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.

Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central ...

A Marikina shoemaker's daughter coming to terms with her grief in the wake of her father's suicide.

In a small, poor town, a young worker falls in love with an actress from a traveling theater troupe ...

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy ...

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

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

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

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

Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of ...

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

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 ...

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

When Taeil gets hired as a tailor's assistant, he dreams of becoming a fully-fledged tailor to be ab...

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo h...

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

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

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

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

This anthology film, whose Chinese title begins with a romantic name for human excrement, premiered ...