Salesmen Alan,Ian,Tim and the pushy Tony are on a plane on their way to a sales conference. Alan joins the mile high club with a model in the toilet but Tim is annoyed that he is two air miles short of joining the others in club class. On arrival in North Africa they decide to charter a plane rather than face a fifteen mile coach journey to the conference but the pilot collapses and dies and they crash land in the desert. After several efforts to try and get off the ground they decide to kill each other,unaware that they are not far from a beach resort.

Four salesmen Alan, Ian, Steve and Tim are on their way to a conference where only one of them is guaranteed promotion. There is much bickering, Steve is perpetually sick and gets put in the boot, the C.D. player jams and they have a run-in with a Range Rover driver. When the car breaks down in a snowstorm they wind up in a deserted cottage with a shotgun-wielding, diabetic woman.

The partisan Welichko is given the task of rescuing four Russian prisoners of war who are in one of the freight cars of a German train.

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

Aged 34, Wilco and Anja Drew decided to take a year out to travel the world. For Wilco, it meant turning his back on his own successful telecoms firm. For Anja, taking unpaid leave from her financial management position. Despite the risks, the plan was simple - pack a rucksack, head off for new adventures and enjoy some precious months by themselves. Or so they thought. The plans did not change, but the cast became a little larger. Two weeks after they adopted twin baby boys, they found out Anja was pregnant. Despite suddenly being a family of five, they were determined not to miss out on the fun. Ollie, Max and Freddie were all just about a year old when they set off.

The lawyer Emil Fencl (Otomar Krejca) has retired and returns from his countryside place of work to Prague, to his own villa inhabited by his nephews - Karel with his wife Jitka and the single Michal. On the train, he meets a pleasant criminologist named Kudrna (Karel Höger). Michal (Jan Tríska), a not too successful motorcycle racer, picks up his uncle at the railway station. From their conversation it becomes obvious that he is very jealous of Karel, a successful scientist who is soon to leave for a congress in the United States. Upon their arrival at the villa, there is a tragedy. Pressing the doorbell causes a gas explosion and a subsequent fire. Karel is found dead in his study. It seems that he himself took his life. The investigator, Captain Kudrna, finds out that Karel had just discovered the new element luridium and had no reason to commit suicide. Despite this, all attempts to prove foul play fail.

The offstage lives of four club performers who are staying in the same guest house and rubbing their illusions and disillusions together after-hours.

The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.

A gang forces rich men to donate to a charity and are betrayed by a Spanish member.