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.

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

Director helmut Dietls and Patric Susskinds illustrate a legendary story of two lovers who cant keep...

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...

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

Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Min...

Francis has been living in his apartment for several years. However, his world quickly falls apart h...

Traffic is delayed on the edge of a roadwork site, but what are the council workers doing? A privile...

An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water...

Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriar...
It's official; class is back! Riots on the street, old-Etonians in government, a workforce on strike...

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he ...

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South Ame...

After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old ...

Set in 1972, Kanpur, the film focuses on just one family of four living in rather dilapidated condit...

In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives thr...

College freshman Sydney White arrives at Southern Atlantic University, determined to pledge her late...

Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to p...

Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her...

After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tri...