Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts h...

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines...

Kirsty must survive an afternoon in the city centre until her accomodation can be arranged at a home...

One day, while Grigoris is working and singing at a construction site, a conductor, Vangelis, and tw...

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

Set in West Virginia during the 2014 Elk River chemical spill, a first-generation college student cl...

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and ...

Trash is a coming of age drama set amongst the poverty stricken trailer parks of the deep South. In ...

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York ...

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's...

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the nei...

The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of ...

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.

Filmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when ...

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's ...

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

A group of kids in a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican rural town need money to purchase baseball unifor...

Angela and Jessie are best friends intent on taking a wild beach trip, but when their roommate loses...

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “dri...

As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she ...