Working Class Movies

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...

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

The life of an ordinary working class family in Bagnolet's block of council flats, Paris' suburb. "I've spent 17 years here. I sacrificed myself for...

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

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...

A story of two people who fell in love and couldn't find their way in the big city: a man who came from the countryside to work in a steel factory...

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

After a shift at a refinery, four coworkers decide to go out and get drinks. After stopping at a gas station for supplies, they head to the...

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...

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...

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

An epic feature documentary about a coal mining town with a fiery immigrant heritage, once pivotal in fueling America’s industrial revolution...

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...

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....

A short "working class road movie".

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...

"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...