A construction worker on a construction site in the Paris suburbs, Mehdi takes the bus to return home after work. Wishing to get off while the vehicle is stationary in a traffic jam, the driver refuses: while restarting, the bus hits the car in front of it. The bus driver attacks Mehdi whom he holds responsible for the incident, claiming that it is forbidden to “talk to the stagehand”. Mehdi is implicated in court and his lawyer tries to draw attention to the living conditions of immigrant workers.

Stanley, an aging fast food worker, prepares to work his final graveyard shift after 38 years. When ...

In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives...

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and ...

During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder ...

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert an...

The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the ...

A black saxophonist and small time crook is picked up by police on suspicion of murder. His problems...

A Samoan male, Sione, and a Palagi New Zealand female,Sarah, meet while studying at Wellington's Vic...

A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same m...

Harlem, 1943. Sonny is a struggling African American who frequents the bingo parlor in a desperate a...

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with...

Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going...

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the o...

A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the ...

At a creative firm somewhere in Stockholm, there's a short break in a meeting. Cecilia relates an an...

An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who live...

Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss T...

The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier N...

In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who...