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- DirectorBarbara KoppleStarsJohn L. LewisCarl HornNorman YarboroughA heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.
- DirectorJim JarmuschStarsAdam DriverGolshifteh FarahaniNellieA quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.A poet works as a busdriver i byen P. Det lille liv. Han skriver lidt....
The story starts on a Monday morning and ends the next Monday morning. It's the everyday. Writing poetry in a little book he carries around with him. Writing sitting in the bus. A character study of a clever, modest and gentle man, who spends his time registrering the everyday - with realism and humor.
men udgivelse mangler og på et tidspunkt smider hans kone det hele ud? - DirectorChristian Braad ThomsenStarsJon Bang CarlsenIrm HermannKai HolmA young politician returns home with his German wife to the village community of his childhood.
- DirectorMorten ArnfredStarsOle ErnstKaren-Lise MynsterAnna VallgårdaKnud is a pig farmer, and he lives with his wife, Katrine, and their two young children. But life gets tough when the problems start to pile up at the pig farm and in their private life.
- DirectorMiguel GomesStarsCrista AlfaiateMiguel GomesMartinho CerqueiraSome of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.
- DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsKanokporn TongaramMin OoJenjira PongpasThe story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border.
- DirectorZaza UrushadzeStarsLembit UlfsakElmo NüganenGiorgi NakashidzeIn 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man, Ivo, has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him in.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsSally HawkinsAlexis ZegermanSamuel RoukinA look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzMarcelo GomesStarsIrandhir SantosA geologist is sent to an isolated region in the Northeast of Brazil to survey water sources, but begins to feel a a sense of abandonment and loneliness.
- DirectorWang BingThe impact of the decline of heavy industry on workers and their families in the Tiexi district of Shenyang, China, at the turn of the 21st century, documented unflinchingly by a fly-on-the-wall camera.
- DirectorChristian Braad ThomsenStarsStig RamsingHelle RyslingeJohannes MarottThe postal worker Jesper is fired when it is discovered that he opens people's love letters. He is very much looking for love himself. His relationship, however, with the equally emotionally damaged psychology student Lilian leads to a disaster.
- DirectorPernilla AugustStarsNoomi RapaceOla RapaceOuti MäenpääA drama set in 1970s Sweden and centered on a young woman's experiences growing up in a home riddled with abuse and alcoholism.
- DirectorTamta GabrichidzeA traveling trader provides a window into rural life in the Republic of Georgia, where potatoes are currency and ambition is crushed by poverty.
- DirectorHerbert J. BibermanStarsJuan ChacónRosaura RevueltasWill GeerMexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they eventually triumph.
- DirectorSteven KnightStarsTom HardyOlivia ColmanRuth WilsonIvan Locke, a dedicated family man and successful construction manager, receives a phone call on the eve of the biggest challenge of his career that sets in motion a series of events that threaten his carefully cultivated existence.
- DirectorCarlos López EstradaStarsDaveed DiggsRafael CasalJanina GavankarWhile on probation, a man begins to re-evaluate his relationship with his volatile best friend.
- DirectorBo WiderbergStarsPeter SchildtKerstin TideliusRoland HedlundDuring a strike strike-breakers are being transported to Lunde, where they are assaulted by the strikers. The military are sent in. On the 14th May 1931 there is a confrontation between demonstrators and the military who open fire and five people are killed and five injured.
- DirectorSean BakerStarsBrooklynn PrinceBria VinaiteWillem DafoeSet over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World.
- DirectorPer FlyStarsJesper ChristensenMarius Sonne JanischefskaStine Holm JoensenKaj is an alcoholic living on the money the Danish state is providing him. Him and his friends spend their time drinking beer at a public bench. One day Kaj's life turns upside down when a young lady and her child moves in next to him.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsBrigitte MiraEl Hedi ben SalemBarbara ValentinA lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
- DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsSasha LaneShia LaBeoufRiley KeoughA teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellJohn CarradineAn Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
- DirectorStéphane BrizéStarsVincent LindonKarine de MirbeckMatthieu SchallerAt the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?
- DirectorAmir Hossein SaghafiStarsPejman BazeghiAmir AghaeeKamran Tafti"Death is My Profession" is about the struggle of people who have to accept any work offered to survive in a neglected society.
- DirectorOle RoosStarsJørgen RygSigrid Horne-RasmussenLone LindorffJørgen Ryg as the early retired Arntsen is at the very center of Sven Holm's play. Even though he is vulnerable and suffering from some mental illness issues, Arntsen is trying to cope and to keep up his dignity and spirit in his very own way. Only his old friend the laundress (Horne-Rasmussen) and his newly found love Mette (Lindorff) seem to understand him.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsAlex DescasMati DiopNicole DoguéThe relationship between a father and daughter is complicated by the arrival of a handsome young man.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsKris HitchenDebbie HoneywoodRhys McgowanHoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation.
- DirectorChloé ZhaoStarsJohn ReddyJashaun St. JohnIrene BedardWith an older brother in jail and living with their single mother on Pine Ridge Reservation, Johnny and his sister Jashuan's lives develop new challenges when their absentee cowboy father suddenly dies. The loss prompts Johnny to strike out for Los Angeles, but would mean leaving behind his beloved sister.
