Movies: Working class

  • 1975
    Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

    Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)

    Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

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    After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life....

    Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
  • 1977
    Harlan County U.S.A.

    Harlan County U.S.A. (1977)

    Harlan County U.S.A.

    7.51977HD

    This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led ...

    Harlan County U.S.A.
  • 1970
    Lady Caliph

    Lady Caliph (1970)

    Lady Caliph

    5.51970HD

    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
  • 2019
    Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down

    Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down (2019)

    Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down

    7.72019HD

    This anthology film, whose Chinese title begins with a romantic name for human excrement, premiered internationally at Rotterdam and won Best Screenplay from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society. A variety of Hong Kong people wrestle with nostalgia whe...

    Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
  • 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
  • 1993
    Raining Stones

    Raining Stones (1993)

    Raining Stones

    6.91993HD

    Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to ...

    Raining Stones
  • 1999
    Human Resources

    Human Resources (1999)

    Human Resources

    6.81999HD

    "Good son" Franck returns to his hometown to do a trainee managerial internship in the Human Resources department of the factory where his anxious, taciturn father has worked for 23 years....

    Human Resources
  • 1972
    Oliver and the Artful Dodger

    Oliver and the Artful Dodger (1972)

    Oliver and the Artful Dodger

    6.61972HD

    An animated sequel to the story of "Oliver Twist". Oliver is adopted by Mr. Brownlow. When Mr. Brownlow dies, his will cannot be found so his nephew Sniperly tries to just take the money. Oliver has to stop him. Meanwhile, Artful Dodger now helps chi...

    Oliver and the Artful Dodger
  • 2013
    Pit Stop

    Pit Stop (2013)

    Pit Stop

    6.12013HD

    Openly gay Ernesto and closeted Gabe grapple with the sad tribulations of being gay in a small, working-class Texas town...

    Pit Stop
  • 2018
    Ray & Liz

    Ray & Liz (2018)

    Ray & Liz

    6.62018HD

    On the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society the Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break social taboos as they muddle through a life decided by factors beyond their control. At times shocking and laced with an unsettling humo...

    Ray & Liz
  • 1954
    Illusion Travels by Streetcar

    Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1954)

    Illusion Travels by Streetcar

    6.41954HD

    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
  • 1941
    Million Dollar Baby

    Million Dollar Baby (1941)

    Million Dollar Baby

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    A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression....

    Million Dollar Baby
  • 1989
    High Hopes

    High Hopes (1989)

    High Hopes

    7.11989HD

    Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley want...

    High Hopes
  • 1969
    Come with Me

    Come with Me (1969)

    Come with Me

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    A working-class man becomes influenced by a radio host who spews apocalyptic rhetoric....

    Come with Me
  • 1973
    Steptoe & Son Ride Again

    Steptoe & Son Ride Again (1973)

    Steptoe & Son Ride Again

    6.71973HD

    Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life sav...

    Steptoe & Son Ride Again
  • 2014
    The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime

    The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime (2014)

    The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime

    7.52014HD

    This incredibly disturbing story follows the exploitation of an apprentice butcher, Hermógenes, and his trial after he murders his boss in broad daylight. Hermógenes, a farmhand from northern Argentina, relocates to Buenos Aires in search of a better...

    The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime
  • 1959
    Come Back, Africa

    Come Back, Africa (1959)

    Come Back, Africa

    6.81959HD

    Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959....

    Come Back, Africa
  • 1932
    Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?

    Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)

    Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?

    6.91932HD

    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?
  • 1954
    Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class

    Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class (1954)

    Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class

    5.11954HD

    This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early November 1918, Ernst Thälmann is an unwilling soldier serving on the western front. As the revolutionary ...

    Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
  • 1962
    Placido

    Placido (1962)

    Placido

    7.61962HD

    In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizer...

    Placido