Cu o viziune amplă și complexă, Phillips explorează traiectoria lui Arthur Fleck, un individ ignorat de societate, cu o personalitate imprevizibilă și fascinantă, care nu poate fi inclus în niciun stereotip. Ce se obține este un studiu de personaj disprețuit de societate care devine nu doar un sumbru caz social; ci și o poveste moralizatoare. Robert de Niro apare în rolul unei gazde de talk-show care îl face pe Joker să își piardă mințile.
Termenul desemnează un hobby destul de bizar: tipi care stau cât e ziua de lungă pe peronul gării și notează sosirea și plecarea trenurilor. Noaptea, ei compară notițele cu cele din ziua precedentă, observă ce s-a schimbat în mersul trenurilor, îi sună pe ceilalți pentru a se ține la curent unii pe alții cu mișcările trenurilor. În argoul drogaților, se referă la urmele înțepăturilor de pe brațele lor, care se înșiră aidoma gărilor de-a lungul căilor ferate. Pentru a face și mai incredibil personajul interpretat de mine, am fost tentat la un moment dat să iau heroină. Apoi am renunțat. Efectele acestui drog sunt foarte bine descrise în romanul lui Irvine Welsh. - Ewan McGregor
After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them.
La început a fost o ocazie... apoi, o trădare. De atunci au trecut 20 de ani. S-au schimbat multe, dar tot atât de multe rămân neschimbate. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) revine în singurul loc pe care-l poate numi „acasă”. Ei îl aşteaptă: Spud, Sick Boy şi Begbie. Ceilalţi vechi prieteni ai săi îl aşteaptă şi ei: durerea, simţământul de pierdere, bucuria, răzbunarea, ura, prietenia, dragostea, dorul, teama, regretul, heroina, auto-distrugerea şi pericolul mortal, cu toţii stau aliniaţi pentru a-l întâmpina, gata să intre în horă.
Ricky, Abby și cei doi copii ai lor locuiesc la Newcastle. Sunt o familie puternică și au grijă unii de alții, chiar dacă se zbat în datorii. Rămas temporar fără loc de muncă, Ricky vede o șansă formidabilă atunci când se ivește ocazia să fie curier și șofer pe propria sa mașină. Abby, soția sa, îngrijitoare la domiciliu, îl ajută să-și împlinească visul vânzându-și propria mașină, astfel încât Ricky să își cumpere o autoutilitară și să devină șofer independent. Însă curând Ricky descoperă că trebuie să dea socoteală firmei de transport care îi repartizează cursele și îi controlează munca și, în final, viața sa și pe cea a familiei.
A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.
Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is desperate to maintain a dignified job.
This incredibly disturbing story follows the exploitation of an apprentice butcher, Hermógenes, and his trial after he murders his boss in broad daylight. Hermógenes, a farmhand from northern Argentina, relocates to Buenos Aires in search of a better life for himself and his young wife, but soon finds himself at the mercy of a corrupt boss. The film is based on a thorough investigation of a real event that happened in Buenos Aires 10 years ago. Almost every scene in the film is inspired by real facts or based on well documented daily practices of the “meat business” and its environment. Both a shocking exposé of unscrupulous practices in the meat industry and a heart-wrenching personal story, El Patrón became one of the most successful Argentine films of 2014.
Three people who have lost everything, a soldier tired of fighting, a young woman and a little girl, pose as a family to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka. They emigrate to France and settle in a chaotic neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris, where apparently the law no longer exists; but they, who barely know each other, struggle to survive there, even when the ghosts of war begin to haunt them again.
At the edge of Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, two women’s lives will intersect – for a brief moment – while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategize to get their lives back on track.
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.
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
The story of a young mother with a failed marriage behind her, who fights daily for her dream to open a hair salon, challenging her fate in an effort to free herself and gain independence and right to happiness.
In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization, their lives will never be the same. When the trusty British Rail sign is replaced by one reading East Midland Infrastructure, it is clear that there will be the inevitable winners and losers as downsizing and efficiency become the new buzzwords.
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.
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.
Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as Lorna is about to be granted Belgian citizenship, Claudy finds the strength to detox; this presents a problem not only for Lorna, but for the criminal who brokered the deal.
At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?
Through a haze of smoke, coke, and booze; possible futures, pasts, and presents coalesce chaos inside the mind of a man drifting directionless through life. When your future calls, what will you have to say?
Walter is a 60-year-old removal man for forced evictions. He recognizes in one of the tenants about to be evicted his estranged son, Jan. In order to help Jan, Walter has to confront not only his crooked boss but also his own past.