依据1922年的凶杀案改编，描写贩卖私酒的匪帮和警方角力的故事。影史第一次以盗匪当主角，运用背面打光和烟雾，颇具艺术风格，广受欢迎，也预示40年代黑色电影的来临。

依据1922年的凶杀案改编，描写贩卖私酒的匪帮和警方角力的故事。影史第一次以盗匪当主角，运用背面打光和烟雾，颇具艺术风格，广受欢迎，也预示40年代黑色电影的来临。

根据多个真实矿工场爆炸事件改编，讲述位于阿帕拉契山脉中地下两英里的矿工场，被困的九位矿工仅有一小时含氧量的氧气瓶，他们该如何逃出生天？

Unlike other great civilizations such as the Romans and the Ancient Egyptians, the Mayan empire did not arise from the banks of a mighty river. 　　Much of the Mayan world is in fact devoid of even the smallest river or lake. Then why did they populate Yucatan? The Maya believed that the freshwater pools, ‘cenotes’, dotted across the area were sacred portals to the underworld. 　　They are indeed portals, but rather to an incredible underground labyrinthine systems of rivers. Only now being properly explored and understood, this secret world was created by nature in a unique chain of dramatic events. 　　Underneath the jungle-clad Mayan temples of Yucatan lies a world even more mysterious, even more incredible than the Maya could have ever imagined. 　　A whole food chain has been found in the cenotes deepest recesses — over 20 species that have never seen the light of day. Some of the underground caverns are not totally full of water… incredibly, they are home to thousands of bats.

安全专家托马斯·杰克曼（阿德连·保罗 Adrian Paul 饰）受命前往撒哈拉沙漠腹地的阿夫特拉山钻探区。这里曾是一个天然气开采站，之后废弃并被多国研究人员接手进行地下勘探与科研工作，旨在寻找新的嗜热生命体。不久前，一场强劲的沙尘暴席卷此地，钻探站随即与外界失去联系。 托马斯来到这里，发现25名工作人员全部失踪，墙上留有用血液写就的阿拉伯文。他仔细翻阅研究人员们留下的资料，却始终一无所获。正当他的工作陷入困境时，自称小组研究员的詹妮·克里斯迪亚森（凯特·诺塔 Kate Nauta 饰）突然出现。从詹妮的口中得知，研究小组的成员早已相继离奇死亡……