Working conditions movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant working conditions movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, thought provoking, sincere, bleak and touching films and TV shows about / with working conditions, working class, society, workplace, class struggle, poverty, politics, family relations, labor and strike plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and History genres shot in France, UK, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as working conditions: Joe Hill (1971), Mondays in the Sun (2002), Bread and Roses (2000), A Man is Dead (2018), 24 City (2008), Where Am I Going? (2016), Midnight Is a Place (1977), The 33 of San Jose (2010), I'm Rich (2016), The Navigators (2001).
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994
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the early 1900's, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, sentimental, bleak ...
Plot:
working conditions, strike, poverty, anarchism, working class, immigrant, anarchist, exploitation, labor union, prison, train, execution ...
Time:
1910s, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
utah, usa, california, san diego california, new york
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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 ...
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, political, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
working class, unemployment, seaport, friendship, society, redemption, small town, working conditions, job seeking, self esteem, life is a bitch, breaking point ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, galicia, switzerland, spain ...
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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:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, mexico city, tijuana mexico, guatemala ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
Brest, 1950. The war ended five years ago and nothing remains of the city. Massive bombings and intense fighting lasting more than a month turned the city, its docks, its arsenal, into ashes. Thousands of workers will build it up again, brick by ...
Style:
exciting, thought provoking, suspenseful, visually appealing, captivating ...
Plot:
working conditions, communism, class struggle, strike, worker, french politics, working class, war, superhero, labor union, police violence, funeral ...
Time:
post world war two, year 1950
Place:
france
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Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Chengdu nowadays. The state owned factory 420 shuts down to give way to a complex of luxury apartments called "24 CITY". Three generations, eight characters : old workers, factory executives and yuppies, their stories melt into the History ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, slow cinema ...
Plot:
factory, working class, working conditions, introspection, society, workplace, revolution, politics, social differences, childhood memory, fired from the job, media ...
Time:
70s, 50s, 20th century, 80s, 2000s ...
Place:
china, asia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Checco is 39 and lived his entire life with his parents. He loves his job where he does nothing the whole day, until something happens that will change his behavior and his life forever...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, humorous, light, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
civil servant, working conditions, public service, job, workplace, workplace situations, couple relations, cultural difference, stereotypes, society, social relations, bureaucracy ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama, Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
This series is about two children who are the wards of a cantankerously un-loving uncle. That uncle owns a rug factory that has the typically brutal working conditions of the time that both poor adult and child labourers have to survive. Life is ...
Style:
historical drama, tense, bleak, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot:
child labor, working conditions, poverty, children, industrial revolution, survival, orphan, street life, exploitation, social realism, abandonment, family tragedy ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue.
Style:
suspense, exciting, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
mine, cave, mining, working conditions, underground, miner, rescue, friendship between men, survival, rescue attempt, teamwork, perseverance ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010
Place:
chile
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892
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Selminha is a lower-class woman who receives a family inheritance, but only if she meets the challenge of spending 30 million reais in 30 days, without accumulating anything. However, in this marathon, she will find out that there are things that ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, captivating, feel good, light ...
Plot:
working conditions, wealth, inheritance, money, humour, get rich quick scheme, money falling through the air, escapades, satire, absurd humor, heiress, rags to riches ...
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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, bleak ...
Plot:
working class, unemployment, friendship, society, human spirit, workplace intrigue, workplace, fighting the system, life is a bitch, corporate crime, injustice, small town ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
europe, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Jyothi Lingam, a bright student, leads a happy life in his small village. One day, tragedy strikes when his father, the only earning member of the family, dies in an accident.
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, touching, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
working conditions, teenage love, life is a bitch, child labor, mother son relationship, workplace, exploitation, coping, death of father, inequality, sexual harassment, realism ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s
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Genre: Adventure, Family, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
This is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master's graveside in Edinburgh. The dog visited the grave for years.
Style:
serious, feel good, touching, realistic
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
pets, dog, escapades, family relations, danger, rescue, friendship, family life, youth, animal, police dog, working conditions ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
On the Buses is a British comedy programme created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1973. The writers' previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife were for the BBC, but the corporation ...
Style:
sitcom, slapstick, light hearted, humorous, controversial
Audience:
kids
Plot:
flirting, blue collar, sexual innuendo, male friendship, bus, farce, bromance, scheming, gender roles, mother son relationship, social satire, sexism ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Emilie is a bright young workaholic manager in Human Ressources, working for a huge French agro-food company. Ambitious and dedicated to her job, she is a good soldier, ready to put ruthless methods of management into practice to meet the ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
psychological trauma, corporation, manager, guilt, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, business, rivalry, adaptation, danger, investigation, police investigation ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
paris france
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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:
political, contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
labor union, strike, politics, working class, union, resistance, working conditions, big business, conflict, european, employment, labor ...
