Toute la famille de Ki-taek est au chômage. Elle s’intéresse particulièrement au train de vie de la richissime famille Park. Mais un incident se produit et les deux familles se retrouvent mêlées, sans le savoir, à une bien étrange histoire…
Hirayama travaille à l'entretien des toilettes publiques de Tokyo et semble se satisfaire d'une vie simple. En dehors de sa routine quotidienne très structurée, il s'adonne à sa passion pour la musique et les livres. Il aime les arbres, et les prend en photo. Une série de rencontres inattendues révèlent peu à peu son passé. Une réflexion profondément émouvante et poétique sur la recherche de la beauté dans le monde quotidien qui nous entoure.
L'adaptation d'un jeune Ecossais tout juste sorti de prison à la vie des bas quartiers de Londres où il va trouver du travail comme manoeuvre et une petite amie avec laquelle il va tenter d'affronter les aléas de la vie citadine.
Dean est un charpentier veuf menant une vie simple avec ses 4 enfants. À la demande de Joanna Stayton, une milliardaire capricieuse vivant sur un yacht, il construit un placard en chêne pour ses innombrables paires de chaussures. Mais la riche cliente refuse de le payer en prétextant que le placard aurait dû être fabriqué en cèdre, et l'envoie à l'eau avec ses outils. Lorsque Dean apprend plus tard que Joanna est elle-même tombée à l'eau en cherchant sa bague et est depuis lors tombée amnésique, il décide de se faire passer pour son mari et de la faire s'occuper de ses enfants pendant un mois en compensation de l'argent qu'il aurait dû toucher...
Dans les années 50, attirée par la promesse d'un avenir meilleur, la jeune Eilis Lacey quitte son Irlande natale et sa famille pour tenter sa chance de l'autre côté de l'Atlantique. À New York, sa rencontre avec un jeune homme lui fait vite oublier le mal du pays... Mais lorsque son passé vient troubler son nouveau bonheur, Eilis se retrouve écartelée entre deux pays... et entre deux hommes.
À Stockholm, dans les années 1920, l'enfance mouvementée de Roland, jeune garçon indomptable et plein de malice, fils d'une féministe d'origine juive et d'un commerçant socialiste. D'une imagination débordante, quant à faire des blagues à son antisémite instituteur, astucieux au diable pour se faire de la menue monnaie et curieux de l'existence et de ses mystères comme un écureuil fouineur, le brave garnement fera l'apprentissage de la vie, envers et contre l'autorité des adultes...
Munie de ses luxueux bagages, Jasmine débarque de l'avion de New York, à San Francisco, et se retrouve désemparée, seule, à la porte de sa soeur Ginger. Lorsque celle-ci, accompagnée de ses deux fils, lui ouvre, Jasmine blêmit devant le mauvais goût de l'aménagement intérieur. Depuis que son mari, un financier de haut vol, s'est pendu dans sa cellule après avoir été arrêté par le FBI pour fraudes massives et abus de confiance, Jasmine a dégringolé du haut de son magnifique appartement de Park Avenue. Sans le sou, parlant seule à des inconnus ou dans le vide, elle n'a plus d'autre refuge que sa soeur, dont le nouveau petit ami, Chili, lui paraît d'une repoussante vulgarité…
Metello, un bel ouvrier d'origine paysanne, tente d'échapper à la misère. Il prend peu à peu conscience de sa condition sociale, et devient responsable syndical lors de la grande grève de 1902.
Évocation de la vie de Christy Brown, peintre et écrivain, frappe d'une paralysie spasmodique à la naissance, d’après ses Mémoires rédigés en 1954.
Doug Holt a quinze ans. Il vit avec une mère institutrice et Jacey, son frère aîné. Doug est un ami de longue date de Pamela Abbott, la fille de l'une des plus grandes fortunes de la ville. Quant à Jacey, il décide de monter sa propre affaire avec la très rebelle Eleanor Abbott dans le but monter dans l'échelle sociale. Mais M. Abbott, le patriarche, voit ça d'un mauvais œil.
Été 1969 : Buddy, 9 ans, sait parfaitement qui il est et à quel monde il appartient, celui de la classe ouvrière des quartiers nord de Belfast où il vit heureux, choyé et en sécurité. Mais vers la fin des années 60, alors que le premier homme pose le pied sur la Lune et que la chaleur du mois d’août se fait encore sentir, les rêves d’enfant de Buddy virent au cauchemar. La grogne sociale latente se transforme soudain en violence dans les rues du quartier. Buddy découvre le chaos et l’hystérie, un nouveau paysage urbain fait de barrières et de contrôles, et peuplé de bons et de méchants.
