Chris, ktorého kvôli finančným problémom opusti manželka, sa stane slobodným otcom a zostane žiť len so svojim päťročným synom Christopherom. Všemožným spôsobom a s neuveriteľnou nádejou sa snaží nájsť si lepšie platenú pracú. Šťastie mu však stále unika a čoskoro sa obaja ocitnú na ulici. Napriek všetkým nástrahám osudu nepoľavuje vo svojej snahe a aj v ťažkých chvíľach zostava milujúcim a starostlivým otcom.
Animovaná dobrodružná komédia zo sveta hmyzu Mravec Z sa môže pochváliť pozoruhodnými vizuálnymi efektmi, originalitou a vtipom, ktorými si získala publikum aj kritikov. Mrave Z, služobným zaradením robotník-kopáč, trpí pocitom sebaobetovania sa záujmom mravčej kolónie aj tým, že sa nikto neobzerá jeho citmi a potrebami. Raz však náhodou stretne mravčiu princeznú Balu, zamiluje sa do nej a aby sa s ňou mohol znovu stretnúť, vymení si miesto s kamarátom, ktorý je vojak. Omylom sa tak dostane do bitky s termitmi, ako jediný ju prežije, ale napokon skončí na úteku čoby princeznin únosca. Tým si však na život a na smrť znepriatelí generála, ktorý sa po sobáši s princeznou chce zmocniť vlády a potom hodlá celé mravenisko vyhubiť. Po sérii dobrodružstiev vo vonkajšom svete sa Z vracia domov a konečne všetkým dokáže, že je ozajstný hrdina!
Tentokrát sa rozhodne tulák Charlie „oddať“ zlatej horúčke. Ide, ako mnoho ďalších mužov, na Aljašku, s víziou nájdenia zlata.
Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.
The American Dream becomes a nightmare for a group of undocumented day laborers hired by a wealthy couple. What they expect to be their biggest payday turns into a terrifying fight for survival.
A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bureaucracy, the sometimes brutal treatment from her peers and her own abusive family, and only one care worker sees her potential to rise above her tragic circumstances.
In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market. As he gets pulled deeper into the zone, he encounters growing hostility and the threat of robot cablers, and must choose to either help his fellow workers or to get rich and get out.
This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes...
In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been to England. He is always scheming, trying to get ahead, which lands him in a lot of hot water.
Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.
A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.
Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend, Rose. Taking advantage of the desperation of immigrants, Angie builds a successful business extremely quickly.
In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.
An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?
Jeong-eun is dispatched to a subcontracting company. She tries to fit in, but her co-workers aren't comfortable around her and she's completely new to field work. Despite all that, she wants to stay on for a year and then return to headquarters, no matter what. Thanks to a newbie's help, she slowly adjusts to her new workplace.
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer sells the company to a multinational company.