| Ryōmaden (2010) | 8.0 | |
| Made in Korea (2025) | 7.3 | |
| The Family (1974) | 7.6 | |
| Gold Leaf (2021) | 8.3 | |
| Lord of Mysteries (2025) | 8.5 |
Industrialization movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant industrialization movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out historical drama, period piece, captivating, serious, period drama and realistic films and TV shows about / with industrialization, family relations, society, class conflict, poverty, love, husband wife relationship, countryside, businessman and ambition plots mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres shot in UK, Japan, India and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as industrialization: The Factory (1981), Lady Chatterley (2006), Unrest (2022), Lulu the Tool (1971), North & South (2004), Lenin's Testament (2007), And Then There Was Light (1989), Big Green Valley (1967), Tunnel of Dreams (2016), Into the Flames (2014).
Best films
New films
| Ésimésac (2012) | 6.0 | |
| I, Mattoni (2016) | 6.2 | |
| Caught by the Tides (2024) | 6.7 | |
| Revu (2024) | 7.8 | |
| Ka Pae Ranasingam (2020) | 7.2 |
List of industrialization movies
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A tanner, swamped with debts, must abandon his trade and go work in the local factory.
Plot:
audit, marxism, rural setting, social commentary, immigrant, damage, provincial, skin, job, province, husband, defeat ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
French adaption of DH Lawrence's infamous novel about forbidden passion across the class divide. Winner of the 2007 Cesar Award for Best Film.
Style:
sexy, erotic, romantic, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
infidelity, lady, sex, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, passion, female pubic hair, forbidden love, affair, sensuality, unhappy marriage, male nudity ...
Time:
year 2006, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
mediterranean sea, riviera, europe, france
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement (“unrueh") of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work ...
Style:
philosophical, historical drama, period piece, slow cinema, meditative ...
Plot:
anarchism, industrialization, photography, labor movement, class struggle, working conditions, social change, capitalism, union, labor, factory, strike ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
switzerland
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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
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
North & South is a British television drama serial, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in four episodes on BBC One in November and December 2004. It follows the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman from southern England who has to ...
Style:
touching, period piece, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
prejudice, initially antagonists, social differences, love and romance, pride and honor, society, young woman, rich and poor, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, owner ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 50s, turn of the century, 1850s ...
Place:
england, britain, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
The author of The Kolyma Stories and many other works spent 17 years in the terrible GULAG camps on Kolyma. The term that Varlam Tikhonovich received in 1929 was for distributing Lenin's letter to the congress, in which he criticized Stalin. ...
Plot:
gulag, political repression, labor camp, memory, coercion, slave labor, prisoner of war camp, communist, bolshevik, communism, industrialization, russian revolution ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s
Place:
soviet union, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, West Germany, Italy, Senegal
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Events in an idyllic African village are shown in detail in the period just before logging trucks come in and cut down the forest around the villagers, forcing them to move into the wretched shantytowns that surround major cities throughout the ...
Style:
art house, realistic, reflective, melancholic, poignant ...
Plot:
deforestation, industrialization, village life, slice of life, social change, environmental destruction, slum, poverty, minimalism, bittersweet, estrangement, native ...
Time:
80s
Place:
senegal
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of geologists discover oil under the fields where Sosana, the aged and anachronistic father, raises his herd with his unhappy wife, her friend and his growing boy with whom he displays a wonderful rapport. The land is invaded by big ...
Style:
melancholic, pastoral, poignant, period drama
Plot:
industrialization, family drama, alienation, livestock, social realism, bittersweet, eviction, nostalgia, machinery, isolation, blue collar, suicide attempt ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
The film goes back to the start of construction of the first rail tunnel through the Gotthard Massif in the late 1800s.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
love triangle, tunnel, construction, social class, industrialization, class conflict, relationship problems, love interest, workplace situations, social issues, social problems, relationships ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Based on the life of Park Tae-joon, founder and honorary chairman of multinational steel-making company POSCO, this is the story of the people who battled poverty and despair after the colonial era and the Korean War with a relentless pursuit of ...
Style:
dramatic, historical drama, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
businessman, biopic, industrialization, resilience, relationships, korean war, poverty, business, business venture, big business, fight, korean history ...
Place:
south korea, korea, east asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Shibusawa Eiichi was born in 1840 to a farmer’s family. He grew up helping his family with work, which was to manufacture and sell indigo production and also silk farming. He left his hometown at the age of 23 and began working for the government. ...
Style:
historical drama, serious, period piece, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
capitalism, government, historical figure, finance, banking, industrialization, entrepreneurship, biopic, historical character, capitalist, storytelling, lifestyle ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
A tale of secrets and scandals set in 1840s London. When the Trenchards accept an invitation to the now legendary ball hosted by the Duchess of Richmond on the fateful evening of the Battle of Waterloo, it sets in motion a series of events that will ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, captivating, romantic, historical drama ...
Plot:
high society, aristocracy, estate, twists and turns, aristocrat, country estate, family secret, merchant, life, palace, family life, conflict ...
Time:
19th century, future, regency period, victorian era, 1840s ...
Place:
london, england, britain
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 469 min.
TV show
Story:
In the 1840s, Cranford is ruled by the ladies. They adore good gossip; and romance and change is in the air, as the unwelcome grasp of the Industrial Revolution rapidly approaches their beloved rural market-town.
Style:
atmospheric, sincere, costume drama, period piece, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
small town life, social differences, aristocracy, high society, small town, family relations, love and romance, class differences, proposal, social relations, family life, maid ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1840s
Place:
england, britain, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and ...
Style:
atmospheric, romantic, spiritual, contemplative, talky ...
Plot:
european, peasant, summer, economist, spirituality, sleeping, family relations, friendship, friends, love and romance, master and servant, society ...
