Movies: Working class

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows through images: a) the workers leaving the factory; b) the raise of the rents; c) the "unpleasant" guest, meaning the justice officer that brings the evict...

"She Came Like a Wind" - Fabian Rosander works at a factory and is close to 50 years old. When a new employee named Lilly, a young beautiful girl, comes to the factory Fabians life takes a new turn....

Short public information film showing housewives' efficient and hygienic methods of food storage....

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 of British extreme Right political organizations....

Louis Malle presents his entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris....

On a small building site lost in the middle of nowhere, three workers receive an impromptu but dreaded visit from a representative of their employer....

Popular in the riverside area of Porto, Micas raised her daughter, Madalena, at the cost of sacrifice, as her father emigrated to Brazil. With a happy voice, Madalena works on unloading the coal, seeing her loves thwarted by her humble condition. Ba...

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 family obligations, she is faced with a difficult decision....

A decade after taking a series of photographs of skinhead members of a far-right group for his book Public Enemies, Leo Regan returns to three members of the gang to see what has happened to them in the intervening years....

Riz lives in Western Sydney with a group of his working class mates. Secretly dating the middle-class Kylie, his life comes to an explosive moment on his 18th birthday, when his deception threatens to tear his family life apart. The film is based on ...

On the edge of Dundee a 17-story tower block awaits demolition, the last of its kind on the once sprawling Ardler housing estate. Its residents are either gone or going. We undertake a journey, moving steadily upwards, exploring the space, drifting t...

Documentary about the merging of the Communist Party of Germany and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the Soviet occupation zone, a merger that would lead to the creation of the Socialist Unity Party that would rule the soon-to-be-created East ...

It's that time of year, and as Christmas approaches Braathen Street, the neighbors come together to celebrate the holiday. In their shared home, they find warmth and joy despite the challenges of their modest lives, proving that the true spirit of Ch...

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 anniversary in 1989, Le Patro is a vital focal point in the predominantly working-class neighbourhood. Beloved b...

The small town locals of Mustjala are the Indians of Estonia - they are ravaged by alcoholism and depression, because they've been ignored by the shiny capitalist dream. But then a German tourist ship boards in Mustjala. Could it be the realization o...

Social drama about Algerian immigrant workers who came searching for work in France....

Al Levin examines the system which functions to keep the working class in the United States oppressed....

A documentary about the dockworkers in Gothenburg, and the future of the shipping industry in the city....

Rota ABC is a documentary essay about the desires and perspectives of youth living in the industrial suburb of São Paulo, directed by Francisco Cesar Filho and produced by Anhangabaú Produções, with a soundtrack by the punk rock band Garotos Podres....

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