Benjamin (David Kross), a German high school student, is a backpacker on his first major tour. In a nightclub in Phnom Penh, he meets a young local girl, Sreykeo (played by Apinya Sakuljaroensuk), and rapidly falls in love with her. Ben opts for this love, even though Sreykeo turns out to be HIV positive and seems to be a prostitute. It is based on the true story of Sreykeo Sorvan and Benjamin Prüfer.

When a mission to retrieve a stolen suitcase bomb goes awry, CIA agent Kevin Pope is killed. Pope was working undercover as an antiquities dealer under the name Michael Turner. The CIA, which is desperate to complete the mission, discovers that Agent Pope had a twin brother, Jake Hayes, from whom he was separated at birth; their mother died giving birth and Hayes suffered from a severe lung infection that prompted the doctors to separate them because they felt that Hayes was unlikely to live for very long. Hayes hustles chess games, scalps tickets, and works at small clubs in Jersey City, New Jersey, to make ends meet. Meanwhile, Hayes's girlfriend, Julie grows tired of waiting for him to grow up and decides to move to Seattle, Washington. After the CIA successfully persuades Hayes to participate and begins to train Hayes for a mission that is to take place in Prague, Czech Republic, they are initially dismayed by his lack of refinement. Agent Gaylord Oakes confronts Hayes, telling him he does not trust him. When Hayes begins paying attention, the CIA sets him up in his brother's old apartment in Manhattan to test him and try to bait the men who killed his brother. Hayes is attacked, but escapes unharmed. Looking for a way out, Hayes goes to his foster mother only to be found by Oakes, who persuades him to finish the mission. After arriving in Prague, Hayes – posing as his dead brother – meets with the men selling the suitcase bomb. The seller, Adrik Vas is an ex-Russian Army Colonel with ties to the Russian Mafia. When they return to their hotel, Hayes is greeted by his brother's ex-girlfriend Nicole. Believing Hayes is his brother, she dines with him and returns to his hotel, where the couple is ambushed by rival buyers. Nicole figures out that Hayes is not his brother and returns to her assignment covering the Balkans for CNN. Hayes and Oakes meet with Vas and are able to steal the arming codes. Just as they close the deal, Vas' men double cross them with the rival buyer. When the rival dealers, who are part of a multi-national terrorist organization, learn they cannot detonate the bomb because of the missing codes, they kidnap Julie. Hayes gives himself up trying to save his girlfriend, and the terrorists get the codes back and arm the bomb. After interrogating one of the captured terrorists, they track the bomb to Grand Central Station. With the clock ticking, they locate the bomb and the terrorist leader Dragan Ađanić, who has started the countdown. Oakes rescues Hayes by killing two terrorists. As Hayes starts to enter the codes to disarm the bomb, Ađanić holds Julie hostage. To distract Ađanić, Hayes pretends to shoot Oakes, and they kill Ađanić by shooting him repeatedly. Hayes is able to disarm the bomb just prior to detonation. Hayes visits his brother's grave. Later, Oakes approaches Hayes at his wedding to Julie and warns him that a dangerous criminal has escaped from prison and is seeking revenge on Kevin Pope, but since Kevin is dead and Hayes was impersonating him, the criminal thinks Hayes is Kevin. Hayes begins to panic and demands that Oakes protect him, but Oakes laughs as he reveals that it was only a joke and he really just came for the wedding.

