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MGM Plus
86
8.1
/383577/
78
/5710/
79
/4101/
4.2
/270255/
86
/129/
91
/5764/
90
/18/
cc age 17+

The Deer Hunter (1978)
Three steelworkers enlist in the Vietnam War, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter overseas changes their lives forever.
poster
Kanopy
86
8.2
/25416/
79
/392/
79
/640/
4.3
/37427/
91
/33/
94
/189/
84
/7/

Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
poster
Fandor
83
7.8
/9071/
78
/364/
77
/217/
4.4
/37227/
94
/51/
77
/16/
86
/16/

An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)
In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they find themselves.
poster
77
7.5
/28149/
74
/602/
71
/310/
3.8
/19822/
100
/31/
79
/782/
70
/16/
cc age 14+

Roger & Me (1989)
A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.
poster
Kanopy
77
6.9
/40990/
70
/1662/
68
/922/
3.8
/143040/
96
/135/
75
/434/
81
/28/

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
poster
74
7.2
/44462/
73
/1183/
68
/416/
3.6
/38918/
87
/38/
88
/2053/
61
/9/
cc age 17+

Slap Shot (1977)
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
77
72
7.4
/12031/
71
/201/
70
/180/
3.6
/8720/
100
/11/
75
/124/

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
71
7.4
/10168/
69
/151/
70
/180/
3.8
/17037/
94
/16/
84
/125/

Loves of a Blonde (1965)
Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and leaves town assuming he'll never see Andula again. But when Andula doesn't hear from him, she packs up and heads to Prague, to the surprise of Milda and his parents.
poster
70
6.5
/1646/
68
/83/
67
/36/
3.4
/1107/
86
/42/
64
/93/

Detropia (2012)
Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century – the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now… the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
63
8.0
/3706/
75
/73/
75
/123/
4.1
/5532/
90
/10/
89
/18/

The Organizer (1963)
In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory in Turin, Italy.
poster
Kanopy
72
63
7.1
/4789/
69
/91/
66
/81/
3.5
/2056/
83
/12/
75
/61/

I'm All Right Jack (1959)
Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
poster
Kanopy
65
62
6.2
/8311/
61
/200/
61
/153/
3.5
/14263/
80
/45/
53
/77/
73
/13/

Attenberg (2010)
Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance...that is until a stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table. Her father, meanwhile, ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be "overrated."
poster
71
61
6.8
/3281/
67
/53/
65
/263/
3.4
/2710/
90
/39/
77
/52/
63
/17/

Caterina in the Big City (2003)
When her social-climbing father is relocated from a one-horse town to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls in his old school, finding herself adrift in an environment where eighth-graders form friendships based on social class and their parents' political affiliations.
poster
67
42
6.6
/2720/
68
/78/
64
/129/
3.4
/2254/
70
/6/

The Body of My Enemy (1976)
A man accused of murder discovers a trail of corruption leading to the powerful family of his former love. Going underground, he seeks allies in a town where trust is scarce.
poster
70
39
6.8
/883/
61
/18/
69
/40/
3.5
/384/
86
/21/
69
/9/
68
/15/

The Way We Laughed (1998)
Studying to become a teacher in 1950s Northern Italy, Sicilian immigrant Pietro is joined by his big brother Giovanni. Pietro shows considerable promise in his field, prompting illiterate Giovanni to take on even the toughest jobs in order to support his sibling's academic pursuits.
poster
38
3.6
/32872/
45
/917/
40
/473/
2.3
/19705/
28
/36/
14
/873/
40
/14/

Barb Wire (1996)
A sexy nightclub owner, Barb Wire moonlights as a mercenary in Steel Harbor, one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scientist Cora Devonshire wanders into Barb's establishment, she gets roped into a top-secret government plot involving biological weapons. Soon Barb is reunited with her old flame Axel Hood, who is now Cora's husband and a guerrilla fighter, resulting in plenty of tense action.
poster
Kanopy
60
36
6.1
/857/
60
/62/
63
/149/
3.2
/1559/
63
/19/
70
/3/
45
/6/

