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.

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...

A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in h...

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

In Margate, England, life is not easy for teenager Sarah Taylor, between being bullied at school, be...

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

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

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 ...

After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage...

Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the si...

Gul is a famous singer, married to Captain Engin, who has studied law. Engin goes to Korea during th...

Popular in the riverside area of Porto, Micas raised her daughter, Madalena, at the cost of sacrific...

In a small, poor town, a young worker falls in love with an actress from a traveling theater troupe ...

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...

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...