Working Class Movies

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures....

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà,...

A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership....

Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and...

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,...

Kirsty must survive an afternoon in the city centre until her accomodation can be arranged at a homeless shelter.

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,...

The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love,...

A darkly comic, working class, North Eastern family comedy/drama. Siblings Tyler and Paige don't agree with the way their estranged mam has arranged...

Buddies Yam, Sunny and Ah Hing have all been dismissed. creating havoc in their jobs. The trio is employed by a noodle factory, which has a very poor...

From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.

OK/NOTOK is a genre-bending love story set in the very near future with a darkly comic edge. Loretta, a working-class British Asian woman, attempts...

Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her...

A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s...

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

When mobile nurse Esma finds one of her patients dead, the strictly timed schedule of her day is thrown off balance. Between professional ethics and...

Chronicles the journey of Olympic gold medalist wrestler Dan Gable, as a working-class kid from Waterloo, Iowa who overcame an unthinkable family...

La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns...

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

A hard-hearted old woman in a bombed-out Tokyo neighborhood reluctantly takes in an abandoned boy, leading to a heartwarming bond between them.