Casa Grande (2014), The Gilded Cage (2013), The Way We Laughed (1998), The Crowd (1928), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978), O Lucky Man! (1973), Pygmalion (1938), Room at the Top (1959) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Social Mobility movies.
Storyline: A teenager struggles to transcend the limitations of his upper middle-class life.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, social class, coming of age, teenager, class conflict, identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Maria and Jose live for 30 years on the ground floor of a building and become an integral part of the other residents' lives. When they plan to return to Portugal, their neighbors do everything they can to make them stay.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, immigration, france, cultural clash, social class, dreams ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Studying to become a teacher in Turin, Italy, Pietro (Francesco Giuffrida) is joined by his older brother, Giovanni (Enrico Lo Verso), who has moved up from Sicily. While Giovanni is a worker with no schooling, Pietro shows considerable promise in academics, prompting the elder sibling to seek employment to support his brother's academic pursuits. Unfortunately, things don't go well for Giovanni and Pietro, and they face significant hardships as they try to improve their lives.
Plot Keywords: brotherhood, immigration, family relationships, social class, coming of age, moral dilemma, italian cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Born on the fourth of July, 1900, the future holds unlimited potential for newborn John Sims. But dreams soon fade with the death of his father when John is but a lad. Like many before him, John sets out to make his mark in New York City, but ends up a faceless worker (#137) in a large office of a large business. Still he is happy with his fate and soon meets a young woman named Mary on a blind double date. Things take their course and they soon marry and live in a small apartment. Soon John is bickering with Mary and finds that he has no love for the in-laws. When the marriage looks like a bust, he finds that Mary is with child and he stays. After 5 years, he has a son and a daughter and the same dead end job. When tragedy strikes, John must find the conviction to continue or lose what little he has left.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, american film, classic film, realism, social critique, urban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This movie follows the life of a young German woman, married to a soldier in the waning days of WWII. Fassbinder has tried to show the gritty life after the end of WWII and the turmoil of the people trapped in its wake.—Neel V Kumar <neelvk@iname.com>
Plot Keywords: feminism, social critique, moral dilemmas, personal sacrifice, capitalism, social change, emotional alienation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Follows the literal and associated life journey of middle class Brit Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell), representing the "everyman", as he tries to make his mark in his so far young life. He is able to make great strides in his traditional view of success by being what those in authority want him to be. As such, he achieves in a few weeks what it usually take years for others, namely having his own sales territory, the northeast and ultimately Scotland, for Imperial Coffee. He is also able to garner a plethora of fringe benefits from this job, including women throwing themselves at his feet. But he will ultimately face a struggle in class and authority warfare, which culminates with his encounter with the Burgess family, wealthy industrialist Sir James Burgess (Sir Ralph Richardson) and his daughter Patricia (Dame Helen Mirren), who Mick wants to marry, the former who is contemplating investing in the shady dealings in Zingara. Mick will also find that the class struggle not only applies in his case in an upward direction, but also in a downward direction with the working class and the truly down and out. Through it all, Alan Price and his small combo act as a Greek chorus of sorts providing commentary of Mick's travails through song.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: satire, black comedy, social criticism, british film, dystopian, absurdist, allegory ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The snobbish and intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters and pass her off as a society lady. However, he discovers that this involves dealing with a human being with ideas of her own.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, literary adaptation, class divide, social satire, british film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The English factory town is dreary but Joe Lampton has landed a job with a future. To have something to do at night he joins a theatrical group. His boss's daughter Susan is playing ingenue roles on stage and in real life. She is attracted to Joe and Joe thinks about how much faster he will get ahead if he is the boss's son-in-law. This plan is complicated by his strong desire to be with an older woman who also belongs to the theatrical group. She is French and unhappily married. Joe believes he can get away with seeing both women.—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess,com>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, british film, black and white, social class, ambition, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: political corruption, ambition, american dream, satire, black comedy, fraud, power ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing, some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, british film, black and white, 1950s, inspirational, sports ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A poor but honest and hardworking waitress from way across the tracks meets and falls in love with a college student from the upper-stuffy class, but the Mama of the intended objects to the romance. Her objections even lead her to having the waitress framed and sent to a prison work-farm for three months. Upon her release, the waitress finds instant stardom in the show business...and the social class she was lacking. Big Mama withdraws her objections.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, classic, black and white, 1930s, american film, romantic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in Brooklyn, 1963, Jeffrey Willis has just finished high school and isn't quite sure what the future holds. His parents expect him to go to college but he is starting to find his close-knit family stifling. He gets a summer job at the Flamingo beach club where he meets Phil Brody, a successful car dealer who fills Jeffrey's head with ideas about how to make his fortune. Phil is everything Jeffrey would like to be - popular, rich and the best gin rummy player the club has ever seen. Jeffrey's coming of age includes a romance with the very pretty Carla Samson, but the shine on Phil Brody's philosophy of life wears off when he uncovers a significant flaw in his character.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: coming of age, comedy, family, 1980s, new york, father-son relationship, beach ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, sports, american football, high school life, class conflict, sports drama, father-son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters, Mary and Nora, find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Mary, the younger sister, is mortified: spoiled by her dad, ignorant of Spanish, scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, and she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder sister Nora, a law student, gets a job as a legal intern, and Edward, her supervisor, the brother of the grasping sister-in-law, promptly falls for her. Slowly, the sisters realize what a rich place the barrio is at the same time that they get bruised in the contact sport of love.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, latino culture, sisters, wealth, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Marisa Ventura is a single mother born and bred in the boroughs of New York City, who works as a maid in a first-class Manhattan hotel. By a twist of fate and mistaken identity, Marisa meets Christopher Marshall, a handsome heir to a political dynasty, who believes that she is a guest at the hotel. Fate steps in and throws the unlikely pair together for one night. When Marisa's true identity is revealed, the two find that they are worlds apart, even though the distance separating them is just a subway ride between Manhattan and the Bronx.
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, romance, class divide, new york, politics, misunderstanding, dreams ...
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