Popular in the riverside area of Porto, Micas raised her daughter, Madalena, at the cost of sacrifice, as her father emigrated to Brazil. With a happy voice, Madalena works on unloading the coal, seeing her loves thwarted by her humble condition. Barata, another typical figure who makes a living from expedients, helps Madalena's father - meanwhile returned, to "register" her - in a kidnapping plan capable of facilitating her reconciliation with Micas, who is reluctant... Things get complicated, but happiness ends up triumphing.

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

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

A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that bind...

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

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

Gabriel and Iris head back to their family holiday home in Portugal with their daughters Emma and Zo...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

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

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish fa...

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

When Taeil gets hired as a tailor's assistant, he dreams of becoming a fully-fledged tailor to be ab...

Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her...

A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his ...

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...

In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, Will...

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...

A wanted thief buries his wife and takes his disabled son to an orphanage. He wants to escape the la...

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his ...

About sweeping love, rock & roll and getting rid of all that stale air of the fifties. You've got th...

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