| Triangle of Sadness (2022) | 7.2 | |
| Great Expectations (1989) | 7.5 | |
| Hyena (2020) | 7.6 | |
| Love for Lydia (1977) | 7.6 | |
| Gikor (1982) | 7.7 |
Social class movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant social class movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, period drama, suspense, satirical and atmospheric films and TV shows about / with social class, class differences, society, friendship, working class, coming of age, family relations, satire, social satire and class conflict plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, South Korea and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as social class: Crisis in Six Scenes (2016), Howards End (2017), Emma: A Victorian Romance (2005), Elysium (2013), Snowpiercer (2013), Parasite (2019), An Impossible Love (2018), Triangle of Sadness (2022), Gosford Park (2001), The Cook of Castamar (2021).
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
During the turbulent 1960s, an American family receives a visitor who changes everything.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, captivating, satirical, feel good ...
Plot:
middle class, society, social satire, social class, working class, crisis, lifestyle, family life, humour, lifestyle change, satire, changing lives ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, captivating, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
class differences, social class, wealthy family, class system, house, sister, society, love affair, love and romance, couples, couple relations, middle class ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, victorian era, 1910s, 1900s
Place:
england, britain
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Genre: Animation, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
In 19th-century London, class lines are sharply drawn, and the social standing to which people are born dictates the path their lives will follow. Emma, an honest and hardworking young maid, never felt her place in life to be a burden. But then she ...
Style:
anime, sentimental, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
forbidden love, social differences, social class, love and romance, working class, fall in love, society, couples, family business, slice of life, tragedy, victorian england ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
london, united kingdom, europe, england
Is relevant?
489K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, South Africa, Mexico
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government ...
Style:
futuristic, breathtaking, cyber, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, dystopian future, dystopia, space station, distopia, class conflict, space and aliens, politics, robot, dark future, ecological disaster, utopia ...
Time:
future, year 2013, 2010s, near future, 22nd century
Place:
los angeles, seattle, peru, africa, usa ...
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418K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, thought provoking, allegory, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
train, post apocalypse, survival, distopia, dystopian future, dystopia, revolution, rebellion, violence, social differences, class struggle, winter ...
Time:
future, near future, 2030s, year 2013, year 2014 ...
Place:
east asia, britain, south korea
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1.1M
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Style:
suspense, black comedy, psychological thriller, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
poverty, wealthy family, working class, social satire, class differences, scam, wealth, basement, plot twist, rich snob, driver, unemployment ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019
Place:
south korea, east asia, seoul, asia, india
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Spans the period from 1958 to the present day and tells the story of an unconditional love between a mother and her daughter which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
violence against women, love, class differences, father daughter incest, mother daughter relationship, unrequited love, incest, illegitimate child, little girl, father daughter relationship, family relations, tragic love ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 90s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
france
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, Germany, Mexico, France, Turkey, Denmark, USA, Switzerland, Greece
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged captain. What first appeared Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival.
Style:
satirical, dark comedy, captivating, entertaining, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cruise ship, shipwreck, satire, model, class differences, cruise, fashion model, social satire, yacht, rich, ship, stranded on an island ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Is relevant?
101K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Multiple storylined drama set in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England.
Style:
detective, period piece, costume drama, biting, satirical ...
Plot:
murder, whodunit, society, murder mystery, country estate, estate, high society, murder investigation, butler, police investigation, twists and turns, servant ...
Time:
1930s, year 1932, 20th century, pre world war two, year 2001 ...
Place:
england, detroit, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in early 18th-century Madrid, the plot follows the love story between an agoraphobic cook and a widowed nobleman.
Style:
costume drama, captivating, historical drama, epic, period drama
Plot:
social class, maid, domestic servant, ancient, monarchy, character change, wealthy family, changing lives, lifestyle change, male female relationship, society, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
spain, madrid
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Otso "The Main Man" Hultkrantz is playing the leading role of the young Allu Kajander in Where We Once Walked, based on a novel about a civil war raging between the Red and the White in Finland.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, factual, family saga
Plot:
civil war, class struggle, social class, working class, revolutionary, politics, revenge, socialist, unrequited love, lower class, rivalry, society ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1910s, year 1918, 1920s ...
Place:
helsinki finland, finland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological
Plot:
affair, aristocracy, social class, forbidden love, male female relationship, couples, relationships, love interest, rich man, couple relations, high society, love story ...
