Working Class Movies

This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early...

A dejected employee reckons with his place in a seemingly hopeless Filipino society as another national election looms.

Gurwinder comes from Punjab, he’s been working for years as a farm hand in Agro Pontino, not far from Rome. Since he first came in Italy,...

Jordi a young man working at a bank has an overriding aim in life and that is to hide his humble origins. But he meets Greta a Colombian girl who has...

This anthology film, whose Chinese title begins with a romantic name for human excrement, premiered internationally at Rotterdam and won Best...

Filmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when he was 11 years old.

Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two...

Jeannette is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on her salary as a...

Maria grows up in a seedy 1960s working class neighborhood, the daughter of an ambitious emigrant father and soon caught up in her own dangerously...

Three lives of three young people intersect over the course of one summer. A rich student and a young working-class man accidentally destroy a diner...

Kalle Magnus Berg is a kind bailiff in Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. He helps out "clients" by supporting them with money from his own pocket....

Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident...

Indianapolis has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country. Night School follows three adult students living in the city’s...

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on 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.

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...

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....

A young mother tries to run away from inner-city Dublin but discovers that there are only so many places you can go before you run into yourself.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, girls aged 12 to 16 began working at Pyeonghwa Market. Running sewing machines, they also study the Labor...

A drama centered around a German construction manager who works with undocumented workers and an Albanian girl searching for her missing father.