While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a sleeping man in one of the bedrooms, and the next morning finds the man gone, but the bed soaked with blood. Returning to Cambridge, she begins to suspect her friend's acquaintance, and others on the staff of the college, are involved with the missing (murdered?) man, and decides to investigate for herself.

A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.

A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the heir. He comes to hate the American who is his boss, his friend, and the man who has stolen the woman after whom he lusts.

婴儿约翰·克莱顿父母双亡，被母猿卡拉抱走。在卡拉抚养下，婴儿长大成人，视卡拉如生身母亲，取名泰山，泰山在猿类语言中是“白皮肤”的意思。泰山成为人猿之王。人类对森林袭击，卡拉丧生，泰山偶然救了比利时船长菲力普·达诺特。船长根据泰山颈上的项链，发现他原来是格雷斯托伯爵庄园的合法继承人，就把他带回英国。泰山逐渐学会了绅士应有的仪表风度，并与简·波特小姐订婚。泰山对博物馆中的动物标本感到震惊，他目睹自己的人猿“父亲”被人开枪打死，不愿再在文明社会中生活下去。最后，泰山告别心爱的未婚妻和好友达诺特船长，重新回到他的家园非洲丛林。

14世纪爆发的英法持续超过百年，法国节节败退，大部分国土都被英国占领了。就在这个时候，珍妮（米拉•乔沃维奇 Milla Jovovich 饰）出生在法国的穷乡僻壤中。年少起，珍妮就经常看到各种幻想。一次，她看到幻想并根据指示找到了一把剑，当她带着剑回到家时发现家里已遭英军蹂躏。珍妮知道是上天安排她来捍卫法国。于是她向当时的皇太子查理（约翰•马尔科维奇 John Malkovich 饰）请求率领一支军队去抗击英军。走投无路的查理答应了珍妮的请求。随后珍妮率领法军节节胜利，查理亦顺利登基。登基后的查理不再需要珍妮帮助，珍妮在以后的一次战斗中陷入困境但无人来救，她被英军捉住并带到了英国审批……

英国军方一艘绝密的间谍船在希腊发生了爆炸，船上有一个威力无比的发射机（据说它可以使整个北极星飞弹系统全部报废）沉入了海底。这下，不仅英国军方，还有世界各地的间谍、恐怖分子都开始蠢蠢欲动。于是，007（罗杰·摩尔 Roger Moore 饰）出动了，他的任务就是尽快毁掉这台发射机。同一时候，哈维洛克先生在寻找这项装置时不幸被人刺杀身亡，他的女儿美琳娜（卡洛尔·布盖 Carole Bouquet 饰）试图千方百计想帮父亲报仇。007说服了美琳娜协助他潜入海底从沉船里取出了发射机。不幸的是，两人浮出水面被敌人抓住了……