Nel 1957 a Vienna, ex deportata, moglie di un direttore d'orchestra, riconosce nel portiere dell'albergo l'ufficiale delle SS di cui, giovanissima, era diventata l'oggetto sessuale in campo di concentramento, in un tortuoso rapporto sadomasochistico.
Okwe è un immigrato clandestino dall'Africa a Londra. Lavora di giorno come taxista e di notte come portiere in un hotel. Quando scopre in una camera un cuore umano per lui le cose cambiano. Si trova così ad indagare e a scoprire un traffico di organi umani. Stephen Frears sembra fare film a corrente alternata: uno interessante e uno molto meno a turno. Questa volta la corrente alternata scorre all'interno di un'unica opera. Infatti alla prima parte che mescola noir e film di denuncia fa seguito una seconda melò e potenzialmente strappalacrime che ha scarse relazioni con la prima.
L'ormai anziano ed esperto usciere dell'Hotel Atlantic è orgoglioso della sua posizione, delle sue responsabilità e della sua livrea. Una notte piovosa e indaffarata si sta riposando brevemente dopo aver trasportato un pesante bagaglio sotto la pioggia e proprio in quel mentre viene sorpreso dal direttore. Il giorno seguente apprende di essere stato sostituito e declassato al ruolo umiliante di assistente alle pulizie. Sbalordito e umiliato, si sforza di riuscire a mandare avanti lo stesso la sua vita.
A group of redcaps in a train station perform musical numbers to raise money for a sick member of their group.
Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a gangster is killed by an opposing gang. Socialite Phyllis Blake is running around with gang member Tom and the opposing gang plan on kidnapping her. Cosmo is with Sergeant Flanagan when the attempt is made in front of a night club, where a bystander is seriously wounded in the gun-battle. Police Chief Murphy blames Flanagan for the shooting and demotes him. Cosmo, with the aid of a porter, Eustace and Flanagan's fiancée, Susan, tries to find the killer. Phyllis is finally kidnapped and Cosmo decides the act was committed by one of the two gangs. He has her father place an ad in the newspaper that contact has been made with the kidnappers. Each gang thinks the other is pulling a double cross, and one gang wipes out the other.
Sotiris, the president of Ano Latini, goes to Athens to get information about the project of expropriation for the construction of a military airport in the village. Dimitroula, president's daughter, is in love with Vangelis, an aircraftsman, who serves his duty in Athens. When Vangelis learns that a wealthy villager asked to marry his girlfriend, he goes to the village with his friend Kanellos, to find out what's happening. Kanellos is a naive hotel concierge who wears a fancy uniform, making everyone in the village believe that he is a Wing Commander.
Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless old gaffer and a portly young loudmouth. Hilarious adventures ensue, including a locomotive chase after gunrunners make off with a train.
A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted to the same woman on the same day at the same Underground station. But the lady chooses Bill, and Bert isn't the type to take rejection lightly...
