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Souvenir (2016)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Isabelle Huppert stars as a middle-aged factory worker whose long-ago brush with fame comes to the fore again when she begins a romance with a young aspiring boxer.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, stylized
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, factory worker, female singer, musician's life, musician, love story, coworker, love affair, direction and purpose, ambition, male female relationship, fall in love ...
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Blue Collar (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
Style: neo noir, realistic, disturbing, clever, cynical ...
Plot: union, working class, heist, labor union, drinking, robbery, caper, female nudity, blaxploitation, fighting the system, crime gone awry, business ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place: detroit, michigan, usa
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Dear Comrades! (2020)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Novocherkassk, USSR, 1962. Liudmila is a Party executive and devout communist who fought at the front of WWII for Stalin’s ideology. Certain that her contribution will create a communist society, she detests any anti-Soviet sentiment. During a ...
Style: exciting, suspense, realistic, psychological, black and white ...
Plot: rebellion, communist party, anti communism, communist, brutality, riot, mother daughter relationship, labor union, labor strike, cold war, conflict, tyrant ...
Time: year 1962, 60s
Place: ussr, russia, soviet union
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Our Russia (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Nasha Russia is a Russian sketch show created by Comedy Club Productions. It was written by former KVN player Semyon Slepakov and producer Garik Martirosyan.
Style: light, feel good, satirical, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: bum, unrequited love, factory worker, family life, illegal immigrant, construction worker, ordinary people, teenage life, homosexual, sketch, homosexual subtext, teenager
Place: russia
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Easter Under Wraps (2019)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Erin Cavendish goes undercover at her family's chocolate plant to see why sales are down when she meets head chocolatier, Bryan, who has new ideas on how to update the Easter product line.
Style: light, romantic, feel good, entertaining, visually appealing ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: easter, easter bunny, chocolate, undercover, family business, business, cooking, romanticism, factory, business venture, office worker, humour ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle
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Kinky Boots (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, in central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Yet, the untimely death of his father places him in that position, only ...
Style: touching, humorous, inspirational, feel good, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: transvestism, drag queen, cabaret, fashion, small town, family business, gay slur, gender bending, fashion show, transvestite, gay, working class ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: milan italy, england, europe, london, italy
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The Efficiency Expert (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: business, family relations, downsizing, factory, fish out of water, culture clash, family business, big business, factory worker, office work, intrigue, guard dog ...
Time: 60s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: australia, melbourne
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Gung Ho (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and ...
Style: humorous, light, funny, captivating, cult classic ...
Plot: culture clash, business, workplace, worker, friendship, factory, labor union, society, buddies, unemployment, deception, car ...
Time: 80s
Place: japan, usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, asia
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The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 69 min.
Story: Iris (Kati Outinen) has a soul-deadening job as a quality-control worker watching boxes of matches go by on an assembly line all day. At night, she eats silently with her dour mother (Elina Salo) and stepfather (Esko Nikkari). One weekend, wearing ...
Style: bleak, serious, art house, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot: working class, loneliness, murder, character study, redemption, pregnancy, parent child relationship, mother daughter relationship, unwanted pregnancy, young woman, bullying, revenge ...
Time: 80s, year 1990, 90s, year 1989
Place: finland, helsinki finland
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The Promised Land (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 170 min.
Story: The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional ...
Style: serious, realistic, biting, epic, crying
Plot: revolution, friendship, capitalist, renaissance, literary, identity, time machine, revolt, railway, artist, fire, adultery ...
Time: victorian era, year 1975, 19th century, turn of the century
Place: poland, eastern europe, middle east, berlin germany, europe ...
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Gilles' Wife (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, betrayal, infidelity, sister sister relationship, jealousy, dysfunctional family, love affair, society, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, human nature, family problems ...
Time: year 2004, 1930s, pre world war two
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The American Beauty (1961)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel ...
Plot: widow, jealousy, secretary, factory worker, road accident, car accident, traffic
Place: france
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Hardboiled Egg (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of Piero, from when he was a kid to fatherhood, over the background of the town of Livorno, Tuscany, where the director Virzì was born.
Style: captivating, realistic, semi serious, gloomy, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, bittersweet, working class, youth culture, dysfunctional family, factory worker, teenage love, blue collar, oil refinery, proletarian, puberty, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: tuscany, europe, italy
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Norma Rae (1979)
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: inspirational, political, touching, sad, aesthetic ...
Plot: labor union, working class, union, women, labor, small town, feminist, business, courage, american politics, single mother, whistleblower ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place: alabama, usa
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An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Zack Mayo is a young man who has signed up for Navy Flight School. He is a Navy brat who has a bad attitude problem. Sgt. Foley is there to train and evaluate him and will clearly find Zack wanting. Zack meets Paula, a girl who has little beyond ...
