Az 59 éves Daniel Blake egész életében szorgalmasan dolgozott, asztalosként fizikai munkából élt. Egy szívroham miatt életében először tétlenségre ítélték, így a rehabilitációs idő alatt szociális segélyért kell folyamodnia. A brit egészségügy adminisztratív útvesztőjében bolyongva összebarátkozik egy hasonló szituációban lévő, kétgyerekes, egyedülálló anyukával, aki a szociális rendszer személytelen és kafkai útvesztőjében hasonlóan reménytelenül próbálja megtalálni a kiutat. Állása nincsen és egy szociális lakásban él két gyermekével, akiknek iskolába kell járniuk, ám ehhez ruhára és ételre van szükségük. A rendszer egyikükkel sem kegyes, és a bürokrácia lassan kezdi felőrölni az idegeiket, Daniel azonban nem adja fel, bármi áron segíteni akar.
Az ellentmondásos dokumentumfilmes, Michael Moore a Where to Invade Next című alkotásában annak próbál utánajárni, mit profitálhatna az Egyesült Államok más nemzetektől. Moore játékosan 'megszállja' ezeket az országokat, miközben a válaszokat keresi.
Two sisters share a disturbing family secret.
A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because they are under-age, their parents are against their relationship and try to separate them.
Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he discovers and shares in the solidarity felt by the destitute. –uniFrance
At the age of 8, Vaselinetjie is taken away by the Welfare and send to the orphanage. It's a strange, hard, dangerous world of rebel children, fierce house mothers,friends, first loves and where she finally finds true self-acceptance.
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead, he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.
A confrontation of two worlds-- Two rooms, one of which is full of light and colors, the other a monotonous gray.
An aging salesman is fired from his job after a long career in it. Broken, without much to look forward to, he tries reconnecting with his wife and kids who he had always put down as he dedicated himself to work.
A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold things together as their roles are reversed.
The movie follows Joe, a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers on Joe's problematic relationship with his on-off, sexually frustrated girlfriend. During the course of the day, Joe overdoses in front of an upper-class couple, attempts to fool Welfare into approving his methadone treatment by having Holly fake a pregnancy, and frustrates the women in his life with his drug-induced impotence.
With the looming threat of devastating welfare reforms known as Independence Credit, a full-time carer plots an audacious heist in a bid to halt the scheme in its tracks.
Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe.
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
A day in the life of a young Manhattanite who is in love with his mother, gives birth to $1890 from his hip, and kills indiscriminately.
A woman hoping to raise cash to pay for an operation to restore her blind brother's eyesight finds herself implicated in a nightclub murder.
Documentary by Andrew Buchanan illustrating a time when faith lay at the heart of the British Experience.
People on welfare are rarely heard. What do they go through? How do they feel? How do concerned social and welfare workers feel about the welfare system? What is welfare supposed to do? In this film, welfare recipients and social case workers talk about the problems of being "up against the system." Part of the "Challenge for Change" series.