Working class, blue collars
by guisreis | created - 04 May 2014 | updated - 8 months ago | Public- Instant Watch Options
- Genres
- Movies or TV
- IMDb Rating
- In Theaters
- Release Year
- Keywords
1. Modern Times (1936)
G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford
Votes: 259,376 | Gross: $0.16M
2. Billy Elliot (2000)
R | 110 min | Drama, Music
A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven
Votes: 142,753 | Gross: $22.00M
3. The Boy and the World (2013)
PG | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A little boy goes on an adventurous quest in search of his father.
Director: Alê Abreu | Stars: Vinicius Garcia, Marco Aurélio Campos, Lu Horta, Felipe Zilse
Votes: 7,599 | Gross: $0.13M
4. I, Daniel Blake (2016)
R | 100 min | Drama
After surviving a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight bureaucratic forces to receive Employment and Support Allowance.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy, Briana Shann
Votes: 64,760 | Gross: $0.26M
5. Two Days, One Night (2014)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama
Liège, Belgium. Sandra is a factory worker who discovers that her workmates have opted for a EUR1,000 bonus in exchange for her dismissal. She has only a weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses in order to keep her job.
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée, Baptiste Sornin
Votes: 50,528 | Gross: $1.44M
6. The Spirit of '45 (2013)
94 min | Documentary, History
A documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Eileen Thompson, Julian Tudor Hart, Dai Walters, Sam Watts
Votes: 1,304
7. Invisible Life (2019)
R | 139 min | Drama
Kept apart by a terrible lie and a conservative society, two sisters born in Rio de Janeiro make their way through life each believing the other is living out her dreams half a world away.
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Julia Stockler, Carol Duarte, Flávia Gusmão, António Fonseca
Votes: 9,645
8. They Don't Wear Black Tie (1981)
120 min | Drama
Union leader's son doesn't want to engage in a strike, because his wife is pregnant, thus disregarding his father's tradition of political activism.
Director: Leon Hirszman | Stars: Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Fernanda Montenegro, Carlos Alberto Riccelli, Bete Mendes
Votes: 1,820
9. Salt of the Earth (1954)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, History
Mexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they eventually triumph.
Director: Herbert J. Biberman | Stars: Juan Chacón, Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer, David Bauer
Votes: 4,042
10. The Lunchbox (2013)
PG | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.
Director: Ritesh Batra | Stars: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Lillete Dubey
Votes: 60,843 | Gross: $4.23M
11. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri
Votes: 175,099 | Gross: $0.33M
12. The Pope's Toilet (2007)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's 1988 visit.
Directors: César Charlone, Enrique Fernández | Stars: César Troncoso, Virginia Méndez, Mario Silva, Virginia Ruiz
Votes: 2,873
13. Looking for Eric (2009)
Not Rated | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Eric, a football fanatic postman whose life is descending into crisis, receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical Eric Cantona.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, Stephanie Bishop, Gerard Kearns
Votes: 17,963 | Gross: $0.06M
14. The Bride Wore Red (1937)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A lounge singer is sent by a count to pose as a wealthy socialite.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Billie Burke
Votes: 1,277
Not properly blue collars, but the film is about class.
15. Boccaccio '70 (1962)
Unrated | 205 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.
Directors: Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti | Stars: Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider, Marisa Solinas
Votes: 5,045
The first segment, my favorite one, by Mario Monicelli. Indeed, the other three segments focus on other classes: Fellini (middle class), Visconti (rich) and De Sica (rural).
16. Falsa Loura (2007)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom she learns traumatic life lessons.
Director: Carlos Reichenbach | Stars: Rosanne Mulholland, Cauã Reymond, Maurício Mattar, Djin Sganzerla
Votes: 465
17. Araby (2017)
97 min | Drama
Andre is a young boy that lives in an industrial neighborhood in Ouro Preto, Brazil, near an old aluminum factory. One day he finds a notebook from one of the factory workers.
Directors: João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa | Stars: Aristides de Sousa, Murilo Caliari, Gláucia Vandeveld, Renata Cabral
Votes: 1,337 | Gross: $0.04M
18. Parasite (2019)
R | 132 min | Drama, Thriller
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly-formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-sik
Votes: 958,500 | Gross: $53.37M
Indeed, more vulnerable than working class, due Korean social problems.
