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.
Fares, a shoe factory worker, has only one passion in life: football. He lives a humble life in a ch...
After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage...
Lisbon Story is Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postc...
Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines...
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the si...
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He s...
An idealistic high school graduate goes to work on a state farm on the Kazakh steppe, only to clash ...
La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her confli...
Milan, a Slovak working in Germany as a bricklayer, returns home to celebrate Christmas with his wif...
‘Moscou’ is a densely populated working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. Matt...
A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama withi...
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 the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Dan...
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy ...
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of ...
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and...
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she ...
Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in...