Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who, suffering from writer's block, takes a job as a croupier in a casino to support his literary ambitions. Jack watches the punters with the same sense of cold detachment with which he regards the writing of his novel.

He never bets himself, but when a seductive beauty and a casino regular engage him in a dangerous but potentially lucrative scam, Jack believes fortune is on his side. He has no idea that soon the lure of gambling will draw him in far more than he ever imagined.

Vanessa is a troubled yet unhappy teenager: her mother is a prostitute and drug addict, her stepfather is a drug addict and a bastard who raped her stepdaughter when she was 11. After her parents are arrested again, she runs away from home and tries to get to her grandmother in Los Angeles.

A certain psychiatrist, Bob Wolverton, offers to give Vanessa a ride to the West Coast. At this time, a sex maniac and killer of underage girls is stalking his victims on the highway. Vanessa becomes a target of the criminal and is in mortal danger.

Dalton is a famous bouncer who comes to Jasper, Missouri to restore order to the unsafe Two Deuce bar. He effectively defends the bar from the thugs, bullies, and assassins of local business tycoon Brad Wesley, who has his own plans for the Two Deuce. However, Dalton's main battle is yet to come.

New York, 1933. World War I veteran Burt Berendsen keeps a small clinic and helps war crippled poor souls like himself. One day he and his best friend and coworker, attorney Harold Woodman, are hired by the daughter of their former commander to perform an autopsy on her suddenly deceased father, who has just arrived from Europe and was about to give a speech to a gathering of fellow soldiers. Burt and Harold had no idea how far this case would take them, and that they would meet their soul mate Valerie, a French hospital nurse with whom they had spent an unforgettable time in Amsterdam at the end of the war.

After unsuccessful attempts to catch a sophisticated killer in the wilds of Oregon, FBI agents turn to former elite special forces training expert L.T. Bonham for help. Only he has the power to track down and neutralize Aron Hellem, his best student, who knows how to survive in extreme conditions, even when the odds are zero. Hellem is a genius of tracking and disguise, murder is his favorite craft, but after another operation in a hot spot his mind has not left the battlefield, and now only the one who made him an elusive instrument of death that never gives a misfire will be able to stop the ruthless hunter of people.

A deaf woman is targeted by a psychopathic killer in her own home in the woods.

Hong Kong, 1980s. After stealing a bag of what he thought was money from the gangsters who tricked him, illegal migrant Chan flees from them and runs into the fortress town of Kowloon, a densely built neighborhood that lives by its own laws. There he tries to sell the drugs in the bag and gets acquainted with a local gang. Taking pity on the illegal alien, the leader nicknamed Cyclone pays Chan's debt and gives him a job - so the guy gets a house and friends. Meanwhile, a Kowloon real estate owner and Cyclone's named brother discovers the identity of the man whose death he has been longing for for years.

Joe is one of the best assassins in Europe. While on assignment in Budapest, he rescues a dancer, Maisie, with whom he gradually develops a romantic relationship. Concerned by sudden attacks, Joe undergoes a medical examination and learns that he is terminally ill and has no more than 3 months to live. In order not to suffer, he decides to hire the best hitmen and puts up a handsome reward for his death. But soon it turns out that in the hospital were mixed up tests, and the fatal diagnosis is wrong. It is impossible to cancel the order, and Joe's colleagues have already taken up the task.

A stubborn cop is on the hunt for an elusive professional driver working in the criminal underworld. When a mysterious stranger shows up on the case, the cop decides to set a trap for the driver.

Bedford campus. The female students are preparing to go on winter Christmas vacation. Barb asks her friends Jess and Phil to stay with her for a few days to go skiing. The phone rings at the house. Barb picks it up, but no one answers on the other end of the line. Then a man's voice laughs and says various obscenities. Barb calls the speaker names, to which he replies that he will kill her. Barb hangs up. It is after this call that the girls on campus begin to slowly die one by one, with only a few making it to morning.