狄武周天授元年，嶺南潞州城司馬孔成業迷戀修道煉丹，傳聞找到了長生不老丹的藥方，只缺一味名叫彼岸花的奇草。傳言這是來自地獄的死亡之花，常年生長在墳冢幽谷之中，能致人產生幻覺，中幻覺者如妖邪附體般，發狂發癲，死狀凄慘。　　孔成業發出懸賞，采到彼岸花者，賞百金。山民獵戶等紛紛進山尋找，連孔成業也帶人到處扒墳冢、探幽谷。忙活的孔成業突然慘死，死前發狂。連他的幾名參軍也死相極慘，都說孔成業采到了彼岸花，被妖邪附身殺死，鬧得滿城風雨。潞州刺史陸英杰上報朝廷，恰逢狄仁杰巡查嶺南諸州，女皇武則天命其前往潞州，全權調查此案.。

　　列寧格勒牛仔搖滾樂隊的幾個成員裝扮怪異，戴大墨鏡，燙飛機頭，夸張的火箭鞋就是他們的標志。可在他們的家鄉看不見事業成功的希望，于是他們決定轉戰美國尋求機會，在即將出發的前夜，貝斯手卻被凍死，盡管如此，隊員們還是將他裝入了放滿冰塊的木箱中帶上了旅途。此時同村的一個怪異的啞巴 偷偷跟隨樂隊來到了紐約。紐約的機會并不如他們想象的豐富，困窘的生活仍在繼續，在他們走投無路之時，得到了一個來自墨西哥的婚宴演出機會。于是他們用僅剩的錢從一個美國售貨員（吉姆?賈木許 Jim Jarmusch 飾）手中買了一輛舊車后繼續向墨西哥進發，那里有他們最后的夢想……

　　Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn't show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum - she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn't put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to "back the f-off". However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.

　　一輛德國虎式坦克的五名車組成員被派往戰火紛飛的前線后方執行一項秘密任務。在德軍亢奮藥物的刺激下，他們的任務逐漸變成了一場深入黑暗之心的旅程。