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Parallax Pictures

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Titles

9 titles
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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

1995 · 1h 39m · Movie

When an English cartographer must tell a Welsh village that their mountain is only a hill, the offended community sets out to change that.

6.6
2
Land and Freedom

Land and Freedom

1995 · 1h 49m · Movie

David is an unemployed communist that comes to Spain in 1937 during the civil war to enroll the republicans and defend the democracy against the fascists. He makes friends between the soldiers.

7.5
3
I.D.

I.D.

1995 · 1h 47m · Movie

When a cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of hooligans, he finds himself being drawn to the other side.

7.3
4
Bread and Roses

Bread and Roses

2000 · 1h 50m · Movie

Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.

7.0
5
Raining Stones

Raining Stones

1993 · 1h 30m · Movie

This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and dete...

7.3
6
Riff-Raff

Riff-Raff

1991 · 1h 35m · Movie

The story of construction-worker Stevie and his unemployed pop-singer girlfriend shows the living conditions of the British poor class.

7.0
7
Ladybird Ladybird

Ladybird Ladybird

1994 · 1h 41m · Movie

Maggie, an unmarried mother of four children by four different men who abused her, leaves her kids home alone one night. A fire injures them and child services takes custody. Maggie fails to regain custody of her children.

7.4
8
Carla's Song

Carla's Song

1996 · 2h 7m · Movie

1987, love in time of war. Bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly-sad life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her family dispersed; she's suicidal. George take...

6.8
9
The Intended

The Intended

2002 · 1h 50m · Movie

A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.

5.8