On the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society the Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break social taboos as they muddle through a life decided by factors beyond their control. At times shocking and laced with an unsettling humor, three episodes unfold as a powerful evocation of the experience of growing up in a Black Country council flat.

24-year-old Kjell feels trapped in his little village. One day he meets a mysterious young man named...

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumb...

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl...

1986 - The protest movement against the construction of the nuclear power plant in Brokdorf is on it...

When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polit...

Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most con...

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of...

In a small, poor town, a young worker falls in love with an actress from a traveling theater troupe ...

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two ...

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bun...

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...

Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their un...

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in purs...

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous wit...

A single dad looks to give up drinking and his bartender job in order to impress his son and find wo...

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbri...