Down on his luck Charlie has been kicked off the dole, had his electricity cut off, and been dumped by his girlfriend Vicky. Despite claiming to be an expert on women, his best friend T-Bag has never had a girlfriend and the boys are convinced only money will change their depressing situation. The boys hear through their dealer Blowback that The Uncle is looking for new drug mules, so Charlie conceives an elaborate scam to smuggle a consignment of Cocaine back from Amsterdam.
Detective Harry Cross is on the trail of murderer and bandit Flash Jack. So is amateur sleuther Deacon Lake. Cross pursues Jack via Jack's girlfriend Dolly who works at a nightclub, and eventually unmasks the nightclub's owner as Jack.
Jay Grant is a journalist who prioritizes friendship over his career, offering a critique of the journalism industry. Hired by a managing editor, Grant's assignment is to unveil the illicit activities of Morton Bradstreet, a powerful underworld figure who dominates a significant part of the city's nightlife and has considerable influence over the media. Adopting the disguise of an innocent countryman, Grant gets close to Bradstreet.
The film centers on two friends who discover a cardboard cash filled with a million dollars after their car breaks down. They decide to stay at a nearby resort, where the staff and other guests quickly discover that the pair has a large amount of money, causing everyone to create plans to steal the cash.
Zac Harrison, a seasoned but principled convict, shares a prison cellblock with two vastly different men: the cocky pickpocket Velvet Smith, and the brutal gang leader "Brass Knuckles" Lamont. When Lamont persuades a trusty to arrange a daring prison break, Zac, sensing danger, intervenes to prevent it—too late to stop the warden from being fatally wounded by a convict named "Fade-Away". The escape fails, and while Lamont's sentence is extended, he vows revenge on Zac, whom he holds responsible for the debacle.
A young girl goes missing and her father (Daddo) accuses his mother-in-law, Barbara (Bisset) of abducting her. He speculates about Barbara's deep involvement in the occult with the accusation that she is a witch. Barbara responds by accusing her son-in-law of abusing her granddaughter.
News correspondent Tim Garnett and his photographer Connelly have been on assignment in a country on the edge of revolution. At the airport as they wait to leave, Connelly snaps a throwaway shot of an attractive woman boarding a plane. When the photograph is developed, they realise that the woman's male companion is Emile Zubova, a notorious illegal arms dealer who had recently been reported as having committed suicide while on the run from agents wishing to track him down.
The Mallory Pelas were a secret organization of Irish coal miners established in nineteenth century Pennsylvania to fight oppressive mineowners. Led by Jack Kehoe , they plant dynamite to destroy plant shafts and equipment. As character James McParlan, Richard Harris portrays real life Pinkerton Detective James McParland who was employed to infiltrate the Mollies.
Crooked casino owner Emil Louba is found murdered in his apartment. There are three suspects: architect Frank Leamington, whose fiancée Susan owed Louba money; Charles Berry, who had a grudge against him, and Warden, a barrister. Leamington is arrested, and is defended in court by Warden.
The rich and successful Dr. Manning is called out in the middle of the night to visit a private patient. He never returns and the next morning his wife Annette finds him missing.
Pollack, an underworld gambler, is murdered, but before he dies he hides $50,000 that he just won gambling in a newspaper and kicks it under a car. The next day Sach and Slip are walking in the street and find the paper and the cash. Gabe, who is a reporter, runs a story on them finding the money and the gangsters that Pollack won the money from come looking for them.
Two Los Angeles Police Department motorcycle officers respond to a report of a traffic accident and find that a pedestrian was killed by a hit-and-run driver. Detectives determine that the incident was related to a stolen car ring. An LAPD academy recruit volunteers for an undercover mission to penetrate the stolen-car ring posing as a car thief from Chicago.
A man is convicted of murder and sentenced to death for the crime. His brother, who idolized him, meets a cop, Sgt. Frank Conroy, who attempts to stop the boy and his gang of friends from ending up the same way as his brother did.
Tracy (Chandra West) and Eric Smythe (Jim Thorburn) are a happily married couple who find it difficult to have children. After numerous failed in-vitro fertilization treatments and a heartbreaking near adoption, Eric decides to get an old girlfriend Gabby (Lara Gilchrist) to allow Tracy and himself to adopt her baby, although Eric's connection to Gabby is kept secret from Tracy. Gabby agrees to let Eric and Tracy to adopt her unborn child as she is already late in her second trimester.
Jean Francis witnesses a mail-bag robbery by a criminal gang led by Rapson in which the mail-van driver is attacked and later dies in hospital. Initially willing to cooperate with the police, she is subsequently intimidated by the gang and will no longer talk about the incident. When Bob Meredith, a reporter who has fallen in love with her, introduces her to the murdered man's widow, Jean agrees to testify against the gang.
This film is a caper story set in the world of greyhound racing. Crooked dog trainer Frank Redfern tries to prevent Billy Grosvenor's dog, "Wild Boy", from running in the Greyhound Derby. But Billy outwits him.
Delger sets up a private investigation service as "the man who gets things done", and finds himself involved in London's vice world, in between sleeping with his two neighbours, prostitutes Elaine and Wendy, the latter a masseuse who "can't give a man a massage without turning him on".
