The story begins when Luke Constable III (Michael Hayden) and his fiancée Elaine Phelps (Neith Hunter) drive around on the way to see his rich farmer grandfather Mr. Constable (Richard Crenna) and Aunt Alice (Bonnie Bartlett) after going past Laurette Wilder (Laura Leighton), a poor woman from the wrong side of the tracks. Arriving at the ranch while Luke and Elaine talk with Herschel (Akin Babatunde) who is Luke's best friend, Luke finds out that after the deaths of both his parents, his grandfather and aunt Alice raise him.
The RCMP, the CIA, and the KGB are all in pursuit of a free-lance hit man who kills randomly-selected women, in addition to the targets he's been paid to kill. CIA agent John Hyde (Martin Sheen) and his Canadian Mountie counterpart, Derek McKenzie (Michael Ontkean), investigate the murder of a Korean embassy employee, and end up in the middle of this jurisdictional nightmare, as does Hyde's ex-wife Amanda O'Rourke (Beverly D'Angelo), who is the assassin's next target.
Mrs. Manderley, an eccentric descendant of the Borgias, lives in a castle in the middle of the Mojave Desert with her husband Paul Manderley, a reclusive scholarly millionaire. Someone is killed after being poisoned.
Mechanical engineer James "Jim" Montgomery escorts attractive blonde Ethel George to her apartment, one floor up from where he himself lives. However, inside she is startled to find an angry Lew Durkin, a "Chicago millionaire". Jim leaves, but later she flees to his place, chased by Durkin.
A Los Angeles Police Officer (Edwards) investigates the death of his partner in the swamps of Louisiana. He enlists the help of an ex-cop (Henriksen) who lost his hand to an alligator years before.
In 1929 Chicago, Federal investigator Eliot Ness struggles to win the fight against Al Capone. He decides to form a special team of reliable, dedicated, honest law enforcement officers.
thumb|upright=1.2|Keye Luke and Warner Oland in Charlie Chan at the Circus Charlie Chan takes his wife and twelve children on an outing to a circus after receiving a free pass from one of the owners, Joe Kinney. Kinney wants Chan to find out who is sending him anonymous threatening letters. Nearly all of the circus workers are suspects since Kinney is very unpopular.
Maurice Meister, an underhand solicitor, receives threatening notes from a man known as "The Ringer" to all but his wife and Meister who know him as Henry Arthur Milton, a master of disguise. Milton's sister has been found drowned and he blames Meister for her death. Chief Inspector Bliss is put in charge of the case (having gone from New York back to Scotland Yard) to join Inspector Wembury of the Metropolitan Police in the Deptford territory.
thumb|thumbtime=20|For the Defense (1930) New York criminal defense attorney William Foster is so successful that prosecutors regard him as a menace. He holds himself to high ethical standards but is willing to mislead without actually lying. Foster defends a man who planned a murder using explosives.
Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father's sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. He hopes to hitchhike to Sydney Airport where his take-off into a successful country/western singing career will hopefully begin. However, fate and his naivety find him hitchhiking with a psychotic drug thief named Boyd, and Boyd's mesmerising girlfriend, Patsy.
Former Eighth Air Force bomber crewman Captain Jeff Eliot returns to Germany in 1947 to visit the family who rescued and hid him from the Nazis after his plane was downed over Munich in World War II. He learns that most of the family was killed by an American air raid. The only survivor is the daughter, Wilhelmina "Willie" Lehrt, who is working as a hostess in a nightclub and hates Americans.
While Charlie Chan and his number one son, Lee, are aboard a New York-bound transatlantic liner returning from Germany in their previous adventure (Charlie Chan at the Olympics), they have a run-in with a mysterious woman, named Billie Bronson, who secretes a package in the trunk of the Chans. After the liner docks, Chan and Lee are met at the pier by Inspector Nelson and two rival reporters, Joan Wendall and Speed Patton. Billie, who left the country hurriedly a year ago when sought as a material witness in a political scandal, has returned to "blow the lid off the town".
An outlaw motorcycle club commits illegal acts, but only to make a point against police corruption. They are normally law-abiding, even going so far as to help an elderly couple whose car stops running. When a police officer rapes a woman, he frames the crime on the bikers.
In a warehouse, Anders questions a former associate, Benny, whom he accuses of selling out their boss, an international arms dealer named Libby. Benny confesses that he revealed Libby would be in Havana to a woman known as the Broker, and Anders kills him. A day later, Jack Petty meets Rita at an airport bar after their flight to Cuba is delayed.
Haskell (Michael Caine) is a hardened gangster assigned to a job by his boss, Landon-Higgins (James Fox), to steal sheets of watermarked paper to print fake money.
A gangster, Steve Larwitt (George Raft), falls for one his singers, Brenda Bartley (Joan Bennett), at his nightclub. They marry and live the high life for a while. He gets set up and is sentenced to ten years at Alcatraz on charges of racketeering.
Young orphan "Lord" Geoffrey Braemer poses as an English aristocrat for con artists Jim Hampsteadand Doris Clandon, who assumed care of him when his parents were killed in a train wreck. He fakes fainting in a jewelry store, distracting the employees and allowing Jim to steal a valuable necklace. However, an astute insurance investigator catches him and Geoff is sent to Russell-Cotes, a mercantile marine school, and is warned that if he does not behave, he will be transferred to a reformatory.
A wealthy gem-collector, Brandon Edwards, gains possession of the largest star sapphire in the world, the 'Eye of the Daughter of the Moon', after it has been stolen in China. Edwards, at a party in his home, confides to Mr. Wong that his life is in danger.
thumb|thumbtime=10|A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929) Joe works as a barber in a shop in a Devon town, alongside a manicurist called Sally. He is infatuated with her and asks her out on a date; however the evening turns out awkwardly and it is clear that Sally does not reciprocate Joe's feelings. Despite Sally's lack of interest and through a misunderstanding involving a floral buttonhole, Joe's infatuation with her develops into obsession.
The film tells the tale of Gabrielle Winters, a brain-damaged and institutionalized tutor and proofreader who elaborately recounts the disappearance of the sixteen-year-old girl she was babysitting.
Jim Wade (Jack Palance) is a ruthless cop with a bad reputation of being rude to suspects, informants, witnesses, and just about anyone who crosses paths with him in the wrong way. When a mysterious serial killer named the Slasher starts killing women, Wade vows to end the killing spree by any means possible, whether legal or not.
