Natasha "Nat" O'Brien is a celebrated pastry chef invited to London to assist in preparing a state dinner for Elizabeth II, organized by culinary critic Maximillian "Max" Vandeveer. Natasha's ex-husband, Robert "Robby" Ross, is a fast-food entrepreneur ("the Taco King") serving the "everyman" consumer while she caters to the affluent. Max is the "calamitously fat" grand gourmand publisher of a gourmet magazine Epicurious and is the patron of several famous European chefs, each renowned for a signature dish.
Late at night, a theatre troupe rehearses a musical about the fictional mass murderer Night Owl. Domineering director Peter refuses to let anyone leave. When actress Alicia sprains her ankle, she and castmate Betty sneak out for medical help at a nearby mental hospital.
Bella inherits a yacht from her father, who was a mercenary. She wants to take a trip on it with her boyfriend Michael, but the yacht is attacked by Meeser, a colleague of her father's, who wants to get his hands on money they stole together. Michael escapes to get help.
Three rookie cops, Roy Fehler, Gus Plebesly, and Sergio Duran, report for duty with the Los Angeles Police Department. Roy is married with a daughter Rebecca and intends to eventually become a law student. Gus is a father of three.
In 1975, a cult called Unity Fields commits mass suicide by fire at the behest of its psychopathic leader, Franklin Harris. Cynthia Weston, a child in the cult, refuses to commit suicide and is the sole survivor, but remains comatose. Thirteen years later, Cynthia awakens from her coma in the hospital.
Sandra Carpenter is an American who came to London in order to perform in a show, but is now working as a taxi dancer. She is upset to find out that her friend and fellow dancer, Lucy Barnard, is missing and believed to be the latest victim of the notorious "Poet Killer," who lures victims with personal ads in newspapers, afterwards sending poems to taunt the police. Inspector Harley Temple of Scotland Yard believes the killer to be influenced by the 19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire.
Nine years after David Herdeg was transported through time from 1943 to 1984, he has settled down in modern California. He married Allison Hayes, and together they had a son named Benjamin, but Allison has since passed away. Left a single father, David faces several hardships: his business is slowly failing, Ben's school attendance has dropped, and banks are threatening to foreclose on his home.
The pair of Bobby Keller and Dinger each find themselves with a pair of seemingly ordinary sunglasses. But, this is no normal pair of shades — once two people are wearing the set, one can manipulate the other physically to do whatever their mind wishes to. The set of sunglasses were part of an experiment, and the original owners of the products will stop at nothing to get them back from Bobby and Dinger.
The charismatic criminal Dobermann (Vincent Cassel), who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers with his beautiful, deaf girlfriend Nat the Gypsy (Monica Bellucci). After a complex and violent bank robbery, they are hunted by the Paris police, led by the sadistic cop Christini (Tchéky Karyo), who wants to catch Dobermann at any cost. He manages to catch another gang member Olivier, who is also a transvestite going by the name of Sonia.
A room-service waiter at a New York hotel is horrified to discover a man standing on the narrow ledge outside his room on the 15th floor. Traffic cop Charlie Dunnigan unsuccessfully tries to convince the man to return to his room. Dunnigan's officious chief dismisses him with contempt.
The film opens early in the twentieth century, at an English country mansion with the apparent murder of Lord and Lady Morley in their car by a figure in a black cape. Inspector Winship (Knotts) and Dr. Tart (Conway), two American detectives transferred over to Scotland Yard because of problems in the United States, travel to the Morley mansion, brandishing a letter from the late Lord Morley asking them to investigate his own murder.
Recently paroled after serving a fifteen-year prison sentence, Garrett Tully meets Doreen Lesser to complete a drug errand for their incarcerated Aryan Brotherhood boss, Paul Sobecki. After fatally shooting a cop, Tully breaks into a house, where he and Doreen take an African-American family hostage. An ex-con himself, the family patriarch, Sonny Walker, attempts to understand the neo-Nazi's motives and get his family out alive.
Solo is an android designed as a military killing machine. He is sent to Central America by General Haynes to battle guerrilla insurgents, but a flaw develops in his programming, and he develops a conscience and compassion. His developers try to take him back for deprogramming, but he flees to the jungle in a helicopter.
