曾混迹黑社会的印度裔男子维路出狱后，一心过回正常人生活，可惜人在江湖，身不由己。他最疼爱的弟弟跟随当年好友混入黑道；曾经的老大黑摩利据说也返回香港，图谋杀害机动部队陈督察；警官肥棠（林雪 饰）则隔三差五找到维路了解线索。维路不胜其扰，却又无可奈何。另一方面，香港油尖旺鱼龙混杂，各方势力暗流涌动。森（任达华 饰）和May（邵美琪 饰）所率领的机动部队一面要平息黑道势力的争斗，同时还要四处追查黑摩利雇用的刀手。最终形势将朝何方发展？

这是导演的成名之作，罗伯特自掏腰包拍了这部低成本的黑色电影，结果一炮而红。影片讲述的是一名心狠手辣的罪犯成功越狱后，来到小镇伺机找他的仇家报仇，仇家的手下只知道那个罪犯将武器藏在吉他盒子里随身携带，而从来都没有见过他本人。一名流浪的吉他手（卡洛斯?加拉尔多 Carlos Gallardo 饰）凑巧这时来到小镇谋生，于是，莫名其妙的他就被卷入了一场不知所谓的追杀中。追杀的场面被导演演绎的笑料百出，黑色幽默表现的淋漓尽致。

All the Corners of the World sees the family unit as a disaster waiting to happen. Mr and Mrs Chang live in Taipei's Hsi-Men-Ding (the city's entertainment/red light/nightlife district) with their teenaged kids. The parents work as cleaners in a "love hotel" and send the kids out to work as ticket scalpers, block-buying seats for hit movies like A City of Sadness and reselling them at a profit. Tragedy strikes when the daughter Mei-Hsueh flirts with the idea of prostituting herself and changes her mind at the last moment, leaving her first client with injuries that put him on the critical list. The focus throughout is on the son Ah Tong, who has a latent talent as a writer that is never going to flower.

贺新（刘德华 饰）本生于买办之家，从小生活优裕，然而父亲一次投资失败导致家道中落，贺新与母亲从此受尽白眼，而他也只有靠努力学习来改变境遇，贺新在校期间与同学程乐儿（王祖贤 饰）交好，可面对富家子情敌的挑衅他只有隐忍。1941年，日本入侵香港，贺新与好友阿南（万梓良 饰） 奔赴澳门，二人在码头做苦力被经理王昌（秦沛 饰）算计，但因成功击退地痞保卫码头，他们进入外籍主管阿方索入住，此间贺新对阿方索的私生女儿阿妹（邱淑贞 饰）一见钟情。贺新出计策打败了赌场的“听骰客”，又做成了私货生意，得以在澳门赌场大哥傅老喳门下出头，踏上赌城大亨之路……