1991年法国杜维尔电影节观众奖
　　1991年圣丹斯电影节荧幕特别奖
　　1991年圣保罗国际电影节观众奖
　　高中辍学生玛利亚告诉家人自己怀孕后，父亲倒毙地上，母亲把她踢出家门，男朋友弃她而去。于是她孤零零一个人无家可归。此时她遇上马修。他是个修理电子器械很有天分的高中毕业生，但他有个原则：质量至上，这使得他每份工作都做不长久。当玛利亚接受了马修的帮助，他们便展开一段令彼此发生转变的关系……
　　When high school dropout Maria Coughlin announces her pregnancy to her parents, her father drops dead on the floor. Her mother kicks her out of the house and her boyfriend dumps her, so Maria is left alone and homeless. This is when she meets Matthew Slaughter. Matthew is an educated high school graduate with a great talent for fixing electronic devices, but he can't hang on to a job because of his principled attitude towards quality. When Maria accepts Matthew's offer to help her, they begin to form a relationship with each other in which both of them begin to change.

　　Marching Powder, which isn’t a sequel to The Football Factory but is inspired by a similar subject, follows the story of Jack (Danny Dyer), a middle aged, drug-taking football hooligan, who is arrested and given six weeks to turn his life around, or else face a long spell in prison. Juggling his marriage, his hard nut bully of a father-in-law and his wayward 25-year-old stepbrother, Kenny Boy, Jack tries to get his life back on track, but slowly his world starts to spiral out of control.

　　萨罗（戴夫·帕特尔 Dev Patel 饰）和妹妹、哥哥以及母亲过着相依为命的生活，虽然贫穷艰辛，但一家人在一起相互扶持，日子过得依然温暖而又充满了欢乐。一次偶然中，萨罗同哥哥在火车站走散了，误打误撞之中，萨罗登上了一列开往加尔各答的火车，在那里，萨罗成为了露宿街头的流浪儿，并最终被送进了收容所。
　　幸运的萨罗被来自澳大利亚的约翰（大卫·文翰 David Wenham 饰）和苏（妮可·基德曼 Nicole Kidman 饰）夫妇两收养了，在两人爱的教养下，萨罗成长为了前途无量的有为青年。在学校里，萨罗邂逅了名为露西（鲁妮·玛拉 Rooney Mara 饰）的女生，两人很快走到了一起。某次派对中，来自家乡的食物勾起了萨罗对过去的回忆，他萌生出了回到家乡寻找家人的念头。

　　盖尔（雷·温斯顿 Ray Winstone 饰）曾是一名在“职场”上叱咤风云的大盗，如今，早已远离了江湖的他和妻子迪迪（阿曼达·莱德曼 Amanda Redman 饰）在一幢山间别墅内过着闲适惬意的生活，在好友艾奇（Cavan Kendall 饰）和杰克（Julianne White 饰）的陪伴下，盖尔觉得当初的金盆洗手是一个正确的决定。
　　一位不速之客的到来终结了盖尔的平静生活，他的名字叫唐（本·金斯利 Ben Kingsley 饰），是盖尔曾经的合作伙伴。唐行事暴躁，个性阴晴不定，他就犹如一颗定时炸弹，让盖尔提心吊胆。盖尔最不愿意见到的事情还是发生了，原来，唐的此次到来有着他的目的，那就是重新将盖尔拉上贼船，他要干一笔大买卖——抢劫英格兰银行。