Oasis (2002), L'Enfant (2005), Shoplifters (2018), I, Daniel Blake (2016), Kikujiro (1999), Raining Stones (1993), DarkBlueAlmostBlack (2006), The Selfish Giant (2013) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Underclass Life movies.
Storyline: Five young losers spend their days and nights wasting their lives away, hanging out in parking lots and occasionally mentioning that they might want to make something of themselves... someday. On this particular night, they are visited by an old high school friend who has escaped their suburban town to become a pop star.—Andy Bogursky <bogursky@erols.com>
Plot Keywords: suburban life, social outcasts, independent film, 1990s, counterculture, family conflict, escapism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At the edge of adolescence, Tracy is a smart straight-A student--if not a little naive (it seems...she smokes and she cuts to alleviate the emotional pain she suffers from having a broken home and hating her mom's boyfriend, Brady.) When she befriends Evie, the most popular and beautiful girl in school, Evie leads Tracy down a path of sex, drugs and petty crime (like stealing money from purses and from stores). As Tracy transforms herself and her identity, her world becomes a boiling, emotional cauldron fueled by new tensions between her and her mother--as well as, teachers and old friends.
Plot Keywords: rebellion, self-destruction, mother-daughter relationship, drug abuse, identity crisis, psychological trauma, social marginalization ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz.
Plot Keywords: british film, independent film, social realism, working class, family drama, poverty, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two teenage boys will do anything to get money to buy season tickets for their local team.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, british film, coming of age, football, working class, youth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lin and Wang are a wealthy couple, approaching middle age in Beijing. They are childless, because she is infertile. He owns a foot-massage parlor. One afternoon he rapes one of his workers, Liu, who has nearly passed out from drinking alcohol with a friend. Part of the assault is witnessed by Liu's husband, An-Kun, a window washer. He's angry with the boss and with his wife, and attacks Lin's car furiously. He seeks compensation and tries to blackmail him. Lin's wife counsels him and joins in revenge. Then, Liu realizes she's pregnant and a set of emotional calculations ensues: Lin wants to buy the child, Wang agrees but she has conditions, An-Kun goes back and forth and barely contains his anger; Liu withdraws. The baby comes. Can anything be sorted out?—Wiki
Plot Keywords: drama, china, urban, social issues, family, ethics, women ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking your Juice in the Hood" is a parody of several U.S. films about being in the 'Hood', for instance "Boyz n the Hood", "South Central", "Menace II Society", "Higher Learning" and "Juice". We follow Ashtray as he returns to the place he grew up in and meet his father and his basket-case friends. Crazy stuff happens. For example, Ashtray is older than his father and his best friend Loc Dog's grandmother is a trigger-happy old lady who blames her eccentric-looking kid for not being tough enough.
Plot Keywords: comedy, parody, black culture, urban life, social satire, humor, teenagers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A welfare worker becomes emotionally involved with her charges, a group of adorable, homeless orphans. Music by Larry Adler. (1959; B&W)
Plot Keywords: drama, social issues, children, poverty, orphans, london, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Barky, a lost soul of 25, returns from the Australian cane fields to his hometown, inner-city Erskineville. Barky left two years ago to escape his drunken and abusive father, leaving behind everything in the world that was important to him. His brother Wace. His girlfriend Lanny. His life. Now that his father's dead, he thinks it's safe to come home, but Barky soon discovers that if staying home was hard, coming home is harder. Wace is bitter. Barky ran away just like their mother. Wace toughed it out. Alone he stood by his dying father. After two years and no explanation, can Lanny take Barky back? With everything on the line will Barky choose again to leave it all behind? In the King's Hotel the two brothers try to make sense out of life after their father's death. Beer, anger and pain prove to be a dangerous mix.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: australian film, family drama, urban life, emotional conflict, independent film, social marginalization, father-son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: There is more to this story than this review lets on. It reflects all different facets of society over one drivers shift. He starts out it seems as a cold, ignorant man. But his character develops as the different people of Chicago come & go. His character shows through when he tells a woman the truth about one of the huys he has in his cab. One highlight of this is the amount of cameos by well known faces who seem to be doing this film for the craic. The cab driver reacts well to the madness surrounding him & you can almost share his tiredness at the end of the shift. Crackheads, stoners, posh randy lawyers, irate Pakistanis and the high & lows of the working day are dealt with in this low budget film.—Michael A Hunter <thewaas@yahoo.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: black comedy, independent film, chicago, urban life, social satire, multi-narrative, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fierce but aging widow Annie Nations (Jessica Tandy) lives alone on her farm. Unable to let go of the past -- she sometimes visits with the ghost of her husband (Hume Cronyn) -- Annie gets pulled into a very current battle with a real estate developer looking to buy her land. Annie also needs to help her son, Dillard (John Denver), a country singer struggling to raise his two daughters on his own. As Annie deals with these pressures, she begins to reflect on her long life on the farm.
Plot Keywords: youth, rebellion, female friendship, defiance, coming of age, violence, social outcasts ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Carl (Matthew Rhys) has travelled from Yorkshire to central London to clear up the details of his brother's death. Although a successful attorney, Carl finds that there is another side to his brother's life, into which he willingly gets pulled. A group of techno junkies accept him into their family, as he is the brother of their late friend. With copious Methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA) to aide him, Carl enters the underground all-night rave scene in hopes of discovering the truth to his brother's suspicious death.—kwedgwood@hotmail.com
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, thriller, mystery, violence, drugs, gangster ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A painfully shy noodle-shop owner and a prostitute have a chance encounter when destiny arrives in the form of a car accident.
Plot Keywords: independent film, black comedy, romance, tragedy, social outcasts, realism, low budget ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Angel celebrates the birth of his daughter by taking his first hit of crack cocaine. With the hesitant support of his wife, Monika, he joins a friend of his to deal drugs for a short time--enough time to get out of debt and buy some nice things for the family. Three years later, Angel is still dealing, and has not saved any money, instead spending it on crack. His addiction grows, straining his friendship and his family life, and he gradually loses control.—James Meek <james@oz.net>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, independent film, 1990s, urban life, interpersonal relationships, social marginalization ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film tells the story of 2 brothers. One punk, one salesman. The salesman get laid off, and slowly becomes a punk like his brother.
Plot Keywords: comedy, absurd, brotherhood, road movie, french cinema, social satire, black humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tells the story of a woman who gets involved in politics with no previous contact with world events.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, social critique, class conflict, moral dilemma, human nature exploration, violence, poverty ...
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