Attempting suicide, sultry but down-on-her-luck swindler Liz (Nadia Townsend) is rescued by lonely tow truck driver Aiden (Bernard Curry). But instead of rushing her to the hospital, Liz's saviour abducts her to his remote farmhouse, convinced that she is the wife who abandoned him years earlier. Cut off from civilisation, kept prisoner and guarded day and night by vicious attack dogs, Liz realizes she must rely on her skills as a con artist to talk her way out of this hostage situation.
Rick, Allie and Beejay are walking down the street looking for kicks. They harass a couple of young women to no avail. Rick, the leader of the three, reaches for a smoke, but has no light.
War veteran Johnny Larrimer joins the Ku Klux Klan and comes to regard it as evil. When he betrays his Klan oath, he is brought before Klan officials for a mock trial and lynching. One of Johnny's friends, a government agent working under cover, alerts the state troopers.
The story begins with the discovery of an emerging fashion stylist's dead body. Angie Woods, a stylist recognized for succeeding with difficult rejuvenation jobs, is found dead with a razor in her hand. Investigators suggest that Woods committed suicide because of the unattractive hairstyle she was wearing.
Harry is a small time crook who plans one last job before he retires, but things do not go quite according to plan. With his sidekick Nimmo, the plan is to ambush a truck containing £500,000 of diamonds in Leopard Street, but heavy security means recruiting a larger criminal gang than usual, and the inexperienced newcomers may derail Harry's scheme.
Three men rob a millionaire of diamonds aboard an airliner in flight. When Police Superintendent Benting tries to intervene, Jack Drake, another passenger, knocks him out to save him from being shot. The thieves force the pilot to land so they can dump the passengers.
When the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution is repealed, former prohibition baron Remy Marko ventures into the legal production and marketing of beer. The poor quality of his product leads him to bankruptcy. His daughter Mary intends to marry policeman Chance Whitelaw, heir to a wealthy family.
After returning from World War II, a journalist is assigned by his newspaper to be science editor when he wishes to be restored to his old job as a crime reporter. While drowning his sorrows in a bar, he sees what he believes to be a hold-up involving a beautiful young woman and her dog. He triggers a major manhunt after calling in the story to his newsdesk, before realizing that the woman is both innocent and a serving member of the police.
Pop Clark, owner and manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, is talking to newspaperman Jimmy Downey. His team was a favorite to win the pennant this season, but they have been performing poorly.
Johnny Brent is a young man on probation after a first conviction for petty theft. Attempting to reform his life, he meets and falls in love with Connie Phillips, the daughter of a middle-class textile company owner, Harold Phillips. Johnny finds employment at Connie’s father's firm, keeping his criminal past a secret to maintain his new social standing and relationship.
The Honourable Richard Rollinson is a well-known private detective who has friends and contacts in all echelons of society from the wealthy West End set to the lowest East End hovels. He likes to take on cases on behalf of underdogs, and is feared by the criminal underworld for his fearsome reputation of always getting his man. Young secretary Fay Gretton comes to Rollinson, worried that her employer has not shown up for work for several days and cannot be contacted.
Some strange supernatural phenomenon starts to occur in a railway station, leading members of the public to avoid the place. It turns out some criminals are faking the strange events to keep people away from the station to protect their smuggling operations.
The story centers around Johnny Graham (Edward Furlong), who was raised by the Torino crime family after his parents' suspicious death. Struggling between loyalty to his adoptive family versus his conscience, he is forced to act when Anthony Torino (Rick Ravanello) sets his murderous focus on D.A. Elizabeth Jones (Grace Johnston), who is prosecuting Anthony for the gruesome murder of his cousin.
The evil and incompetent Dr. Hurtrider kidnaps an innocent young woman named Callista to conduct experiments on her to cure diseases, even if she does not have any. It is up to her dimwitted sister, Janie, to solve the obvious clues left behind and rescue her little sister.
In order to break up a gang trading in stolen goods, a Scotland Yard detective assumes the identity of a criminal and goes undercover. He robs a jewellery shop and is sentenced to prison so that he can gain the confidence of the gang's leaders and infiltrate their organisation.
Two private bankers, Alistair (Scott) and Jamie (Mackenzie), who have the world at their feet get their kicks from playing a twelve-hour game of hunt, hide and seek with people from the margins of society. Their next target is Sean Macdonald (Pearson) a parentless teenager who lives with his sister on a housing estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh. She's in debt, he's going nowhere fast.
A photograph submitted to a newspaper for a competition attracts the attention of crime reporter Jon Deering. It shows the getaway car used in a robbery which led to the unsolved murder of a policeman, and a glamorous woman waving to the car's driver. Deering undertakes to find the woman, believing she may hold the key to the killer's identity.
Pete (Robson Green) & Lydia Gray (Sarah Parish) are out celebrating their son Max (Timothy Krause)'s fourth birthday, when they become involved in one of every parent's worst nightmares; as Max is snatched by embittered Benjamin Cain (Joe Absolom), his half-brother, who since his birth in 1982, has endured various degrees of abuse, perversion, abandonment, addiction and betrayal. He now has concocted a plan to gain revenge on his abusers and his so-called loving birth parent, who gave him up for adoption, leaving him to the mercy of those who exploited the system, just so they could abuse their positions of power and indulge in their…
As the film opens, we learn that Benson, a New Yorker, has been entrusted with protecting the 11-year-old boy. The style of the film is intentionally ambiguous, and details about only obtained through the dialogue between the main characters, in many cases, in a way that only makes sense once later scenes are viewed. The boy, as is revealed later, is with Benson because his father had appealed for protection from the authorities in return for his testimony against a local mobster, Manzella.