In 1958, Anna Jurin accepts a job as a housekeeper of Saint Ange, a rusty and isolated orphanage located in the French Alps and owned by Madam Francard. The last batch of children have been sent elsewhere shortly after the mysterious death of a boy in the bathroom, which tarnishes the orphanage's reputation and threatens its closure. Other than Anna, the orphanage is now populated by only two people: the long-time cook Helenka and an adult orphan, Judith, who suffers from a mental disability and claims that there are other, unseen, children in the location.
In 1980s Germany at the height of the Cold War, 19-year-old Karl Koch finds the world around him threatening and chaotic. Inspired by the fictitious character Hagbard Celine (from Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's 1975 book The Illuminatus! Trilogy), he starts investigating the backgrounds of political and economic power and discovers signs that make him believe in a worldwide conspiracy.
The story focuses on a theatre troupe who travel by boat to a small island off the coast of Miami that is mainly used as a cemetery for deranged criminals, to have a night of fun and games. Their director Alan (Alan Ormsby), a twisted, sadistic individual, tells his group — whom he refers as his "children" — numerous stories relating to the island's history and buried inhabitants. Alan leads them to a cottage, where they are supposed to spend the night.
Reporter Michael Ward is the key witness in a murder trial. His evidence – that he saw the accused, Joe Briggs, standing over the body of a man in a diner – is instrumental in having Briggs found guilty. Afterwards, Ward's fiancée Jane begins worrying that Ward may not have been correct in what he saw; eventually Ward becomes haunted by this question.
In Phoenix, Arizona, Harry Collins is a cop whose compulsive gambling has indebted him to a local gangster, in Chicago. As his losses mount and time count down, Collins resorts to exploiting a young woman, Veronica, whom he has picked up to distract his friends in a poker game. Despite the successful distraction, he still loses, and he rejects Veronica's sexual advances, as he considers her to be bad luck.
Married couple Peter and Carla have a strained and fractious relationship. After purchasing some expensive camping gear, Peter persuades a reluctant and unimpressed Carla to join him, along with their dog Cricket and another couple on a camping trip, on the isolated Moondah Beach on the North Coast. En route to their destination, the pair stops off at a pub to ask for directions, where Peter also leaves a message for his friend Luke, with the owner of the premises.
Psychiatrist Margaret Ford has achieved success with her recently published book about obsessive-compulsive disorder, but feels unfulfilled. Her patient, Billy Hahn, says his life is in danger because he owes money to a criminal figure named Mike Mancuso. He threatens suicide, brandishing a gun.
A former CIA agent and ex-Special Forces member Dean Cage (Wesley Snipes), is in a rehab program, haunted by a botched mission in Bosnia which resulted in the execution of his best friend Scott (Cristian Solimeno). While in a restaurant waiting for his girlfriend, Baltimore Police Detective Amy Knight (Jacqueline Obradors), who happens to be Scott's sister, he is mistakenly believed to be a CIA agent involved with a stolen military experimental truth serum. He is abducted by the real thieves and injected with the drug, which makes him relive the moments from the failed Bosnian mission and not able to discern who are his allies and who are…
A young couple in love — Watty Watts (Bellows) and Starlene (Zellweger) — are planning a convenience store robbery. The next day, they are paid a visit by Creepy Cody (Alexander) and Dinosaur Bob (Combs), collectors for a local mobster whom Watty has borrowed money from to buy an engagement ring for Starlene. They inform Watty that he must get the money very soon.
After his mother Nancy Lincoln turns into a zombie, 10-year-old Abraham Lincoln sees his father Thomas Lincoln commit suicide at her bedside. Taking up a scythe, the distraught young Abe beheads her. He then joins others in his community in containing a local zombie outbreak.
After an MI6 agent carrying a roll of film containing flyover photographs of the East German town of Kalkstadt is found dead and the film goes missing, MI6 conclude he was killed by the Stasi to cover up the presence of a new rocket system based on the V-2. The rocket was previously spotted in vague, on-the-ground photos, and if real, its existence would be a violation of international agreements. A source entices MI6 with another set of photographs that conclusively confirm the rocket's existence, and only after receiving payment does he reveal that the photographs are being held in Kalkstadt itself by his father.
