艾西崔（萧恩韦恩斯饰）是个年轻的黑人小伙子，父母已经离婚。在他正要从青春期跨进成人的世界时，他的母亲把他送回与他的父亲同住，并从父亲那里学得一些混混的习性。当艾西崔回到哈林南方时，他马上去找老邻居、也是他的表哥“洛狗"（马龙韦恩斯饰），后来又加入“疯腿"（稣里麦库劳饰）及“说教"（克里斯史宾赛饰）。四人一挂，一日，能在舞台上展露他坐在轮椅上「跳舞」的才华。一天，他们四人参加由“牙签"所办的派对，在宴会里，艾西崔遇到一个未婚妈妈“黛希"并且陷入爱河。尽管洛狗一再告戒艾西崔不要和这个漂亮女生来往，但是为时已晚。
土耳其（杰森•斯坦森饰）是一位黑市拳击的经理人，不过他遇到了麻烦，本该参加比赛的选手被吉普赛人米奇（布拉德•皮特饰）一拳击倒。土耳其不得不选择在黑帮老大布里克（阿兰•福特饰）与吉塞人之间周旋，来获得生机。与此同时，四指弗兰克（本尼西奥•德尔•托罗饰）携带一颗86克拉的钻石来到伦敦，这件赃物引起了各路匪徒的兴趣，其中包括军火商老布（拉德•舍博德兹加饰）、杀手“子弹牙齿”托尼（维尼•琼斯饰）与黑人小混混维尼（罗比•吉饰）。这些心怀不轨的罪犯各自盘算着自己的完美计划，不想造化弄人，惊人的巧合引出一连串幽默的冷笑话。所有的一切都在伦敦的夜晚交织，究竟谁能够从中解脱？就在盖•瑞奇导演的《偷拐抢骗》中揭晓。
一位年迈的黑帮成员费尔南·诺丁希望能够安静地退休，但突然间从一位老朋友——前黑帮头目墨西哥人那里继承了一大笔财富。费尔南对这笔新财富感到矛盾，但更加惊讶的是，他还继承了他的恩人墨西哥人的女儿帕特丽夏。不幸的是，费尔南不仅要忍受现代化的帕特丽夏和她令人作呕的男朋友，还必须对付墨西哥人那些爱开枪的前员工，他们决心要求继承。
《躲闪》（L’Esquive，2003）深入描写了巴黎郊区北非移民后裔的生活，以纪实手法表现了处于青春萌动期的少年男女的恋爱经历。主人公是一个叫克里莫的十五岁的中学生，住在巴黎郊区的廉租房里，母亲在超市工作，父亲在监狱服刑。克里莫爱上了一个叫丽迪娅的漂亮女孩，然而这个女孩喜欢一种叫“爱情与偶然的游戏”。在同伴们的帮助下，克里莫试图向丽迪娅表白爱慕之情。本片导演凯奇什是突尼斯裔法国人，非常熟悉影片中描写的生活。
一组编纂字典的专家想知道真实的人们是怎样说话的，结果他们遇到了一位美丽的歌女……
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."
An exploration of the history of the word throughout its inception to present day. Woven into the narrative are poetry, music, and commentary from celebrities about their personal experiences with the word and their viewpoints. Each perspective is unique, as is each experience... some are much more comfortable with the word than others.
At the gates of Heaven, the admitting officials have a hard time understanding a newcomer's life story with all his contemporary slang.
A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.