Time:
turn of the century, 19th century, year 1963, 1800s, 1900s ...
Place:
italy, turin italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Many socially-concerned priests in Catholic Latin America have at some time left their parish churches to go and work in the fields and factories of the poor. Such priests, usually adherents of "liberation theology," are called ...
Style:
serious, thought provoking, historical drama, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
liberation theology, class struggle, poverty, social realism, social justice, solidarity, political activism, human rights, clergy, labor movement, moral dilemma, religious conversion ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
chile, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: East Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
For thirty years, Karl Achilles has been working at the chemical collective in Bitterfeld. But now his last day as a master at the plant has come. He is about to retire; even if Karl, who finds ending his working life difficult, wanted to stay on, ...
Style:
amateur film
Plot:
working conditions, aging, one day, communism, socialism, retirement, generation gap, working class, factory, self fulfillment, professional rivalry, job ...
Place:
east germany, german democratic republic
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
In Tokyo, a girl and her boyfriend spend a night talking about their life, their precarious condition and their difficulties to earn a living, their place in the world, if ever they have one...
Style:
existential, independent film, minimal cast, postmodern, experimental ...
Plot:
working conditions, homeless, submarine, storytelling, love, consumerism, memory, mannequin, dream, philosophy, loneliness, nightmare ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A worker at a nuclear power plant finds life in danger after she points out unsafe conditions.
Style:
tense, tension, suspense, grim
Plot:
plutonium, cover up, whistleblower, female protagonist, corruption, intimidation, corporate conspiracy, danger, paranoia, investigation, moral dilemma, survival ...
Place:
oregon
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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 ...
Style:
melancholic, sincere, emotional, touching, political ...
Plot:
working class, betrayal, intern, father son relationship, politics, unemployment, social differences, workplace situations, life is a bitch, family drama, worker, labor union ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 18th century
Place:
france, normandy, europe, paris france, korea ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that ...
Style:
retro, serious, realistic, emotional, sexual ...
Plot:
working conditions, adultery, submarine, tobacco, plantation, trippy, family relations, arson, love triangle, tough heroes, couples, family problems ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Place:
connecticut, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always seems to be at the right place at the right time.
Style:
offbeat, semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
children, interracial marriage, food industry, insider trading, household, working conditions, interracial, poverty, homeless, black, interracial relations, working class ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place:
lyon, france, europe
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755
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An inexperienced prosecutor becomes involved with a local woman while investigating a miner's death.
Plot:
male nudity, working conditions, artist, male objectification, male female relationship, murderer, economics, soldier, wedding, prosecutor, irony, corruption ...
Place:
romania
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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:
political, touching, inspirational, aesthetic, sad ...
Plot:
labor union, working class, feminist, small town, union, women, labor, business, labor movement, courage, single mother, american politics ...
Time:
20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place:
north carolina, usa, alabama
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The film stars French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud as Paul, a romantic young idealist and literary lion-wannabe who chases budding pop star, Madeleine (Chantal Goya, a real life Yé-yé girl).
Style:
intellectual, philosophical, erotic, talky, clever ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
counterculture, politics, sex, relationships, women, murder, revolution, european, hippie, sexuality, social commentary, violence ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, usa, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few ...
Style:
bleak, gloomy, sincere, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
religion, revolution, politics, fighting the system, biopic, liberation theology, belgian history, strike, justice, death, corruption, poverty ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1900s, 1890s, turn of the century ...
Place:
belgium, europe, flanders, poland, tokyo ...
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190
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Fabienne is a police officer. She does her job well but is gradually growing tired of the dehumanized nature of her work : arresting undocumented aliens day after day does not fit in with her ideals. That's why when, one night, Olga, the Kazakh ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, sincere, neo noir ...
Plot:
violence against women, police investigation, working class, law enforcement, missing child, police station, murder, policewoman, danger, family relations, dishonesty, working conditions ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
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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
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Labor Standards Inspectors... are you aware of their existence? For the sake of the 52 million actively employed people across the nation, the government had set up this body to help ensure that there is safety at workplaces. Danda Rin, is an ...
Style:
captivating, semi serious, satirical, disturbing, inspirational ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, strong female lead, female protagonist, work ethic, workplace situations, coworker, workaholic, protection, working conditions, employer employee relationship, workplace, employee employee relationship ...
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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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