Mondocane (2021)
In the near future, the southern Italian city of Taranto is surrounded by barbed wire that no one, not even the police, dares to cross. The poorest are left fighting for survival, while gangs compete for the territory. Two thirteen-year-old orphans who grew up together, dream of joining one of the gangs.
poster
65
33
6.8
/743/
61
/10/
61
/22/
3.5
/222/
67
/9/
67

The Right of the Weakest (2006)
In the Belgian town of Liege, in order to buy a moped for the wife of their friend Patrick, three men decide to organise a large-scale hold-up. As expected, nothing goes to plan.
poster
Kanopy
61
33
6.1
/1137/
59
/56/
60
/23/
3.2
/404/
62
/21/
64
/11/
62
/11/

Beneath the Harvest Sky (2013)
During harvest break, Casper is drawn into smuggling drugs across the Canadian border with his outlaw father, Clayton. Meanwhile, Dominic works his final potato harvest, hoping to earn the money he needs to buy a car and take them away towards a better future. But with Casper’s life unraveling before their eyes, their friendship and loyalty are put to the test as they are forced to mature and make very adult decisions that will forever alter the course of their lives.
poster
66
28
7.1
/499/
58
/17/
65
/48/
3.6
/891/

It's a Hard Life (1964)
Luciano Bianchi lives with his wife and son in the small town of Guastalla. As an intellectual and bibliophile, he works as head of cultural initiatives at a mining plant.
poster
65
28
7.0
/502/
63
/6/
68
/28/
3.5
/478/
57

Ratataplan (1979)
Misadventures of Colombo, an engineer in Milano. He is the only winner of an admission test for a job, and just for this reason he isn't hired. So he becomes a barman, and he discovers a special formula that turns simple water into the "Immortality drink". He is robbed of the magic water copyright. So he tries to set up a theatrical company, but the first show is a fiasco. Since finding a normal job seems a mission impossible, he tries to set the sentimental side of his life. He targets the most beautiful girl of his building, and for her he builds a robot able to dance like Tony Manero (John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever (1977)). The robot gets drunk (!). It is another fiasco. So he targets an ugly girl and finally with her succeeds to live his surreal world for ever.
poster
65
20
6.8
/611/
70
/11/
57
/36/
3.4
/331/

La Femme flic (1980)
Young police inspector Corinne Levasseur interrogated a dealer without the judge's consent. Following an indiscretion of her lover, the substitute Berthot, Corinne is transferred to a small town in the North who lives under the thumb of a rich industrialist and his family. He is given subaltern tasks. Intrigued by the strange death of a teenager, she stubbornly leads an investigation that allows her to trace the chain of a child prostitution network in which are mixed a notable and his son-in-law. A young investigating judge decides to investigate the case, but he is the victim of pressure ...
poster
65
16
7.0
/1095/
68
/11/
56
/14/
3.4
/340/

Spring and Port Wine (1970)
A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton, England.
poster
Kanopy
63
14
6.4
/480/
60
/6/
64
/12/
3.5
/896/
60
/1/

All Screwed Up (1974)
A group of workers from the south of Italy live collectively in Milan, where money isn't everything, it's the only thing, in 1974.
poster
?
7.7
/18/

Bata-ville: We Are Not Afraid of the Future (2005)
Bata-ville is a bittersweet record of a coach trip to the origins of the Bata shoe empire in Zlín in the Czech Republic. Against the backdrop of regeneration in their local communities, former employees of the now-closed UK shoe factories in East Tilbury (Essex) and Maryport (Cumbria) are led on a journey that begins as a free holiday but soon becomes an opportunity for a collective imagining of what entrepreneur Tomas Bata's maxim "We are not afraid of the future" means for them in 21st century Britain.
poster
?
100
/3/

Karoline Augusta Antonsen (2024)
Born into a family of farmers in the mid-19th century, Karoline Augusta Antonsen moves to a nearby industrial city in her late teens, driven by the dream of building a large family and owning a big house. This short film follows her journey of hope, and her struggle to survive in a tough economy. Will she achieve her lifelong ambition or will her story end in tragedy?
poster
?
5.7
/17/
10
/1/

The City Wakes Up Early (1968)
The work-relate conflict between father and son disrupts the order of previously peaceful family.
poster
67
?
5.9
/513/
90
/1/
52
/6/