Une comédie musicale sombre plongeant un homme dans le cauchemar de l'infidélité vers la route de la rédemption.
Dans une petite ville britannique durant les années 1950, une femme médecin, le Dr. Jean Markham, développe une relation intime avec la mère de son jeune patient, à qui elle transmet sa passion pour les abeilles.
Billy Casper vit dans une petite ville minière du nord-est de l'Angleterre, à Barnsley, dans le Yorkshire. Il a une douzaine d'années et l'univers dans lequel il vit ne correspond pas à son attente. Sa mère ne s'occupe guère de lui son frère aîné Jude, le traite en souffre-douleur. Quelques petits travaux avant l'heure d'ouverture de l'école et de menus larcins lui procurent un peu d'argent de poche. A l'école, Billy est distrait, indiscipliné, entouré de camarades et de professeurs plus hostiles qu'amicaux.. Un jour, Billy déniche un jeune rapace; il vole alors dans une librairie un traité de fauconnerie et entreprend de dresser l'oiseau. Il se donne tout entier à cette tâche et lorsqu'un professeur, attentif, lui demande d'exposer à la classe l'art de dresser un faucon, Billy réussit à intéresser tous ses camarades...Mais le gamin a détourné une petite somme d'argent que son frère lui avait confiée pour jouer aux courses : Jude se vengera en tuant l'oiseau, le seul ami de l'enfant.
La radio a joué, dans les années trente, un rôle privilégié dans la vie de millions d'Américains. "Radio Days" est un hommage à cette ère légendaire. Ses héros sont une famille d'origine modeste dont chaque membre poursuit un rêve distinct, alimenté par l'écoute régulière de la radio.
Lucie Hill, femme d’affaires ambitieuse qui travaille pour une multinationale basée à Miami, aime le shopping et les belles chaussures. Lorsqu'elle se voit confier une mission temporaire au milieu de nul le part pour restructurer une usine, elle saute sur l'occasion, espérant une grosse promotion. Mais, à peine arrivée dans cette petite ville du Minnesota, elle se met à dos l’ensemble des employés et tout particulièrement le séduisant Ted. Ce jeune veuf qui bientôt la sauve d’un mauvais pas, réussira à la convaincre de s’ouvrir aux gens du coin. Bientôt, le regard qu'elle pose sur eux devient si bienveillant qu'elle tente de faire avorter sa mission première. Mais son employeur a déjà décidé de fermer l'usine.
A Bloomington, petite ville de l'Indiana, quatre adolescents issus de la classe ouvrière trompent leur ennui entre baignades dans une carrière abandonnée, bagarres et drague. L'un d'entre eux, passionné par le cyclisme et l'Italie, va participer à une course le mettant en rivalité avec des étudiants issus des milieux plus favorisés...
Life’s good for deliveryman Doug Heffernan, until his newly widowed father-in-law, Arthur, moves in with him and his wife Carrie. Doug is no longer the king of his domain, and instead of having a big screen television in his recently renovated basement, he now has a crazy old man.
Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.
The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help and find it in Steve, a young middle class lad who falls for Fiona, the oldest sibling, and increasingly finds himself drawn to this unconventional and unique family. Anarchic family life seen through the eyes of an exceptionally bright fifteen year old, who struggles to come of age in the context of his belligerent father, closeted brother, psychotic sister and internet porn star neighbors.
A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in suburban northern England. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way.
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.
Only Fools and Horses.... Is a British sitcom created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally transmitted on BBC One from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired until 2003. In working-class Peckham in south-east London, ambitious market trader Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter and his younger half-brother Rodney, explore their highs and lows in life, in particular their attempts to get rich. Initially not an immediate hit and receiving little promotion early on, it later achieved consistently high ratings, and the 1996 episode "Time on Our Hands" (originally billed as the series finale) holds the record for the biggest UK audience for a sitcom episode, attracting 24.3 million viewers. The series bears a significant influence on British culture, contributing several words and phrases to the English language.
A bus driver and his sewer worker friend struggle to strike it rich while their wives look on with weary patience. One of the most influential situation comedy television series in American history.
A working-class family struggles to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.
Jeff Foxworthy is a hardworking husband and father. Between paying his mortgage, running his heating and air company business and raising his precocious son, he learns what every self-respecting redneck knows: tractor pulls come and go, but family is forever!
What's Happening!! is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from August 5, 1976 to April 28, 1979. The show premiered as a summer series. With good ratings and reviews, and after the failure of several other shows on the network, What's Happening!! returned in November 1976 as a weekly series. It remained a regular show until 1979; ratings were modest. What's Happening!! was loosely based on the motion picture Cooley High, also written by Eric Monte.
