Året er 1999, og der er borgerkrig i Sierra Leone. Fiskeren Solomon's drømme bliver knuste, da han bliver kidnappet og tvunget væk fra kone og barn for at arbejde i en diamantmine, der finansierer borgerkrigen.
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
Jody (Tyrese Gibson) er en 20-årig afroamerikaner i South Central, Los Angeles, der drømmer om at leve det søde liv, men som ikke har et job. Han er far til to spædbørn med to forskellige kvinder, og han bor stadigvæk hjemme hos sin mor (A.J. Johnson). Det er svært for Jody at blive voksen, men en række begivenheder, der bl.a. involverer hans mors nye kæreste Melvin (Ving Rhames), hans kæreste Yvette (Taraji P. Henson) og hendes tidligere ekskæreste Rodney (Snoop Doggy Dogg), tvinger ham til at gøre nogle hårde erfaringer om livet, kærligheden og om at overleve som en mand i "the hood".
In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Guy except Robbo, who controls the north side. Although he's out-gunned, Robbo wants to keep his own territory. A pool-playing dude from Indiana and the director of a boys' orphanage join forces with Robbo; and, when he gives some money to the orphanage, he becomes the toast of the town as a hood like Robin Hood. Meanwhile, Guy schemes to get rid of Robbo, and Big Jim's heretofore unknown daughter Marian appears and goes from man to man trying to find an ally in her quest to run the whole show. Can Robbo hold things together?
En hjemvendt soldat fra Koreakrigen overtager familiens ulovlige spiritus-virksomhed. Han skal kæmpe mod storbygangstere, der forsøger at overtage forretningen, og politiet, der forsøger at sætte ham i fængsel.
Drengen Raees er god til at begå sig og bliver Gujarats konge af spritsmugleri i 1980'erne. Han prøver at forene sit kriminelle liv med at hjælpe sit folk.
Frankie og Noll er spritsmuglere og makkere. Under en konfrontation med politiet må de splittes for at undgå at blive fanget. Noll slipper væk, men Frankie bliver snuppet og kastet i fængsel. Mange år senere kommer Frankie ud og opsøger øjeblikkeligt Noll for at få sin del af byttet. Her går det op for ham, at Noll har brugt pengene til at stable en fornem natklub på benene, og har han ikke tænkt sig at dele med sin gamle ven.
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.
To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.
A vicious gang of murderous bikers goes up against a trio of beautiful bootlegging sisters.
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
Mattie, a widow living in the backwoods of Florida during Prohibition, meets Trax, a charming man much younger that herself. Trax is a womanizing, lying bootlegger who needs money and he sets his sights on Mattie who can support him. After energetically courting her, Mattie marries Trax, who before long brings home a young woman to be their housekeeper, but it is obvious that she is to be his mistress. When Trax leaves on business, the two women each contemplate how they are being exploited and Mattie comes up with a plan of her own.