First Lieutenant Jake Tanner shares ICBM silo duty at a US Air Force missile base in the Mojave Desert in eastern California with Major Eugene "Sam" Denton. Denton notifies Tanner he's requesting that command reassign him, considering Tanner an unsuitable partner. The pair interact with Sergeant Tom Keegan while passing through base security checks. During Denton and Tanner's procedure drills, the US detects incoming nuclear missiles from the Soviet Union. Tanner and Denton launch their silo's missiles, part of a massive retaliatory strike. Despite the work of interceptor missiles, the United States suffers heavily from the Soviet attack. Two years later, the Earth has been tilted off its axis by the nuclear detonations of World War III, the planet is wracked by massive storms, and the sky is in a perpetual aurora borealis -like state. Tanner has resigned his commission and has been scouting nearby Barstow, California, while Keegan has also resigned to become an artist in one of the base's out-buildings they've been relegated to. Mutated giant scorpions menace the area, requiring Tanner and Keegan to defend the area with high-powered rifles. Airman Haskins starts a small fire by falling asleep and dropping a lit cigarette. A resulting explosion kills most of the barracks' inhabitants including the base commander, General Landers. Keegan, Tanner, Denton and Lieutenant Tom Perry survive. Denton suggests traveling to Albany, New York, to investigate a lone radio transmission that has aired weekly since the war. The survivors set out in two large 12-wheel Landmaster armored personnel carriers, in which they must cross Damnation Alley, "the path of least resistance" between intense radiation areas. Perry is killed in a storm which disables one of the Landmasters, and they encounter mutated cockroaches in the ruins of Salt Lake City that trap and eat Keegan alive. Denton and Tanner pick up two survivors: a woman in Las Vegas, Janice, and a teenage boy, Billy, discovered in an abandoned house in the High Plains. They fight gun-toting mountain men in the ruins of a gas station in the Midwest, and Denton destroys the madmen's buildings with the Landmaster's rocket launchers. The Landmaster suffers drivetrain trouble near Detroit and enters a large wrecking yard in search of replacement parts. A hemisphere-wide storm breaks, and the group shelters in the vehicle as a megatsunami washes them away, leaving them adrift in a large body of water. It appears the Earth has returned to its normal axis as the sky is suddenly clear. They drive the amphibious Landmaster onto land, and they hear a radio broadcast with music and an attempt to reach survivors. After Denton makes radio contact, Tanner and Billy set out on Tanner's dirt bike to locate the source of the broadcast. In the final scene, they reach a surprisingly intact suburb of Albany, New York, where they are greeted by its inhabitants.

Wong Fei-hung (sometimes dubbed as "Freddie Wong") is a young and mischievous son, who runs into a series of troubles. Firstly, he teaches an overbearing assistant martial arts teacher a lesson, and later makes advances on a woman to impress his friends. He is consequently thrashed by her older female guardian. His shame is compounded when these two are later revealed to be his visiting aunt and cousin, whom he had not met before. Lastly, he beats up a hooligan, who turns out to be the son of an influential man in town. His father decides to punish him for his behavior by making him train harder in martial arts. Wong's father arranges for Beggar So to train his son in martial arts. Beggar So has a reputation for crippling his students during training so Wong flees from home in an attempt to escape his punishment. Penniless, Wong stops at a restaurant and tries to trick a fellow patron into offering him a free meal. As Wong was about to leave after his meal, he discovers that the man is actually the owner of the restaurant. He fights with the owner's lackeys in an attempt to escape. An old drunkard nearby is drawn into the fight and helps him escape. The drunkard turns out to be Beggar So (who is known in some versions of the film as Sam Seed, So-Hi or Su Hua-chi), the Drunken Master. Beggar So forces Wong into his brutal and rigorous training programme, but he flees again to avoid the torturous training and runs into the notorious killer Yim Tit-sam (known in some versions as Thunderfoot or Thunderleg) by accident. Yim is known for his "Devil's Kick", a swift and deadly kicking style which has never been defeated. Wong provokes and challenges him to a fight and is soundly defeated and humiliated. He makes his way back to Beggar So and decides to commit himself to the Drunken Master's training program. The training resumes and soon Wong learns Beggar So's secret style of martial arts, a form of Drunken Boxing called " The Eight Drunken Immortals ", named after the eight xian that the fighting style references. Wong masters seven of the eight styles with the exception of Drunken Miss Ho 's as he feels that her style of fighting is too feminine. Meanwhile, Yim Tit-sam is contracted by a business rival to kill Wong's father. Wong's father fights with Yim and is defeated and injured by him. Wong and Beggar So arrive on time and Wong continues the fight with Yim. Beggar So promises not to interfere in the fight. Wong employs the new skills he has learned and outmatches Yim's kicking style. Yim then resorts to his secret technique, the Devil's Shadowless Hand, which is too fast for Wong to defeat. Wong confesses that he did not master the last style so Beggar So tells him to combine the seven styles and create his own version of the last style. Wong follows the instruction and discovers his own unique style of Drunken Miss Ho, which he uses to overcome the Shadowless Hand and finally defeats Yim.

