The folks who populate the rundown hotel in this story have all come there from someplace which offered a modicum of hope. Gloria, who runs the place, earns most of her money as a stripper. She lives there with her two daughters and a son with an untreated brain tumor. Charlie, who is forever in and out of jail, is Gloria's sometime lover. A recent check-in is there hoping she can work up the courage to commit suicide, since her rich doctor husband ran off and left her. Another resident is Tim, who keeps company with his dog and his booze in equal measure. A schoolteacher comes by from time to time, hoping to do these people some good, but in choosing this lot to work with, she proves to be just as much of a loser as the rest of them.

A widower from Bankhead, Russell Savage, is diligently running to become the youngest Mayor in the history of Atlanta. His opponent is August King, the man who has raised Russell and his brother as his own since they were kids. But when the beautiful Avery Long joins the campaign, Russell finds himself fighting to sustain everything he's worked for including his campaign for Mayor, and his life.

Tommaso cultivates other dreams: finding a job, buying himself a scooter, living in Brindisi, a city dominated by the moloch of the oil chemical plant.

An exotic dancing girl of India inflames the passions of a traveling draftsman.

Inspired by the classic books by L. Frank Baum and Alexander Volkov

A Fairytale of the City explores both the light and dark shades of human experience. You will be taken on the journey of a raw, luminous Girl fleeing from the cruel confines of her childhood past. The beautiful imagery of this film and its intriguing characters both disturbs and delights; it's a magical piece of art.

A story of an uptown girl who must journey to Bangkok to search for work and there, confronts difficulties from selfish people. How is she going to navigate her life around this new environment?

When Stephen Fry was offered the Freedom of the City of London , he had no idea what it meant – besides apparently being able to drive goats over Tower Bridge. Fry lives in the West End of London, but admitted the City seemed like a foreign country to him. “The whole thing set me out on a course of thinking,” Fry said, in this one-off ITV documentary, “If I’m going to accept this honour, I want to penetrate the City of London.”（Telegraph）

When Stephen Fry was offered the Freedom of the City of London , he had no idea what it meant – besides apparently being able to drive goats over Tower Bridge. Fry lives in the West End of London, but admitted the City seemed like a foreign country to him. “The whole thing set me out on a course of thinking,” Fry said, in this one-off ITV documentary, “If I’m going to accept this honour, I want to penetrate the City of London.”（Telegraph）

Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.