No Other Woman (1933)
A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.
poster
?
8.0
/8/
50
/2/
50
/2/

Rocking the Foundations (1985)
Australian documentary about the New South Wales Builders' Labourers' Federation, 1940-1975.
poster
?
6.8
/30/
40
/2/
60
/1/

Giovanna (1955)
This short is set in the early 1950s in a small textile factory in central Italy (Prato). Giovanna and her fellow female workers decide to enact a protest against the direction of the factory's dismissal plan, by occupying the factory and continuing to work until the proprietor cancels the dismissals. None of these women can really afford to lose their jobs, as it is the only income in the family. All workers receive moral and material support from their families, apart from Giovanna, who bravely endures her husband's disapproval. Almost all the women hold out for thirty-five days in spite of the proprietor's attempts to break their resistance. At first he blocks the road to the factory, then he cuts off electric power to increase their isolation; finally, he tries to convince them to accept the dismissal of at least a smaller number of them. But the women overcome these obstacles, determined to resist...
poster
?
6.8
/6/
45
/2/

Saint-Jérôme (1968)
This socially-driven film explores the impact of technological changes on the city of Saint-Jérôme, which faced a severe socio-economic crisis in the 1960s, mirroring issues in other Quebec cities. Citizens from all social classes come together in a monumental effort to address the crisis. The film serves as both a reflection of this situation and a catalyst for action, acting as a mediation tool between technology and those affected, and facilitating participation in the reorganization of society.
poster
?
7.6
/10/

Yer Old Faither (2020)
Set in the industrial town of Whyalla, this is an intimate portrait of John Croall, a Glaswegian immigrant to Australia, and the father of long-time Adelaide Fringe director, Heather Croall. John Croall delivered three generations of babies and planted thousands of trees in the town. He was also a great letter writer, and this very personal documentary uses these letters as its point of departure. Heather Croall films with her father as a way of coping with his approaching death and reflecting on the close, and often very funny, relationship between a father and a daughter.
poster
58
?
6.3
/116/
60
/6/
52
/6/

Steel (1933)
In the huge steel factories in Terni (Umbria, Italy), two friends: Mario and Pietro, fight for the love of the same girl, Gina. Pietro dies because of a work accident at the factory. The other workers think Mario is responsible for the death of his friend. Mario, who is innocent, is forced to quit, but his love for Gina and his dedication to his job help him out of his crisis.
poster
?
5.5
/27/
15
/2/

Furnival and Son (1948)
Story of work in a cutlery manufacturing firm in Sheffield told through story of the son who enters the business.
poster
?
6.4
/95/
40
/2/
43
/7/

The Union (1972)
A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer sells the company to a multinational company.
poster
65
?
6.8
/939/
66
/6/
63
/13/

The River (2001)
Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's 60th birthday party. Waitress Leena tries to stir up a romance between her co-workers at a pizza parlor. Middle-aged Ilpo comes home early from the paper mill and finds a strange man in their bedroom. Old Milja waits for her daughter Merja at the hospital where she is visiting her terminally ill husband Henri. Teenage Santeri tries to cope with his homosexuality.
poster
61
?
5.7
/169/
66
/3/
66
/7/
57
/1/

Signorina Effe (2008)
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.
poster
?
5.1
/20/

Vaihdokas (1927)
When the general manager of the factory, Lumiala returns from his travels, he learns that his wife Anna has hired a young man named Oras as an office assistant. Anna, who feels Oras is the fruit of his youthful sin, is ready to defend the boy despite his family's petitions and Ora's crimes. Ora's girlfriend Pansy also tries to keep him on the right track.
poster
?
5.9
/24/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Il raccomandato di ferro (1959)
An Italian clerk has been helped to his position by a fake kickback letter from a politician who, meanwhile has become a state secretary. His colleagues thus send him to Rome to settle an important matter with the powerful character. The poor fellow goes hoping the truth will not come out.
poster
?

Alla Fiat era così (1990)
Several Fiat workers tell the story of their life, work, and struggle at Fiat in the 1960's and 1970's. At the same time, memory makes something alive again in one of the worker's solitary gestures. However, twenty years later....


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