En 1999, à Olloy, dans les Ardennes belges, un enfant disparaît. Tout le monde dans le village se met alors à suspecter son voisin de la disparition. Ce sera sans compter sur un événement inattendu et dévastateur qui va tout chambouler.
Duncan Vizla est un des tueurs à gages les plus redoutés au monde. On le surnomme le « Black Kaiser ». Il est sur le point de prendre sa retraite. Mais son patron ne l'entend pas de cette oreille et envoie des jeunes recrues impitoyables afin de l'éliminer. Le « Black Kaiser » est alors contraint de reprendre du service.
Sam, un jeune homme apathique, fait la connaissance de sa nouvelle voisine, Sarah. Il en tombe aussitôt sous le charme. Alors que celle-ci disparaît subitement sans laisser de traces, Sam décide de partir à sa recherche et entreprend une enquête des plus surréalistes aux abords de la ville de Los Angeles. Il plongera dans les profondeurs les plus ténébreuses qui soient de la Cité des Anges où il devra élucider disparitions douteuses et meurtres mystérieux sur fond de scandales et de machinations en tout genre.
Le transfuge Kim Kwang-il (Lee Jong-suk), fils d’un haut-dirigeant nord-coréen, est suspecté d'avoir commis une série de meurtres pendant ses voyages aux quatre coins du monde. Pour l'arrêter, la Corée du Nord et la Corée du Sud collaborent avec Interpol. L'inspecteur Chae Yi-do (Kim Myung-min) est certain de sa culpabilité mais l'agent services de renseignements sud-coréens Park Jae-hyuk (Jang Dong-gun) le protège.
Single mother Billy lives in a rundown Detroit neighborhood with her two sons, Bones and Franky. Billy and Bones both love Franky but are fairly distant from each other. In his spare time, Bones salvages copper piping from abandoned houses in town while trying to avoid a vicious local criminal named Bully, who has claimed the copper piping for himself. One day, Bully catches Bones taking copper piping, which Bones abandons and flees. Later, Bones reclaims the stolen piping from Bully's hiding place and manages to escape from Bully's sidekick, Face. Billy, meanwhile, meets with a banker, Dave, regarding a loan that Carl (the father of her sons) left her so that she could stay in the home, which originally belonged to her grandmother. Since Billy is unemployed, she is unable to repay the bank, and must begin searching for a job in order to pay for the house. Dave gives her his business card and offers her a job, leaving out the details of what it is.
Marv (Mickey Rourke) regains consciousness on a highway overlooking the Projects, surrounded by several dead young men and a crashed police car, and with no memory of how he got there. He retraces his steps, recalling that since it's Saturday, he watched Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba) dance at Kadie's Saloon. Stepping outside, he encounters four rich frat boys burning a homeless man alive. When Marv intervenes, the leader of the frat boys shoots him in the arm, calling him "Bernini Boy," which Marv mishears as "Bernie." They flee; Marv follows, stealing a Police car on the way, which he crashes into their car, leading to his blackout and memory loss. He follows the two surviving frat boys into The Projects, the neighborhood where he grew up. With the assistance of the deadly residents lurking in the shadows, he dispatches the frat boys. He questions the leader about being called "Bernini Boy" and learns that it is the brand of coat he is wearing. After slitting the boy's throat, he considers his coat and realizes he can't remember how he acquired it.
Julien Gahyde, incarcéré et interrogé dans le cadre de l'enquête judiciaire sur la mort suspecte de son épouse Delphine, évoque sa courte relation adultère avec Esther Despierre, une amie d'enfance que la vie a remise sur son chemin, et à laquelle, dans une réponse trop empreinte de légèreté, il a déclaré un « amour » et sa possibilité de « vivre avec elle ».
Brutal gangster Dragna recruits professional killer Jack to pick up a bag and wait for his arrival at a motel. Dragna stresses that Jack is not to open the bag or allow anyone to view its contents under any circumstances. Confused as to why Dragna wants him to do such an apparently easy job, Jack presses for more details, but Dragna only reiterates the rules. While Jack acquires the bag, Dragna's henchman shoots him in the hand, and Jack stuffs the body in his car's trunk. Dragna is unsympathetic when Jack calls him and instructs Jack to stick to the plan.
Demetrio Perez is a famous criminal lawyer from Naples who years ago was considered one of the best in his field, but after having had made too many enemies is now reduced to working as a public defender. His life begins to fall apart when his daughter Tea falls madly in love with Francesco Corvino, the son of a boss of the Camorra.
La vie de Lakshman Joshi, policier à Mumbai, est brisée depuis que sa fille a été enlevée dix ans plus tôt. Tandis que sa femme s'enfonce dans le déni et continue à raconter des histoires à leur enfant, il traque le moindre indice qui pourrait le mettre sur la piste des ravisseurs. Un rêve récurrent l'amène à penser qu'une piste sérieuse se trouve au Paradise, bar de nuit où de jeunes adolescentes dansent devant un public d'adultes libidineux.
Promising baseball player Lee Hwan was kicked out of his league and lost everything after being implicated in a match fixing scandal. While waiting for an opportunity to make a comeback, the disgraced pro gets recruited into working for Emperor Capital, the biggest private loan company in Busan. Its loan shark boss, Jeong Sang-ha leads his organized crime mob with a combination of authority, loyalty and cold-bloodedness. Sang-ha takes the naïve young man under his wing, and fascinated by money and power, Hwan soon finds himself climbing the ranks at Emperor Capital. Hwan and Sang-ha successfully take control of all Busan gangs, collecting money through gambling and lending, and killing hundreds of people in the process. Hwan also falls under the charms of a bar owner, Cha Yeon-soo. But when Yeon-soo suddenly vanishes, Hwan suspects that Sang-ha had something to do with her disappearance, and begins to face off against his mentor in a cutthroat, winner-takes-all rivalry.
An old gangster, with a hard drive containing records of who he paid off, is targeted by a competition between dirty cops, internal affairs, etc. The dirty cops hire a thug to get into the safe (in the back of a diner) at midnight. But he brings his friends and goes too early for the time-release lock. Another crooked cop shows up (for uncertain reasons). The shooting ensues and during hostage negotiations the thug tries to put the blame onto an ex-con who just got out of jail, so that no one notices the real target is the hard drive.
Marc, un assureur de province, médiocre et psychorigide, rentre en contact avec le Milieu pour faire éliminer sa femme, insupportable matrone castratrice.
Des meurtres semblables à ceux attribués à Jack l'Éventreur sont commis à Madrid. Holmes (Gary Piquer), qui est sujet à des rêves prémonitoires au cours desquels il entrevoit la survenue de ces meurtres, décide de se rentre à Madrid pour enquêter sur l'affaire en compagnie du Docteur Watson (José Luis García Pérez) marié depuis peu à Mary Morstan (Leticia Dolera).