Visiting unemployed brothers Clack and Ged, social security inspector Mr. Hicks finds few reasons for sympathy. However, the tables are turned on the investigator: Clack defends Ged as 'a paying member of the welfare state' rather than a case for charity, and events take a sinister turn.
An intense court case involving divorce proceedings is adjourned for lunch. Husband and wife then discover they are both going to be eating in the same cafeteria.
The Ladies: Doreen
The Ladies: Joan
A professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardise his career.
A film by Alan Clarke for the 'The Company of Five' anthology series.
A middle aged man taunted by his young office colleagues about his bachelorhood turns to violence.
A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.
A coming-of-age story about the formative sexual experiences of a young man who has an unusual pastime – staking out a known gay beat and watching men hook up. His ritual is disrupted one day when the boy he fancies turns up looking for casual sex with a stranger. When this encounter goes awry, he finds himself up close and personal with his infatuation and discovers the gap between sex as it exists in his imagination and reality.
Set in a small Nagano village in the 1930s, the film follows Hanji, a young boy captivated by a local kabuki performance. Inspired by Yukio, Hanji learns kabuki with Utako. As they grow, they become skilled actors, performing in a final kabuki before World War II. After the war, Hanji returns to revive kabuki and restore the community’s spirit. In the 1980s, as he nears death, the villagers organise a final performance in his honour, where he performs “Tenryu Koishibuki” for Yukio.
Dr Viktoria Wex arrives in a town in Masuria. She is about to say goodbye to the uncle who raised her as a surrogate father. The letter she received suggests that he has decided to take his own life.
Eight-year-old Kirill has big problems: he struggles at school, his parents are boring, and he has nowhere to put his lame stray dog. In short, he is at odds with the whole world. Then he meets journalist Vadim, who is easy to get along with and interesting. Vadim's interest is genuine — after all, Kirill is named after his deceased friend.
About the first Komsomol members.
The story revolves around Suha, the spoiled and only daughter of her father and engaged to Essam. During a trip she falls from a hill and loses her eyesight, her fiancée abandons her. Suha loses confidence in herself and all the people around her, and refuses to proceed to do another surgery after the failure of the first one. Doctor Salah tries to persuade her and pressure her through Essam to agree to the operation.
Artist Adrian Jonas toils in preparation for the biggest gallery opening of his career. The creative process takes Adrian deep into the depths of his mind, where he begins to experience premonitions of a terrible fate that awaits his beloved Iliana. Adrian grows to suspect that a mysterious neighbor is the phantom who means to harm his wife.
A high school photographer breaks his own rules and falls in love with his teenage model.
Tommy Matisse, a gifted musician, undertakes an odyssey of self-discovery and tragedy in Melbourne's dance music scene.
An army major goes undercover as a college student. His mission is both professional and personal: to protect his general's daughter from a radical militant, and to find his estranged half-brother.