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.

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

On an isolated farm, a woman finds an injured and frightened woman in her old chicken coop. Moved by...

Maria José's life story reveals not only the harsh reality she and her family faced, but also a port...

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

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

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

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

Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat fru...

Three lives of three young people intersect over the course of one summer. A rich student and a youn...

‘Moscou’ is a densely populated working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. Matt...

An unsettling mystery about desperation and class divisions in the age of digital capitalism.

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy ...

Eternal daydreamer Mel can't wait to quit her sucky catering job and fly to her dream destination: P...

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

After having a chance encounter with a mysterious character, Wendy, a young working class mother, di...

Set in West Virginia during the 2014 Elk River chemical spill, a first-generation college student cl...

Ironworker Nick lives with his wife, Kitty, and three daughters. When he meets a significantly young...

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

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

In the 1990s, a long time TV host from the Azores Islands comes to terms with his career's end in a ...