Working Class Movies

Rajan, a weary factory worker, endures grueling shifts and a volatile home life, drifting through sleepless nights in the city as he tries to reclaim...

An employee about to retire and the young man who is to take over, share five journeys in the work place, an enormous empty warehouse where...

The story of a group of plateau oil rig workers and how their lives change when they move from the rural grasslands and into the city.

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.

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows through images: a) the workers leaving the factory; b)...

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

This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to...

A North Korean coal miner struggles to realize her dream of becoming a circus acrobat.

Actor Val Kilmer narrates this powerful film exploring the methamphetamine epidemic that's ravaged blue-collar America. Putting a human face on the...

An idealistic high school graduate goes to work on a state farm on the Kyrgyz steppe, only to clash with its authoritarian leader.

Helen's mundane life at the chicken factory takes an unexpected turn with Joanne's return. They were each other's secret teenage passion. As they...

Alanis Obomsawin turns her lens to Le Patro Le Prévost, a recreational centre in the Villeray quarter of Montreal. On the eve of its 80th...

Gerardo is a young man with limited financial resources who works as a public speaker in various squares and streets of Lima. One day, after work,...

In the Moss Side, Manchester "race riots" of 1981 a struggling punk band are tempted by a sinister entrepreneur to perform at a major gig in support...

A story of two people who fell in love and couldn't find their way in the big city: a man who came from the countryside to work in a steel factory...

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

This documentary follows young Esad, singer in Slovenian New Wave Punk band Via Ofenziva.