Time:
19th century, year 1980, turn of the century
Place:
russia, rome italy, ussr, soviet union, india ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Ainu tribe, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to ...
Style:
anime, philosophical, atmospheric, captivating, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
wolf, human animal relationship, friendship, mythology, nature, strong female lead, human spirit, forest, hopes, princess, moral ambiguity, demon ...
Time:
15th century, 16th century, year 1997, near future, 90s ...
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 207 min.
TV show
Story:
A tale in three parts that unfolds against the backdrop of the Iraq war and the world of the multi billion pound mobile phone industry, flashing back and forth to retrace events from three very different perspectives: the engineer, the soldier and ...
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot:
investigation, conspiracy, multiple perspectives, social problems, problem, industrialization, intrigue, technology, fight, secret, political intrigue, corporate conspiracy ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
Napoleon has been exiled to Elba, the English have returned from the wars, and Major Richard Sharpe finds himself in a sort of exile to lead a company of Yorkshire Yeomen. His duties include protecting mill owners from restless workers who are on ...
Style:
historical drama, heroic, bleak, melancholic
Plot:
napoleonic era, napoleonic wars, revenge, chivalry, justice, social injustice, class conflict, corruption, industrialization, betrayal, post war, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, 1800s
Place:
yorkshire, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Made in 1962 (but not released until 1965), Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak’s film starts soon after the 1947 partition of Bengal. At a socialist refugee colony, Ishwar and his younger sister, Sita, adopt a low-caste boy, Abhiram, who has been ...
Style:
bleak, poignant, melancholic, grim, intense ...
Plot:
refugee, class conflict, moral dilemma, integrity, realism, family drama, sacrifice, betrayal, industrialization, honor, orphan, humanism ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s
Place:
kolkata
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, bleak, tragic
Plot:
sexual harassment, working conditions, poverty, social realism, industrialization, child labor, resilience, brutality, class struggle, human rights, abusive boss, snow ...
Time:
90s
Is relevant?
194
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland.
Style:
period piece
Plot:
agriculture, slice of life, small town life, industrialization, family life, social change, curiosity, nostalgia, melancholy, exploration, bittersweet, isolation ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
finland
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403
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Denmark
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
The development of Carlsberg Beer, the Carlsberg brewery and the mishaps between father and son, are the main story. But also the social life in Denmark in this time period, both for the rich and poor are explored.
Style:
period piece, family saga, historical drama, educational
Plot:
father son relationship, family conflict, social class, biopic, entrepreneurship, industrialization, ambition, innovation, realism, social change, business rivalry, legacy ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, scandinavia, rome italy
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the shantytown of Jericho is the home of a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they've been brought together to build.
Style:
historical drama, costume drama, period piece, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
victorian england, industrialization, family drama, class struggle, secrets, social realism, poverty, betrayal, survival, moral ambiguity, oppression, isolation ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
england, britain
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
TV show
Story:
Biographical series about Heinrich Mattoni, capitalist of the early period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, founder of the world-famous mineral water bottling company, a man of a dynamic and controversial fate.
Style:
family saga, semi autobiographical, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family business, self made man, husband wife relationship, flashback, ambition, biopic, capitalism, entrepreneurship, mogul, ambitious man, businessman, male female relationship ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century
Place:
central europe, czech republic
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Ariyanchi is married to Ranasigam, who works in Dubai, and the couple has a little daughter. On the day of their daughter's ear piercing ceremony, a shocking news reaches the family.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, poignant, realistic ...
Plot:
poverty, social justice, social commentary, village life, politics, farm, countryside, empathy, class conflict, industrialization, activism, corruption ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
The president of a farmers' association wants to set up a community farming initiative and takes on a big shot, who wants to destroy his plans so that he can start a bio-diesel project on the land.
Style:
social, exciting, suspenseful, dramatic, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
corporate greed, business, businessman, farming, villager, farmer, countryside, farm, village, rural setting, village life, land grab ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
The story of three generations of the Gromov family. The main character is Prokhor Gromov: his grandfather Danila made a fortune by robbery and robbery, father Peter invested money in the business and inherited everything to Prokhor. He has an ...
Style:
gloomy, family saga, captivating, historical drama, grim ...
Plot:
family business, rich snob, rise and fall, family conflict, greed, three generations, wealthy family, historical figure, dysfunctional family, businessman, rich, bandit ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
siberia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 211 min.
Story:
Adaptation of the novel by Toyoko Yamasaki.
Style:
tense, period piece, tragic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
business rivalry, dynasty, power struggle, father son conflict, family drama, wealth, banking, legacy, greed, ambition, industrialization, family honor ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A train mogul thinks on his life and loves as he rides his own train.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, contemplative, independent film
Plot:
railroad, biopic, business tycoon, ambition, love triangle, gluttony, industrialization, decadence, mortality, entrepreneurship, gilded age, high society ...
Time:
turn of the century, 90s, 1900s, 20th century
Is relevant?
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
With the villagers of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton barely having enough food to survive, Ésimésac convinces them to collaborate on a community garden. Each person will multiply his or her yield by cultivating the land together. At the same time, talk of ...
Style:
atmospheric, sentimental, serious, captivating, fairy tale ...
Plot:
hopes, idealism, family relations, farm, society, youth, human nature, life is a bitch, village life, village, strong man, storytelling ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
TV show
Story:
In the early 1990s, the orphan Jane Xiaoai was forced to drop out of school due to her family’s poverty and moved to Guangzhou to work. In Guangzhou, she worked as a small restaurant worker and a tea girl in a foreign trade company. With her ...
Style:
sentimental, exciting, captivating, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ambition, female protagonist, women, orphan, rags to riches, entrepreneurship, female empowerment, perseverance, resilience, hardship, young woman, ambitious woman ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
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