瑞秋（凯伦·皮斯托里斯 Caren Pistorius 饰）和丈夫正在分居之中，目前由她独自抚养着年幼的儿子凯伊（加布里埃尔·贝特曼 Gabriel Bateman 饰）。离婚事宜的商讨令瑞秋心力交瘁，睡过头的她眼看着就要迟到，却不巧碰上了高速公路大堵车。　　明明是绿灯，瑞秋却被停在她前面的一辆大卡车拦住了去路，失去耐心的瑞秋狂按喇叭，哪知道却惹恼了卡车司机（罗素·克劳 Russell Crowe 饰）。卡车司机命令瑞秋为她的不礼貌而道歉，瑞秋拒绝了，此时的瑞秋还并没有意识到，自己已经引火烧身。卡车司机是一名精神病患者，刚刚放火烧死了要同自己离婚的前妻一家子。他掉包了瑞秋的手机，开始对她进行人肉搜索和疯狂报复。

这是Qatsi记录片三部曲的最后一部。Qatsi是美国印第安土著Hopi语，意思是生活。　　本片由于受资金困扰，2002年才得以发行，制作时间长达十年，但却没有象前面两部作品Powaqqatsi (1988)和Koyaanisqatsi (1983) 那样广受好评。　　音乐仍然由Philip Glass操刀，马友友则在此片中担任大提琴独奏。　　著名影评人ROGER EBERT说：　　“I have problems with Naqoyqatsi as a film, but as a music video it''s rather remarkable.　　（“Naqoyqatsi作为一部影片有不少问题，作为MTV倒相当出色。）　　1983年，受IRS(Institute of Regional Study)委托，导演雷吉奥拍出了一部非叙事性的电视片，在这基础上，Qatsi系列第一部惊世之作《失衡生活》(Koyaanisqatsi)应运而生。在得到了包括卢卡斯、科波拉等人的大力支持与推广之后，《失衡生活》在当时形成了轰动性的效果。5年以后，Qatsi系列第二部《变形生活》(Powaqqatsi)诞生，尽管没有在第一部的基础上取得大的突破，但也不失为水准之作。　　《战争生活》的诞生经历了许多坎坷。尽管《失衡的生活》与《变形的生活》都取得了相当好的评价，但在拍摄期间，导演仍然面临严重的资金问题。在这种情况下，尽管派拉蒙公司已经为前两部电影发行了DVD，但是雷吉奥仍然坚持收回版权，让想要购买DVD的影迷单独与他联系，单价150美金，作为对第三部影片拍摄费用的支持。最后在米拉迈克斯公司的支持下，由著名导演斯蒂芬·索德伯格（《性、谎言、录像带》，《毒品网络》，《永不妥协》）出任执行制片，历经10余年，终于完成了这部作品。　　电影里充满着那些似乎无意剪接到一起的镜头，一会是冲天的原子弹，一会是变色的散发出奇异目光的多利羊，以及飘忽来去的世界地图，股票市场，数字，和人的游行……然后接着来了警察，以及挥舞的棍棒，长长的有刀的枪，还有飞过的子弹的呼啸……镜头一转，我们又看到了拳击手的攻击和倒下，本•拉登和胡子，还有变形的电脑，不停的毫无意义的争吵。接着还有什么？流动着噪音的和没有声音的阅兵，徐徐而进的汽车，布什，轮盘赌，云霄飞车，快餐，速度，网络……最后留下的是死亡，爆炸，而那些优雅环境里的键盘和字母在飞舞，汽车来了，光线亮了，车灯射过来，有人在哭泣……

乔治（詹姆斯•斯图尔特 James Stewart 饰）在圣诞节前准备自杀，这时上帝传来旨意，派天使拯救他，并让他了解到自己一生的使命——拯救那些不幸的人。乔治小时候左耳有疾，在贝德福德镇上的一家药店帮工。他很机灵，深得老板器重，同时也很招女孩喜欢。某日，老板接到爱子死亡的电报，悲痛欲绝，配错了药，幸亏乔治才化险为夷。乔治从小嫉恶如仇，尤其看不惯富人专横跋扈。长大后，乔治一表人才，准备去读大学。这时，他的父亲去世了，他子承父业，协助叔父料理公司事务。然而公司经营状况不佳，在董事会会议上面临破产。如果公司破产，小镇将会有很多家庭陷入困境。乔治力排众议，说服了董事会，但是条件是他要担任董事会秘书长。这与他的大学梦相去甚远。而且，此时他还陷入了对一个女孩的爱恋之中……

