El Faber College es una Universidad privada de EE.UU, fundada a finales del siglo pasado por Emil Faber. Sin embargo, posee algunas características que la hacen diferente del resto, por su carácter especialmente clasista. Existen en su organización dos partes: la Casa Omega está integrada por estudiantes serios y estirados; los de la Casa Delta son todo lo contrario... Comedia que obtuvo un enorme éxito de taquilla en Estados Unidos; de hecho se mantuvo durante décadas como una de las películas más taquilleras.
Un hombre tranquilo y familiar es condenado a prisión tras causar un accidente que acaba con la vida de una persona. Para poder sobrevivir en la cárcel, tiene que convertirse en un hombre duro y asociarse con una peligrosa banda de gangsters.
Stanley, un anciano trabajador de la comida rápida, se prepara para trabajar en su último turno de noche después de 38 años. Cuando se le pide que entrene a su reemplazo, Jevon, el fin de semana de Stanley da un giro inesperado.
Ollie (Tessa Thompson) intenta salir adelante en la económicamente deprimida Little Woods, pero cuando su madre muere, se ve envuelta en la vida de su hermana Deb (Lily James), que tiene su propia crisis con un embarazo no deseado y un ex inútil (James Badge Dale).
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.
25-year-old Michael has been released from prison after a five-year sentence. He moves into a big apartment block, filled with young women who gladly have sex with him.
Claude Pierce, un niño inglés muy educado que vive en el sur de Manhattan, intenta ganarse la aceptación ante sus compañeros no tan bien educados, en la escuela.
In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks.
A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of crime?
A boy goes to see his probation officer.
Jimmy's uncle gives him 30 days probation on Kirk's ranch to control his temper or lose his inheritance. There he gets tangled up with a gang of robbers whose boss is his rival for Kirk's daughter. With one day left in his probation, they goad him into a fight.
North Philadelphia, PA – Kev, El and Andy are three men united by one struggle: they are trying to defy gravity. As part of the 700,000 prisoners released into society every year, they find themselves faced with a chilling outlook: 67% of ex-offenders re-offend within three years. What explains this invisible force that keeps former inmates in a seemingly unending cycle of incarceration? Filmed on the street over the course of two years, Pull of Gravity is an intimate portrait of these three men that confronts head-on the gritty details of lives cut short by poverty and drugs, where dealing is seen as the only route to economic prosperity, where using offers an escape from powerlessness, and where prison is too often the next stop. The film’s unfiltered lense captures its subjects as they lay bare their stories, fears, and tentative dreams.
Twenty-six year old Scott is living on the streets and trying to find his way back into society while on probation for petty crimes. He attempts to navigate his relationship with his two bit criminal of a boss and an enigmatic detective, while at the same time winning back the heart of his ex-girlfriend, a working single mom. Never having a mother or father himself, Scott discovers the true meaning of fatherhood.
Struggling with financial difficulties, Max meets his old friend, who suggests him a way to resolve them. Not expecting a dirty trick he finds himself in a situation that goes beyond his usual reality.