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.

岳惠英（张艾嘉 饰）的母亲去世之后，惠英最大的念想就是将远葬在乡下的父亲的坟迁回城里，和母亲葬在一起，这个念头让她和父亲的原配姥姥（吴彦姝 饰）之间爆发了巨大的矛盾。迁坟的事成为了惠英的心结，亦让她和丈夫孝平（田壮壮 饰）之间的感情产生了裂痕。惠英的女儿薇薇（朗月婷 饰）是电视台的栏目记者，对姥姥的过去充满了好奇的她将这场“家庭矛盾”搬上了电视，展现在了大众面前，虽然出发点是善意的，可整个事件却愈演愈烈最后变成了一出闹剧。与此同时，薇薇和男友阿达（宋宁峰 饰）之间的感情因为阿达的青梅竹马的出现而遭遇了信任危机，这让她对等了外公一辈子也孤独的生活了一辈子的姥姥产生了莫名的亲近之感。

《监狱风云》的续作，资深囚犯阿正（周润发 饰）因为与前任科长（张耀扬 饰）的过节而延长刑期，服刑期间母亲病逝，儿子良仔被送到孤儿院甚至对父亲产生怨恨。阿正一心想申请外出看望儿子却遭到狱警头子“鬼见愁”（徐锦江 饰）的诸多刁难。“鬼见愁”因收买狱中大陆帮首领大圈龙（陈松勇 饰）不果 ，把其视为眼中钉，并且从中唆使挑拨使得大陆帮与阿正之间产生隔阂。一次陷害使得大圈龙不得不出逃，被误会陷害大圈龙的阿正也被迫逃走，逃跑途中两人相遇并产生了一段“难兄难弟”般的友情。最后阿正被再次抓回狱中，在暴乱中阿正终于得到机会和”鬼见愁“短兵相接。

好莱坞编剧克里夫·安德森（斯蒂夫·赞恩 Steve Zahn 饰）和希德妮（米拉·乔沃维奇 Milla Jovovich 饰）这对看似新婚燕尔的小夫妻正驱车前往风景迷人的夏威夷度假，他们在当地结识了另一对情侣——极具野性的尼克（蒂摩西·奥利芬特 Timothy Olyphant 饰）和吉娜（凯尔·桑切斯 Kiele Sanchez 饰）。在尼克夫妇的指引下，他们走入原始丛林探险，寻找从未有人涉足的完美之地。但是在此过程中，他们从其他游客那里听说了一对新婚夫妇狂乱杀人的恐怖传闻。美丽的小岛瞬间杀气腾腾，阴云密布，是去是留成为了一个艰难的选择。随着时间的流逝，死神的脚步似乎变得越来越清晰，而被深藏已久的秘密也慢慢浮出水面……