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Human Resources (1999)
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Human Resources (1999)
Original name: Ressources humaines
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in Limoges, the movie tells the story of "good son" Franck (Jalil Lespert), who returns to his hometown to do a trainee managerial internship in the Human Resources department of the factory where his anxious, taciturn father has worked for 23 years.
Style: melancholic, sincere, thought provoking, emotional, touching, political, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: working class, factory, betrayal, intern, father son relationship, politics, unemployment, social differences, workplace situations, life is a bitch, family drama, worker, workplace, segregation, labor union, anarchist, labor, sacrifice, anarchism, strike, drinking, economics, skyscraper, anarchy, revolt ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 18th century
Place: france, normandy, europe, paris france, korea, japan, tokyo
Keyword: russian, french

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Two Days, One Night (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.
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Audience: teens
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Time: year 2014, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: belgium, france, ethiopia, europe
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Mondays in the Sun (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and ...
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Place: iberian peninsula, europe, galicia, switzerland, spain ...
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The Navigators (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization, their lives will never be the same. When the trusty British Rail sign is replaced by one reading East Midland Infrastructure, it is clear that there ...
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, social, gloomy ...
Plot: working class, unemployment, friendship, workplace, society, life is a bitch, fighting the system, human spirit, workplace intrigue, corporate crime, small town, realism ...
Time: year 2001
Place: europe, england
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Work Hard, Play Hard (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Philippe Seigner starts his career in business consulting at the posh Paris seat of McGregor. His first serious task is delicate: An audit at a factory, which is about to be taken over. As he soon realizes, this will mean sacking about 80 employees. ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: moral dilemma, couples, workplace, life is a bitch, society, couple relations, boss and employee, workplace situations, factory, unemployment, power relations, friendship between men ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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Made in Dagenham (2010)
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Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Style: inspirational, touching, factual, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
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Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
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Duration: 95 min.
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Plot: reporter, strike, dialectical materialism, female journalist, love, chaos, anarchism, anarchy, communism, revolution, factory, politics ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1968
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Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
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Plot: working class, worker, unhappiness, resistance, social realism, refugee, chaos, kitchen sink realism, labor, immigrant, poverty, pop singer ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
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Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
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Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Duration: 134 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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38%
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