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.

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

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

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

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

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

In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern...

This anthology film, whose Chinese title begins with a romantic name for human excrement, premiered ...

Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is ...

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed ...

When a precious little girl dies tragically of a rare heart condition, her grieving parents are left...

Three kids in a low-income neighborhood find friendship and community in an unlikely place.

La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her confli...

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

Struggling against the harsh realities of poverty, a devoted father, Mike reluctantly turns to burgl...

A poor neighborhood of Athens, Asyrmatos, is the center of the world for the people who live there a...

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog...

Years ago, the young Five Fingers fought for the rural town of Marseilles against brutal police oppr...

Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and...

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