一份惊喜。

Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. No knights stand to defend their king's honor. Except for the valiant Gawain. After being quickly knighted Gawain plays the game, but learns that it's all a trick, and he has lost. But the Green Knight shows mercy, letting Gawain grow a year older before having to face the consequences. Gawain journeys across the land, learning about life, saving damsels, and solving the Green Knight's riddle. Written by Sean Kilby and Jason Parker

Joe 'Tom' Yateley is an ex-convict. Trying to leave his past behind, he decides to starts working for the Hawlett Trucking company, which transports gravel. It's an aggressive company, where speed is everything. Doing too less runs in a day? You're out. Red is the most experienced trucker, he can do 18 runs in a day. Tom soon makes friends with Lucy, the secretary, and Gino, a driver. But the record of Red intrigues him and he wants to break it. Gino advises against it, but he helps Tom when he wants to go through with it. Soon trouble begins when Red and the other drivers form an united front against Tom. Just when Tom has enough and decides to pack his bags, Lucy tells him Gino had a terrible accident. She also tells about the corruption of Hawlett Trucking.

In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life: he's an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he's a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children's choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother's cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back..