中国兄弟连

政局腐败民不聊生的晚清末年，宋查理（姜文）凭借其在美国所获先进知识与孙中山（赵文瑄）合力，企图推翻满清。其后，宋查理留学美国的各具风情的三个女儿学成归国，老大宋霭龄（杨紫琼）下嫁商人孔祥熙（牛振华），老二宋庆龄（张曼玉）不顾父亲反对追随了革命者孙中山，老三宋美龄（邬君梅）则在先是革命者后是叛国者的蒋介石（吴兴国）的狂烈追求下成为其妇，三人的命运开始在动荡不安的政局中随着对其时的中国最重要的三个男人的命运沉浮。

Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. Flashbacks narrate the earlier events of his life: a bout with tuberculosis at the Trudeau sanatorium; the self-administration of an experimental pneumothorax; the invention of operative instruments; his fascination with Socialism; a journey into medical Russia; and the founding of a mobile plasma-transfusion unit in war-torn Spain. Bethune twice married and twice divorced his wife Frances (Dame Helen Mirren), who chooses abortion over child-rearing in her unstable marriage. By 1939, Bethune had been dismissed from his Montreal Hospital for taking unconventional risks, and from his volunteer position in Spain for his chronic problems of drinking and womanizing. As his friend states: "China was all that was left." Even there, Bethune confidently ignores the advice of Chinese officials until heavy casualties make him realize his mistake and lead him to a spectacular apology.

聚焦舒尔茨、《花生漫画》以及查理·布朗和史努比等角色的故事。该剧由露皮塔·尼永奥担任旁白，德鲁·巴里摩尔、凯文·史密斯、保罗·费格等也出镜受访。

在恋人（张曼玉）负气嫁给兄长的当晚，欧阳锋（张国荣）黯然离开白陀山，走进沙漠某个小镇，成为一名杀手中介人。他的朋友、风流剑客黄药师（梁家辉）每年都来小镇与他畅饮，酒话里有关白陀山的消息令他忘却往事的念想渐次演变成自欺行为。黄药师只是表面风流。他迷恋好友“盲武士”（梁朝伟）的妻子桃花（刘嘉玲），后者在丈夫死后，永远地离开了他；而对迷恋他的女人慕容嫣（林青霞），他又不愿兑现曾经随口说出的承诺，这使得慕容嫣迷失于自己的身份中。与欧阳锋构成短暂“买凶杀人”关系的洪七（张学友）、村姑（杨采妮）等人，也都有一段只有他们自己才知、不愿回首的痛苦过往。