Neal McCauley is one of L.A.'s top criminals. He's up against top detective Vincent Hanna. Two of the strongest teams come together in a deadly battle.

London gangster Jack Carter arrives in his native Newcastle in the north of England to attend the funeral of his brother Frank. According to the police, his brother had been drinking heavily and was involved in a car accident. Carter, however, believes his brother was murdered and begins his own investigation. Almost immediately he is met with a harsh rebuff from the local mafia, which wants to either send him back to London or remove Carter.

Ex-con Johnny Clay plans a robbery at a racetrack, hoping to pull off a $2 million heist. He enlists four other men to carry out the elaborate plan - a cashier, a corrupt cop, a former alcoholic and a bartender. But things don't go according to plan, because one of his accomplices decides to make changes to the plan.

The events of the film revolve around a chain of mysterious mass murders, gratuitously committed by the most ordinary people. A man climbed a water tower and opened fire from a sniper rifle on a crowd of passers-by; a father of a prosperous family slaughtered his family at a dinner party; a model cop shot a festive demonstration of his colleagues - all of them claimed that the Lord had commanded them to do it....

It turns out that surviving on the battlefields is much easier than in post-war Los Angeles. World War II veteran Easy Rawlins has lost his job and may soon lose the roof over his head. So when he is offered to act as a private detective and find a mysterious beauty, Easy immediately agrees.

100 dollars for such a simple case - more than a bargain. However, to die for 100 dollars was not in his plans. The investigation leads Rawlins into the unpredictable world of big politics, where human life is worth nothing - he could not have guessed that the real war would begin for him after the war.

Nothing brings a family together like minor setbacks. Bob's modest diner has new competitors, and now the owner of the establishment has to literally do everything he can to stay afloat. Unexpected help for Bob can be his own troublemaking offspring, who can properly grate on the nerves of Jimmy Presto, who is annoying his eyes with his pizzeria across the street.

A young girl who was forced to become a prostitute takes subtle revenge on the people who molested her soul and abused her body.

A middle-aged gangster has to choose between love for a woman and loyalty to the ideals of male friendship. In the first case, long-lasting happiness in the family union, in the second case - death as payback for valor.

Boxer Davey Gordon stands up for dancer Gloria Preece when she is attacked by her employer and lover Vincent Rapallo. This event brings them together and they become inseparable, thus awakening resentment on Rapallo's part. He hires men to kill Davey.

Jack Foley is the luckiest robber in the country, having robbed over two hundred banks. One day, after escaping from prison, he realizes he must steal something more valuable than money - the heart of Karen Sisko. She's smart, beautiful, but unfortunately, Karen is also an employee of the prosecutor's office.