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.

Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. The...

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

A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband...

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

Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky...

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

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

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

Helen's mundane life at the chicken factory takes an unexpected turn with Joanne's return. They were...

A photographer travels around Portugal, Madrid and LA and finds a bunch of exquisite characters.

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

Irene is a lonely 50-year-old ornithologist who, during secret research in the rainforest, immerses ...