Eleven-year-old Randy Daytona becomes anxious when he learns that his father Peter has bet on his performance in the 1988 Summer Olympics table tennis tournament finals. During his semi-final game against Karl Wolfschtagg of the German Democratic Republic, Daytona is injured in an accident. Unable to continue, he loses the match. Loan sharks, in the employ of criminal mastermind Feng, murder his father, and Daytona leaves competitive ping-pong. Nineteen years later, Daytona is performing ping pong tricks on stage, but is fired after an incident when he accidentally causes an audience member to go into cardiac arrest. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Ernie Rodriguez arrives and requests Daytona's assistance in arresting Feng for gunrunning. Feng's hidden jungle hideout hosts an underground table tennis tournament, and Daytona's invitation is a way for the FBI to infiltrate Feng's organization. When Daytona accepts, Rodriguez tells him to win enough championships that Feng's scouts notice him. After losing a local tournament, Daytona is apprenticed to a blind man named Wong, Feng's former mentor, in Chinatown. Daytona also meets Wong's niece, Maggie. When locals vandalize Wong's house for violating their edict against teaching White people ping-pong, Daytona is forced to play against "The Dragon", a young girl, in exchange for Wong's right to stay. After Daytona beats the Dragon and gets punched, Feng's men discover his win and bring Daytona, Rodriguez, and Wong to Feng's facility. Daytona defeats his first opponent, Freddy "Fingers" Wilson, but quickly learns that the tournament is literally sudden death — the loser is killed by a poisoned dart delivered by Feng's majordomo, Mahogany. After Daytona unsuccessfully tries escaping, Feng invites him to join his side and reveals that he only finished half of Wong's training. He says it would be the ultimate satisfaction to win Daytona away from Wong. Feng also shows Daytona his specially modified ping-pong table. It is wired to special vests that give increasingly powerful and fatal electrical shocks for failure. Daytona informs Rodriguez of a hidden cache of illegal guns that is sufficient to put Feng in jail and requests extraction, knowing that losing would mean death. While Rodriguez investigates the hidden facilities, Daytona defeats numerous opponents for his life. Daytona and Wolfschtagg were set for the final round. After Wolfschtagg insulted Daytona's late father, Daytona reneged on the extraction and attempted to call off Rodriguez's plan only for Rodriguez to hastily break his arm. Feng discovers Rodriguez's attempts to contact the FBI and forces Daytona to face Wolfschtagg, then substitutes Maggie. When Wolfschtagg protests, Feng kills him. Daytona plays southpaw and tries stalling for time. Maggie tries losing on purpose to sacrifice herself. However, Daytona uses his ping-pong expertise to hit Maggie with the ball. Enraged, Feng orders them both executed. Mahogany shoots her dart at Daytona, but Maggie thwarts her. Daytona throws the paddle back at Mahogany, killing her. The FBI swarms the place, during which Daytona and his friends attempt to escape, but are captured after Daytona fails to rescue Feng's slaves. Determined to find out who Wong's best pupil was, Feng plays Daytona using the modified vests. Daytona trips Feng's bodyguard during the game and activates the self-destruct sequence. Feng reveals they cannot turn off the suits. He also states that he changed the rules so that the ball can be bounced off any surface once and still be in play. The game moves through several buildings and finally onto a bridge over a nearby river. After Wong informs Daytona that Feng has a weak backhand, Daytona exploits his weakness, fatally electrocuting Feng as he falls into the river. Daytona and his friends, along with Feng's slaves, escape in Wong's boat before the facility explodes. Two months later, the major characters reunite for the reopening of Wong's rebuilt Mushu shop while also still hosting ping-pong games. Wong inadvertently falls down the elevator shaft, to Randy, Rodriguez, and Maggie's shock.

Mild-mannered Portuguese Brazilian billionaire cousins Bastiano and Antonio Coimbra de la Coronilla y Azevedo are in fear for their lives after several assassination attempts. Therefore, they have an agency find two look-alikes, stuntman Elliot Vance and the saxophone-playing small-time criminal Greg Wonder, to temporarily take their place and find out who is behind the assassination attempts. Elliot and Greg, both very tough and battle-ready as compared to the violence-averse Coimbra cousins, use their flamboyance and fighting skills to manage their way through all kinds of situations without too much trouble while getting closer to the mastermind behind it all. Additionally they quickly come to like the jet-set life. The resulting damage to their reputation provokes the Coimbras to return to Rio ahead of time. This puts them right into the sights of their enemies, alongside the cousins' look-alikes.

In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, Edouard Péricourt saves Albert Maillard's life. The two men have nothing in common but the war. Lieutenant Pradelle, by ordering a senseless assault, destroys their lives while binding them as companions in misfortune. On the ruins of the carnage of WWI, condemned to live, the two attempt to survive. Thus, as Pradelle is about to make a fortune with the war victims' corpses, Albert and Edouard mount a monumental scam with the bereaved families' commemoration and with a nation's hero worship.

The Soviet Union, June 1985. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Fyodorov and Viktor Alyokhin attempt to dock with the empty, frozen craft to bring it back to life.