- DirectorGabriel MascaroStarsJuliano CazarréMaeve JinkingsJosinaldo AlvesIremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck used to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region's booming clothing industry.
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsMichael RedgraveTom CourtenayAvis BunnageA young thief takes up long-distance running when he is sent to a borstal.
- DirectorPedr JamesStarsAlun ArmstrongJean HeywoodElizabeth EstensenWhen a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to Conwy in Wales, the children understand life outside of Liverpool.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsCarol WhiteRay BrooksWinifred DennisA wedding. Happy and promising. A young couple, new to the ways of life. The joys of parenthood: A dream comes true. Then the first incident in a long, spiraling chain of events, and down they go. No job, no money. Moving from house to house, each smaller than the last. Hope is briefly found, But fate strikes again under a cruel word: Eviction. The family flees. A caravan is their shelter. But little did they know what was to come. Fire, destruction. Rage. Discrimination towards the poor. Hope is lost. The last straw is pulled. Distress. Separation. The family torn apart. Mother and children, father all alone. The ship can sink no lower. Or so they thought. Broke. Crushed. Chased from their last shelter. A mother clings to her children. And the final blow: children ripped from her loving arms.
- StarsMichael AngelisBernard HillAlan IgbonFive unemployed men would do anything just to have a job in Thatcher's Britain.
- DirectorMarijana JankovicStarsJesper ChristensenDejan CukicMarijana JankovicMAJA is a short film about a little girl, who just moved to a new country with her parents. Based on a true story.
- DirectorIsold UggadottirStarsKristín Þóra HaraldsdóttirBabetida SadjoPatrik Nökkvi PéturssonTwo women's lives will intersect while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategize to get their lives back on track.
- DirectorRichard EyreStarsTony HarrisonVisualisation of Tony Harrison's poem "v.". v. is about the multiple meanings of the letter - victory, versus, verses, etc. Starting from an incident in a Leeds' graveyard where the poet's parents' headstone has been defaced with graffiti,v. rises to a view of the divisions, antagonisms and aspirations within British society, and the poets own self.
- DirectorUrsula MeierStarsLéa SeydouxKacey Mottet KleinMartin CompstonA drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.
- DirectorFranz ErnstStarsPernille KløvedalMargit IversenSteen KaaløLone flees from a girls' home in Jutland, and goes to Copenhagen after a showdown. Here we follow her through various environments until she disappears into the city's throng.
- DirectorOle PalsboStarsMogens WiethKarin NellemoseAlbert LutherDepiction of the social democratic activist and politician Peter Sabroe, who in the time around the turn of the century went to fight for the oppressed, oppressed and abused existences.
- DirectorElio PetriStarsGian Maria VolontèMariangela MelatoGino PerniceA conscientious factory worker becomes embroiled in political activism after accidentally cutting off his finger while working a machine.
- DirectorSlatan DudowStarsHertha ThieleErnst BuschMartha WolterDuring Great Depression, a family is evicted from their apartment and with no other option they move to a tent camp called Kuhle Wampe.
- DirectorIlya KhrzhanovskiyJekaterina OertelStarsNatalia BerezhnayaOlga ShkabarnyaVladimir AzhippoNatasha works in the canteen of a secret Soviet research institute. She drinks a lot, likes to talk about love and embarks on an affair. State security intervenes. A tale of violence that is as radical as it is provocative.
- DirectorCarlos ReygadasStarsNatalia LópezPhil BurgersCarlos ReygadasA family lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. Although in an open marriage, their relationship begins to crumble when Esther falls in love with an American horse-breaker and Juan is unable to control his jealousy.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsSergio CastellittoTiziana LodatoFranco ScaldatiA photographer and the types of people he encounters.
- DirectorMarc MundenStarsJodie ComerArthur HughesStephen GrahamSarah seems to have found her calling working in a Liverpool care home where she has a special talent for connecting with the residents. Then, in March 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic hits.
- DirectorJulie LecoustreEmmanuel MarreStarsAdèle ExarchopoulosAlexandre PerrierMara TaquinCassandre (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is disconnected from life after the death of her mother, spending her days working on a budget airline, and having meaningless relationships.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsAmir JadidiMohsen TanabandehSahar GoldoostRahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned.En lille mand, en sød far, sidder inde fordi han ikke kan betale - er han blevet snydt? - og er på udgang, da han (måske) vil levere en takse tilbage og dermed hvirvles ind i et spinkelt spil om ære og ærværdighed, der hele tiden truer med a tvende sig mod ham selv. Alt smuldrer og hans stammende dreng forsøger at samle op, men kun de onde og mistroiske og magtfulde vinder. Selv de godgørende er enøjede. Hvor er systemet, som kan understøtte andet end moraliserende domme...?
- DirectorKasper Rune LarsenStarsJacob SkyggebjergSarah Juel WernerMorten LundgaardCille is pregnant and Tobias has discovered that his vocation in life is to become an actor; One that can entertain and bring joy to people around him. But the optimism of the young couple is challenged by an outside world that constantly seems to keep them from living their common dreams.
- DirectorBo WiderbergStarsThommy BerggrenAnja SchmidtKelvin MalaveAbout the life and death of the legendary Swedish/American agitator Joe Hill.