Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes a regular shop visitor, his working-class values collide with the bourgeois trappings of modern life.

After having a chance encounter with a mysterious character, Wendy, a young working class mother, di...

Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the si...

A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in h...

Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is ...

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Dan...

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish fa...

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for ...

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...

In Margate, England, life is not easy for teenager Sarah Taylor, between being bullied at school, be...

Before Nike, and Adidas, there was the Hi-Jo! Here is a Brooklyn tale set back in the day about a yo...

Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San...

After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage...

Lisa Conroy is general manager at a highway-side 'sports bar with curves', Double Whammies. She nurt...

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...

Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a frien...

La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her confli...

Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He s...

Maria has always managed to make ends meet running her cafe full-time until Caspian; her former love...

Popular in the riverside area of Porto, Micas raised her daughter, Madalena, at the cost of sacrific...

‘Moscou’ is a densely populated working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. Matt...