Chris Gardner é um vendedor, que apesar do seu talento, luta desesperadamente por conseguir sustentar a família. A mulher acaba por deixá-lo sozinho com o filho de cinco anos e Chris decide aceitar um estágio não remunerado numa conceituada empresa, na esperança de conseguir emprego no final. No entanto, as suas dívidas levam a que os dois sejam despejados do apartamento onde vivem e tenham de recorrer a todos os refúgios possíveis para passar a noite...
Numa isolada abadia beneditina italiana, em plena Idade Média, um importante debate teológico está prestes a acontecer e aguardam-se os enviados do Papa. No entanto, os monges começam a morrer misteriosa e grotescamente. Enquanto todos acreditam que o Diabo anda à solta, o enviado franciscano Frei Guilherme de Baskerville tenta usar a lógica para descobrir o que anda a matá-los.
Após uma noite de farra, Bill Dancer (James Belushi) encontra na porta de sua casa um bebê abandonado. Ele faz o que pode para criá-la e, 9 anos depois, Curly Sue (Alisan Porter) o ajuda em seus pequenos golpes. Os dois vivem mudando de cidade e, ao chegarem em Chicago, tentam aplicar um golpe em Grey Ellison (Kelly Lynch), uma conhecida executiva de uma empresa de advocacia. Eles fazem com que Grey pense que atropelou Bill, visando ganhar um jantar, mas ela acaba se envolvendo com ambos e muda suas vidas.
Taranto é uma cidade cercada por arame farpado e governada por organizações criminosas. Dois amigos tentam ganhar a vida nesse mundo hostil e acabam se unindo a uma gangue local.
Fate plays a vital role in connecting the life of Bantu, a son who seeks validation from his cold-hearted father with the life of Raj, whose millionaire father wishes that he was more assertive.
Um ácido e divertido retrato da mecânica da sociedade de consumo. Acompanhando a trajetória de um simples tomate, desde a plantação até ser jogado fora, o curta escancara o processo de geração de riqueza e as desigualdades que surgem no meio do caminho.
Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority – while also looking back on his own life of activism and political participation. He provides penetrating insight into what may well be the lasting legacy of our time – the death of the middle class, and swan song of functioning democracy.
U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich tries to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap.
The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.
The economy has collapsed. In a universe of moral and economic impoverishment, we find Flavia, a spoiled teenager with artistic aspirations that are somewhat frustrated when she is not accepted at the University. Her neighbor Martin, a mature man with rigid routines, is her antipode. When Flavia meets Martin, there are sparks of friction at all times, and the situation is unlikely to get any better.
Documentary feature film that follows the personal stories of families struggling in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Filmed over the course of one winter in one American city, the film presents an intimate snapshot of the state of the nation's economy as it is playing out in millions of American families, and highlights the human consequences of the decline of the middle class and the fracturing of the American Dream
Latest example of Spanish "neokinki" cinema, which was popular in the late seventies/early eighties, right after the end of Franco's dictatorship. Destructured families of low social classes are the perfect environment for delinquency, drugs, violence and broken lives.
Jharia, India, one of the most dangerous places on earth. Fires rage underground, smoke and dangerous fumes belch from cracks in the ground. This is the home of Anant, an 8 year old boy who scrapes a living picking coal and selling it at the local markets to try and feed himself and his sick mother. One day, a chance encounter changes Anant's life, forever. This is a coming of age drama that casts a spotlight on a humanitarian disaster area and gives us a chance to see the world through the eyes of one of India's many child labourers.
A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had.
America is in the midst of the Great Depression, and the Kamp family is struggling to get by, especially since Mrs. Kamp’s untimely death nearly a year ago. The older children do their best to take care of the family, but it’s the younger children—Hopalong Cassidy fan Norman and straight-talking little Ruthie—who struggle most. Now, with their mother gone and their father overwhelmed by doctor bills from young Norman’s battle with polio, the Kamp siblings fully expect a Christmas without presents. But when William scrapes together a dollar in coins to use for Christmas gifts, everything begins to change.
Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the bait. But what if Millicent starts to fancy planted chauffeur John instead, and Gaspar takes a shine to Etienne's secretary Janine?
The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced persons in Kabul—struggles to balance his dreams of being the first from his tribe to join the Afghan National Army with the responsibilities of starting a family. Even as Shaista’s love for Benazir is palpable, the choices he must make to build a life with her have profound consequences.
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
Esthappan is a fisherman, who lives in a seashore colony. His story unfolds through narrations by other fishermen about his miraculous acts. Through the contradictory statements of these people, a mystical figure of Esthappan unfolds.
Fender is a lowly clerk in the warehouse of clothing manufacturers Ranting and Co. His one ambition is to have an overcoat of his own. Refused one by the cold hearted Ranting he asks a tailor friend, Morry, to make him one instead, but dies of cold before he can take delivery of it. Unwilling to give up his only desire even in death, he returns as a ghost to persuade Morry to steal him the overcoat he so coveted in life.