Downhill follows the story of a schoolboy who is wrongly punished and expelled from school. He faces a series of misfortunes, including falling into a life of deception and adultery. The film explores themes of friendship, homoeroticism, and father-son relationships, all set against the backdrop of London and Paris.

Emperor Napoleon divorces his wife to marry an Austrian Queen and have an heir.

A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.

In Paris an Apache dancer weds his ex-fiancée's sister for revenge but learns to love.

Mr. Blackwell discovers a relic that informs him about Blythe (as Ayesha, or "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed"), who loved his father and others in the ancestral line. Blackwell accompanies pal Heinrich George and handyman Tom Reynolds to Arabia.

The head taxi dancer at a Tottenham dancehall blackmails a Lady to make her stop her son's affair with a poor but courageous dancer

Episodic misadventures of a man who thinks he is a knight.

A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.

Hessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English.

'The legend of the Wandering Jew, condemned to walk the earth until the Second Coming.' (British Film Institute)

A Lord's son is engaged to his rich ward, but prefers a peasant.

A padre, acting for a dying soldier, poses as the heir to a slum property and becomes a Labour MP.