19. The Story of Fausta (1988)
90 min | Drama
Fausta is a survivor who dreams of building a house on land she's buying on the installment plan. Meanwhile she lives in a one-room tin-roofed hovel with her idle husband, João, and she ... See full summary »
Director: Bruno Barreto | Stars: Betty Faria, Daniel Filho, Brandão Filho, Cristina Pereira
Votes: 190
20. À Nous la Liberté (1931)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Musical
Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier
Votes: 4,967
21. The Machinist (2004)
R | 101 min | Drama, Thriller
An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.
Director: Brad Anderson | Stars: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, John Sharian
Votes: 415,412 | Gross: $1.08M
22. Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Not Rated | 179 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Claudia Cardinale
Votes: 21,191
23. Pay Day (II) (1922)
22 min | Animation, Short
The Inkwell Clown watches Max handle the payroll and wants to be paid like everybody else. Later, the cameraman Clown captures a burglary on film and helps Max catch the culprit.
Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer
Votes: 35
24. Os Inquilinos (2009)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
Valter goes to night school. Iara, his wife, says that the new tenants don't work, that they're probably criminals. Nobody knows where they're from, Iara tells him that they bring women ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Bianchi | Stars: Fernando Alves Pinto, Zezeh Barbosa, Caio Blat, Lennon Campos
Votes: 224
25. Kes (1969)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Family
A working-class English boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet kestrel.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: David Bradley, Brian Glover, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie
Votes: 22,926
26. The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
R | 103 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Three groups of people intertwine and are left stranded in the streets on Purge Night, trying to survive the chaos and violence that occurs.
Director: James DeMonaco | Stars: Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford, Kiele Sanchez
Votes: 162,224 | Gross: $71.96M
27. Giant (2009)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama
A chronicle of a supermarket security guard's obsession with a late-shift janitor.
Director: Adrián Biniez | Stars: Horacio Camandule, Leonor Svarcas, Néstor Guzzini, Federico García
Votes: 2,188 | Gross: $0.01M
28. Stories of Samba (2015)
17 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
The film is based on lyrics from the very famous Brazilian samba composer Adoniran Barbosa, following the aesthetics of his time. Notable facts and characters of his songs takes us through ... See full summary »
Director: Pedro Soffer Serrano | Stars: Gero Camilo, Aisha Jambo, Gustavo Machado, Ney Matogrosso
Votes: 31
"Dá licença de contar". Watch it here: https://youtu.be/P5DV2I3CbIg
29. Requiem for the American Dream (2015)
Not Rated | 73 min | Documentary, Biography, News
Renowned academic and author Noam Chomsky elucidates 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power that have led to unprecedented inequality and the hollowing out of the American middle class.
Directors: Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott | Stars: Noam Chomsky, Alan Greenspan, Malcolm X, Richard Nixon
Votes: 9,883 | Gross: $0.13M
Precariat...
30. Gun City (2018)
TV-MA | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
In 1921 a tough cop is sent from Madrid to Barcelona to locate stolen military weaponry.
Director: Dani de la Torre | Stars: Luis Tosar, Michelle Jenner, Vicente Romero, Manolo Solo
Votes: 4,332
31. No Intenso Agora (2017)
127 min | Documentary, History
A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.
Director: João Moreira Salles
Votes: 609 | Gross: $0.02M
32. Lula, the Son of Brazil (2009)
Not Rated | 130 min | Biography, Drama, History
The true story of a working-class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one of the most influential politicians in Brazil's history.
Directors: Fábio Barreto, Marcelo Santiago | Stars: Rui Ricardo Diaz, Glória Pires, Juliana Baroni, Cleo
Votes: 3,088
33. The Workers Cup (2017)
92 min | Documentary, Sport
Inside Qatar's labor camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of their own.
Director: Adam Sobel
Votes: 259
34. Leaving the Factory (1895)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.
Director: Louis Lumière
Votes: 7,548
The first projected film! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO0EkMKfgJI
35. The Rat Race (2012)
52 min | Documentary, Drama
A modern interpretation of the classic pied piper fable unfolding in one of the biggest cities in the world, the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. The touching narratives of rat killers in ... See full summary »
Director: Miriam Chandy Menacherry
Votes: 59
36. Garrincha - Alegria do Povo (1963)
60 min | Documentary, Sport
Documentary about the most famous dribbler in Brazilian Soccer (some say in Soccer's history!) at the zenith of his career, showing classic scenes of 1958 and 1962 World Cup. Garrincha was ... See full summary »
Director: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade | Stars: Heron Domingues, Garrincha
Votes: 289
37. Brésil: Le grand bond en arrière (2016)
55 min | Documentary
On April 17, 2016, in Brazil, the vote of the Chamber of Deputies for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, before her impeachment on 31 August, against a background of widespread corruption, opens a period of great uncertainty.
