في الوقت الذي يحاول فيه النجاة بحياته، يُدرك رئيس عصابة مخدّرات البُعد السياسي لليلة يُشرَّع فيها ارتكاب جرائم القتل في الحيّ الذي يقطنه.

بعد أن تخرج ليلة الفوضى السنوية عن السيطرة، يتعين على عائلتين التصدي للقتلة القساة الذين يطمحون إلى الاستيلاء على البلد.

في هذا الجزء القاتم، يبذل عامّة المواطنين أقصى جهودهم للنجاة بحياتهم حين تُصبح كلّ الجرائم شرعية، بما فيها القتل، على مدار اثنتي عشرة ساعة.

Undercover U.S. agent Bill Wilson makes the bust of his career taking down a cartel leader. Hiding the evidence in his home exposes his family to a brutal targeting on the night of the annual Purge, the deadliest night of the year.

As Carl Black gets the opportunity to move his family out of Chicago in hope of a better life, their arrival in Beverly Hills is timed with that city's annual purge, where all crime is legal for twelve hours.

After becoming the victim of vicious cyber bullies, Lisa makes a deal with the devil to exact revenge on her tormentors.

In the 1930’s, the workers of the underground, headed by brigades of writers, are in charge to write in real time "the history of the Moscow Metro". Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the purges of 1937-38.