李护士（许冠杰 饰）是精神病院的护士，一次偶然间，他发现了病院的打杂阿添（许冠文 饰）经常在停尸间偷取死去的病患身上的贵重物品。于是，李护士提出四六分账，阿添无奈接受，两人就这样合作干起了这个偷鸡摸狗的行当。一日，病院新来了一名病人大只佬乔明，他入院不久就精神病发去世了。阿添在停尸间里发现了乔明身上带有一些名贵古董的碎片。兴奋不已的两人调查后得知乔明有一个女儿，人称公主。他们找到了公主，哄骗公主后得知乔明生前经常在香港一个海滩潜水。两人来到海滩后轻易找到了价值连城的古董，但这时，意外发生了！
In this scathing and subversive social comedy, life in post riot Los Angeles is dissected under the sardonic eye of John Boyz, an unemployed thirty nothing flounderer on Venice Beach who is trying to figure out what to do with his life. John can't be bothered with apathy, but no matter how much he wants to help people, he is too immobilized to do anything useful. Haunted by chronic insomnia and impending sense of doom, all he can do is watch, and John is an avid observer. Through his voyeuristic binoculars, he struggles to make sense of all the alienation and disaffection he sees in his neighborhood. In his journal he meticulously chronicles the mundane down to steadfast march of ants across his kitchen counter. John is desperately trying to keep one meaningless day from blending into next. He compulsively watches homemade videos of LA riots looking for a clue. But everywhere around him the city's social fabric is coming apart at the seams, and now it is John Boys's own threadbare ...
在一间教学素质低下的学校里，有一个不成文的传统：学生们凡是遇到了争执，都不能告诉老师家长，只能自己用拳头解决。石头（谢霆锋 饰）是最能打的一个同学，一次帮助富家子Edward（冯德伦 饰）解围，彼此成为朋友，二人也因此得罪了学校里的好战分子。阿凤（容祖儿 饰）一直暗恋既帅气学习有出色的Edward，而Edward认为学生最紧要是学习，会考时间逼近，Edward便义务帮助石头与阿凤补习。由于家境富有，Edward竟然在考试当天被绑架了，石头决心把他救回……
二战时期，纳粹铁蹄蹂躏世界每一个角落。德国科学家研制出一种铀分裂的超级武器，该武器可导致人类灭亡。犹太人科学家哈巴枸偷偷将超级武器的图纸带出德国，逃往美利坚，得知消息的希特勒派出盖世太保追杀。哈巴枸只得转道香港，与美国特工接头。为了确保这张代号为“野兽”的图纸安全交接，中国最高间谍“天字第一号”（林青霞 饰）委托夜来香事务所的私人侦探夜来香（林子祥 饰）为哈巴枸保驾护航。正愁无米下锅的夜来香认为这是一个赚钱的好机会，但等待他的则是一场紧张刺激却又笑料不断的图纸争夺战……