Directors: Mathilde Bonnassieux, Frédérique Zingaro | Stars: Gregório Duvivier, Dilma Rousseff, Deltan Dallagnol, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Votes: 8
Naive and simplistic, but important.
38. Winter adé (1989)
116 min | Documentary
Before GDR collapsed, Misselwitz interviewed diverse East German women who candidly reveal personal and professional stories, frustrations, hopes, aspirations to record a changing society against a backdrop of architecture and landscapes.
Director: Helke Misselwitz | Stars: Erika Banhardt, Hermann Busse, Margarete Busse, Heide Drechsler
Votes: 165 | Gross: $0.01M
The idea of this documentary (interviewing a wide range of different women in GDR) is quite nice and it does show generational transformation of society in Eastern Germany, but most of interviews are excessively long, boring, uninteresting and unimportant, leading nowhere. The second half of the film is much better, but not enough to save the movie. It gets better when it comes to youngest women (interviews are not good either, but are at least useful to show how old habits were being abandoned, with teenagers not wanting to marry or the increase of divorces). Though, the best moment, by far, is the one showing the celebration of the oldest generation (a very funny testimonial by the matriarch - no spoilers here! - and a hsitorically important testimonial by the patriarch on economical crisis and bad conditions in the late 20's).
39. The Seafarers (1953)
Not Rated | 29 min | Documentary, Short
Stanley Kubrick's first film made in color, lost for over forty years. The documentary extols the benefits of membership to the Seafarers International Union.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Don Hollenbeck, Paul Hall
Votes: 3,245
40. Lumière! (2016)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, History
A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.
Director: Thierry Frémaux | Stars: Thierry Frémaux, Martin Scorsese, Pierre Bellingard, Ernestina Bossi
Votes: 1,607
41. Pizza (II) (2005)
56 min | Documentary
A source of inspiration for the cinematography of Ugo Giorgetti, São Paulo is once again the backdrop to this documentary in which the theme is the specialty of the city's culinary.
Director: Ugo Giorgetti
Votes: 9
42. Dheepan (2015)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama
Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.
Director: Jacques Audiard | Stars: Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers
Votes: 16,815 | Gross: $0.25M
43. Dukla 61 (2018)
150 min | Drama, History
A fire in a Dukla mineshaft in Havirov on July 7, 1961 is the basis for this TV family drama in two episodes.
Stars: Martha Issová, Marek Taclík, Oskar Hes, Antonie Formanová
Votes: 282
44. A Window to Rosália (2017)
87 min | Drama
Rosalia is a 65-year-old worker who dedicated her life to work in a reactor factory on the outskirts of São Paulo. One day, she is fired, and comforted by her brother José. He decides to take her on a car trip to Buenos Aires.
Director: Caroline Leone | Stars: Magali Biff, Cacá Amaral, Mayara Constantino, Paloma Contreras
Votes: 168
45. Hour of the Star (1985)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens... See full summary »
Director: Suzana Amaral | Stars: Marcelia Cartaxo, José Dumont, Tamara Taxman, Fernanda Montenegro
Votes: 1,437
46. Darkest Hour (2017)
PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, War
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn
Votes: 220,649 | Gross: $56.47M
47. Tim Lopes - Histórias de Arcanjo (2013)
84 min | Documentary
The trajectory of Arcanjo Antonino Lopes do Nascimento, Tim Lopes. Considered one of the greatest investigative reporters in Brazil, who did a singular and revered journalism.
Director: Guilherme Azevedo | Stars: Guilherme Azevedo, Tim Lopes
Votes: 34
48. Germinal (1993)
R | 160 min | Drama, Romance
In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Renaud, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet
Votes: 5,744 | Gross: $0.38M
49. Construção (2007)
48 min | Documentary
The city of São Paulo in its perpetual process of construction and deconstruction seen from the microcosm of a construction site, its workers and a profusion of machines in full activity. ... See full summary »
Director: Cristiano Burlan
Votes: 5
50. Jubiabá (1986)
100 min | Drama
Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonym novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the daughter of a rich Commander and Antonio Balduíno, a rascal, fighter and famous lover from Salvador.
