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Plot Summary:
Adaptation of the novel by Isaac Rosa, mordant parable on labor precariousness.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min
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In the King of Prussia (1982)
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Dramatization of the trial of Christian anti-war activists, known collectively as the "Plowshares Eight". In September 1980, they broke into a General Electric weapons plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and in an act of protest against nuclear proliferation, poured vials of their own blood onto secret missle plans, burned other files, and damaged nosecones intended for nuclear missles. The direct-to-video production is intercut with clips from actual news coverage of the trial. The "Plowshares Eight" portray themselves in the production, and after taping was complete, reported to court for their imprisonment.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Valentina (1982)
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In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp at a decaying castle, his tutor, a sympathetic priest, tells him about the most valiant men, the saints, the heroes, and the poets. Already a poet, he learns a lesson about being a hero.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
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The Traitors (1973)
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Raymundo Gleyzer s only fictional film, THE TRAITORS is a compelling political thriller about a trade unionist corrupted by his rise to power. Skillfully weaving documentary and fictional sequences, THE TRAITORS covers the Peronistas movement Argentina in most explosive political era. Gleyzer founded Cine de la Base, a group dedicated to bringing revolutionary films to the people. In 1976, he was abducted and thrown into a concentration camp by Argentina s military dictatorship, then tortured and murdered. THE TRAITORS reveals his commitment to using film to prompt social change.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 113 min
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Giant (2009)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of a supermarket security guard's obsession with a late-shift janitor.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Germany, Spain, Netherlands
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sincere, clever, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic
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The Children Thief (1991)
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Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children. To fill this void in their lives, he feeds and clothes abandoned children, raising them in his mansion as if they were his own. As would never be the case in real life today, in this fantasized story set in 1925, no one objects to this behavior, and they live pleasantly and enjoyably together. Things grow considerably more animated when a stage magician places his very attractive daughter in the colonel's household, which stirs a lively romantic interest from his boys and from the great man himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 110 min
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The Calm (1980)
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A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into a conflict on a construction job between the corrupt boss and fellow workers secretly planning a strike. He becomes a pawn in one camp while remaining true to his ideals in the other. Filmed in 1976 and shelved for five years.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 81 min
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Cart (2014)
Plot Summary:
In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, twisted, freeze frame
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Cloud Waltzing (1987)
Plot Summary:
Journalist Meredith travels to Europe to do a story on vineyard owner Francois De Paul and won't stop until she learns his secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
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Strikebound (1984)
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Via the New York Times: "...reconstructs the true story of a coal miners' strike in the small town of Korumburra in the mid-30's... based on the real-life story of two remarkable characters, Wattie Doig, a miner who became a militant Communist activist, and his wife, Agnes, who progressed from staunch Presbyterianism to membership in the Salvation Army and, finally, to labor organization.".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Tin Man (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young man, born deaf, invents a computer so he can hear and speak with others.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film
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Signorina Effe (2007)
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Emma was born and raised in a working-class family, but she's long had bourgeois ambitions and has risen through the ranks to become a white-collar employee with the Fiat automobile company.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
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Lady Caliph (1970)
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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.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min
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Look Ahead with Anger (1993)
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After the revolution of December 1989, Romania is in full transition. Incertainty and chaos have followed Ceausescu's downfall. Fane, a worker in a wharf on the river Danube, is a former dissident who was in involved in politically motivated uprisings. Now that he has achieved what he has fought for, he is unemployed and everything around him seems to fall to pieces. His whole family falls victim to the changes of the early 90s. His daughter prostitutes herself, his elder son ends up in prison and his younger son becomes a thief.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 81 min
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Why (Not) Brazil? (2004)
Plot Summary:
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
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Youth (2004)
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Jordi is going to make it big, cost what it may, juggling a stock exchange portfolio; Cristina combines booze, drugs and sex in the celebration of her birthday; and Pau, in search of strong emotions, turns to violence, xenophobic attitude. Three young protagonists flee towards the future in the pursuit of an illusory happiness.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Under Her Control (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a fashion employee thinks she will have to end her promising career after getting pregnant, her boss offers to adopt the child.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min
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The Bookshop (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in an small English town in 1959, the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, intellectual, slasher, art house, period piece, costume drama, novela
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Los invitados (1987)
Plot Summary:
A murder is committed in a small village of Andalusia.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min
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The Migrants (1974)
Plot Summary:
A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Full Time (2021)
Plot Summary:
Julie finally gets an interview for a job where she can raise her children better only to run into a national transit strike.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, thrilling
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Company Limited (1971)
Plot Summary:
The chronicles of Chatterjee, an ambitious and self-made young man, as he rises his way up the corporate ladder.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: art house, extraordinary
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At War (2018)
Plot Summary:
After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, thought provoking, political
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Climbers High (2008)
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On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press reporters are tossed about by the waves of facts and rumors. While overwhelmed by the magnitude of the accident, Yuuki, in charge of this crash report at a local newspaper, faces a string of decision-making moments. What are news and a reporter? How should a man do his work and survive in a corporate hierarchy? What do family and friends mean to him? An intriguing story, which keeps the audience on the edge of tension and reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 145 min
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Life and Death in the Warehouse (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows Megan, who in a desperate attempt to keep her new job at a Welsh warehouse, presses Alys – who is pregnant – to get her "pick rate" up, putting her and her baby at risk.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Looks and Smiles (1981)
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Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens' Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work, and every two weeks gets his check from the dole. There are no jobs. His best mate Alan joins the army to fix tanks and is sent to Belfast to quell Catholics. At a disco, Mick meets Karen, who works at a shoe shop and lives with her recently-separated mom. Karen misses her dad. She offers Mick emotional stability and a route to adulthood; Alan pitches the army. Does Mick have a future?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, black and white, psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy, biting, suspense
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Under the Pines (2013)
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A young widow wants to carry on with her husband's work:managing a pine plantation where they extract resin;but most of all,she wants to have electricity installed in her valuable property.In this place,it seems that 1789 never happened and that time stood still:her workers,circa 1920,do not receive any salary and ,like the peasants in the middle ages,have to bring their production to their landlady. But her progressive ideas come up against men still remembering WW1 and against her bourgeois peers.Her foreman ,first bewildered ,is finally won over by his boss' resilience and strength of character.For her own good,the young heiress is too ahead of her time though.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic
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Native Son (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young African-American man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, psychological, surprise ending, disturbing
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The Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she ever expected.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, thought provoking, realistic, rough, serious, sexual, semi documentary, independent film, sexy, hot
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Sorry We Missed You (2019)
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A story exploring the issue of hardship in modern-day Britain through a young couple scraping to get by in a casual jobs market. A hard-up delivery driver and his carer wife are pushed to breaking point as they struggle to keep their family afloat in a world of zero-hour contracts and gig work.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political, social, psychological, sincere, realistic, disturbing, inspirational, road movie, educational, independent film
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Hide and Seek (1984)
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A teen-aged computer enthusiast named Gregory writes a computer program, P-1, that grows and becomes self aware. P-1's instinct for survival starts to cause problems in the real world. Based on the 1977 Thomas Ryan novel, The Adolescence of P-1.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
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