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Lulu the Tool (1971)
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Original name: La classe operaia va in paradiso
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.
Style:
sincere, emotional, realistic, serious, political, surreal, contemplative
Plot:
factory, working class, factory worker, rebellion, fighting the system, social differences, rebelliousness, boss and employee, workplace situations, power relations, anarchist, husband wife relationship, fired from the job, labor union, revolution, bus, worker, protest, social realism, society, social relations, workplace, unsupportive coworkers, student, politics ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and contemplative films with plots about society, working class, workplace, workplace situations, rebellion, power relations and fighting the system mostly in Drama, Crime and History genres. Some movies like Lulu the Tool: One Way or Another (1976), Just Great (1972), It's a Free World... (2007), Groenten uit Balen (2011), Everyday People (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The film focuses on Angie (Kierston Wareing), a working class woman who, after being fired by the agency that she works for, decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend Rose (Juliet Ellis). Taking ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story of the laborer family Debruycker during the turbulent strike by Vieille Montagne in 1971.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
fighting the system, working class, rebellion, labor union, factory worker, society, human spirit, parents and children, workplace situations, life is a bitch, family life, workplace ...
Time:
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Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The closing of a local restaurant concerns a number of employees who've dedicated their lives to the eatery
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
restaurant, workplace romance, interracial relations, workplace, fighting the system, social differences, society, love and romance, hopes, boss and employee, social relations, family relations ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, captivating, psychological, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe, paris france, italy, florence
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A chief of detectives, homicide section, commits a murder and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
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42%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is the title character in this darkly comedic Italian drama about mistreated factory workers in the city of Turin. Toiling away in appalling conditions in a textile mill, these employees have no one to ...
Style:
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Plot:
factory, politics, labor union, strike, running from police, prostitution, solidarity, social change, sex, bus, fighting the system, working class ...
Time:
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italy, turin italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
François Durrieux, a man in his forties, married to Clémence and father of Benjamin, has been employed for years by the firm DSBO. In order not to lose his job, he always submits to his boss's demands whether it means working after office ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
Style:
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Plot:
fighting the system, rebellion, price of justice, against the odds, poverty, life is a bitch, society, human nature, human spirit, legal, ambition, racism ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Plot:
bankruptcy, save the day, rivalry, workplace, factory, working class, labor union, boss and employee, society, workplace situations, employer, strike ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1897, in Lota, Chile, in the face of long days, low pay, debts to the company store, unsafe and deadly working conditions, and widespread child labor, men try to establish a miners' association at one of the largest coal mines in the world. ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
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Place:
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Country: USA, Mexico, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labour organiser torn between his duties as a ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Duration: 112 min.
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
With an enthralling central performance by Gilbert Sicotte, this masterful debut feature examines the life of the top car salesman in a fading Quebec town as events challenge the 67-year-old’s sense of identity and the meaning of life at the most ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Plot:
family relations, human nature, dull life, unfulfillment, siblings relations, death wish, dealing with death, sexual content, disability, human rights, urban setting, urban
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europe, italy, holland, amsterdam
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Italy
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Story:
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Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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