Steve McQueen

Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.

Brandon is a 30-something man living in New York who is unable to manage his sex life. After his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment, Brandon's world spirals out of control. Shame examines the nature of need, how we live our lives and the experiences that shape us.