13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being prepared for the same hapless life. Can he defy his destiny?

The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Als...

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his ...

A lapsed alcoholic seeks help from someone he once helped get sober.

A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that bind...

After an extremely regrettable one night stand, two strangers wake up to find themselves snowed in a...

Ashley, a young man with a childlike mind arrives to stay with his uncle, David. Escaping from his a...

Debbie, a working class single mother from Leeds, moves her family to Bradford, where they find them...

Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposit...

A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920'...

When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend...

Office clerk Eero Koskinen prefers to spend his nights drinking and reminiscing the war with his fri...

Stig is a 15-year-old pupil of 37-year-old teacher Viola. He is attracted by her beauty and maturity...

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a b...

Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk....

Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he...

Buddy Amaral, a successful and self-absorbed Los Angeles advertising executive, switches airline tic...

Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedde...

When Rakel finds out she's six months pregnant after a one-night stand, her world changes. She is ab...

The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern Un...

A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood ...