Ada Harris ist verwitwet und hält sich im London der 50er-Jahre mit einem Job als Haushaltshilfe über Wasser. Große Sprünge kann sie also nicht machen. Eines Tages fällt ihr eine außergewöhnliche Robe von Christian Dior auf und es scheint, als hätte sich Ada in das Kleidungsstück verliebt. Sie beschließt, dass sie unbedingt auch so ein Kleid besitzen muss, koste es, was es wolle.
Welcome to the world of naturist cleaning. This documentary explores a unique twist on how some people handle their domestic chores. Hear from company owners and directors as well as clients and cleaners.
Eine Nocturne, eine Mischung aus Alltagsstudie und Märchen: Erzählt wird auf eine stimmungsvolle Weise, und mit Spannung und schrägem Humor von einem Bürogebäude, das bald abgerissen wird. Und von seinem letzten Wunsch: Dem Wunsch nach einer Liebesgeschichte. Das Haus sucht sich dafür die eigenwilligsten und unnahbarsten Personen aus – die Menschen, die in der Nacht im Gebäude arbeiten. Ein Kaleidoskop über Sehnsucht, Einsamkeit und Freiheit.
The film follows Jane, a live school girl who, in her attempts to get to her exam on time, is pressured into following a charity worker named Margaret into her office. When things take a turn for the worse, Jane has to lear to stand up for herself is she wants to get away from Margaret and arrive at her exam on time.
When tragedy strikes a vain and materialistic housewife, she is forced to re-evaluate her lifestyle and vows to put her privilege to good use by seeking out the right person to inherit her wealth under the guise of an elderly woman who needs assistance cleaning her home.
A laconic nurse gets sentenced to community service where she has to clean the filthy house of a wildly impulsive recluse.
A 45 your old African living in Australia from Burundi does not have an easy life. He does not speak English well, he has issues even doing his simple job as a cleaner as he does not understand what the boss Mathew wants from him at certain times. He rather puts all his hopes into the future of his two children, his teenage son Dieudonne and his little daughter Aline as he wants them to study hard to embrace Australian culture, but never forget their African roots and make a successful life. Dieudonne does not care about his father's desire, he's a known troublemaker at school. He misleads his father by telling him that he is doing remarkably well in his studies.
Loosely based on the classic story of Sleeping Beauty, this irreverent fairy tale for modern audiences follows a man named Moses, whose frequent seizures are characterized by the appearance of Glintentica, a spurned Goddess planning her return to earth. Problems arise when Glintentica becomes determined to take over the soul of David, Moses' new love interest.
Fausta is a survivor who dreams of building a house on land she's buying on the installment plan. Meanwhile she lives in a one-room tin-roofed hovel with her idle husband, João, and she works as a maid. Through it all she's a scourge, arguing, jeering and being jeered, but also displaying the spirit and energy of her idol, Tina Turner.
A cat and a dog lived together. They were very good friends, so when they saw that the floor in their house was dirty, they decided to clean up together. But an ordinary mop refused to deal with the task, so they have to wash and wipe the floor using each other. What will this novel idea lead to?
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.