Working Class Movies

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.

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

A surreal event makes Bloke's head spin. A man's courage, masculinity and suffering come into question in this bizarre tale, one that can only be...

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

A dejected employee reckons with his place in a seemingly hopeless Filipino society as another national election looms.

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...

A new film made from more than a hundred fragments of archive film, Echoes of the North transports you back to Northern England a century ago, taking...

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...

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

A young mother tries to run away from inner-city Dublin but discovers that there are only so many places you can go before you run into yourself.

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...

"How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It" explores the representations of wealth in cinema. It looks into how...

In Savamala, the most notorious part of Belgrade, lives an eighteen-year-old young man. In this turbulent atmosphere, different passions collide, and...

Working class of a small town near Ljubljana hope that the authorities will choose their town to build a new factory there, which proves to be wrong....

For the past seven years, every day, Sara has walked along the bus stops on General Osório Street in Pelotas, Brazil, selling candy to those...

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...

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...

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...