German soldier Bernd Trautmann is taken prisoner in England towards the end of WWII. During a POW football match, the goalkeeper is noticed by Jack Friar, manager of an amateur club. Forced upon the team, Trautmann soon surprises on and off the field. Prejudice subsides, friendships start to develop and Trautmann lo...

Monique manages an Emmaus village in the South West of France. Then Jacques, the brother she hasn’t seen in years, turns up. He’s a good-for-nothing with only one thought in mind: becoming rich. More than a family reunion, what follows is a clash of two visions of the world.

A dilapidated industrial building stands in the outskirts of a provincial Russian town. Many of its workers have been employed before the change from state regulation to capitalist privatisation. When owner Kalugin (Andrey Smolyakov), a well-connected local oligarch, announces that the factory is bankrupt, a group o...