Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) is a take-charge captain of industry who has worked his way up in a San Francisco steel company from a position as a sheet metal worker. He loves his wife Irene (Helen Walker) very much and they have planned a vacation drive together. Irene cancels at the last minute claiming a toothache, but asks that Walter drive her cousin Jim Torrance (Tony Barrett) as far as Illinois. Walter agrees and he and Jim take off together but later Jim knocks Walter unconscious and takes the car only to be hit himself by a truck and killed, his body burned beyond recognition. Walter comes to and suffering a concussion and deep confusion from feeling betrayed by Irene hides out in a small Midwest town until guilt and peer pressure force him to go back to San Francisco and tell his story to the Police. But by the time Walter returns to San Francisco a clever detective Lieutenant Quincy (Charles Coburn) has uncovered some facts about Irene and her cousin' Jim. The police have been holding Irene for the murder of her husband Walter but release her considering that Walter was hiding out because he had killed Jim. Along the way to uncovering the truth in Court Walter realizes some hard fact about what he holds valuable and the trust he has put in those around him.

　　故事讲述前海洛因瘾君子丹尼尔·莱格参与了一项毒品交易，以错误的理由为错误的人提供帮助。 当交易失败时，丹尼尔被扔进泰国监狱，并被判处100年徒刑。 当他试图在曼谷被监禁时幸存下来时，他被定罪的消息引起了环球邮报记者维克托·马拉雷克的注意，他决定追捕负责对丹尼尔进行错误指控的阴暗卧底警察。

一次朋友间的聚会，导演兼地产商的罗先生（张兆辉饰）从港岛西重案组女督察猫姐林妙翠（张文慈饰）那里听来一宗女童虐杀案：11岁女童被生母李碧琪（唐宁饰）打死，警方在调查过程中发现女童长期遭人性侵。李碧琪对误杀生女之罪供认不讳，但对于女生被自己的同居男友曹永强（彭敬慈饰）性侵一事表示毫不知情。警务处助理处长王瑞芳（邵美琪饰）现身西区警局，并亲手对嫌疑人李碧琪展开审问。李碧琪对于纵容同居男友长期性侵女儿一事置口否认，王瑞芳与几名手下在审讯室对李碧琪施行种种酷刑，但李碧琪始终毫不松口。拘留所里，企图自杀李碧琪被值班警员及时发现送往医院救治，王瑞芳在家中忆起一段发生在自己家中的不堪回首往事。第二天，王瑞芳赶往医院看望李碧琪，终于从她口中得知一个让人唏嘘不已的故事……

诺贝尔奖得主Jose Saramago的小说《Blindness》将被搬上电影舞台。书中描述了一个陷入致盲病毒的城市，导火线从一名司机点燃，突然失明后，他得到了一个人的善意帮助，这条线继续燃烧下去，眼科医生也来帮助他们了，故事就这样开始了。所有的致盲者都被关进了一座废弃的精神病院，重兵把守，不惜生命的代价也要制止疾病的扩散。 Julianne Moore将扮演唯一没有失明的人——医生的善良妻子， 著名黑人电影人Danny Glover在片中扮演一名致盲的黑人老者。尽管主角来自美国，但这部电影是由日本、巴西、加拿大合拍的国际性电影。

百万美元酒店是一座汇聚了三教九流的酒店，这里有着各色各样的人物。一天，一名青年从酒店楼上跳楼自杀了，FBI探员史金纳（梅尔•吉布森 Mel Gibson 饰）奉命来到酒店调查。面对各色各样并不好惹的人，史金纳利用手段拉拢了酒店的智障住户汤姆（杰瑞米•戴维斯 Jeremy Davies 饰）和另一个住户妓女艾易丝（米拉•乔沃维奇 Milla Jovovich 饰）帮助调查。　　原本平平无奇的案情，却因死者是传媒大亨的儿子而变得扑朔迷离。原本对此漠不关心的住客们，为了能从死者父亲那里获得一点好处，而各执一词，对案件做出各种各样的假设，其实多数是不着边际的谎话。而汤姆由于不是心甘情愿地帮助史金纳，出于道义他隐瞒了案子的内情。面对这种情形，史金纳也措手不及。为了理清案情，他只能使出“非常手段”。