Son Hak-su (Kim Seung-ho) is a middle school teacher who barely gets by on his income because he's paying off a monthly mortgage for his welfare housing facility sold by the government. One day, Mr. Son and his wife make the acquaintance of a U.S. immigrant Charlie Hong (Heo Chang-kang) who is engaged in the smuggling business.

When his wealthy grandfather finally dies, Jason Stevens fully expects to benefit when it comes to t...

Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wa...

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle w...

Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts a...

Struggling against the harsh realities of poverty, a devoted father, Mike reluctantly turns to burgl...

A poor fisherman and his girlfriend live in a small boat under an open sky for decades. Based on a t...

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and ...

A story about life adversities of an old emigrant who returns from America to his native village.

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed ...

In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete...

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Dan...

Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps, ...

"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his ...

Three kids in a low-income neighborhood find friendship and community in an unlikely place.

A poor neighborhood of Athens, Asyrmatos, is the center of the world for the people who live there a...

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to...

Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the myste...

Eun-jung, who is poor enough to buy a sanitary pad, leaves school without her father's knowledge and...