Movies: Working class

  • 1993
    The Slingshot

    The Slingshot (1993)

    The Slingshot

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    Stockholm in the 1920s. Young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother and a boxing brother. His mother sells condoms illegally, and from them, Roland makes slingshots which he sells. His rebellious ways has gotten him the special attent...

    The Slingshot
  • 2013
    Nobody Owns Me

    Nobody Owns Me (2013)

    Nobody Owns Me

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    The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden....

    Nobody Owns Me
  • 1961
    A Taste of Honey

    A Taste of Honey (1961)

    A Taste of Honey

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    While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual....

    A Taste of Honey
  • 1983
    Meantime

    Meantime (1983)

    Meantime

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    A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working; father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, a timid, chronically s...

    Meantime
  • 1964
    Seance on a Wet Afternoon

    Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)

    Seance on a Wet Afternoon

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    Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psych...

    Seance on a Wet Afternoon
  • 1971
    The Working Class Goes to Heaven

    The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)

    The Working Class Goes to Heaven

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    After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups....

    The Working Class Goes to Heaven
  • 2000
    Here on Earth

    Here on Earth (2000)

    Here on Earth

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    Three lives of three young people intersect over the course of one summer. A rich student and a young working-class man accidentally destroy a diner when their impromptu road race takes a disastrous turn. Ordered by a judge to spend the summer repair...

    Here on Earth
  • 2020
    Flowers And Rain

    Flowers And Rain (2020)

    Flowers And Rain

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    Childhood was complicated for Yoshida and he faces Japanese society as an outsider after his return from London alongside his parents. He feels displaced and frustrated, but soon finds new strength through hip-hop. Under the name of SEEDA, he starts ...

    Flowers And Rain
  • 1954
    Illusion Travels by Streetcar

    Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1954)

    Illusion Travels by Streetcar

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    Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up bei...

    Illusion Travels by Streetcar
  • 2003
    Bulgarian Lovers

    Bulgarian Lovers (2003)

    Bulgarian Lovers

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    Graying Spaniard Daniel has a healthy budget for indulging in the finer things in life. Daniel's favorite luxury is playing sponsor to younger men amid the lights and sights of Madrid's gay club scene. After Daniel shares a night with handsome Bulgar...

    Bulgarian Lovers
  • 2003
    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2003)

    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

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    A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the factories of Tiexi are closing. Director Wang Bing introduces us t...

    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
  • 1989
    The Journey to Melonia

    The Journey to Melonia (1989)

    The Journey to Melonia

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    When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the "all-powerful" wizard Prospero and his strange friends reside....

    The Journey to Melonia
  • 2015
    Requiem for the American Dream

    Requiem for the American Dream (2015)

    Requiem for the American Dream

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    Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of t...

    Requiem for the American Dream
  • 1970
    Lady Caliph

    Lady Caliph (1970)

    Lady Caliph

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    La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship....

    Lady Caliph
  • 1959
    I'm All Right Jack

    I'm All Right Jack (1959)

    I'm All Right Jack

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    Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him a...

    I'm All Right Jack
  • 1932
    Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?

    Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)

    Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?

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    Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures. This is followed by scenes of a young man looking for work in the city and the family discussing the...

    Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?
  • 2021
    Ascension

    Ascension (2021)

    Ascension

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    The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the “Chinese Dream.” Driven by mesmerizing—and sometimes humorous—imagery, this observational documentary presents a contemporary vision of China that prioritizes productivity and innovation...

    Ascension
  • 1970
    Metello

    Metello (1970)

    Metello

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    The story of a young man of the working class, who has grown up practically an orphan due to his father’s repeated jailings for anarchistic activism. Struggling with life in 19th-century Italy, Metello Salani is determined to change his situation for...

    Metello
  • 1962
    A Kind of Loving

    A Kind of Loving (1962)

    A Kind of Loving

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    As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him....

    A Kind of Loving
  • 1984
    A Private Function

    A Private Function (1984)

    A Private Function

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    In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pi...

    A Private Function