A black & white short film Alexander Hemming shot for Portishead in 1994. An espionage takeoff, the 10-minute short starred the band members and featured the song "Theme From To Kill A Dead Man". Scenes from the film eventually became the video for "Sour Times".
A shifty-looking loner in a trench coat (Barrow) is hired to assassinate a dignitary while the dignitary's wife (Gibbons) looks on. A shot is fired, the dignitary goes down, and the wife becomes hysterical. Carted off to an asylum, she is sedated and forced to watch replays of the assassination. After her discharge, she engages in a symbolic game of chess. She then hires the same assassin to kill the dignitary, since the dignitary faked his death hoping to drive his wife insane. For the film's classic denouement, the wife's car pulls up to the dignitary's Mercedes. He glances over at her and then puts his hand over his face, realizing that the man he just let into his car is going to kill him. She closes her window and drives away, avenged.
Geoff Barrow: "When I look at To Kill a Dead Man, I can't stand it. I think it was a dreadful piece of film. Basically, it was done so that we could write some film music. Not to put down anyone involved with the film, but we should have done it with pure images, rather than having us in it. It was misunderstood, what we wanted to get out of it. It created an image, and the whole idea was for it not to."
Still, Geoff's happy Portishead made the film, since it was, after all, a practical decision. "We made a tenminute film, wrote a soundtrack to it, got all the artwork for the album and used it as a big promotional video all for the cost of making a mediumpriced video... And all without having to wear any trendy clothes."

随着人类文明的发展，城市的规模越来越大，与之相对，青山绿水则迅速减少。东京都提出“多摩新市”的概念，大肆向周边的原始森林扩张。祖辈生长在多摩丘陵的狸猫家族受到巨大冲击，随着树木花草的急剧减少，可供它们生存的食物也开始短缺。最终，鹰之森和玲之森的狸猫发生内战，战况激烈。在火玉婆婆的点拨下，两派狸猫握手言和，转而将主要目标对准破坏森林的人类。为了更好地了解对手，火玉婆婆和龟鹤和尚教授族人已被遗忘很久的变化之术。经过一段时间的艰苦修行，狸猫们终于学会了自由变化。在激进派代表权太的领导下，一部分狸猫向建筑工人发起恐怖袭击，造成多人伤亡。它们的行动虽然取得成效，然而却无法阻挡利益熏心的人类的脚步。
森林被一点点蚕食，狸猫家族的命运危在旦夕……

《低俗小说》由“文森特和马沙的妻子”、“金表”、“邦妮的处境”三个故事以及影片首尾的序幕和尾声五个部分组成。看似独立的小故事里面，却又有环环相扣的人和事。
盗贼“小南瓜”和“小兔子”在早餐店里打劫，却遇上了天大的麻烦——黑社会成员朱尔斯（塞缪尔•杰克逊Samuel L. Jackson饰）和文森特（约翰•特拉沃尔塔John Travolta饰）在店内用餐，可谓天外有天。二人是否会放过两名小盗贼？
而文森特是黑社会大哥马沙•华莱士（文•瑞姆斯Ving Rhames饰）的手下，马沙下命令让他陪妻子一个晚上，明知如有雷池必死无疑，但面对马沙妻子美艳诱惑，文森特该怎么办。
文森特的故事还没完，拳击手布奇（布鲁斯•威利斯Bruce Willis饰）的出现将令他的人生从此改变。布奇有一块祖传金表，就是因为这块金表，他和马沙分享了一个耻辱的秘密。
故事环状结构，回到开端。朱尔斯在小盗贼面前诵读圣经，表示对杀人的厌倦和感悟。什么事件令他如此转变？“邦妮的处境”中就有答案。

包龙星（周星驰 饰）用钱买来了一个候补知县的职位，可是为人贪婪，县上的人都对他痛恨之极。在他代替正式知县的时候，戚家媳妇戚秦氏（张敏 饰）遭到了常威( 邹兆龙 饰 )的强暴，后来常威动了杀机把戚家上下都杀害了，更嫁祸于戚秦氏。常威是水师提督大人的儿子，请来大状方唐镜（吴启华 饰），收买了所有证人以便洗脱罪名。包龙星虽然极力寻找证据，也被迫害至落难他乡。他决定要上京告御状，后来他因没钱不得不在妓院打工，向老板娘学习了一身斗嘴的好功夫。他在妓院里误打误撞认识了皇上，帮助皇上有功他被封了大官，重审戚家被害的案件。他凭着聪慧与口才，全力为戚秦氏讨回公道。

快餐店打工仔阿银（周星驰）某日送快餐时邂逅正在武术训练馆学习日本空手道的阿丽（钟丽缇），对其一见钟情。遭遇同样喜欢阿缇的武馆教练林国斌的羞辱后，自觉太弱小的阿银决定拜自称为“魔鬼筋肉人”的达叔（吴孟达）为师，达叔一开始只想骗取阿银的钱财，终被其善良和执着打动，开始教授其中国古拳法。
阿丽遇坏人拦截，阿银头戴加菲猫面具出手相救，情急之下从高台上抱着歹徒滚下，却由此创出了“无敌风火轮”，不料事后被林国斌领功。为了证实自己的实力，阿银报名参加了搏击比赛与林国斌决斗，想借此再赢阿丽芳心。