The story is about the soul-searching of those people leading small lives, searching for little happiness, only to fall into big predicaments. Based upon the logic of "winning-and-losing", these soul-searchings are directed towards their loved ones, towards life in general but, most importantly, towards themselves. Needless to say, as usual, it is a woman who suffers most within these patriarchal soul-searchings.
The story is about the soul-searching of those people leading small lives, searching for little happiness, only to fall into big predicaments. Based upon the logic of "winning-and-losing", these soul-searchings are directed towards their loved ones, towards life in general but, most importantly, towards themselves. Needless to say, as usual, it is a woman who suffers most within these patriarchal soul-searchings.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
เฮเลน มีร์เรนรับบทแม่ผู้ฉลาดหลักแหลมที่กำลังป่วย ซึ่งวางแผนอำลาครั้งสุดท้ายตามเงื่อนไขของเธอเอง ในภาพยนตร์สะเทือนอารมณ์ ฝีมือการกำกับเรื่องแรกของเคท วินสเล็ต
A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents for different reasons, they are sent back to their father's house in their poor village. Deprived of their dreams of a better life, they try to hold on to each other.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
ในปี 1977 เด็กสาวคนหนึ่งถูกจับตัวไปขังไว้ในกล่องขนาดเท่าโลงศพ เมื่อผู้คุมขังปล่อยเธอออกมา ก็มีเพียงการทำร้ายเธออย่างโหดร้าย เธอจะหนีรอดไปได้หรือไม่
A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.
เรือประมงของกลุ่มเพื่อนล่มนอกชายฝั่งเม็กซิโก ทำให้พวกเขาต้องติดอยู่กลางทะเลเพียงลำพังและดิ้นรนเพื่อเอาชีวิตรอด