Working Class Movies

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...

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,...

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

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...

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...

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

This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to...

A recently laid off steel mill worker in a little seaside town starts losing his wife to a local TV anchor.

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

Jordi a young man working at a bank has an overriding aim in life and that is to hide his humble origins. But he meets Greta a Colombian girl who has...

Today Isaías runs back and forward between the park where he plays with his kids and his architecture studio, where he complains to his...

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...

A story about two people who didn't find their way in big city. He came from the countryside and works in steel factory, she's working in factory...

In search of purpose, 17-year-old Claudio helps easygoing mechanic Stefano build a car capable of winning a street race that could solve his...

Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.

Rota ABC is a documentary essay about the desires and perspectives of youth living in the industrial suburb of São Paulo, directed by...

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.

When Taeil gets hired as a tailor's assistant, he dreams of becoming a fully-fledged tailor to be able to financially support his family. But he...

The summer of the Jubilee in 1977 was mentally dominated by another national anthem - "God Save the Queen" by The Sex Pistols. That same summer was...

A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.