Sammen med ægyptologen Evelyn drager eventyren Rick O'Connell ud for at undersøge den 3000 år gamle ægyptiske by, De Dødes By, der siges at gemme på utrolige rigdomme. De får konkurrence af en amerikansk ekspedition, der også er ude efter guld. Uheldigvis gemmer ruinbyen, udover guld, på oldgamle forbandelser, og arkæologerne kommer til at vække mumien Imhotep fra sit årtusindelange fangeskab i sarkofagen.
Nathan Algren er krigsveteran fra den amerikanske borgerkrig. Han tager til Japan for at lære kejser Meijis tropper at bruge skydevåben i kampen mod landets sidste samurai. Men Algren bliver taget til fange af samuraien og ændrer livssyn, da han møder samuraiernes ældgamle traditioner og deres æreskodeks.
Léon Gaultiers bror bliver myrdet, da han har snydt en narkoorganisation. Léon er i fremmedlegionen og beder om orlov, så han kan tage sig af situationen. Da hans overordnede nægter, deserterer han. Da han ankommer til USA, har hans svigerinde hårdt brug for penge, så hun kan forsørge sit barn. Léon begynder at deltage i undergrundskampe for at skaffe penge.
Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.
Første Verdenskrig er slut og i Paris stiftes en ny fremmedlegion. Hårdføre mænd fra hele verden melder sig. En del af dem er ikke helt fine i kanten, og andre er bare eventyrlystne. Når man først har underskrevet en kontrakt, er der ingen vej tilbage. De tvinges således til at gennemgå en umenneskelig tæning og finde sig i den jernhårde disciplin. Der er ingen mulighed for at flygte, og de der forsøger, bliver skudt omgående. Der findes kun en regel for fremmedlegionærer: marcher eller dø!
Gøg og Gokke er i Paris, hvor ulykkelig kærlighed er ved at drive Gokke til selvmord. I stedet melder vennerne sig dog til Fremmedlegionen, hvor mænd er mænd, og Gøg og Gokke derfor gør sig uheldigt bemærkede.
Gary Cooper, Ray Milland og Robert Preston spiller de tre brødre Beau, John og Digby Geste, der forsøger at slippe væk fra deres problematiske liv ved at slutte sig til Fremmedlegionen. Her havner de under den sadistiske Sergeant Markoffs kommando midt i Saharas glohede helvede! Brødrene må nu kæmpe for at holde sig selv i live, mens de planlægger et mytteri og forsvarer sig mod brutale fjender.
The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret. That night, insouciant legionnaire Tom Brown catches her inimitably seductive, tuxedo-clad act. Both bruised by their past lives, the two edge cautiously into a no-strings relationship while being pursued by others. But Tom must leave on a perilous mission: is it too late for them?
Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget his fault... but Lucas's friendship soon appears to be less unselfish...
Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation, so he joins the Foreign Legion—with Simpson his manservant in tow. But the fort they get posted to is full of eccentric legionnaires, and there's trouble brewing with the locals too. Unbeknown to Bo, his lady love has followed him in disguise.
After his daughter died of cancer, former French foreign legionnaire "Straight Shooter" alias Volker Bretz threatens those who financed, built, favoured and now work the nuclear power plant Atar II to kill one of them each day until the plant is shut down. His former drill sergeant, Frank Hector, who now owns several night clubs and brothels, is the only one who might be able to stop the maniac killing specialist. Frank is flown in instantly, but soon has to find out that his former comrade's actions might be a result from an event long ago.
Da familiens uvurderlige safir bliver stjålet, flygter Beau til fremmedlegionen, og Digby bliver anklaget for tyveriet. Men hvem har i virkeligheden stjålet safiren?. Snart går jagten over stok og sten mellem tossede fremmedlegionærer, en ultrasexet stedmoder, en far der nægter at udånde og en sadistisk oberst med træben...
In 1906, two American brothers join the French Foreign Legion and, led by a sadistic Sergeant-Major, they defend a fort against Berber and Tuareg attack.
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.
A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. Feature version of the movie serial, The Three Musketeers (1934).
In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. The Europeans who work for the Belgian mining company and the Blacks who live in the town are taken as hostages by the invaders, who start a blood bath, shooting Europeans as well as Africans. Many of the Europeans being French, the French decide to organize a counter-attack, and to send a Regiment of Paratroopers from the Foreign Legion. The movie follows the stories of Delbart, a former non-commissioned officer, who was about to go back to France with his African wife and his child, Damrémont, who was Delbart's replacement, Bia, a Zairian doctor, and Annie, an American married to a Belgian engineer as well as Non com Legion officer Federico and the French Ambassador and the Military Attaché.
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.
Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he can about the emir's activities. Gerard enjoys his work with lovely Cara, but arrives to find rebellion brewing.