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In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
Archie Rice (Laurence Olivier), trzeciorzędny artysta wodewilowy występuje na scenie teatrzyku w obskurnej nadmorskiej miejscowości. Podstarzały gwiazdor nie może pogodzić się z faktem, że publiczność przestała przychodzić na jego spektakle.
Za wszelką cenę nadal pragnie być podziwiany i wielbiony. Prywatne życie Rice'a jest równie nieudane jak jego teatralna kariera: zrezygnowana i zgorzkniała żona (Brenda de Banzie), nie mogąc dłużej znosić samolubnego i zadufanego w sobie męża szuka zapomnienia w alkoholu. Pewnego dnia Rice poznaje atrakcyjną nastoletnią Tinę (Shirley Anne Field). Obiecuje zamożnym rodzicom dziewczyny, że zapewni jej główną rolę w nowej rewii.
Osiemnastoletni Colin Smith trafia do domu poprawczego. Sportowa gwiazda zakładu, mistrz długich dystansów dostrzegając fałsz i zakłamanie w codziennych postawach tak i wychowawców, jak i wychowanków, buntuje się przeciw zastałemu porządkowi. "Uważam, że postać Colina to ja sam. Jego samotność jest taka sama jak moja - samotność artysty, który musi walczyć, albo zaprzedać się" - powiedział Alan Sillitoe.
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Jo is a neglected 16-year-old girl whose promiscuous mother marries a dandy. Jo gets pregnant after a tryst with a black cook, who leaves her over his impending responsibilities of fatherhood, and she only finds support in a gay male friend.
A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure--if that.
Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her old flame drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he doesn't want to go out with her, she lies and tells him that she is just babysitting the kids. This will be her first date in years.
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career seems to have plateaued, leaving him disillusioned. This feeling is only exacerbated when he discovers his wife's infidelity with local man Mark. So he takes up with attractive TV host Norah and moves with her to London, aiming to reignite the fire that drove him to the top.
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life.
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.
A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton, England.
Christine is a pasty-faced teen in a windbreaker and ill-fitting striped shirt who walks endlessly from one friend's house to another, delivering heroin while their parents are absent.
After 8 years survival on a beach, Rose returns to her hometown to settle unfinished business.
The parallel stories of two couples in crises and their connections to a drowned woman found in a river.
Based on the Alan Sillitoe short story. Tony, a worker at a cheese factory, is also a petty thief. He moves from robbery after robbery until he meets Doris, the daughter of the local ragman. Slowly, he falls in love with her and must decide whether he will stay a thief or start a new life with Doris.
Daimi is 12 years. It's Christmas, and she has tragically been left in a dark home with her only friend, a pet pig. Daimi's imagination overshadows reality. A reality she realizes with a scream. Daimi is not as alone as she thinks.