Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, MARTIN EDEN is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university...

Portrays the story of a young man from a small mill town who claws his way to the top--any way he can.

A well meaning but socially awkward grocery clerk struggles with his troubled family and huge waistline as he seeks dignity, a higher purpose in life, and, at long last, a driver's license.

The Little Tramp is an oppressed assembly-line factory worker who is used as a guinea pig for his employer's test of a new "Automatic Feeding Machine". He battles it out with technology, unemployment, jail, burglars, demanding customers and bosses. In the midst of his tribulations, he meets up with the girl of his dreams, "The Gamin". They win some and lose more but, at the end, they walk undaunted into the sunrise.

Over the course of several hours, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric nuclear family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor. The film rates as a true discovery, one of Fassbinder's earliest and most tender experiments with the possibilities of melodrama....

Based on powerful true stories, The Mill continues its tale of British workers in 1838 at the time of the industrial revolution - a revolution that would build an empire for the bosses and a new world of unionized labor and the vote for the workers. First, there is much to be done. A girl afraid to stand up for her rights, young Esther Price (Kerrie Hayes) almost loses her job, but instead finds herself negotiating her freedom. Regardless, the future...

Young working-class Paul dreams of escaping his dreary existence in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh. Paul gets his chance by stealing some money and running off to glamorous New York City. Once there, Paul experiences everything he ever dreamed of, from a luxurious hotel suite to his first taste of champagne. However, when reality finally comes crashing down around him, Paul realizes the desperate course he must now take.

Despite all his efforts, 34-year-old Marty Piletti remains as shy and uncomfortable around women as the day he was born. So when he meets Clara, a lonely school teacher who's just as smitten with him as he is with her, Marty's on top of the world. When his friends and family continually find fault with Clara, Marty begins to question his newfound love until he discovers the strength and courage to follow his heart.

After spending four years in prison for killing his girlfriend, lumbering man-child Franz Biberkopf is finally released back into society. He wants to stay honest now he has left jail, but it is tough in the Alexanderplatz section of Berlin. After failing to succeed in several 'regular' jobs, he falls in with some old cohorts and an on-again, off-again association with thugs. Post-war society is crumbling, and it appears that nothing will bring it...