Working Class Movies

An idealistic high school graduate goes to work on a state farm on the Kyrgyz steppe, only to clash with its authoritarian leader.

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....

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, girls aged 12 to 16 began working at Pyeonghwa Market. Running sewing machines, they also study the Labor...

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

Documentary about Margit Nielsen and her work at the Malmö chocolate factory.

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.

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...

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...

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 North Korean coal miner struggles to realize her dream of becoming a circus acrobat.

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...

"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...

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...

This documentary follows young Esad, singer in Slovenian New Wave Punk band Via Ofenziva.

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

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...

Three women share their experience of navigating the app-world in the metro city. The sharings reveal gendered battles as platform workers and 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...