Režiser George Miller, ki se je domislil post-apokaliptičnega žanra in je ustvaril legendarno franšizo Mad Max, nas v Pobesnelem Maxu: Cesta besa vrača v svet cestnega bojevnika Maxa Rockatanskyja.
Zgodba opisuje komandirja ameriške mornarice na prvi plovbi prek Atlantika kmalu po vstopu ZDA v drugo svetovno vojno v začetku leta 1942, med katero je zadolžen za varovanje konvoja trgovskih ladij pred napadi nemških podmornic.
Trucker Rubber Duck and his buddies Pig Pen, Widow Woman and Spider Mike use their CB radios to warn one another of the presence of cops. But conniving Sheriff Wallace is hip to the truckers' tactics, and begins tricking the drivers through his own CB broadcasts. Facing constant harassment from the law, Rubber Duck and his pals use their radios to coordinate a vast convoy and rule the road.
Nemška podmornica med drugo svetovno vojno lovi zavezniške ladje, a kmalu postane lovljena. Posadka skuša preživeti pod gladino, pri tem pa do skrajnih meja razteza tako plovilo kot sebe.
Ray Owens is sheriff of the quiet US border town of Sommerton Junction after leaving the LAPD following a bungled operation. Following his escape from the FBI, a notorious drug baron, his gang, and a hostage are heading toward Sommerton Junction where the police are preparing to make a last stand to intercept them before they cross the border. Owens is reluctant to become involved but ultimately joins in with the law enforcement efforts
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.
Málaga, southern Spain. Seven men, divided into four cars, set off with a large drug shipment towards Creil, a city near Paris; a routine mission that will be complicated by a fatal sequence of events.
A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.
On the coast of France, the police are raiding the streets and taverns at night in search of girls to send to the colonists in North America. A ship takes these girls to America, where they are placed in carts leaving for territories where colonists and soldiers are expecting them.