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This talk will be devoted to our recent developments in the analysis of emerging models for complex flows. I will start from presenting a general PDE system describing two-fluid flows, for which we prove existence of global in time weak solutions for arbitrary large initial data. I will explain where the famous approach of Lions developed for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations fails and how to use a more direct, weighted Kolmogorov criterion to prove compactness of approximating sequences of solutions. Through a formal limit, I will link the two-fluid model to the constrained two-phase models. Applications of such models include modelling of granular flows, crowd motion, or shallow water flow through a channel. The last part of my talk will focus on the rigorous derivation of these models from the compressible Navier-Stokes equations via the vanishing singular pressure or viscosity limit.