Interes w sklepie z kwiatami nie idzie zbyt dobrze. Seymour Krelborn idąc raz ulicą nabywa obcą roślinę od obcego człowieka. Nazywa ją Audrey (od imienia swojej dziewczyny). Z każdym nowym dniem Seymour dowiaduje się prawdy o swojej roślince - a prawda jest taka, że roślinka do życia potrzebuje krwi. Z każdym dniem coraz więcej krwi...
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
Historia trzech braci Carboni, próbujących za wszelką cenę przetrwać w trudnych czasach kryzysu powojennego. Imając się różnych zajęć od wielu lat żyją w biedzie, mażąc o lepszym jutrze. Pewnej nocy Cosmo, widząc walkę zapaśniczą postanawia wystawić do kolejnej swojego młodszego brata Victora. Chłopak szybko wygrywa i zgarnia duże pieniądze. Skuszeni pieniędzmi Cosmo i Lenny namawiają Victora na kolejne pojedynki.
Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.
George Cooper (John Heard) właśnie przeniósł się ze swoją narzeczoną Laurene (Kim Greist) do apartamentu w Nowym Jorku. Mężczyzna pracuje jako fotograf, który obecnie zajmuje się robieniem zdjęć bezdomnym. W tym samym czasie lokalny szef policji, kapitan Bosch (Christopher Curry) obserwuje nagłe zniknięcia osób mieszkających w rejonie. Ofiarami zaginięć padają głównie włóczędzy okupujący kanały.
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
Flash used to be a talented baseball player, but he took to drinking and now he sells stolen watches in the streets. One day he meets Chu Chu, who, before falling into alcoholism like him, was a successful entertainer. Now she still dances, but in the streets, for no more than a cent or two. Luck seems to smile at them the day stolen government documents literally fall from the sky. They decide to return them to their legal owners, but instead of the expected reward money, all they get is a load of trouble.
While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearances within the homeless community, a filmmaker and his crew go missing while uncovering a terrifying and vicious secret below the city's surface.
A couple of bums watch many situations unfold at a home across the street.
In downtown Kansas City, a bunch of drunk bums get strangled with a radioactive chain of mutation.
Finally, after four arrests and seven felony charges later, the long awaited sequel to the infamous Bumfights is here! Already illegal in some countries, this is the video the U.S. Congress tried to ban. Worldwide, Bumfights has established itself as the hardest, rawest, most hilariously shocking video series on the planet. Let those other bitches (you know who) try to step up to this!
A hotel in the centre of town is a war-time home and refuge for many of Sarajevo's homeless people. Every morning they leave the hotel and wander around the destroyed city gathering again at the defunct hotel in the afternoon. This film follows their separate fates through the bitter comparing of images of the bums with those of dogs abandoned by their owners and now left et the mercy of the war ravaged streets of Sarajevo.