韩大使（Tzi Ma 饰）驻派美国之前曾主持破获了中涛犯罪集团的走私活动，他因此受到仇家愤恨。在美国，中涛指示手下绑架了韩大使的女儿素洋（Julia Hsu 饰），并勒索赎金5千万美元。FBI闻讯展开全面调查，韩大使担心美方办事效率，执意要求调派香港的老搭档李督察（成龙 饰）前来协助。为了阻挠李抢先破案，FBI派出洛杉矶警察局状况不断的问题警探卡特（克里斯•塔克Chris Tucker 饰）作为李的搭档。卡特作风张扬高调，李则身手不凡、低调谨慎，这对临时组合的东西搭档闹出不少误会和笑话。但随着一次次危机发生，两人渐渐培养出默契。他们的营救行动最终能否成功？ 本片荣获1999年拉丁媒体艺术奖最佳女主角奖（Elizabeth Peña）、1999年MTV电影奖最佳银幕秀。
"1852年，美国海军准将马休·佩里率领舰队进入江户湾岸的浦贺，要求与德川幕府谈判，史称“黑船事件”。两年后，美国再度派出总领事进驻下田市，曾经从商并有一定政治理念的汤森德·哈里斯（约翰·韦恩饰）受命而来。然而面对他的是冷峻的下田市市长田村男爵（山村聪 饰）及一众支持日本继续保持孤立主义的保守派人士，哈里斯几经周折始终不得见到深居幕府内的大将军。为了打开日本封闭的国门，哈里斯白费周折而始终不得法。在辗转两难之间，田村派来卧底的美丽艺妓（安腾瑛子 饰）与他之间也滋生出了微妙的情愫……
一个忧伤的故事，讲述了一个酗酒的前英国领事在小镇的自我毁灭过程，一个孤独的酒鬼在面对昨天时作出的悲哀决定：死亡，或者重新开始。
Marcus Valerius, a young consul, is assigned the mission to assist Menecrate, the leader of the Pretorian Guard, in the arrest and execution of as many Christians as possible. While raiding the Catacombs he has the surprise to find among the Christians the woman he loves, Giulia, who has been converted secretly to the banned religion. He helps her to escape and trouble soon follows. Stripped of his rank and arrested for defending the rebels he is condemned to fight as a gladiator...
Maximin, priest in a little village in the South-West of France, inherits from his brother a brothel in Thailand, although he's always been told it was a very strict catholic school. The journey to Asia is full of surprises (a plane hi-jack, pirates...) and once in Thailand, Maximin is taken into 'political' turmoils.
The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defense of Chinese workers, brought to the sugar plantations by greedy middlemen and exploited as slaves. Two parallel stories unfold, that of a Chinese girl which Eça de Queiroz saves from the clutches of one of the island’s most powerful slave owners, and the other of a romance involving a young American woman on holidays in Havana.
A mysterious consul, blessed with the power to hypnotise, manages to push young women to suicide to cash in their insurance, without having their blood on his hands. At the death of his sister, a young detective decides to hold an investigation into this curious character, at the risk of falling into the trap himself... Oktavijan Miletić considered to be the father of Croatian cinema, was one of the pioneers of avant-garde cinema in Croatia and shows this once again in this film.