The Lovely Month of May (1963), The Wide Blue Road (1956), Circo (2010), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978), Days of Heaven (1978), Makala (2017), Pelle the Conqueror (1987) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Labor movies.
Storyline: Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?—George S. Davis
Plot Keywords: drama, rural life, poverty, family, struggle, american south, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system. He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War II. He is innocent, but is sentenced to ten years in a forced labor camp. The day begins with Shukhov waking up sick. For waking late, he is forced to clean the guardhouse, but this is a comparatively minor punishment. When Shukhov is finally able to leave the guardhouse, he goes to the dispensary to report his illness. It is relatively late in the morning by this time, however, so the orderly is unable to exempt any more workers and Shukhov must work. Based on the life of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Plot Keywords: war, soviet union, stalin, political persecution, survival, humanity, oppression ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: John and Mary sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.—Barry Manhampton
Plot Keywords: drama, social, family, poverty, life, realism, rural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Modern British dairy farms must get bigger and bigger or go under but Farmer Stephen Hook decides to buck the trend. Instead he chooses to have a great relationship with his small herd of cows and ignore the big supermarkets and dairies. The result is a laugh-out-loud emotional roller-coaster of a film, a heart warming tearjerker about the incredible bonds between man, animal and countryside in a fast disappearing England.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, agriculture, united kingdom, independent film, sustainability, rural life, nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a Pakistani immigrant, struggles to drag his heavy cart along the streets of New York to his corner in Midtown Manhattan. And every morning, from inside his cart he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. He is the worker found on every street corner in every city. He is a man who wonders if he will ever escape his fate.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: independent film, new york, pakistan, working class, realism, street life, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Herders guide an enormous flock of sheep to summer pastures on their final drive through the Beartooth Mountains.
Plot Keywords: documentary, usa, agriculture, montana, nature, landscape, tradition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary about women working in factories during WWII and resultant loss of jobs after the war. Five women tell their stories. Fascinating clips of racist, sexist propaganda of the era.
Plot Keywords: documentary, world war ii, women, history, society, feminism, america ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Explores the world of a boxing gym in Austin, Texas, dwelling on the discipline of training as people from all walks of life aspire to reach their personal best.
Plot Keywords: documentary, boxing, sports, training, daily life, usa, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After the death of her father and the loss of his fortune, Selina takes a job teaching school in the Dutch community of New Holland. She stays with the Pools and teaches young Roelf piano. He has a crush on her, but it is Pervus she marries. Dirk is their only child. After a few years Pervus dies. With a young child and only the farm, Selina begins her quest to grow high quality vegetables. She wants more for Dirk and guides his life until he graduates from college as an architect. As her vegetable label prospers, she sees Paula control Dirk's life as he moves away from creating and into sales, which is not where he wants to go.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, farm life, female coming-of-age, novel adaptation, motherhood, struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of 16-year-old Riyo who journeys to Hawaii in 1918 to marry a man she has never met, except through photographs and letters they have exchanged. Hoping to escape a troubled past and to start anew, Riyo is bitterly disappointed upon her arrival: her husband is twice her age and Hawaii is not the paradise she expected. As Riyo comes to terms with her new home, she discovers a land full of hardship, struggle--and unexpected joy.—<raq@netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: historical, drama, romance, immigration, japanese culture, marriage, tradition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ulmer's soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein's classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for the city of "true Jews," he learns some unexpected lessons from the Jewish peasants who take him in as a tutor for their children.—National Center for Jewish Film
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, rural, agriculture, family, tradition, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It is with a heavy heart that Monsieur Charles has to close his Parisian brothel in 1946, following new legislation outlawing such establishments. As a parting gift, he offers the brothel's red lantern to one of his star employees, Lucette.—morroviolet
Plot Keywords: revolution, history, war, romance, family, rural, class struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At the outbreak of World War II, Celia (Patricia Roc) and her family must join the domestic British war effort. Celia is recruited to work in a munitions factory, where her co-workers represent a variety of social classes. She falls in love with Fred Blake (Gordon Jackson), a young pilot, and the two are married. Fred is soon deployed to battle, however, and Celia must face the harsh realities of life as a soldier's wife, while continuing her crucial work on the home front.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, britain, women, family, sacrifice, patriotism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Bill has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector that he buried on the road. Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bill to find the prospectors' claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bill in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean. Josie sees Roper for the scalawag that his is and it means trouble in Furnace Flat.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, desert, historical drama, american frontier, teamwork, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film tells of the memories and feeling of loss of an Irish immigrant who eventually winds up doing construction work in the anonymous cities of England.
Plot Keywords: drama, independent film, british film, immigration, memory, loneliness, nostalgia ...
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