Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny’s School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is…

An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist,…

The “Ladies Who Do” are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their…

Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends “forever and ever and can’t be parted for never and never”. Unfortunately,…

A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous…

The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.

When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world’s richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician,…

Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.

A stressed television producer and his unhappy lounge singer wife are growing tired of each other.

After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted…

After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pregnant. He then refuses to open his locks – causing barges to…