As the World is facing a mysterious terrorist menace, dashing police commissioner San-Antonio and his deputy, overweight and bumbling lieutenant Bérurier, must ensure the protection of the French ambassador to the United Kingdom during a stay at a luxury hotel. But due to Bérurier's negligence, the ambassador is kidnapped by a female member of the terrorist organization. San-Antonio takes the blame for this failure and is dismissed from the police forces.
Virginia, the 16-year-old daughter of a wealthy businessman, is kidnapped by two men, J.D. and Dakota, and Alva Coward, her high school economics teacher. While the details of the payout of the $2 million ransom are being worked out by J.D.
After an actor is killed during the middle of a play the theatre is closed. A year later a young producer re-assembles the cast and re-opens the theatre, intending to the stage the same play performed on the night of the murder.
Two scientists from the World Health Organisation's Low Temperature Unit in Berlin – the American Dr. Frank Overton and Dr. Helen Wieland, a West German, have successfully frozen chimpanzees, stored them at -80 °C for three months, and thawed them with no ill effects.
The film focuses on a man who failed to save his daughter from a vicious attack. He works as a security guard, uncovering more than he bargained for and finding himself in the dark world of human trafficking.
Bulldog Drummond's partner Algy is set to wed. Bulldog attends the wedding but on his return home in the deep foggy night he wanders into an old mansion of Prince Achmed in search of a telephone. To his shock he finds the corpse of an old man.
The film opens with a raid on an illegal casino performed by a group of blacks with automatic weapons. The audience discovers the perpetrators are white disguised as blacks. The story moves to a Vietnam War flashbacks with a patrol being ambushed by the Vietcong, and the resulting firefight.
Amateur criminologist Richard Wentworth, once the notorious masked vigilante The Spider, brings his former alter ego out of retirement to help his old friend, police commissioner Kirk, battle a dangerous, power-hungry maniac called the Gargoyle. This mysterious crime lord and his henchmen threaten the world with acts of sabotage and wholesale murder in an effort to wreck the national security of the United States. Wentworth's identity is known only to his immediate coterie: his girlfriend Nita, his assistants Jackson and Ram Singh, and his butler Jenkins.
The film concerns a 96-minute-long story of 4 main characters in one night and their tragic ending. Lena wakes up next to her boyfriend. They talk briefly about where he is going and what he is doing for the day.
The story of the nineteenth century burglar and murderer Charles Peace is told in flashback in a lecture by Sir Clement Barnes KC at Hendon Police College: Peace's murder of Arthur Dyson, his subsequent false identities, his career as a burglar, and his shooting of a policeman. For these crimes he is eventually arrested, tried, and sentenced to death by hanging.
After aspiring actress Sherry Stewart auditions for director Walter Darman but doesn't get the part, she decides to blackmail him. Sherry and her boyfriend Ronnie cook up a scheme, drugging Darman's drink, lying to him later that he and Sherry had become intimate, then threatening to tell his wife unless Darman comes up with $50,000. Darman decides to confront Sherry directly, but tempers flare and he strangles her to death.
Airline pilot Jack Gordon (Fred MacMurray) on a flight from New York to San Francisco, is immediately attracted to beautiful passenger Felice Rollins (Joan Bennett). Known as a "lady's man", he bets stewardess Vi Johnson (Ruth Donnelly) that he will take Felice out to dinner that evening. A jewel robbery is in the news and a beautiful blonde is implicated, with Jack suspecting that Felice may be the culprit.
Jane Koberly, accidentally present during a robbery, is falsely convicted of being an accessory. While being transferred to an industrial school with her cellmate Terry Marsh, Terry's boyfriend Mike Denton springs them, killing a deputy in the process. With the police hot on their trail, they take over a farmhouse owned by the Grants and terrorize the family while waiting for their friend Al to arrive with money and transport.
On the eve of his marriage to waitress Mary Roberts, taxi driver "Brick" Tennant is questioned as a murder suspect along with 120 other drivers, because a taxi served as the getaway car in a theater robbery in which a man was killed. When one of the witnesses swears that Brick and his friend, Joe Linden, were the killers, the district attorney, eager for a conviction, brings the taxi drivers to trial even though Brick and Mary were in a church when the robbery took place. Although innocent, Brick and Joe are found guilty and sentenced to die in the electric chair.
A man begins to investigate on his own the death of his brother, who died from eating a hamburger laced with ground glass. With the police case stalled because of ineptness, the man's own investigation leads him toward a beatnik hang-out frequented by Nico (Peter Falk), a shady character who supplies drugs to the patrons and philosophizes about the ills of the world.
Is there a link between the murder of five foreign sailors from the East whose bodies have been found on the San Pedro waterfront and the issue of one million counterfeit dollars in the USA? Don Owens, an undercover agent, assisted by Angie, a beautiful but embittered widow who has fallen for him, does his best to untangle the knot.
Policeman, Mike Jones (Q), is given information by his athlete friend, Joey (Silvio Simac), about a terrorist group testing a virus on people. Whilst undercover, Mike tries to earn the trust of Slick Pete (Bradley Gardner), who is planning a bank robbery heist. Later Joey is murdered by his girlfriend, Ty (Shanika Warren-Markland), after refusing to throw his next martial arts fight at the request of Fast Eddie (Joseph Marcell).
