Tutta la famiglia di Ki-taek è senza lavoro. Ki-taek è particolarmente interessata allo stile di vita della ricchissima famiglia Park. Un giorno, suo figlio riesce a farsi assumere dai Park e le due famiglie si ritrovano così intrecciate da una serie di eventi incontrollabili.
Hirayama conduce una vita semplice, scandita da una routine perfetta. Si dedica con cura e passione a tutte le attività della sua giornata, dal lavoro come addetto alle pulizie dei bagni pubblici di Tokyo all’amore per la musica, ai libri, alle piante, alla fotografia e a tutte le piccole cose a cui si può dedicare un sorriso. Nel ripetersi del quotidiano, una serie di incontri inaspettati rivela gradualmente qualcosa in più del suo passato.
Stevie arriva a Londra da Glasgow dopo un "intermezzo" passato in galera. A Londra trova lavoro in un cantiere. Trova un po' di solidarietà, un alloggio abusivo in cui vivere e anche una mezza fidanzata, aspirante cantante e tossicodipendente. Poi, il giorno in cui un suo compagno cade dall'impalcatura per colpa delle insufficienti misure di sicurezza, trova anche il coraggio di dare fuoco al cantiere.
Alla ricca Joanna non piace il lavoro che Dean Profitt, un rude carpentiere, ha fatto per lei e lo liquida malamente. Più tardi, partita per una crociera, l'antipatica miliardaria ha un incidente, finisce in mare ed è ritrovata sulla spiaggia priva di memoria. Profitt, vedovo e padre squattrinato di una banda di bimbi scalmanati, trova allora il modo di pareggiare i conti facendosi passare per suo marito.
Anno 1950. Eilis Lacey, una giovane immigrata irlandese si fa strada nella Brooklyn degli anni ‘50. Attratta dalla promessa dell’America, Eilis lascia l’Irlanda e le comodità della casa materna alla volta della costa di New York. L’inibizione iniziale dovuta alla nostalgia di casa scompare rapidamente con il coinvolgimento in una relazione che catapulta Eilis nel mondo affascinante e inebriante dell’amore. Presto però questo entusiasmo viene spento dal suo passato e la giovane si trova a dover scegliere tra due paesi differenti e le vite che essi comportano.
C'era una volta Jasmine, reginetta mondana di Park Avenue, sposata al carismatico Hal, uomo d'affari che la viziava e lusingava. Ma Hal era anche un truffatore e un fedifrago e la fine del loro matrimonio ha portato Jasmine alla bancarotta e all'esaurimento nervoso. Sola e in balìa degli antidepressivi, la donna si trasferisce a San Francisco per vivere con la sorella Ginger, che spinge ad essere più ambiziosa in amore, scatenando la reazione del fidanzato di lei, Chili.
Rimasto orfano Metello trova lavoro come muratore nel cantiere di un ex operaio diventato ingegnere che, dimentico delle sue origini, è diventato uno sfruttatore senza scrupoli. Arrestato per essersi scontrato con la forza pubblica, mandata a proibire una manifestazione in seguito alla morte di un muratore anarchico, all'uscita dal carcere trova ad aspettarlo Ersilia, la figlia dell'ingegnere. Nel frattempo a Firenze si è fatto strada l'ideale socialista e Metello, abbandonati gli anarchici, partecipa a una manifestazione per ottenere salari più decorosi.
A Dublino nel 1932, Christy Brown, appena nato, è vittima di una paralisi che gli impedisce di parlare e di muoversi: i medici al riguardo esternano pessimistiche previsioni sulla possibilità di sopravvivenza di Christy che, malgrado questo handicap, viene ben accettato da tutta la numerosa ma povera famiglia, composta dal padre muratore, dalla madre casalinga e da dodici fratelli. Con il trascorrere degli anni Christy sorprende i familiari per i suoi tentativi di comunicare con il piede sinistro, tramite il quale riesce a scrivere alcune parole e a dipingere. Successivamente, a diciassette anni, gli viene offerta l'occasione di essere curato dalla dottoressa Eileen Cole...
Nell'Irlanda del Nord di fine anni Sessanta, il giovane Buddy vive in contesto fatto di lotte della classe operaia, cambiamenti culturali e violenza settaria. Sogna un futuro che lo porterà lontano ma nel frattempo trova consolazione nei carismatici genitori e nei suoi arzilli e fiabeschi nonni.
Nell'Illinois degli anni cinquanta si intrecciano i rapporti tra la ricca famiglia Abbott e quella povera degli Holt, soprattutto quando i fratelli Jacey e Doug corteggiano le belle sorelle Abbott, ma tra le due famiglie si cela un segreto ben custodito.
Nick, operaio, costruisce e ripara ponti. È sposato con Kitty Kane, sarta, donna forte e gentile che gli ha dato tre figlie, ma ha preso una sbandata per la giovane Tula. Farà di tutto per venirne fuori.
La storia di Ovosodo racconta la vita di Piero partendo dalla sua infanzia fino alla paternità. Lo sfondo è la città natale del regista Paolo Virzi, Livorno.
Lucy Hill fa parte del consiglio di amministrazione di una grossa industria nel settore alimentare. Viene mandata a dirigere (ruolo a cui nessuno tiene) uno stabilimento in una cittadina del Minnesota che deve essere riconvertito con il dimezzamento del personale. La gente è accogliente ma ha abitudini strane per una donna in carriera che arriva da Miami e si ritrova a vivere nel freddo più intenso. Inoltre pretendono di accasarla con il rappresentante del sindacato in fabbrica. La prima tentazione è quella di tornare indietro ma progressivamente Lucy si appassiona alla vita locale fino a prendere le difese dei lavoratori.
La dottoressa Jean Markham torna nella città che aveva lasciato da adolescente per rilevare lo studio medico del defunto padre. Quando una rissa nel cortile della scuola fa finire Charlie nel suo ambulatorio, la dottoressa lo invita a visitare le arnie del suo giardino e a raccontare i suoi segreti alle api, come faceva lei un tempo. La nuova amicizia tra il ragazzo e l'apicoltrice porta sua madre Lydia nel mondo di Jean.
Siamo verso la fine degli anni Settanta. Dave, universitario di provincia, è un giovane molto originale per essere un americano: il suo idolo sportivo è infatti il campione italiano di ciclismo Felice Gimondi; nel tempo libero Dave ascolta musica lirica e suda sui pedali per emulare il grande modello. Egli sogna infatti di competere con ciclisti italiani e ci riesce: la realtà lo delude, ma non lo normalizza.
Rievocazione degli ultimi anni Trenta del Novecento in America, a New York, dove la radio imperava. Racconto di una famiglia di origine ebraica e del fortissimo rapporto con quella leggendaria finestra sul mondo.
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 working-class family struggles to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.
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.
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!
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.
Anthology drama following the lives and passions of neighbors on a northern English street.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 9 April 1974 on BBC1. It was the colour sequel to the mid-1960s hit The Likely Lads. It was created and written, as was its predecessor, by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. There were 26 television episodes over two series; and a subsequent 45-minute Christmas special was aired on 24 December 1974. The cast were reunited in 1975 for a BBC radio adaptation of series 1, transmitted on Radio 4 from July to October that year. In 1976, a feature film spin-off was made. Around the time of its release, however, Rodney Bewes and James Bolam fell out over a misunderstanding involving the press and have not spoken since. This long-suspected situation was finally confirmed by Bewes while promoting his autobiography in 2005. Unlike Bewes, Bolam is consistently reluctant to talk about the show, and has vetoed any attempt to revive his character.
The incredible misadventures of two handymen on the road and the extraordinary people they meet along the way.
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.
