El viejo Donald Sullivan es un trabajador de la construcción que sigue siendo tan encantador, adulador y rebelde como cuando era joven. El mayor problema de Sully es que se niega a crecer, razón por la cual abandonó sus responsabilidades familiares.
Don Henderson, un ejecutivo de una importante cadena de restaurantes de comida rápida de California, tiene que afrontar un grave problema: debe averiguar cómo y por qué la carne de las hamburguesas más famosas de la empresa está contaminada. La respuesta no es fácil; así que decide abandonar su cómodo despacho para adentrarse en el mundo de los mataderos... Adaptación del libro de Eric Schlosser, que estuvo entre los best-sellers de las listas del New York Times.
Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) es un inmigrante ilegal en Londres, un nigeriano que trabaja como chófer de un minitaxi y como recepcionista en un hotel poco respetable. Comparte apartamento con Senay (Tautou), una orgullosa muchacha que busca refugiados turcos. El delicado equilibrio de su vida se rompe, sin embargo, cuando hace un descubrimiento asombroso en una de las habitaciones del hotel.
In New York City, Thom is broke and jobless, illegally working as a taxi driver. Claire is a successful business-woman, but personally she's in shambles - then comes the phone call that her estranged father is in the hospital. Not knowing what to do, Claire hops in Thom's cab and orders him to just drive and so he does. They find themselves in Pennsylvania and Claire makes the rash decision to drive across the country to California. On the road, there are many detours as the obstacles and secrets force them to learn about themselves and each other.
El río Óder separa no sólo dos ciudades y dos países, sino también dos mundos diferentes, dos formas de vivir. Un grupo de personas con sus defectos y equivocaciones, pero llenos de buenas intenciones, luchan por encontrar su camino en el confuso mundo que les ha tocado vivir: algunos lo harán en la luz y otros en la oscuridad.
El Cholo, a Peruvian taxi driver, flees from justice in his country and comes to Venezuela in search for a better future. After running into a gang of con-men who leave him penniless, he meets a peculiar group of Latin Americans who work for a gangster known as The Russian as hitmen. El Cholo is quickly trapped in a world of blood and ambition that makes him realize the true cost of life and death.
Cheaters and cheated, wage dumping and moonlighting – up close and personal with the labor market inspectors Frédy, Regula, Marcos, Stefan and Chrümu.
"The Last One Put Out the Light" - The Berlin construction workers Micha, Silvio and Norbert are out of work. The way out spells - Norway. Because over German craftsmen are in demand. The three with 17 other desperate people are bawling Norwegian and preparing themselves for "it's always just salmon" and fearing the darkness. Too bad that their wives have other plans.
Drama about a young Chinese girl who arrives in London to pursue her dreams, and the three men who fall for her. In order to study music, Lan Lan must marry her sponsor's son, for whom she has no affection. She eventually takes flight and befriends a Chinese engineer and his flatmate. Together they set up an illegal Chinese food takeaway, but as the business flourishes, the tensions in their relationship surface.
This film follows the lives of undocumented Vietnamese workers in Taiwan doing odd jobs to survive, after having been forced to flee their employers due to harsh working conditions and lack of medical care. How will living this way for more than a decade shape their lives?