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Plot Summary:
One night, a group of workers realises that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory. As they organize to survey the equipment and block the relocation of production, they are forced to stand at their posts with no work to do, as a form of retaliation, while negotiations over general lay-offs take place. The pressure leads to a breakdown of the workers along with the world around them.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: Portugal
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: masterpiece
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The Beautiful Blue Danube (2008)
Plot Summary:
Luxurious Danube river cruiser "Kriemhild", on a 2 day tour from Vienna to Belgrade. The ship "Kriemhild" is a floating sin city. Exhausted, unhappy, frustrated people from western Europe come here to "relax" and conduct business with alcohol, entertainment and sex. The crew of the "Kriemhild" are young people from eastern Europe who are trying to earn enough money to escape their small insignificant lives. That one night on this ship will shuffle the hands of fate of both the passengers and the crew of the ship. Prejudices, stereotypes and lack of communication between men and women, people of different religions, nationalities and social statutes will lead to absurd and, at times, dangerous situations, all colored with elements of dark humor. The night will unveil pain and tears, happiness and laughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: Serbia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Check It Out, Yo! (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tomboy Yui (Mao Inoue) brings her 3 male friends along with her to see a live performance of local Okinawan rap group, “Workaholic”. Upon witnessing the crowd reaction, the boys decide to start a rap group of their own to impress chicks—while Toru (Hayato Ichihara) has the added motivation of impressing his older, more sophisticated love interest Nagisa (Ayumi Ito). With only 2 weeks to learn how to play instruments and prepare for their first show, the performance is predictably humiliating. In order to save pride they decide to give it another shot, but this time they ditch the instruments for a sampler and stay truer to themselves. Will Toru be able to capture Nagisa’s heart? Will Yui ever confess her love to Toru or will she just keep practicing her advanced pro wrestling techniques on him instead?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags:
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Diary of a Worker (1967)
Plot Summary:
Juhani, a welder and Ritva, a right-wing backgrounded, future clerk get married. Soon we see that their marriage seems to be all about long business trips, housing problems, concerns about the money and political disagreements.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Red Soil (2020)
Plot Summary:
Freshly hired as a labor nurse in a chemical factory, Nour discovers that small arrangements exist between management and her father, Slimane, the staff representative, and the company's pivot. Lies about polluting discharges, hidden illnesses of employees, hidden accidents ... Nour, little by little, no longer accepts the compromises of his father to preserve the image of the company. She decides to launch the alert.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Bankett für Achilles (1975)
Plot Summary:
For thirty years, Karl Achilles has been working at the chemical collective in Bitterfeld. But now his last day as a master at the plant has come. He is about to retire; even if Karl, who finds ending his working life difficult, wanted to stay on, it would not be possible. Karl’s colleagues have arranged a farewell dinner for the retiring master at an outdoor restaurant. But on his last day of work, before the farewell dinner, he meets all sorts of people: both colleagues and people, who do not work at the plant. A mosaic of the biography of a person who found fulfilment in his work and now has to look for the meaning of his life anew.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama
Country: East Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: amateur film
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Occasional Work of a Female Slave (1973)
Plot Summary:
Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she delves into political and social activism.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing
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The Man That Was Turned Into Juice (1980)
Plot Summary:
Deraldo, a popular poet from Northeast Brazil, arrives in the capital of São Paulo, making a living only from his poetry and pamphlets. All is well until he is mistaken for a multinational worker who killed the boss at a party where he received the title of symbolic worker.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Home for Christmas (1975)
Plot Summary:
Construction worker Urho Suomalainen, his factory-worker wife Sirkka, and their two school-age children dream about getting away from their cramped rental apartment and moving to a house of their own. Urho decides to build one from scratch, starting from hauling trees from the forest to the sawmill. As the building progresses, a serious fault is discovered in its foundations. The family also has problems with their mortgage. Urho develops pneumonia and passes away before he sees his house completed. At his grave, a fellow worker gives a powerful speech praising socialism.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Natarang (2010)
Plot Summary:
Guna is a village labourer in the hinterlands of Maharashtra. Holding a passion for the 'tamasha' theatre shows, he decides to start his own troupe. Instead of the prestigious role of the king he always dreamed of, he ends up having to play a 'nachya', an effeminate, homosexual man. He goes ahead with the decision, which forever changes him and his family, as he ends up torn between his artistic passion and his societal prestige.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Land and Shade (2015)
Plot Summary:
Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and grandson. The landscape that awaits him resembles a wasteland. Vast sugar cane plantations surround the house, producing perpetual clouds of ash. 17 years after abandoning them, Alfonso tries to fit back in and save his family.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia, France, Netherlands, Chile, Brazil
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Short Working Day (1995)
Plot Summary:
Kieślowski’s study of a political strike, controversially told from the viewpoint of a Communist functionary trying to keep order.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: political drama
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Karnak Cafe (1975)
Plot Summary:
In one of their best roles ever, distinguished actors Nour Al Sherif and Souad Hosni star in this film depicting the unstable social and political life in Egypt during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film revolved around a group of university students whose lives are turned upside down because of their talks about the political instability in Egypt at the time.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: political, iconic
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Signorina Effe (2007)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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Fun and Games (1980)
Plot Summary:
Carol Hefferman is an ambitious factory worker looking for promotion to an office job, but when she turns down her boss's lecherous advances he stands in her way. Could a chance meeting with a company lawyer help her out?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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The Confrontation (1969)
Plot Summary:
Paralleling the dramatic student protests and riots that were exploding across the world in the 1960s at the time the film was made, The Confrontation is a story of protest and rebellion in 1947 Hungary when the Communist Party have just taken power. Jancsó's first colour film is another virtuoso display by a director at the peak of his powers, and eloquently explores the complex issues and inherent problems of revolutionary democracy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: Hungary
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Life Is Beautiful (1979)
Plot Summary:
A politically neutral man is arrested and tortured in prerevolutionary Lisbon, and forced to make, and act on, a political commitment. ….
