1928年，伪满洲国的日本翻译伊丹英彦（仲村亨）离开中国情人丁慧（章子怡）返回日本，数年后他再回中国来到上海时，变身高级特务。而此时丁慧已成为地下抗日组织的成员，并与该组织首领谢明（冯远征）相爱。抗日组织去火车站接从外地聘请的暗杀日本情报人员山本的杀手时，误认其为小职员司徒（刘烨），混乱中，丁慧杀死司徒女友依玲（李冰冰），司徒则被伊丹英彦抓获。 对一系列遭遇无比迷惑的司徒被释放后，发誓要为依玲报仇。丁慧与伊丹英彦重逢，成为两股势力互相设局要利用的重要棋子，她本人正为误杀无辜饱受内心折磨。某个日本会所举办的舞会上，伊丹英彦告诉丁慧山本与谢明均已死，丁慧震惊想刺杀伊丹英彦之际，司徒持枪闯进舞会。
1937年，在中国南京生活多年的德国商人拉贝（乌尔里奇·图克尔 Ulrich Tukur 饰）与妻子多拉准备回国。他把在西门子中国分部担任的职务交给继承人，然而就在当天的欢送舞会上，日军开始轰炸南京城，到处烧伤抢劫，引起南京暴乱。恐慌的居民四处逃散，拉贝毅然打开公司大门 收留中国员工及其他难民。南京城的外国传教士、医生、商人们商议在南京建立一个“南京国际安全区”来保障无辜百姓的安全，拉贝被推举为主席。本来第二天决定回国的拉贝决定要留下来，去拯救无辜的老百姓。当他目睹日本帝国主义的军队对南京人民施加的惨无人道的暴行时，拉贝更加积极地与同伴们和日军斗智斗勇，试图挽救更多的生命。越来越多的难民涌入安全区，这完全超出了他们的想象。与之同时，日军的暴行更加疯狂，拉贝的人道救助引起他们的不满，安全区多次受到日军的冲击，补给变得越来越艰难。几十万的无辜百姓等待拉贝去拯救，巨大压力下拉贝怎样去完成这人性的使命？
In the middle of Nowheresville lives 16-year-old Mike who wants out of his crappy life - permanently! Spending his time devising ways to do himself in, he considers the fatal brain tumor in his head as a godsend. That changes when he meets a girl and falls in love for the first time - without even knowing what love is.
Astronomer Bill Whitley is so preoccupied with the new comet he's discovered that his time at the observatory sometimes comes at the expense of his beautiful wife, Vicky. When the neglected spouse becomes influenced by an eccentric neighbor into believing in the power of astrology, she subscribes to a weekly horoscope from a phony seer, the appropriately named Margaret Sybill. When the beautiful Mrs. Whitley reads that a new dream man will be coming soon into her life, she assumes he's taken the form of Lloyd Hunter, a handsome and dashing foreign correspondent who doubles as the neighborhood air raid warden. A frantic Bill realizes that he's going to have to keep closer track of his earthbound heavenly body if he's going to keep the prediction from becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
