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At War (2018)
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Original name: En guerre
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, thought provoking, political
Plot:
strike, labor union, working class, capitalism, class struggle, business manager, factory, worker, mayor, hard labor, police, anger, layoff, protest, news report, demonstration, struggle, human rights, civil rights, civil rights movement, corporate greed, workplace problem, righting the wronged, business competition, labor movement ...
Time:
2010s, labor day
Place:
france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and political films with plots about working class, society, strike, worker, labor union, life is a bitch and workplace mostly in Drama, History and Romance genres. Some movies like At War: The Measure of a Man (2015), Blood from a Stone (2011), Another World (2021), Just Great (1972), For Marx... (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?
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unemployment, economic crisis, working class, supermarket, society, petty theft, coworker relationship, layoff, job interview, social realism, life is a bitch, rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
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thought provoking, realistic, cynical, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
bankruptcy, save the day, rivalry, workplace, labor union, factory, working class, boss and employee, society, workplace situations, employer, strike ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe, mediterranean sea, provence
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70%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
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An executive manager, his wife and his family, at the point when his professional choices are about to overturn all their lives. Philippe Lemesle and his wife are separating, their love irretrievably damaged by pressures of work. A successful ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
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Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.
Style:
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Plot:
supermarket, strike, reporter, dialectical materialism, love, communism, anarchy, anarchism, female journalist, chaos, factory, revolution ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The workers fight for their rights creating independent union. They know that it is the only way to struggle against the owners of the plant.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, serious, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
exploitation, socialism, capitalism, industry, money, worker, labor union, class conflict, crisis, working class, city life, society ...
Place:
soviet union
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Forty-eight-year-old Alain Evrard is obliged to return home to live with his mother. This situation causes all the violence of their past relationship to rise to the surface. Alain then discovers that his mother has a fatal illness. In the last ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, gloomy
Plot:
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Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
switzerland, france, europe
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the ...
Style:
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Plot:
labor union, working class, feminist, small town, union, women, labor, business, labor movement, courage, single mother, american politics ...
Time:
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Place:
north carolina, usa, alabama
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
dictatorship, dictator, working class, blue collar, worker, family relations, military dictatorship, defiant, angry, life is a bitch, couple relations, society ...
Time:
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Place:
brazil
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46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland, France
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 ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, social, epic ...
Plot:
realism, immigrant, working class, injustice, society, employment agency, politics, fighting the system, workplace, legal, life is a bitch, workplace situations ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
britain, england, europe
Similarity:
45%
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, realistic, emotional, serious, political ...
Plot:
working class, labor union, factory worker, factory, rebellion, boss and employee, rebelliousness, power relations, social differences, workplace situations, anarchist, worker ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
André, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristiano’s house to pick up clothes and documents, André stumbles on a notebook, ...
Style:
existential, psychological, thought provoking, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
existentialism, working class, lonely, social issues, poverty, social commentary, character study, social realism, life is a bitch, society, social problems, coming of age ...
Place:
brazil, poetic realism
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young widow wants to carry on with her husband's work:managing a pine plantation where they extract resin;but most of all,she wants to have electricity installed in her valuable property.In this place,it seems that 1789 never happened and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, sincere
Plot:
working class, social decay, against the odds, society, follow your dream, social relations, small town, strike, worker, family relations, class struggle, widow ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a dying French mining town near the German border, the last miners are preparing to strike. Marek and Mimmo, two young miners and friends, have different views on the impending strike.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, realistic, tension, political
Plot:
strike, working class, friendship, protest, class struggle, blue collar, poverty, unemployment, social realism, small town, solidarity, male friendship ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, rough
Plot:
factory, vengeance, workplace intrigue, misled, parents and children, rivalry, righting the wronged, workplace, dishonesty, workplace situations, family relations, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Muller company organizes a reception to mark the launch of a new product. During the evening, we discover that this is actually a coaching exercise for company executives. Gradually, rumours about the upcoming acquisition of the company start to ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 126 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:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, realistic, rough, independent film, captivating ...
Plot:
strike, poverty, labor strike, fighting the system, rebellion, against the odds, price of justice, ambition, legal, society, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
kentucky, appalachia, usa, new york
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, sentimental, tense ...
Plot:
couples, society, working class, fall in love, immigrant, life is a bitch, misfit, security guard, gang, pursuit, danger, youth ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, self discovery, love, couples, friendship, fall in love, relationships, life changing, parents and children, supportive spouse ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Au milieu de nulle part, une cité ouvrière vidée de sa population depuis quelques années déjà. Pourtant, certains habitants ont décidé d'y rester, plus par choix que par nécessité, parce que c'est là qu'ils sont nés et ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, emotional
Plot:
factory, single parent, unemployment, workplace, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, isolation, parents and children, working class, society, hopes ...
Place:
france, europe, maghreb, south of france
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Women in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.
Style:
dramatic, emotional, disturbing, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
workplace, working class, feminism, factory, solidarity, women, ethical dilemma, female protagonist, social problems, coworker, factory owner, employment ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Romania, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A reenactment of the final days of the 2001 G8 Summit.
Style:
thought provoking, tense, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
police brutality, bullying, political protest, rebelliousness, fighting the system, globalization, political unrest, violence spree, anarchist, violence, demonstration, police ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alex, 25 years old, lives a life divided between his custom car that he pampers to the point of insanity, his friends, his girlfriend, whose baby girl he had under duress, and his job as a forklift operator. An exclusive passion, with its rituals ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy
Plot:
life turned upside down, couples, couple relations, moral dilemma, male female relationship, friendship, family crisis, disorder, family problems, family in crisis, police officer, car tuning ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Daniel leaves prison. He returns to Marseilles where Mathilda, his daughter, has just given birth. Nicolas, his spouse, a self-employed driver, is exhausted while Mathilda is a sales assistant on a trial basis. But, one night, Nicolas is assaulted ...
Style:
psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense, talky ...
Plot:
taxi driver, egoism, poverty, ex husband, childbirth, working class, horny woman, drug, family relations, newborn, humiliation, prison ...
Time:
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Place:
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28%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed ...
Style:
realistic, political, melancholic, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
labor union, immigrant, politics, working class, janitor, relationships, deportation, fighting the system, working conditions, attorney, cleaning lady, union ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, mexico city, tijuana mexico, guatemala ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Dreams and reality collide as a young woman navigates a tumultuous relationship amid rising social tensions, protests and tragedies in Paris.
Style:
suspenseful, unusual plot structure, contemplative, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
fear, teenager, couples, terrorist attack, economic crisis, struggle, youth, police, terrorism, conflict, riot, danger ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), a single schoolteacher and Jean (Vincent Lindon), discover an unexpected bond that causes them to question the direction of their lives. They move in different social circles but their relationship develops ...
Style:
serious, psychological, sexual, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
teacher, family relations, love triangle, love affair, fall in love, obsession, infidelity, unfulfillment, family problems, social differences, small town, student ...
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Jeong-eun is dispatched to a subcontracting company. She tries to fit in, but her co-workers aren’t comfortable around her and she’s completely new to field work. Despite all that, she wants to stay on for a year and then return to headquarters, ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, worker, workplace, social problems, discrimination, women's rights, working class, co worker co worker relationship, coworker, civil rights, classism, adaptation ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track his colleagues, in search of reasons to report them. He then asks to ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, tense, intense, tragic
Plot:
mole, factory, psychological manipulation, betrayal, surveillance, moral ambiguity, dehumanization, alienation, social realism, class struggle, oppression, blue collar ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
25%
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