Upon his release from prison, an ex-convict returns to his beloved city of Genoa, and to his lover.

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

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

J and Jacky are good friends who attend the same school. J is from a single-parent family, and will ...
Documentary film about four families in Pori, Finland, all struggling with unemployment and poverty.

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

In a desperate attempt to make their voices heard by the government, two men and a woman, living in ...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcol...

In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selb...

Angie, a poverty-stricken young mother, is taking care of her son and alcoholic mother when she is e...

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

Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his par...

A poor fisherman and his girlfriend live in a small boat under an open sky for decades. Based on a t...
Psychoanalysis in El Barrio shows the experience of Latino psychoanalysts in the United States bring...

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in...

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his ...

In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to th...

A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he find...

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she re...