1928年美国洛杉矶，在电话局接线台工作的克莉斯汀•柯林斯（Angelina Jolie 安吉莉娜•朱丽 饰）独自抚养儿子沃特（Gattlin Griffith 加特林•格里菲斯 饰），母子的生活简单而幸福。然而她们的生活很快被打乱，某天当克莉斯汀下班后，发现儿子不见踪影。 　　在公众的舆论压力下，腐败的洛杉矶警方于5个月后找回沃特，但克莉斯汀发现这并非自己的亲生儿子。她三番五次要求警方澄清事实，帮其寻找真正的沃特，却一次次受到阻挠和指责，甚至以妨碍警方公务的罪名被送入精神病院。一向以揭露警方暴行为己任的牧师古斯塔夫•布里格拉伯（John Malkovich 约翰•马尔科维奇 饰），为了这个可怜女人的不幸遭遇奔走呼告。 　　另一方面，探员莱斯特（Michael Kelly 饰）在侦办一件偷渡案时，无意中发现了一起重大的连环儿童杀人案。少年沃特的失踪案似乎渐露眉目……

A gambler falls for a fake countess.

Betty has become engaged, for her father’s sake, with a hard working and kind young man, Kostas, who works at a store selling electrical appliances that belongs to Betty’s father, Mr. Periklis. The latter values Kostas and truly wants to make him his son-in-law. Kostas saves the life of a sensitive girl, Mary, who tries to commit suicide because her English lover deserted her. Later on, he is persuaded to impersonate a rich Englishman in order to help Mary deal with her father, Mr. Kyriakos, who is trying to force her to marry someone against her will.

Set in an isolated dystopian Perth, Australia, corporate empires rule globally and civil liberty has become a distant memory. When a bio-chemical weapon attacks the city, a Baltic woman is forced to take a desperate passage through the dry Australian outback.

The 40-year-old unemployed Anna Leschek and her 13-year-old daughter Ines rob a bank out of desperation. However, they don't get far with their stolen money. In court, the duo is represented by an alcoholic lawyer who wants to get his life together. For Anna Leschek, on the other hand, it's a matter of bare survival. Slowly the two people get closer to each other...