Style: realistic, sexy, romantic, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, manly, date night, boys' night, chick flick
Plot: officers and cadets, love, military life, love story, navy, u.s. navy, military, u.s. military, military officer, love of one's life, self discovery, fall in love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: seattle, washington state, the philippines, manila philippines
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A Touch of Sin (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China, Japan, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
Style: bleak, meditative, melancholic, art house, lyrical ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: violence, loneliness, working class, wuxia, brutality, life philosophy, injustice, society, social decay, life is a bitch, capitalism, multiple storylines ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: china
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Clubbed (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An underworld drama set in the early 1980s, about a lonely factory worker whose life is transformed when he becomes a nightclub doorman.
Style: psychological, serious, bleak, rough, indie film ...
Plot: clubbing, drug dealer, drug dealing, working class, nightclub, society, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, social decay, friendship, gangster, underdog ...
Time: 80s, year 2008
Place: england, europe
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Lonesome Jim (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Failing to make it on his own, 27-year-old Jim moves back in with his parents and deals with crippling family obligations.
Style: touching, emotional, stylized, sincere, humorous ...
Plot: small town, dysfunctional family, coma, single parent, homecoming, alienation, introspection, writers, love and romance, hopes, life is a bitch, couple relations ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, new orleans
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Extract (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The owner of a factory that produces flavor extracts, Joel Reynold seems to have it all, but really doesn't. What's missing is sexual attention from his wife, Suzie. Joel hatches a convoluted plan to get Suzie to cheat on him, thereby ...
Style: humorous, funny, satirical, talky, melancholic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: business, workplace, infidelity, gigolo, crime gone awry, disorder, family problems, workplace situations, unsupportive coworkers, friends, nothing goes right, boss and employee ...
Time: year 2009, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
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John Q (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage ...
Style: suspense, sincere, tear jerker, emotional, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hostage, injustice, hospital, kidnapping, twists and turns, organ donation, fighting the system, father son relationship, medical, society, parent child relationship, insurance ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
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Total Recall (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, India
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, entertaining, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, distopia, virtual reality, memory loss, dystopic future, post apocalypse, technology, on the run, dystopian future, mars, false memory, secret agent ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, near future
Place: seattle, big ben london
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Eight Hours are Not a Day (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 476 min.
TV show
Story: A sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic look at domestic relationships and labour relationships, with particular focus on skilled worker Jochen and his new girlfriend, Marion.
Style: art house
Plot: blue collar, working class, everyday life, solidarity, factory worker, worker, labor union, family relations, german culture, social problems, social issues, male nudity ...
Place: west germany
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Christmas Evil (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.
Style: christmas horror, slasher, bloody, scary, cult classic ...
Plot: christmas, serial killer as protagonist, holiday horror, killer santa claus, serial killer, xmas, killer, holiday, exploitation, blood, christmas season, winter ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, 80s, 20th century, year 1947
Place: new york
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So Long, My Son (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 185 min.
Story: The changes in Chinese society from the 1950s to the '80s, as experienced by two families.
Style: independent film, sexy, social, non-linear
Plot: loss of son, infidelity, birth control, family relations, suburbs, runaway, working class, teenager, hospital, flashback, father son relationship, airplane ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 80s, 2000s
Place: china
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Love Thy Neighbour (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Love Thy Neighbour is a British sitcom, which was transmitted from 13 April 1972 until 22 January 1976, spanning seven series. The sitcom was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. The principal cast included Jack Smethurst, Rudolph ...
Style: sitcom, controversial, sexy, hot
Audience: kids
Plot: british, neighbor neighbor relationship, working class, factory worker, racial tension, friendship, immigrant, pub, racial issues, husband wife relationship, racism, neighbor ...
Time: 70s
Place: england, london
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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.
Style: depressing, independent film, sincere, serious, compassionate ...
Audience: teens
Plot: depression, unemployment, injustice, working class, female protagonist, solidarity, workplace, loss of job, employer employee relationship, moral dilemma, guilt, poverty ...
Time: year 2014, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: belgium, france, ethiopia, europe
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The Swissmakers (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the applicants they must screen are a French psychiatrist and his wife, and a ballet dancer. The married ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous
Plot: immigrant, immigration, surveillance, politics, migration, forbidden love, police, irony, flower shop, italian immigrant, factory worker, racism ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: switzerland
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Joe (1970)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at a bar. There he runs into a drunken factory worker ...
Style: suspense, cult classic, realistic, disturbing, psychedelic ...
Plot: murder, hospital, friendship, drug, vigilante, violence, working class, orgy, drinking, death, female nudity, killings ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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THX 1138 (1971)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the ...
Style: bleak, mindfuck, philosophical, futuristic, thought provoking ...
Plot: distopia, totalitarianism, dystopian future, cyberpunk, dystopia, prison, brainwashing, androids and robots, utopia, fighting the system, robot, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, year 1971, distant future
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Teorema (1968)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives, makes love to every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he ...
Style: surreal, allegory, erotic, disturbing, controversial ...
Plot: bourgeoisie, surrealism, lgbt, mysterious stranger, gay, parable, homosexuality, lgbtq, erotica, sex, seduction, female nudity ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, europe, milan italy
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