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political
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Babymother (1998)
Plot Summary:
A single mother determined to make it as a singer puts together an all girl reggae group named Neeta, Sweeta, & Nastie with her friends. Living in a housing project with little support, the odds are obviously against her. Emotionally she struggles too as she learns at her mother's death that her actual mother is the woman she had thought was her older sister. With the help of a female agent, the group starts to get some exposure and rises above their setting.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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At Your Doorstep (2016)
Plot Summary:
Three stories intertwine as different people deal with the challenges of living through times of crisis. An evicted mother, a banker with a conscience and a police officer who has to do his job no matter what, sing and dance in this Brechtian musical drama about the economic crisis, people’s struggle with daily life, solidarity and hope.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Black Tights (1960)
Plot Summary:
Live scenes of Paris and a continuity Narrator link together four dramatic choreographies, all by Roland Petit: Carmen (1949), La croqueuse de diamants (1950), Deuil en 24 heures (1953), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1959).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: anthology, feel good, captivating, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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I Don't Fire Myself (2020)
Plot Summary:
Jeong-eun is dispatched to a subcontracting company. She tries to fit in, but her co-workers aren’t comfortable around her and she’s completely new to field work. Despite all that, she wants to stay on for a year and then return to headquarters, no matter what. Thanks to a newbie’s help, she slowly adjusts to her new workplace.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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They Don't Wear Black Tie (1981)
Plot Summary:
Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. This clash of perspectives puts the father and son at odds. Fortunately, Tião's mother, Romana, is on hand to act as a moderator between the two opinionated men.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: political, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic
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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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Blood from a Stone (2011)
Plot Summary:
The day his bank refuses to finance him, Georges will do everything he can to save his shipyard and his employees.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, realistic, serious, cynical, captivating, bleak, suspenseful
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It's a Free World... (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film focuses on Angie (Kierston Wareing), a working class woman who, after being fired by the agency that she works for, decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend Rose (Juliet Ellis). Taking advantage of the desperation of immigrants, Angie is able to build a successful business extremely quickly.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, thought provoking, epic, political, social, bleak
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Just Great (1972)
Plot Summary:
Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: political, surreal, sincere, thought provoking, clever, serious, realistic, witty, contemplative, talky
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Lulu the Tool (1971)
Plot Summary:
A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, realistic, serious, political, philosophical, surreal, grindhouse, contemplative
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Cars of the Revolution (2008)
Plot Summary:
It is just after the military take over of the administration in 1960. The new head of state believes Turkey can only be independent if it is economically strong. After sounding out the weak private sector and most of the senior bureaucrats, it is clear that nobody has a similar view. So, he dares the government sector to see if anyone can design and produce a 100% original car within 4 months... Well, one engineer shares this vision and a small and dedicated team start working in a locomotive factory. Time is short and resources are limited. Many believe this can not be achieved. This is the story of a team of idealist engineers working on this vision.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, educational, art house
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Tango (1998)
Plot Summary:
A dangerous love affair inspires a director to create the most spectacular and bodly seductive dance film ever made. 1998 Oscar Nominee Best Foreign Language Film.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sexy, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
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Two Days, One Night (2014)
Plot Summary:
Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: depressing, independent film, sincere, serious, compassionate, atmospheric, emotional, thought provoking, bleak, cerebral
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Liam (2000)
Plot Summary:
A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his first Holy Communion, gets a regular dose of fire and brimstone at church. Teresa, about 13, has a job as a maid to the Jewish family that owns the closed shipyard. The lady of that house is having an affair, and Teresa becomes an accomplice. Liam stutters terribly, especially when troubled. Dad comes under the sway of the Fascists, who blame cheap Irish labor and Jewish owners. A Molotov cocktail brings things to a head.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, bleak, emotional, sincere, depressing, intense, tense, serious, realistic, contemplative