UCLA college student Jonathan Moore (Anthony Edwards) is playing a game called "Gotcha" (popular on mid-1980s college campuses as "Assassin" or "Tag"), wherein the players are all assigned a mock "hit" on another player by use of a harmless paintball gun. Moore and his apartment roommate Manolo go on a vacation to Paris, France. After touring some of Paris, in a cafe Moore meets Sasha Banicek (Linda Fiorentino), a Czechoslovakian girl. Eventually, Jonathan has intercourse with Sasha, losing his virginity.
　　Jonathan decides to leave Manolo (who is heading to Spain) and go with Sasha to West Berlin to spend more time with her. Jonathan believes that he is in love with Sasha. There, Jonathan and Sasha continue to have sex and even go to an Oktoberfest beer gathering. One night, Sasha tells Jonathan that she has to go to East Berlin to pick up a package. One night after arriving in East Berlin, Sasha leaves their hotel room and walks to dark street corner. There, Sasha meets a German man who tells her the location of the pickup of her package. Meanwhile, Sasha was being monitored by a Soviet agent, who was sitting in a car at a distance. During the day, Sasha tells Jonathan that if she gives him a certain message, it means that he has to leave East Berlin immediately. At a cafe, Sasha gives Jonathan a package and says that a strudel is inside. A little later, Sasha tells Jonathan to meet her at the butcher shop near their hotel. All of a sudden, a Soviet agent begins to chase after Sasha. Sasha decides to use Jonathan (who is holding her package) to unknowingly get the package over to West Berlin. Meanwhile, Sasha is taken by the Soviet agent and East German secret police.
　　Jonathan goes to Checkpoint Charlie to cross the heavily fortified border into West Berlin. At the East German customs search, Jonathan is stripped of his clothes and given a cavity search. Meanwhile, Sasha is stripped and searched for possible espionage evidence. Vlad arrives at the border crossing to search for Jonathan, however Jonathan passes the border safely before he can be captured. Once in West Berlin, Jonathan feels liberated by the Westernized society. In the hotel, Jonathan receives a message from Sasha to meet him at a specified location. Jonathan finds out that his hotel room was broken into and robbed of his traveler's checks. Soviet agents eventually find Jonathan in West Berlin and chase him throughout a public park. Jonathan jumps into a water canal and manages to escape from the Soviets and stumbles upon a German rock group headed for Hamburg, who offer him a ride to the airport.
　　The rock group successfully get Jonathan to the airport (using full-face makeup to sneak him past a checkpoint) and Jonathan finally arrives in Los Angeles Tom Bradley International Airport and to his apartment. Soon, Vlad and a band of Soviet agents arrive too in Los Angeles. Once home, Jonathan stumbles upon a film canister, which was planted by Sasha. Jonathan visits his parents and tells them what happened in Germany but they cannot believe a word of it and think Jonathan is on drugs. Jonathan decides to call the FBI then the Central Intelligence Agency for help. Jonathan returns to find his apartment broken into and looted.
　　The CIA officer tells Jonathan to give them the photo film canister. At the Los Angeles headquarters of the CIA, Jonathan spots Sasha who looks like she was working there. Jonathan eventually meets up with Sasha. Sasha admits that she is Cheryl Brewster, a CIA agent, originally from Pittsburgh. Out of nowhere, Vlad and his gang begin to chase Jonathan and Cheryl on the UCLA campus. Jonathan eliminates all the Soviets with a tranquilizer gun which he gets from the campus veterinary sciences building. The Soviets are arrested, the CIA agents thank Jonathan for his (indirect) help in obtaining the film, and Sasha tells him she wants to continue their relationship.
　　After they part, Jonathan talks to a pretty student who rebuffs him coldly. As she walks away, he aims the tranquilizer pistol and shoots her in the rear.

　　斯大林格勒战役中，瓦西里（裘德•洛 Jude Law 饰）是一个威震部队的神枪手。他的好枪法百发百中，令敌人闻风丧胆。
　　为了激励士气，树立榜样，瓦西里的战友——苏军文宣部军官丹尼洛夫（约瑟夫•费因斯 Joseph Fiennes 饰）在报纸上大量刊登瓦西里的英雄事迹，令瓦西里的形象更为高大。然而，坦妮娅（雷切尔•薇姿 Rachel Weisz 饰）的出现，让瓦西里和丹尼洛夫都同时迷恋上了这个飒爽女兵。但塔妮娅喜欢的是瓦西里，这让丹尼洛夫大为妒忌。
　　另一方面，德军派出了他们的狙击手康尼（艾德•哈里斯 Ed Harris 饰），让同是神枪手的他抗衡瓦西里。在硝烟弥漫的战场上，瓦西里和康尼开始了斗智斗勇的决斗。

在元首的领导下，纳粹政权逐步稳固。为了进一步控制纳粹军官们的行为和思想，政府执行了一个邪恶的计划。他们将一批被完全洗脑的漂亮女子训练成共军官们玩弄的高级妓女交由凯蒂夫人（英格里德·图林 Ingrid Thulin 饰）管理，在占有军官们的肉体的同时，姑娘们也在暗中监视着他们的思想，以此排除异己。                                                                      　　玛葛塔（特蕾莎·安·萨沃伊 Teresa Ann Savoy 饰）是一名纳粹的忠实拥护者，年轻的她义无反顾的加入了妓女的行列。可是，在执行任务的过程中，她发现现实并不像她曾经了解的那样美好和光明。在猛然醒悟后，她决定献出自己微薄的力量，为摧毁纳粹的阴谋做出贡献。