约翰亨利（侠客欧尼尔饰）是军方的治金专家，负责一种新型防卫的武器的研发计划：利用「声波」把敌人歼灭，却不必动到一刀一枪：他和神秘的政府高层研究小组合作，小组领导人是精明的女性电子专家史巴克；就在测试武器的当天，由于小组成员桑纳一时疏忽，导致史巴克半身麻痹，约翰亨利在心力交瘁之余，决定回到洛杉矶，永远离开武器的世界。洛城平静的生活维持不久，他竟在一群抢匪身上见到自己创造的武器，原来，桑纳已经离开政府单位，准备将武器高价售予全球最凶残的恐怖份子，约翰亨利必须在歹徒得逞之前阻止他们，而他最先想到能帮他的人就是躺在医院里的史巴克……

　　绰号眼镜蛇的干探哥比提经常独行独断，一手持轻机枪，一手持点45，以自己的戒律对付无法无天的贼匪。这次哥比提正在追捕一个凶残的连环杀手，又要保证一个被下令灭口的女证人，令他疲于奔命。

　　影片改编自道迪·史密斯的小说，故事设定在20世纪70年代朋克摇滚革命时期的伦敦，讲述了一个名叫艾丝黛拉（艾玛·斯通 饰）的年轻骗子的故事。艾丝黛拉是一个聪明又有创意的女孩，她决心用自己的设计让自己出名。她和一对欣赏她的恶作剧嗜好的小偷交上了朋友，并能够一起在伦敦的街道上建立自己的生活。有一天，艾丝黛拉的时尚品味吸引了冯·赫尔曼男爵夫人（艾玛·汤普森 饰）的眼球，她是一位时尚界的传奇人物，拥有毁灭性的时尚和可怕的高雅，但他们的关系引发了一系列事件，导致艾丝黛拉去拥抱她的邪恶一面，成为了兼具疯狂、时尚和报复心的库伊拉。

　　Sheila Hood is an ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks. Rather than confronting her husband about an affair, she hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches his transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life. Her husband, Tom Kale, is an ornithologist who begins an affair with an ex-girlfriend, Merle James, whose beauty and fragility echoes that of the birds he studies. Ray Starling, the charismatic owner of a boutique hotel, is Merle’s lover, and has dealings with her father, Mr James, a powerful oil baron who operates in the shadows but whose influence touches the whole city. Merle’s younger sister, Hazel, is also drawn to Tom, but trapped in Starling’s web of power. Calvin is an cop whose loyalty to his ex partner, Hood, is tested when mounting evidence from her own surveillance tapes connects her and Tom to Starling’s murder, and perhaps even Merle’s mysterious death.