John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the Embankment Fellowship Centre, a charity that provides hostelling, retraining and help finding work for men in his position.
Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines...
One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, ...
"The Last One Put Out the Light" - The Berlin construction workers Micha, Silvio and Norbert are ou...
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As ...
Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. Howeve...
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his ru...
Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime afte...
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri,...
Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and th...
Vicente Ferrer traveled to India in his youth as a member of a Jesuit mission. Years later, he retur...
A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from...
A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfr...
A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite mea...
In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redund...
An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up...
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for ...
Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her...
Sylvain, an Afghan veteran living off of petty crime, crosses paths with Nathalie, an upper-class CE...