Historia de tres hermanos italoamericanos, los Carboni, que viven en un barrio marginal de Nueva York en 1946. Su único sueño es abandonar este conflictivo lugar para siempre. Cosmo (Sylvester Stallone) es un timador callejero de poca monta, pero lleno de extravagantes ideas para convertirse rápidamente en millonario. Su plan es convertir a su tosco pero bondadoso hermano, Víctor, repartidor de bloques de hielo, en un luchador profesional. Lenny, el tercer hermano, es un cínico veterano de guerra, herido en combate, que trabaja en una funeraria
La aburrida vida de un hombre en una floristería se ilumina al cultivar una planta cuyo apetito es por sangre humana.
Una serie de extraños asesinatos en la ciudad de Nueva York parece apuntar a un grupo de vagabundos grotescamente deformados que viven en las alcantarillas. Un policía valiente, un periodista fotográfico y su novia, y un vagabundo chiflado, que parece saber mucho sobre las criaturas, se unen para tratar de determinar qué son las criaturas y cómo detenerlas.
Monty Kessler se sentía orgulloso de sí mismo. Había estudiado en Harvard, acababa de escribir su tesis de fin de carrera y sólo ambicionaba ser alguien en la vida. Hasta que un día, accidentalmente, las casi cien páginas de su valioso trabajo cayeron en manos de un vagabundo y, para recuperarlas, se vio obligado a hacer con él un pacto bastante extraño.
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.
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".
A couple of bums watch many situations unfold at a home across the street.
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.
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.
In downtown Kansas City, a bunch of drunk bums get strangled with a radioactive chain of mutation.