Working Class Movies

This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn,...

Louis Malle presents his entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris.

After his parents' death, construction worker Sigi doesn't know what to do with his life. He can't do much with his pay, and as a working-class man,...

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,...

A North Korean coal miner struggles to realize her dream of becoming a circus acrobat.

On Thanksgiving Eve, a looming hurricane strands four strangers inside a small-town grocery market. As the storm stalls and tensions rise, secrets...

An ex-graffer, now security guard warns his brother about the dangers of joining riots against police brutality. Although each brother walks a...

A white and a blue collar worker fall in love during the 1980 strike at FIAT that marked the end for labor movement in Italy.

A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan.

This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to...

In search of purpose, 17-year-old Claudio helps easygoing mechanic Stefano build a car capable of winning a street race that could solve his...

Is heavy manual labour disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? Where can we still find it in the 21st century? Workingman's Death follows the...

In the middle of the Algerian war, Elise, from Bordeaux, “goes” to Paris to join her brother to earn her living in an automobile factory....

Childhood was complicated for Yoshida and he faces Japanese society as an outsider after his return from London alongside his parents. He feels...

Social drama about Algerian immigrant workers who came searching for work in France.

Documentary about Margit Nielsen and her work at the Malmö chocolate factory.

An idealistic high school graduate goes to work on a state farm on the Kyrgyz steppe, only to clash with its authoritarian leader.

A maverick British art house movie exploring solitude, sanity and suffering under The State. As a contagion befalls the UK a grieving teacher...