In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.

Bill Lee arbejder med at udrydde skadedyr og kryb. Om dagen bruger han insektgiften til at dræbe kakerlakker, og om aftenen indtager han samme gift sammen med sin kone for at blive høj. I en vanvittig ulykke kommer Lee til at skyde sin kone i hovedet, hvilket får ham til at dykke lige ned i en verden af stoffer, paranoia og hallucinationer. Konstant forfulgt af spioner, skrivemaskiner og kæmpeinsekter jager Lee rundt efter svaret på sin egen gåde.

Beverly og Elliot Mantle er enæggede tvillinger, der begge arbejder som gynækologer. De er tæt forbundne og udgiver sig ofte for at være hinanden. Elliot, den dominerende og udfarende bror, forfører kvinder på Beverlys vegne. Da han indleder han en kinky affære med en patient, skuespillerinden Genevieve, begynder hans liv at gå op i limningen. Imens prøver Beverly at dække over ham.

Efter et længere ophold på et psykiatrisk hospital vender 'Spider' tilbage til Londons East End, hvor han voksede op. Langsomt vender minderne om hans traumatiske barndom og morens død tilbage. Var farene involveret? Snart bliver det svært for 'Spider' at skelne virkelighed og fantasi.

Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentimental, yakuza, who takes the liberty of joining his adventure through China. Led on their long and disastrous journey to the mine by Shen, the three men come across something even more magical and enticing.

Roshan, an NRI, arrives in Old Delhi with his ailing grandmother and starts to rediscover himself before getting caught in a religious dispute that shakes the once peaceful neighborhood.

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg. Eldest son and struggling musician Guy moves back to town, feeling guilty that he missed the funeral. His brother, Beagle, who was his mother's caretaker, falls for Marg's granddaughter, Georgia, a chronically ill girl who fears her time is growing short.

A young woman from a Catholic school and a young man from a nearby prison camp fall in love and run away together to escape the law, the church and their parents.

A young man adopted by a renowned swordsmith, discovers that his real father was killed by a powerful bandit called Lung. Leaving to seek revenge, he runs foul of a group of vicious desert scum, losing his right arm in the process. After being nursed back to health, he eventually learns to compensate for his loss and returns to confront the man who murdered his father.

A vengeful widow worms her way into the home of the man she holds responsible for her husband's suicide.

Over the years, a child's romantic ideals about death blossom into necrophilia, the study of embalming and the most profound relationship of her life.

Two mall employees driving to work hit a man who drank a soda laced with a chemical that turns people into cannibals.

The lovely Laura, on a modelling job in South Africa, is kidnapped by a gang who carry her off into the jungle from where they demand a huge ransom. Two men set off in a helicopter to rescue her, little knowing what horrors Laura is enduring in the meantime in the savage clutches of a primitive and bloodthristy world. Laura's rescuers not only have to face the cruel violence of her captors - but also the horrifying lust for blood of a primitive and cruel god.

In May 1993, Brazil experienced one of the worst economic crises in its history. The government then decides to set up a real task force to solve the problem. Confined to a bunker as a way of shielding the operations of growing political pressures, the special economic team will have to do its best to reach agreement and create the Plano Real.

The passengers and crew of a boat on a summer cruise in the Caribbean stray into the famed Bermuda Triangle and mysterious things start happening.

South of France: Riki Kandinski and his elder brother Fredrico, come back to their family castle for their father's funeral. Fredrico knows nothing about his younger brother, but he notices that he is making big money and living in luxury all for a few days work a week. By pure chance, Fredrico gets his hands on a gay porn magazine and sees his brother in it.

Leah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she was victimized in medical experiments. Now, twenty years later, German war crimes prosecutors hope she will be their star witness. But can she stand up to the shame, the publicity, and the reliving of those experiences?

A group of people are stranded at a small airport, when their plane experiences technical difficulties, and soon they find their lives clashing.

A young Spanish exchange student who is on her own for the first time in her life tries to adjust to a vastly different life in Berlin.