Teenagepigen Chen Nian er vidne til, at en af kammeraterne springer i døden fra en skolebygning. Årsagen til selvmordet skal findes i lang tids mobning, men dødsfaldet ændrer ikke på mobbernes adfærd. I stedet bliver Chen det nye offer, og hun udsættes for utallige grove overgreb. I desperation søger Chen støtte hos den ungdomskriminelle Xiao, der giver hende et løfte: Han vil være hendes beskytter.
I Hong Kong raser krigen mellem triaderne og politiet. Chan er en undercover-politimand, der har infiltreret underverdenen. Modsat arbejder politimanden Lau i virkeligheden for triade. Efterhånden bliver begge organisationer klar over, at der er en stikker i blandt dem. Chan og Lau får hver især til opgave af afsløre den anden.
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convince Matsunaga to stay for treatment, which would drastically change his lifestyle. They form an uneasy friendship until Matsunaga's old boss Okada returns from prison.
Triad boss Lung, who has just escaped being killed in an assassination attempt hires the killers Curtis, James, Mike, Roy and Shin for his protection. Their grown solidarity is under compulsion when Lung orders Curtis to kill Shin in punishment for his affair with Mrs. Lung.
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. No one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing, with whom he falls in love.
Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members.
After losing an election to become chairman of the Wo Lin Shing triad, a gang leader lashes out and tries to seize the dragon-head baton, the official symbol of a chairman's authority.
When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.
Et politikorps i Hong Kong er blevet udstillet i medierne efter et fejlslagent forsøg på at stoppe et bankrøveri. Da politiet opdager, at røverne gemmer sig i en beboelsesejendom, ser de chancen for at rette op på deres renomme. Stedet belejres af hundredvis af politifolk, der er bevæbnede med både pistoler og kameraer. Alting går efter planen, indtil også røverne begynder at forsyne medierne med deres udgave af begivenhederne.
Chan, an articulate senior detective nearing the end of his career, is taking care of the daughter of a witness killed by ruthless crime lord Po. Martial arts expert Ma is set to take over as head of the crime unit, replacing Chan who wants an early retirement.
A special agent has for 8 years been deep undercover in Asia's lucrative organized crime trade as he plays protégé to one of the key players, Banker. Now, Nick has but he has started to feel loyalty to his new environment and to the money.
Tidligere offentlig anklager Michael Clayton tager sig af det beskidte arbejde for et stort advokatfirma i New York. Desværre har skilsmisse, gæld og dårlig forretningssans efterladt Clayton noget udbrændt. Så da en af firmaets klienter får moralske skrupler, og der bliver brug for hans særlige evner, bliver det pludselig svært for Clayton at gå til opgaven med vanlig afslappede forhold til sandheden.
Man siger Hong Kong er den sikreste by i Asien, men ikke denne aften. En politivogn, fuld af våben og udstyr, samt 5 politimænd er blevet kidnappet. To vicepolitiinspektører M.B. Lee (Tony Leung Ka Fai, fra The Lover) og Sean Lau (superstjernen Aaron Kwok) træder til, i et forsøg på at køre sig selv i stilling til at overtage chefjobbet. De har meget forskellige metoder, men ligemeget hvad de prøver på er kidnapperne altid et skridt foran dem. Ligger der mere bag denne krise, end man umiddelbart skulle tro?
Life has not been kind to drinking buddies Sam, Fai, and Mok as they struggle to make ends meet, until one stormy evening a mysterious old man appears before them in a bar with a 'get rich quick' scheme: an ancient treasure is buried under a high-security government building.
Engang var hun en af CIA's bedste forhørsledere, men Alice's karriere led et knæk, da det ikke lykkedes hende at forhindre et terrorangreb i Paris. Nu lever Alice et stille liv som sagsbehandler, men snart bliver hun indkaldt til tjeneste igen. CIA har pågrebet en mistænkt, som de tror har viden om et nært forestående terrorangreb. I et kapløb med tiden må Alice finde ud af, hvem hun egentlig kan stole på.
Jarle Klepp is a 25-year-old student of literature with a passion for Adorno, Proust and grown-up women - and definitely not Tamagotchis, Lady Di and small kids. The news that he is the father of a seven year old girl - and that she will come visiting next week - enters his life like a nuclear bomb. Jarle Klepp has to become an adult.
Fætrene Vincent og Anton Zaleski (Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgard) siger deres jobs op på Wallstreet, da de har fået en ide til, hvordan man kan tjene store penge lynhurtigt. Det, de vil gøre, er at bygge en lynhurtig underjordisk fiberforbindelse fra Wall Street til Kansas, der vil gøre dem i stand til at få informationer fra børserne dyrebare millisekunder før deres konkurrenter. Men deres tidligere chef Eva Torres (Salma Hayek) får nys om deres planer, og sætter alt ind på at overtage den gode idé.
Jackie Chan optræder som en hærdet specialstyrke agent, der kæmper for at beskytte en ung kvinde fra en uhyggelig kriminel bande. Samtidig føler han en særlig forbindelse til den unge kvinde, som om de mødtes i et andet liv.
Wanted criminal "Helios" and his assistant stole a quantity of uranium and plan to produce weapons of mass destruction. They are planning to trade with a terrorist organization in Hong Kong. Chief Inspector Lee Yinming and Inspector Fan Kaming lead the Counter Terrorism Response Unit of the Hong Kong Police Force. Along with a Chinese senior official, a physics professor, and two South Korean weapon experts, they hope to defuse a crisis sufficient to destroy the world.