Ryan is a womanizing stockbroker whose unethical business practices cost him his job and his trader's license. Unable to find another job, he is forced to move in with his equally self-involved (and completely oblivious) girlfriend, Cindy, an insensitive advice columnist on the cusp of losing her own job due to her poor advice and slow work habits. Finding that the truth behind his moving in has nothing to do with romance, Cindy runs off with another man. Ryan decides to stay in the apartment and earn a living by doing Cindy's job. Ryan establishes himself with Cindy's editor, Page, as Cindy's go-fer, collecting Cindy's paychecks and mail and delivering her columns. Initially as hopelessly inept as Cindy in giving advice, he nearly gets the column canceled. However, he rapidly grows into the job and the combination of forced introspection, research and the growing knowledge that he is touching other people's lives transforms him. The column becomes an amazing success. Ryan finds his initially superficial attraction to Page growing into love, but he cannot reveal his feelings while he is a deceptive fraud. Meanwhile, Cindy becomes aware of her growing fame, and returns to cash in, at the same time that the owner of a rival newspaper chain attempts to force Page to sell Cindy's column to him.
梅格(朱迪·福斯特 Jodie Foster 饰)刚刚结束了一场失败的婚姻,为了离开容易勾起回忆的伤心地,梅格带着女儿莎拉(克里斯汀·斯图尔特 Kristen Stewart 饰)搬进了一幢位于纽约的大房子内。虽然这座建筑已经有些年头了,但是梅格和莎拉对他们的新家还是感到十分的满意。
在屋子里,梅格发现了一间紧急避难所,里面除了有充足的食物和水外,还有一套完善的闭路监视系统。一天,三名强盗潜入了梅格家中,来寻找传说中隐藏在这里的财宝,梅格带着莎拉躲进了避难所里,留给她的时间并不多,如果不能够战胜穷凶极恶的劫匪,那么她和女儿将双双付出生命的代价。
十月里一个普通的湿气蒙蒙的日子,广告总监查尔斯(克里夫•欧文 Clive Owen 饰)错过了他的列车,但是在下一列车上,他却因一张车票,结识了金融投资顾问露辛达(詹妮弗•安妮斯顿 Jennifer Aniston 饰),两人给彼此留下了良好的印象。其时查尔斯的女儿身患糖尿病,他不得不抽出更多的精力照顾女儿,而同时事业上却遭遇了挫折,妻子忙于工作,无暇给予他更多情感上的宽慰。之后的日子里,查尔斯与露辛达时常见面,两个各自有家庭的人越发接近,终于在一次约会后来到了宾馆,但这次独处很快被打破,一个名叫拉洛克(文森特•卡索 Vincent Cassel 饰)的陌生人破门而入,用枪威胁他们,实施了抢劫并强暴了露辛达。担心私情暴露的两人无法依靠法律,而拉洛克的勒索却越发频繁,查尔斯决定用自己的力量,去解决这场危机
卧虎藏龙而又凌乱不堪的13区在上一部《暴力街区》时间设定的两年后再次陷入了大宗阴谋事件,达米安上尉(西里尔•拉法埃利 Cyril Raffaelli 饰)与雷伊托(大卫•贝利 David Belle 饰)这次的对手是不择手段的房地产商——13区将因他的房地产计划而毁灭。在利益集团实施一系列精心筹备的栽赃行动后,13区的暴力一面被推向媒体的风口浪尖,13区一时间成为国民心中残暴的象征;达米安又身陷囹圄,极度不利的局势下,雷伊托成为13区最后的希望,他能否营救达米安并联合13区内的五大势力最后将真相呈献给总统以拆穿不法商人的阴谋呢?