Working Class Movies

A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan.

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to...

This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn,...

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...

An idealistic high school graduate goes to work on a state farm on the Kazakh 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...

Childhood was complicated for Yoshida and he faces Japanese society as an outsider after his return from London alongside his parents. He feels...

Milan, a Slovak working in Germany as a bricklayer, returns home to celebrate Christmas with his wife and three children, one of whom appears to be...

As her adolescence gives way to the obligations of motherhood, troubled Gemma matures in Motherwell, her Scottish hometown, heavily dependent on the...

Kirby, on the outskirts of Liverpool, England, October 1972. A chronicle of the fourteen-month strike by thousands of tenants to protest against the...

After his parents' death, construction worker Sigi doesn't know what to do with his life. He can't do much with his pay, and as a working-class man,...

Don Letts examines the history of this notorious subculture in a fascinating documentary, which features interviews with members of different...

A family living in a Punjab village deals with social and labor inequities until a fight breaks out during a lunar eclipse.

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

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...

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

A maverick British art house movie exploring solitude, sanity and suffering under The State. As a contagion befalls the UK a grieving teacher...

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