Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who...

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

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...

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation...

A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local...

Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow...

Young widow Li Jingqin is struggling to put her son Du Shaoxiong through school with her meagre income. Bullied by the landlady, Du spends his days...

A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school...

When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and...

The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by...

Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.

A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.

A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.

Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the...

In 1907, the miners in Sulitjelma in Fauske in Nordland made a famous rebellion against greedy mine owners.

Subjugated by power, the workers of a mining town organize clandestinely.

The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married...

While coal fires burn beneath a depressed mining town a greedy businessman stops at nothing to buy up the mineral rights.

In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.