London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life ami...

Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of...

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a con...

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother...

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of wome...

Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture fra...

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

A housewife with the dream of becoming a writer is unhappy in her marriage and finds love in the arm...

A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate cha...

Helen, a London ad executive, is fired from her job and rushes out to catch a train, but, as she run...

In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmae...

The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, it's...

In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern Un...

The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obse...

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair ...

Rambabu, a cable operator, lives with his beloved wife Jyothi and two daughters. One day, his family...

In pre-revolution Cuba, Katey Miller is about to defy everyone's expectations. Instead of a parent-a...

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions...