一个导演和摄影师由一位老板做向导，去藏区寻找将要拍摄的一部电影中扮演王子智美更登的演员。为找到一位合适的演员，他们走访了许多跟藏戏有关的村庄、寺院、城镇。在一个藏戏村庄，导演选中一位扮演智美更登妃子的女孩，但是女孩一直蒙着脸，不让别人看见。女孩提出要跟着他们去找她以前的男朋友，为了争取到这个演员，导演答应了女孩的请求。途中，老板讲起了他的初恋故事。老板情真意切的爱情故事深深吸引了蒙面女孩、导演和摄影师，他们从老板的故事中观照到了自身的许多问题。整个电影在寻找智美更登的旅途中将几个不同的爱情故事穿插进行，徐徐展开。最后，女孩告别男友回去，所有人都没有看到这位女孩的真面容。生活还在继续，寻找智美更登的旅程还在继续。

东京。Asuka是一名上夜班的年轻清洁工，为了实现成为音乐明星的梦想，她准备付出高昂的代价。她设法在一个电视选秀节目上表演，但当她被指控谋杀并被迫透露她所走的黑暗之路的所有细节时，她所有的牺牲都适得其反。

Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. Flashbacks narrate the earlier events of his life: a bout with tuberculosis at the Trudeau sanatorium; the self-administration of an experimental pneumothorax; the invention of operative instruments; his fascination with Socialism; a journey into medical Russia; and the founding of a mobile plasma-transfusion unit in war-torn Spain. Bethune twice married and twice divorced his wife Frances (Dame Helen Mirren), who chooses abortion over child-rearing in her unstable marriage. By 1939, Bethune had been dismissed from his Montreal Hospital for taking unconventional risks, and from his volunteer position in Spain for his chronic problems of drinking and womanizing. As his friend states: "China was all that was left." Even there, Bethune confidently ignores the advice of Chinese officials until heavy casualties make him realize his mistake and lead him to a spectacular apology.

一对儿杀手，肯与雷（Colin Farrell 饰），在圣诞期间来到比利时古城布鲁日，他们将在这里接到联系人哈里（Ralph Fiennes 饰）指令的新任务。雷在不久前的一次暗杀中误杀了一名男童，怀着深深愧疚的雷情绪不稳，古城中的等待对他来说是一场难耐的煎熬。肯作为带领雷入行的前辈，试图帮助雷摆脱困境，但他的努力毫无收效。百无聊赖的雷在街上结识了女演员克洛伊，这个神秘女孩引发了雷一系列的冒险经历，与此同时，肯再一次被哈里催促，原来此次任务的真相是暴怒的哈里要雷为他的误杀行为付出代价，肯面对被自己一手引入杀手行当的年轻人，难以做出抉择，两名杀手，在夜色中的古城各怀心事……本片获2009年英国学院奖最佳剧本奖等多项褒奖。