故事发生在1941年的夏天，帕维特（蒙哥马利·克利夫特 Montgomery Clift 饰）刚刚被调到夏威夷军营，连长霍默思（Philip Ober 饰）看到帕维特体格壮硕，便邀请他加入军中的拳击队。没想到，帕维特拒绝了霍默思的邀请，这令霍默思感到愤怒又难堪。帕维特也曾是拳击界的一把好手，但一次意外中他打伤了对手的眼睛致其失明，悔恨交加的他发誓永远不再站上擂台。　　霍默思的妻子凯伦（黛博拉·蔻儿 Deborah Kerr 饰）美丽又温柔，在士官长瓦尔登（伯特·兰卡斯特 Burt Lancaster 饰）的诱惑之下，两人产生了背德的感情。一次意外中，士官强森（欧内斯特·博格宁 Ernest Borgnine 饰）的恶意挑衅导致了士兵马乔（弗兰克·辛纳特拉 Frank Sinatra 饰）的死亡，面对这一悲剧，帕维特决定不再忍耐，愤怒至极的他向强森挥起了拳头。

乔伊（詹妮弗·劳伦斯 Jennifer Lawrence 饰）是一名独自抚养两个孩子的单身母亲，虽然她和丈夫托尼（埃德加·拉米雷兹 Edgar Ramirez 饰）已经离了婚，但这个穷困潦倒的男人还常常需要前妻的经济支持。不仅如此，乔伊还要照顾自己每天都瘫坐在电视机前的 母亲和生性风流四处沾花惹草的父亲，她所承担的压力可想而知。　　实际上，乔伊有着非凡的经商头脑，她发明了魔术拖把，大大减少了主妇们花费在家务活上的时间。乔伊和商人尼尔（布莱德利·库珀 Bradley Cooper 饰）之间达成了交易，开始推广魔术拖把进入市场，但很快乔伊就发现，自己仿佛是一块香喷喷的肉，每个路过的人都想从她身上捞到点什么。

公元前3067年，魔蝎大帝（“岩石”洛克Dwayne Johnson 饰）率领大军企图征服世界，但他的野心在长达七年的战役中遭到挫败，他的残兵败部进入神圣的阿姆谢沙漠，严酷的环境使得曾经骁勇的战士们接连倒毙，濒临死亡的魔蝎大帝向死神阿努比斯献出灵魂，以求打败他的敌人。在此之后，魔蝎大帝及来自地狱的死神军团所向披靡，大获全胜的死神军团也重新沉睡地下。　　1933年埃及，瑞克·奥克康纳（布兰登•弗雷泽 Brendan Fraser 饰）和艾弗琳（瑞切尔•薇茨Rachel Weisz 饰）带着他们的儿子艾里克斯（弗莱迪•布斯Freddie Boath 饰）重返此地，并发现了魔蝎大帝的手镯。与此同时，另一伙神秘组织找到邪恶法老伊莫特的尸体，他们需要那只手镯复活伊莫特。针对手镯的正邪争夺战旋即展开，瑞克夫妇不得不面对新一轮的奇幻大冒险……