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Stars: Grande Otelo, Julien Guiomar, Charles Baiano, Catherine Rouvel
Votes: 88
51. On Body and Soul (2017)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
When slaughterhouse workers Endre and Mária discover they share the same dreams, where they meet in a forest as deer and fall in love, they decide to make their dreams come true, but it's difficult in real life.
Director: Ildikó Enyedi | Stars: Alexandra Borbély, Géza Morcsányi, Réka Tenki, Zoltán Schneider
Votes: 29,872
52. Absolutamente Certo (1957)
95 min | Comedy
A man who's memorized his town's telephone directory tries his luck on a TV Show. But a small group of people who control the bettings in town try to get advantage of his simple-mindedness.
Director: Anselmo Duarte | Stars: Anselmo Duarte, Dercy Gonçalves, Odete Lara, Aurélio Teixeira
Votes: 151
53. Tempestade (2019)
20 min | Short, Drama
In the distance, flying over the multiplied volcanoes, an electric storm was generated in silence.
Director: Fellipe Fernandes | Stars: Zoraide Coleto, Kildery Kildery, Fábio Leal, Cíntia Lima
Votes: 11
54. Planeta Fábrica (2019)
11 min | Documentary, Short
The machines of a hat factory grind to a halt after 100 years. Metal, brick and sweat. The perfect coupling between man and machine or the creation of the man-machine. The empty corridors ... See full summary »
Director: Julia Zakia
55. Planta permanente (2019)
78 min | Comedy, Drama
Lila and Marcela have always worked on the cleaning staff of a state office. They know its nooks and crannies better than anyone, and have found a way to support themselves - and a dream - ... See full summary »
Director: Ezequiel Radusky | Stars: Liliana Juárez, Rosario Bléfari, Verónica Perrotta, Nina Vera Suárez Bléfari
Votes: 238
56. Landless (2019)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary
An insight into the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement's everyday routine, which is divided up between tilling the land, political activism and talk of what a better future might look like.
Director: Camila Freitas | Stars: Natalina Vó Cândida, Wilmar P.C. Fernandes, Valtenir Gomes, Elizabett Conceição
Votes: 221
57. ABC da Greve (1990)
75 min | Documentary
A detailed look at the events that led to the continuous strikes that shut down many factories during the still repressive days of the military regime. The workers union, led by syndicalist... See full summary »
Director: Leon Hirszman | Stars: Lélia Abramo, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Vinicius de Moraes, Ferreira Gullar
Votes: 207
58. Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
GP | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1920s Boston, Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are scrutinized for their anarchist beliefs while on trial for robbery and murder.
Director: Giuliano Montaldo | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack, Rosanna Fratello
Votes: 3,727 | Gross: $0.19M
59. Waiting for the Carnival (2019)
86 min | Documentary
A small village in the Brazilian outback is considered the nation's capital of jeans. It's also a microcosm that depicts modern day capitalism and its transgressions.
Director: Marcelo Gomes
Votes: 890
60. Long Way Home (2018)
113 min | Drama
In order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan town of Contagem in Brazil. While waiting for ... See full summary »
Director: André Novais Oliveira | Stars: Grace Passô, Russo Apr, Rejane Faria, Hélio Ricardo
Votes: 812
61. Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain (2014)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
Interwoven stories of people in India and US as they face dilemmas of life time in the months leading to the biggest Industrial disaster in human history that claimed 10,000 innocent lives within a few hours. Inspired by real events.
Director: Ravi Kumar | Stars: Mischa Barton, Martin Sheen, Kal Penn, Lisa Dwan
Votes: 2,202 | Gross: $0.01M
62. At War (2018)
113 min | Drama
After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.
Director: Stéphane Brizé | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Mélanie Rover, Jacques Borderie, David Rey
Votes: 2,169 | Gross: $0.00M
63. Fences (2016)
PG-13 | 139 min | Drama
A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
Director: Denzel Washington | Stars: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo
Votes: 117,979 | Gross: $57.68M
64. Chão de Fábrica (2021)
24 min | Short, Drama
In Lunch Break, we witness the novelty of a rediscovered tradition: the formation of workers' class consciousness amid a clash which intersects shared sociability and the fissures imposed ... See full summary »
Director: Nina Kopko | Stars: Joana Castro, Alice Marcone
Votes: 27
Tell Your Friends