A rebellious youth sentenced to a reformatory for robbing a bakery rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary runs, reveries of his life and times before his incarceration lead him to re-evaluate his privileged status as a prized athlete.
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence—until tragedy strikes.
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.
Engelsk drama fra 1960. En ung og overbevisende Albert Finney spiller Arthur Seaton - en ung, stædig og hårdhudet fabriksarbejder, som kun lever for weekenderne, hvor han i en tåge af druk og sex med tilfældige kvinder kan glemme sit triste og udsigtsløse liv, som truer med at opsluge ham. Da en affære med hans bedste vens kone ender i en katastrofe, må han tage sit heftige liv op til overvejelse.
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
Lindsay Andersons film fra 1963 er en af de sidste af betydning fra perioden omkring "The British New Wave". Den foregår i Nordengland og følger en ung rugbyspiller (Richard Harris), hvis romantiske liv ikke helt er på højde med hans sportspræstationer. Kynisk går han efter at blive stjerne på det lokale hold, men samtidig forhindrer hans vrede natur ham i at komme tæt ind på livet af sin værtinde, som han egentlig gerne så som kvinden i sit liv.
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.
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career seems to have plateaued, leaving him disillusioned. This feeling is only exacerbated when he discovers his wife's infidelity with local man Mark. So he takes up with attractive TV host Norah and moves with her to London, aiming to reignite the fire that drove him to the top.
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.
A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure--if that.
En streng arbejder holder sin familie i kort snor, mens hans kone kører familien på et stramt budget, men deres fire børn udfordrer deres autoritet.
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.
Based on the Alan Sillitoe short story. Tony, a worker at a cheese factory, is also a petty thief. He moves from robbery after robbery until he meets Doris, the daughter of the local ragman. Slowly, he falls in love with her and must decide whether he will stay a thief or start a new life with Doris.
The parallel stories of two couples in crises and their connections to a drowned woman found in a river.
A surreal musical exploring the problems of the multicultural residents in a Notting Hill boarding house.
Christine is a pasty-faced teen in a windbreaker and ill-fitting striped shirt who walks endlessly from one friend's house to another, delivering heroin while their parents are absent.
Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child. There is not enough work and he is eventually forced to emigrate after many hardships.