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Ever since he retired, Harry has done nothing but grumble, drink wheat beer and tend to his delphiniums. So says Lore. She clings to her job as a librarian, organises cringe-worthy readings and reveres her poets as if they were prophets. So says Harry. For an elderly married couple, the two of them talk an astonishing amount – yet they usually mean something else entirely. When their daughter Julia wants to get married for the third time, a row is inevitable – and yet it’s only the tip of the iceberg. Unspoken questions, old jealousies and differences come to the surface.

The life of a family in provincial West Germany in the 1980s is dominated by a single issue: the body weight of Cornelia, the wife and mother. Her husband Werner decides that she must lose weight, as he believes that otherwise he will jeopardise his promotion, his social advancement and the acceptance of the whole family in the village. Cornelia suffers increasingly from her husband’s obsession, whilst their daughter Ela is caught in the crossfire.In the 1980s, the life of a family in a small village is determined by just one issue: the mother's body weight. Her husband Werner decides that she needs to lose weight, Cornelia suffers as a result and their daughter Ela is caught in the middle.

Olga lives a strictly regulated life without attachments in a vast apartment block. When out of financial necessity she rents a room in her apartment to a man who also sneaks-in his nine-year-old son, an unlikely bond forms. Her carefully controlled world begins to shift, and their lives become intertwined against her will.

Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network's most guarded secrets.

England, around 1800: Following the death of their father, the two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, face an uncertain future. The level-headed Elinor conceals her feelings for Edward Ferrars, as a future together seems hopeless due to social and family obstacles. The younger Marianne, on the other hand, falls head over heels in love with the charismatic John Willoughby. Caught between hope, disappointment and the constraints of their time, both sisters must find their own way.

In 1949, Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann returns to Germany for the first time since the end of the war, accompanied and assisted by his daughter, the actress, cabaret artist and journalist Erika. From Frankfurt under American occupation to Weimar under Soviet rule, father and daughter travel across the devastated and divided country, where they remain outsiders, whilst the Mann family’s personal drama quietly escalates.

On the outskirts of the remote South Korean port town of Hope, a mysterious discovery is made. Soon, the town’s inhabitants find themselves in a desperate struggle for survival – against something no one has ever encountered before. The chief of police, a policewoman and a group of hunters set out in pursuit.