On the Buses is a British comedy series created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1973. The writers' previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife were for the BBC, but the corporation rejected On the Buses, not seeing much comedy potential in a bus depot as a setting. The comedy partnership turned to a friend, Frank Muir, Head of Entertainment at London Weekend Television, who loved the idea; the show was accepted and despite a poor critical reception became a hit with viewers.
This English follows the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf, a reactionary working-class man who wields racist and anti-Socialist views. His long-suffering wife Else manages to keep things in control... for the most part. Their progressive daughter Rita lives with them, as does her Irish husband Mike, who, with an array of liberal worldviews, often quarrels with his father-in-law. It inspired the American show "All In The Family" and several other international variations on the same theme.
Matador is a Danish TV series produced and shown between 1978 and 1982. It is set in the fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947. It follows the lives of a range of characters from across the social spectrum, focusing specifically on the rivalry between the families of two businessmen: The banker Hans Christian Varnæs, an established local worthy, and social climber Mads Skjern, who arrives in town as the series opens. The name Matador was taken from the localised edition of the boardgame Monopoly, also the series' tentative English title. In addition, in contemporary Danish a "matador" is often used to describe a business tycoon, in the series referring to the character of Mads Skjern and his craftiness as a self-made entrepreneur. Directed by famed Danish film maker Erik Balling, Matador was the idea of author Lise Nørgaard who wrote the bulk of the episodes alongside Karen Smith, Jens Louis Petersen and Paul Hammerich. The series is one of the most well-known and popular examples of Danish television and represents the peak of longtime development of Danish TV drama by the public service channel Danmarks Radio. The series has become part of the modern self-understanding of Danes, partly because of its successful mix of melodrama and a distinct warm Danish humour in the depiction of characters, which were portrayed by a wide range of the most popular Danish actors at the time; but also not least because of its accurate portrayal of a turbulent Denmark from around the start of the Great Depression and through Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark in World War II.
The Rag Trade is a British television sitcom broadcast by the BBC between 1961 and 1963 and by LWT between 1977 and 1978. The scripts were by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, who later wrote Wild, Wild Women, Meet the Wife and On the Buses. Wild, Wild Women was a period variation of The Rag Trade. The action centred on a small clothing workshop, Fenner Fashions in London. Although run by Harold Fenner and Reg the foreman, the female workers are led by militant shop steward Paddy Fleming, ever ready to strike, with the catchphrase "Everybody out!" Other cast members included Sheila Hancock, Esma Reese Cannon, Wanda Ventham and Barbara Windsor. The Rag Trade was revived by ITV company LWT in 1977, with Jones and Karlin reprising their roles. The 1977 version ran for two series, most of the scripts being based on the BBC episodes from the 1960s, and featured Anna Karen and future EastEnders star Gillian Taylforth as factory workers. The theme tune for the LWT series was written and performed by Lynsey De Paul.
The Royle Family is a British sitcom created by Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, and produced by Granada Television for BBC Two (series 1) and BBC One (series 2 and 3). It centres on the lives of a television-fixated Manchester family, the Royles, comprising lazy patriarch Jim, his hard-working wife Barbara, their entitled daughter Denise, their put-upon son Antony, and Denise's lad fiancé–later husband–David.
Anthology drama following the lives and passions of neighbors on a northern English street.
Terry Collier and Bob Ferris are good friends. Terry was working class and secure in his life, whereas Bob was more aspirational, determined to work his way to a better place. Both viewed the others' worldview with disdain, but they were united by events, generally revolving around the pursuit of women. Although 20 total episodes were filmed, only 10 are currently known to survive. There is one missing from the first season, three from the second, and six from the final run.
Crocodile Shoes is a British 7-part television series made by the BBC and screened on BBC One in 1994. The series was written by and starred Jimmy Nail as a factory worker who becomes a country and western singer. A sequel, Crocodile Shoes II followed in 1996 and the theme tune "Country Boy" was a hit for Nail too.
Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Its theme tune, "Old Ned", was composed by Ron Grainer. The series was voted 15th in a 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It was remade in the US as Sanford and Son, in Sweden as Albert & Herbert and in the Netherlands as Stiefbeen en zoon. In 1972 a movie adaptation of the series, Steptoe and Son, was released in cinemas, with a second Steptoe and Son Ride Again in 1973.
Roc is an American comedy-drama television series which ran on Fox from August 1991 to May 1994. The series stars Charles S. Dutton as Baltimore garbage collector Roc Emerson and Ella Joyce as his wife Eleanor.
