In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.

Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down lif...

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expe...

Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. The...

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling...

The various faces of youth and people in an enclosed space of a convenience store for 12 hours.

Eternal daydreamer Mel can't wait to quit her sucky catering job and fly to her dream destination: P...

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of h...

Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat fru...

Forced by her poor father to live with a well-off man, a young girl must find a way to escape her ne...

Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a rom...

17-year-old Guido suffers since his early childhood from neurodermatitis. After being taken to the h...

In the 1990s, a long time TV host from the Azores Islands comes to terms with his career's end in a ...

Gustav Hartmann is in trouble. Because of the new taxis he doesn't get many passengers in his horse-...

This comic drama examines the relationships and addictions of a group of twenty-something friends wi...

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her ...

A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't ...

Ex Con Armstrong Cane (Ving Rhames) returns to home a changed man looking to take over his father's ...

Gabriel and Iris head back to their family holiday home in Portugal with their daughters Emma and Zo...

A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there...