一架英国飞机在飞越撒哈拉沙漠时被德军击落，机师由于受伤，想不起自己是谁，因此被叫做“英国病人”。汉娜是战地医院的一名护士，她决定独身留下来照顾那个英国病人。他们停留的地方是意大利的一个废弃的修道院，远离战争的喧嚣，显得宁静而闲逸，“英国病人”静静的躺在房间的木床上，窗头 的一本旧书渐渐唤起了他的思绪……
一段爱情，在战火中燃烧，逾越了道德，改变了战局。考古学家艾马殊伯爵（拉尔夫•费因斯 Ralph Fiennes 饰）跟随探险家来到撒哈拉沙漠考察，结识了绘制地图的飞机师杰佛和他妻子凯瑟琳（克里斯汀•斯科特•托马斯 Kristin Scott Thomas 饰）。凯瑟琳的才气和美丽让艾马殊深深着迷，两人在沙漠一个幽深洞穴参观壁画时，更加发现彼此志趣相投。 道德最终战胜了激情。凯瑟琳和艾马殊分手后，杰弗发现了妻子的外遇。伤心的杰弗开着飞机企图与妻子和艾马殊同归于尽，艾马殊幸运躲过一劫，却造成凯瑟琳身受重伤、自己命丧黄泉。艾马殊赶到深爱的人身边，把她安置到山洞里，承诺一定会走出沙漠，找到援助。但是，事情却不像想象中容易。他为了救人，担当了卖国罪名，惹来了杀身之祸，最终他没有违背诺言，可是，凯瑟琳已在寒冷中永远地离开了他……艾马殊将凯瑟琳的遗体放上飞机，在飞越撒哈拉沙漠时被德军击落，于是发生了影片开头的一幕。
在照顾“英国病人”的日子里，汉娜结识了印度籍的拆弹手基普，两人互生情愫。即使战争已然结束，但拆弹手基普必然仍要无数次面对死亡。
最终，应英国病人的要求，汉娜给他注射了大剂量的吗啡......
Mehran Tamadon explores what it was like being interrogated by the Iranian regime by asking prisoners to reconstruct their experiences.
Alongside his companion film Where God Is Not, My Worst Enemy finds Tamadon shifting focus from the interrogated to the interrogator. The filmmaker sought an individual who had been interrogated by Iranian authorities in order to draw on their experiences to play an interrogator. The role finally fell to the Cannes-winning lead actor of Holy Spider, Zar Amir Ebrahimi. Together in an anonymous room, with Tamadon stripped to his underwear, they reconstruct the interrogation process, which gradually becomes an examination of the nature of power and coercion. The resulting film is intense and, at times, uncomfortable. And as it progresses, My Worst Enemy becomes an exploration of cinema’s relationship with its audience, questioning whether there is a limit to what it can show.
A 12-year-old boy turns to a charismatic loner for help after being beaten up at school, in director Miles Warren’s searing feature debut about fathers, families, and the effects of fighting.
