It’s a Free World… (2007)
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.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ken Loach
Actors: Colin Caughlin, David Doyle, Davoud Rastgou, Frank Gilhooley, Joe Siffleet, Juliet Ellis, Kierston Wareing, Leslaw Zurek, Maggie Russell, Raymond Mearns
Dead Presidents (1995)
Depicts a heist of old bills, retired from circulation and destined by the government to be “money to burn”. However, more broadly, it addresses the issues of Black Americans’ involvement…
Coco Chanel (2008)
Italian-French-British TV film targeting the US audience, about the fashion icon Coco Chanel. The film begins with the fashion goddess (deftly played by Shirley MacLaine) in her twilight years, steeped…
Upstream Color (2013)
A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
Joe Bell (2021)
The true story of a small town, working class father who embarks on a solo walk across the U.S. to crusade against bullying after his son is tormented in high…
Live Twice, Love Once (2019)
A retired academic teacher tries to find the love of his youth after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
West of Sunshine (2017)
A father has less than a day to pay back a debt to a violent loan shark, while looking after his young son.
The Yellow Scarf (2000)
The main character – a man who suffers from alcoholism – wants to change his tumultuous life. The day before Christmas Eve he receives a gift from his son –…
Calvary (2014)
After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
The Space Between (2011)
Montine McLeod, a world-weary flight attendant, and Omar Hassan, a prematurely wise 10-year-old Pakastani-American boy connect with one another amidst the chaos of September 11, 2001. When Montine discovers the…
The Opposite of Sex (1998)
A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.