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 his parents' death, construction worker Sigi doesn't know what to do with his life. He can't d...
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 ...
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He s...
After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage...
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...
Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines...
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm ...
Besieged by writer’s block and the crushing breakup with Tessa, Hardin travels to Portugal in search...
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of ...
A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of...
In a small, poor town, a young worker falls in love with an actress from a traveling theater troupe ...
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo h...
A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a s...
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and...
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central ...
Three lives of three young people intersect over the course of one summer. A rich student and a youn...
Lisa Conroy is general manager at a highway-side 'sports bar with curves', Double Whammies. She nurt...
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy ...