The Man With a Movie Camera (1929), Deep Blues (1991), The Postman (1994), The Measure of a Man (2015), Life Is Sweet (1991), The Conqueror Worm (1968), Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989), Salesman (1969) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Working Class movies.
Storyline: Exactly one week in the life of a young man named Paterson of Paterson, New Jersey is presented. He lives an extremely regimented and routinized life, that routine perhaps most vividly displayed by the fact that he is able to wake up at exactly the same time every day without an alarm. That life includes eating Cheerios for breakfast, walking to work carrying his brown bag lunch packed in his lunch pail by his wife Laura, having a casual chat with his colleague Donny before he begins his shift driving the #23 Paterson bus for the local public transit company, walking home where he straightens out the exterior mailbox which somehow during the day gets knocked crooked, eating dinner with Laura and listening to her goings-on of the day, taking Laura's English bulldog Marvin - who he would admit to himself he doesn't much like - out for a walk to his neighborhood bar where he has one and only one beer before walking home with Marvin. There are day to day variations which are often the ...
Plot Keywords: bus driver, passenger, dog, bartender, wife, writer, calm ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who's flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Isa is out-going, unskilled, with hopes of moving south to warmer climes. Marie usually is either angry or detached. Then, while Isa begins to visit the child in whose flat they live, going to hospital to read to her, Marie slowly falls for a rich youth. At first Marie keeps him at bay, then she not only pursues him, she begins to dream he is her life's love. When Isa tries to warn Marie, their friendship flounders. How will Marie handle the inevitable? And once they lose the flat, where will they go?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: seamstress, club owner, bouncer, mother, daughter, boyfriend, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. 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 raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: poor person, sidekick, blue-collar worker, butcher, father, daughter, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division. Only when he's together with his friends, a 'Mod' clique, cruising London on his motor-scooter and hearing music such as that of 'The Who' and 'The High Numbers', does he feel free and accepted. However, it's a flight into an illusionary world.
Plot Keywords: young man, gang member, pretty woman, friend, gang leader, brooding, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After his grandmother dies, a Mexican boy (Adrian Alonso) sets out to join his mother (Kate del Castillo) in the United States.
Plot Keywords: cleaning lady, child, grandmother, inspiring, emotional, los angeles, border ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After surviving the Holocaust, Albert (Simon Abkarian) and his wife, Lea (Zabou Breitman), must begin their lives anew. The Jewish couple reopens their modest tailoring business in the midst of the rapidly changing city of Paris, a broken but hopeful city suddenly free of hostile German forces. Albert and Lea share love, grief and a newfound prosperity as they struggle to rebuild their lives with their young children and a close-knit group of employees.
Plot Keywords: tailor, wife, employee, widower, seamstress, prostitute, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1968, the Ford auto factory in Dagenham was one of the largest single private employers in the United Kingdom. In addition to the thousands of male employees, there are also 187 underpaid women machinists who primarily assemble the car seat upholstery in poor working conditions. Dissatisfied, the women, represented by the shop steward and Rita O'Grady, work with union rep Albert Passingham for a better deal. However, Rita learns that there is a larger issue in this dispute considering that women are paid an appalling fraction of the men's wages for the same work across the board on the sole basis of their sex. Refusing to tolerate this inequality any longer, O'Grady leads a strike by her fellow machinists for equal pay for equal work. What follows would test the patience of all involved in a grinding labour and political struggle that ultimately would advance the cause of women's rights around the world.
Plot Keywords: employee, husband, teacher, boss, coworker, inspiring, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A modern day retelling of the classic story The Frog Prince. The Princess and the Frog finds the lives of arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana crossing paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician and Tiana, following suit, upon kissing the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and fulfill their dreams.
Plot Keywords: waitress, prince, witch doctor, old woman, mother, creative, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This tale take place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".—Kornel Osvart <kornelo@alphanet.hu>
Plot Keywords: immigrant, illegal immigrant, mother, bar owner, friend, emotional, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The true story of Tony Fingleton, a young man from a troubled family who found the inner strength to become a champion. Always overshadowed in his father's eyes by his brothers, it is only when Tony displays an extraordinary swimming talent that he feels he has a shot at winning his father's heart.—Crusader Entertainment
Plot Keywords: swimmer, son, father, mother, brother, inspiring, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Our intrepid defender of the working man, Michael Moore, documents his 1996 "Downsize This!" book tour across the USA. Shot on-the-cheap with a video camera, we once again watch our hero interview the working man at yet another plant closing, while also trying to get past corporate security guards to interview the millionaire CEOs.—Tim G. <kas@interlog.com>
Plot Keywords: michael moore, ceo, musician, author, union organizer, brash, crafty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Movie version of the BBC TV play that first addresses some of the major social issues of the day. A girl from a rich family in Chelsea is bored and decides to go "slumming" in depressed Battersea. She gets a flat and starts working in a factory and makes some friends there. One of her friends is pregnant but abortion is illegal ...—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: wealthy woman, worker, friend, colleague, emotional, melancholy, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Marius is the keeper of an abandoned cement works staying high above the quarter of l'Estaque in Marseilles. Jeannette is bringing up her two children alone with her poor checkout operator salary. Their meeting won't be without trouble, since besides material difficulties, both of them are wounded by life. They have to learn how to be happy again.—Gregoire Dubost <Gregoire.Dubost@polytechnique.fr>
Plot Keywords: cashier, single mother, security guard, neighbor, boss, amusing, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A family. Rose and Norah, in Albuquerque, lost their mother when they were young. Rose is responsible - a housecleaner, raising her seven-year-old son Oscar. She's also having an affair with Mac, a married cop, her high-school sweetheart. Norah can't hold a job. Their dad, Joe, is quirky. When Oscar is expelled for odd behavior, Rose wants to earn enough to send him to private school. Mac suggests she clean up after crime scenes, suicides, and deaths that go undiscovered for awhile. Rose enlists Norah, and Sunshine Cleaners is born. Norah bonds with the dead, Rose finds out that it's a regulated business, and complications arise. Can a family marked by tragedy sort things out?
Plot Keywords: woman, sister, son, sweetheart, father, creative, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kay, who works on a Thames River barge, and Steve are secretly in love with each other but do their best to hide it. Kay wants desperately to be a music-hall star and Steve wants to be a player in the world of high finance. An eccentric millionaire decides to do what he can to see that they achieve their dreams.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: millionaire, entertainer, financier, agent, chorus girl, charming, melodramatic ...
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