New York private detective Duncan Mac MacLain is blind but has keenly developed all his other senses. He pursues his work assisted by his faithful guide dog Friday, his butler, Alistair, and his assistant, Marty. Retired actress Norma Lawry, an old friend, comes to Mac seeking advice. Her headstrong 17-year-old step-daughter Barbara, herself a promising actress, is enamored with her leading man in a small theater production, the much older Lothario Paul Gerente. Paul, who had once been Norma's lover, has convinced Barbara that Norma actually wants Paul for herself and has only married her father Stephen for his money. At Mac's urging, Norma tried to reason with Paul, but he insists that he loves Barbara and laughs her off. Barbara is equally disdainful of her and agrees to meet Paul for dinner that night at his apartment.　　Norma's husband Stephen Lawry is a scientist leaving that night on a trip to test a secret invention on which he has been working for the government and the war effort. Worried about Barbara, she uses a pretext not to accompany Stephen and goes to the apartment. When Barbara arrives, she finds Paul's dead body and thinks that Norma has killed him, even though Norma insists that he was dead when she arrived. Barbara threatens to call the police unless she leaves Stephen. Fearing that a scandal will hurt him, Norma agrees. Norma then turns to Mac, who goes to Paul's apartment with Friday and Marty, only to find the body and the rug under it missing. A man arrives to replace the rug and Mac hides in a closet, overhearing a telephone call to Norma's number from Gabriel to Vera. Mac accidentally gives himself away, but with Friday's help overpowers Gabriel, who refuses to talk. Mac has Marty hide him to keep him under wraps.　　Norma returns to her country home unexpectedly, which discourages an espionage ring that includes her butler, Hansen, from breaking into Stephen's safe and stealing his plans. They have killed Gerente, who was also an agent, and hidden the body. Mac arrives with Friday at Norma's house and pretends to be her curmudgeonly Uncle Mac who has come for a visit. His blindness lulls any suspicions Hansen might have about him. Shortly thereafter, Barbara comes home from an emergency rehearsal, called to get her out of the house by her director, Cheli Scott, who inveigles an invitation to spend the night at the Lawry home. Unknown to Barbara and Norma, Cheli is the ringleader of the spies. Cheli ordered Paul killed because his affection for Barbara was beginning to limit his effectiveness, and she immediately suspects Mac is not what he seems.　　Gabriel's wife Vera, the Lawrys' maid, is also a part of the plot. When Gabriel does not return home, Vera becomes hysterical with worry. Mac secretly asks Vera to meet him in the greenhouse, using her worry about Gabriel as a lure. She is observed by the others, however, and is killed by Hansen before she can reach Mac. The spies cut the house's telephone wires so that Mac and Norma cannot call the police, and Cheli has Mac locked up under guard. Using his blindness as a distraction, Mac overpowers his guard and releases Friday out a window with instructions to go home and get Marty. Stephen arrives home and Cheli threatens his family if he does not give her the final step in creating his invention, which was not in the safe. Barbara finally realizes how much Norma actually cares for her. Mac tries to stall for time, but is locked in the cellar. When Hansen goes to kill him, Mac has broken the light bulb and his advantage of total darkness helps him overcome the spy. Marty and Friday return with the police. When Friday is spotted by a lookout, Mac overpowers him and is saved from being shot by another lookout by Friday. After the spies are captured, Stephen and Norma are off to Washington, D.C., with Barbara remaining behind to care for her new Uncle Mac.

拥有一头金发的美女米兰达·威尔斯（裴淳华 Rosamund Pike 饰）是某医院的护士，她和同事们关系融洽，和善可亲。在预定好的相亲日子里，米兰达遭到送快递的小哥威廉·芬恩（希罗·弗南德兹 Shiloh Fernandez 饰）的强暴，从而身心遭到巨大创伤，生活偏离了常轨不说，还落下了手抖的毛病。在人生的最低潮，米兰达选择给正在狱中服刑的威廉写信，希望能见他一面。最初的几封信中，威廉都拒绝了对方匪夷所思的要求，不过他最终选择屈服。隔着一层玻璃，施暴者与受害者敞开心扉交谈。　　米兰达展现出圣母般温暖的笑容，威廉冰冷自卑的心仿佛被对方融化，对对方的欲望更加深了许多……

早在2010年的12月，安德森就有意改编托马斯·品钦的《性本恶》，不过由于另一部新片《大师》的资金到位较早，《性本恶》暂时被搁置了起来。《性本恶》有一个类似钱德勒侦探小说的外壳，洛杉矶私家侦探多克与前女友莎斯塔不期而遇，并从她那听说了一个无从佐证的故事，一桩离奇绑架案，受害者——她现在的情人——是一个“腰缠亿贯”的房地产商。多克明知道“爱情”是个含混不清、随时会惹出一串麻烦的词儿，还是鬼使神差地撞进了莎斯塔的故事，而且愈卷愈深，冲浪手、皮条客、贩毒者、摇滚乐手、犯了命案的高利贷者，各色人等，若隐若现……

《献上你的心》游泳队女孩麦克斯饱受同伴欺凌，这天她被教练表白，于是女孩心花怒放，决定要送对方一件意想不到的礼物。《圣帕特里克节的问候》生活乱作一团的女教师卡伦，在遇到转学生格兰妮之后，居然怀上了可怕的生物。《最好的复活节愿望》圣帕特里克节当晚，女孩惴惴不安。夜深人静之际，一枚蛋和可怕的怪物出现在房子内。《最亲爱的妈妈》一个做了无数次流产手术的女孩，虽然防护严密却再度怀孕，这令她几近崩溃，不得不求助于神秘力量。《父亲节快乐》原以为父亲死去的卡罗尔，意外收到父亲寄来的录音带，于是启程寻找父亲。《万圣节的祝福》伊恩拉了三个女孩用网络做不法生意，他粗暴下流的做法最终遭到报应。《记着，他在看着你》圣诞节前夕，皮特错过了最后一台虚拟3D眼镜UVU，但他从另一个男人手中抢到了它，但他却看到那个男人的视角。《祝大家新年快乐》曼蒂在约会网上认识了一个男子，设想中浪漫的夜晚，却充满了血腥。