Runaway sisters Isabel and Violet drift, grift and shoplift in the hopes of skipping town. But an ironic twist of fate on the eve of their great escape sees them stranded in the marshes, where they reckon with their relationship, futures and places in the world

Justine is a young woman with a fierce intelligence but an equally strong appetite for self-destruction. She finds herself suffocated within a world that makes little sense and where alcohol is the only escape from her view of a hopeless future. When she meets Rachel, the possibility of happiness, love and a future starts to emerge. But her pain goes deep and as the demons within her begin to surface, she wonders if she can allow herself to hope.

A teenager girl's accidental death incites a media frenzy and causes her harsh father to turn his rage against those he believes are responsible.

An American poet living in Berlin hopes to win a prestigious grant while dealing with her former relationships, a rival poet, and her own penchant for stealing things.

Osamu og hans familie er økonomisk trængt og må ty til butikstyverier for at overleve. En dag efter et tyveri møder Osamu og hans søn en lille pige i den bidende kulde. Osamus kone tøver først med at sige ja til at tage hende ind i familien, men hun går med til at tage sig af pigen, efter at have hørt om hendes trængsler. Familien synes at leve lykkeligt sammen, indtil en uforudset hændelse afslører skjulte hemmeligheder og tester de bånd, der forener dem …

I ugerne inden Los Angeles står i brand efter overfaldet på Rodney King i 1992, fortæller Kings historien om Millie Dunbar og hendes store plejefamilie. Millie prøver at holde sammen på familien i takt med at raceurolighederne stiger. Men det er umuligt at holde hadet ude.

Lucy is tired of being the perfect mother. When a department store security guard searches her stroller, he finds more than he could ever have imagined.

A frustrated shopkeeper's quick thinking helps him get the upper hand in battling a shoplifting epidemic.

Vienna in the late 90s. VHS footage reveals the video-diary of Markus and Ana, a young unemployed couple. Boredom and the need for an adrenaline fix pushes them into a spiral of theft, alcohol and drugs.

Manchester er en kæmpende fotograf med charme til overs, der falder for Noon, en sød, men spunky kvinde, der arbejder som konservator. Middag trækkes også til Manchester, og sammen nyder de et vildt entusiastisk seksuelt forhold, der afspejler deres uskyldige, men dybt lidenskabelige kærlighed til hinanden.

Chuck Peterson is a young slacker with big dreams. Disowned by his family and ignored by his peers, he diligently pursues his dreams of writing a fantastic children's book to become famous and strike it rich. But due to a bipolar disorder and lack of creative talent, he slums his way through life relying on small time scams to keep himself afloat. When his gangster roommate makes him an offer he can't refuse, Chuck immediately takes the chance to clear himself of all his debts. But things go from bad to worse when the plan makes Chuck a prime murder suspect among a plethora of pornographers and terrorists!

Joy is an emotionally damaged young woman of eighteen, who was given up at birth, to grow up in homes and with foster families. She lives on the fringes of society, getting by on benefits and earning a little extra by playing the accordion in the subway. In addition, she is a skilled shoplifter and has never been caught.

Samson and Delilah's world is small – an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, unwanted and alone they discover that life isn't always fair, but love never judges.

Teenagers Luke, Malachy, and Michelle embark on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shop-lifting and stealing cars. But what starts out as a game turns deadly serious when the three discover that they can't get off the wild ride they've set in motion.

Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.

When 12-year-old Elsi Björkman and her mother Paula return from a week's holiday abroad, Elsi immediately notices that someone has been in her room. She tells her mother about it, but she does not believe her. At the local supermarket Elsi meets Henry, who seems to spend his time returning shopping trolleys. Elsi does not know anything about the boy, who has an irritating habit of appearing from out of nowhere, only to disappear again, as if into thin air. Nevertheless, the children become friends.

Emily Brown is a kleptomaniac with a penchant for watches. She shoplifts and has an apartment full of things she doesn't need. Nick Ruiz is a department store loss prevention specialist who dislikes his job. He needs some fast cash to start his own private security business. One day Emily enters a department store and her compulsion to steal sets her in motion. Nick catches her on tape and instead of arresting her, he becomes intrigued and pursues her. After the two have become involved, Nick forces Emily to use her unique talent to bail him out of a bad situation. The outcome results in a climactic turn of events where justice plays its hand.

It is 1980. Sadatomo is at a secondary school in a small town. His parents barely take any notice of him. The strict teacher Kobayashi has hung up a 'humanity index' in the classroom, divided into the categories 'delinquents', 'scum' and 'people'. In each category he has hung name-cards of pupils. One day Kobayashi finds out that Sadatomo and his friends have stolen some things from a shop for fun. Their fathers are informed and as punishment, the children have to write a 'self-critical' essay of no less than thirty pages. For the first time, Sadatomo is beaten by his father. Shocked, he writes a piece entitled 'I am an onion', in which the teacher thinks he can detect a first sign of humanity. That is the start of a confusing situation in which it gets hard to distinguish lies, truth, justified self-criticism and opportunist wheeler dealing, even for the boys.

This follow-up to the 1989 documentary ONE YEAR IN A LIFE OF CRIME revisits three of the original subjects in New Jersey during a five-year period in the 1990s. We share in their triumphs and setbacks as they navigate lives of poverty, drug abuse, AIDS, and petty crime.

Nick Beam spiller den stressede reklamemand, som en dag kommer hjem fra arbejdet og finder sin kone i seng sammen med sin chef.

Deprimeret og chokeret sidder han fast i en bilkø, da næste katastrofe slår ned, han bliver overfaldet af den tossede røver T. Paul. I desperation kidnapper Nick røveren, og det umage par begiver sig ud på en komisk rejse spækket med røverier, biljagter og utrolige oplevelser. Under rejsen begynder tanken om hævn på sin kone og chef at forme sig, det hele får en meget komisk ende.