Et sted i slutningen af 1980'erne møder vi den gudesmukke, unge børsmægler Patrick Bateman. Han er kun syvogtyve somre, elsket af venner, kæreste og sekretær, kendt som Wall Streets rare fyr og en rigtig 'boy next door'. Men om natten skifter han karakter og myrder og torterer prostituerede i flæng. Volden udarter sig og snart melder spørgsmålet sig om, hvor meget er Patricks egen fantasi og hvor meget er virkelighed.
Rock Hudson spiller en uærlig reklamemand, som er kommet frem til den position, han har i dag, ved at sno sig. Doris Day arbejder for ham på et andet kontor og kan ikke udstå hans metoder. Da de havner i sengen, får piben en anden lyd.
A business man buys a house, but he has a hard time trying to get rid of its previous tenant, a dirty bum.
After seeing a friend of his boss' son adopted over his promised promotion with connections, Shrimp's father, a minor white-collar worker Ng Kwun-sing, vows to get Shrimp a place in a prestigious school and a chance to make friends with the rich. However, Shrimpy is constantly bullied and discriminated against by his classmates. Ng has not the means to be a social climber and finally realises his mistake. He sends his son to a voluntary school so that he may grow up happily. This poignant father-son drama shows a parents' willingness to carve out a good future for their children by any means necessary.
The Diary of a Husband serves as an illustration for the arrival of the white-collar economy, in which the extended family is replaced by the smaller nuclear family. It is a story about four pals who work at the same office, which, like other white-collar workplaces, has become the men's primary site of life, where livings are made and friendships fostered. Meanwhile, their wives have fostered something of their own—a brigade to catch cheating husbands. Much comedy is then generated by the cat-and-mouse game between the men and the women...The battle line drawn here between the sexes remains for years, to the extent that this very same story has been retold many times in Hong Kong films, including Men Suddenly in Black, the 2003 Pang Ho-cheung film with a similar Chinese title.