Kina år 208 under det daværende Han dynasti. Premiereministeren Cao Cao er også en magtsyg general, og han overtaler den svage kejser til at lade ham drage i felten for at knuse kongeriget Xu i den vestlige del af landet, ledet af Liu Bei, og dermed samle det store og stærkt splittede rige. Liu Bei finder dog tapre allierede, og skønt alliancen synes svag i forhold til Cao Caos gigantiske, kejserlige hær på 800.000 soldater og en flåde, der består af 2000 skibe, er de alligevel parate til det store og afgørende slag ved De røde klipper.
Ghost Dog er en massiv, afroamerikansk mand, der arbejder som hitman for mafiaen. Ingen kender hans identitet, hvilket begrænser risikoen for begge parter. Uheldigvis bliver datteren til en af mafiabosserne vidne til et af Ghost Dog’s hits, hvorefter mafiaen ønsker at bryde samarbejdet. Permanent! Ghost Dog, der lever og arbejder efter det klassiske samurai æreskodeks, angriber - som det bedste forsvar - og til sidst er kun hans egen arbejdsgiver tilbage… Men en samurai kan ikke vende sig mod sin herre - ifølge Hagakure - samuraiernes bog.
Dette er historien om den unge forknytte kvinde LV, der gemmer på et uovertruffent talent. Hun kan imitere sangere som Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe og Shirley Bassey, så det lyder helt fortryllende.
Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other, swordplay is difficult for them. Worse yet, raised very differently, they struggle to find common ground between their conflicting personalities. But to defeat their enemy, the two will have to overcome the obstacles and work as a team.
Set in an alternate WWI reality where a senseless war rages on, two soldiers on opposite sides of the conflict play a joyful game of chess. A heroic carrier pigeon delivers the soldiers' chess moves over the battlefield as the fighting escalates. Neither soldier knows his opponent as the game and the war builds to its climatic final move. Whoever wins the game, one thing is for certain: there are no winners in war.
After years of having her letters to her estranged father come back as undeliverable, a young woman takes a job at a Dead Letter Office. She hopes to figure out how to locate her father. Unexpectedly, she finds a potential romance and begins to learn more about herself.
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Willis Newcomb and Bart Carroll head a gang engaged in smuggling wanted-American criminals back into the United States from Mexico. Operating from Sharperville, an oil town on the American side of the border, they transport their human cargo in oil drums loaded on trucks. Border Patrolman Tom Sharper intercepts one of the trucks but is overpowered and left for dead. Carroll, having already been paid for the job and not wanting any evidence to walk around, get caught and lead back to him, backs the human-cargo trucks to the edge of a cliff and sends the drums crashing to the boulder far below. Judge Cookie Bullfincher and Border Patrolman Roy Rogers conduct a search for the missing Tom, but the crooks have gone back for him and find him in a state of amnesia. They rob the bank and pin it on Tom. It is now up to Roy to clear his friend and also put an end to Carroll's human-smuggling racket.