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.

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

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An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...

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

The burlesque and nonsensical biography of a singer, bohemian and broke, who falls in love with his ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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