Time:
1930s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Ji-Eun is thrilled to hear that her mother Hye-Ja is moving to Cheongdam neighborhood. Hye-Ja & Ji-Eun lived in the suburbs for thier whole life. Ji-Eun dreams of living a luxurious life, but her reality is quite different. The house they move ...
Style:
realistic
Plot:
mother and daughter, social class, aspiration, city life, class conflict, everyday life, social commentary, culture clash, bittersweet, slice of life, perseverance, small business ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
seoul
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 303 min.
TV show
Story:
Phillip Pirrip, known as Pip, meets a convict or two in a graveyard and sets into motion a series of events that lead him from a comfortable life in his brother-in-law's forge to a mysterious inheritance and his acquaintance with the eerie Miss ...
Style:
melancholic, gothic, atmospheric, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
charles dickens, victorian england, literary, coming of age, social class, ambition, unrequited love, identity, character study, madness, betrayal, manor ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
london
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When two girls think the other has it better, they swap places to see who's right!
Style:
feel good, comedy drama, lighthearted, sentimental, insightful ...
Audience:
family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, social class, empathy, fish out of water, switching roles, working class, parenting, culture clash, coming of age, heartwarming, friendship, redemption ...
Time:
90s
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A poor boy named Tom Canty and Edward, the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
Style:
costume drama, suspense, period drama
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
body swapping, social class, class conflict, switching roles, royalty, adaptation, empathy, privilege, poverty, mistaken identity, friendship, coming of age ...
Time:
victorian era, medieval times, 16th century
Place:
england, london
Is relevant?
144
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A village boy meets his tragic fate when he is sent to the city to work for a rich trader.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, atmospheric, grim, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, loss of innocence, innocence lost, tragedy, social class, poverty, class struggle, injustice, alienation, intimate, bittersweet, tragic hero ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
armenia, poetic realism, caucasus, tbilisi, georgia
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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
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Kanbara Kiko is a divorcee and raises her 5-year-old son alone. To open a box lunch food store, she moves to her grandfather's house. She tries to enroll her son Haruto into nursery school there, but a person in charge of the district office ...
Style:
captivating, emotional, dramatic, warmhearted, tension ...
Plot:
high society, single mother, slice of life, motherhood, class conflict, family drama, parenting, mother love, social class, rich and poor, society, family problems ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A well-to-do white family struck by overnight financial ruin struggle to find their place in the urban, multicultural working-class neighborhood they are forced to move into.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, captivating, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, family relations, social class, fish out of water, changing lives, relationships, lifestyle change, wealthy family, family drama, culture shock, friendship, adaptation ...
Is relevant?
145
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Sanou, a bright 15-year-old, enrolls in the famous Henri IV school in Paris. In this prestigious institution, the young girl from the Saint-Denis outer suburbs finds herself dropped into a world a million miles from everything she knows.
Style:
multicultural, emotional, tense
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, female protagonist, social class, ambition, social commentary, resilience, elitism, isolation, friendship, identity crisis, slice of life, peer pressure ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
The coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life, until a twist of fate and the evil machinations of the mysterious and eccentric Miss Havisham shows him a dark world of possibilities. Under the great expectations ...
Style:
period piece, serious, captivating, dramatic, exciting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coming of age, orphan, life, literary, social class, traumatic childhood, high society, childhood, grownups, transformation, ambition, identity ...
Time:
1810s, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
london
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
When California governor Zack Morris gets into hot water for closing too many low-income high schools, he proposes they send the affected students to the highest performing schools in the state – including Bayside High. The influx of new students ...
Style:
satirical, sitcom, captivating, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
satire, high school, school, teenage life, social class, culture clash, teen romance, student, high school life, rich and poor, adolescence, teenager ...
Time:
90s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
california
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
TV show
Story:
Would you trade your poor but loving family for a life of riches? When Seung Cheon gets his hands on a magical spoon that allows him to switch lives with his rich best friend, he thinks it’s a no-brainer. But life-altering decisions are always ...
Style:
psychological, captivating
Plot:
high society, magical object, moral dilemma, rich kid, wealthy family, class differences, rich and poor, social class, family drama, teenage life, teenager, lifestyle ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Peru
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Al fondo hay sitio is a Peruvian TV series created in 2008-2009 by Efraín Aguilar. It deals with the problems of social differences and economic status. It's one of the most popular shows in Peru and is now being shown in Ecuador, Bolivia, ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, light, captivating, soap opera ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, class differences, poverty, classism, family relations, father, family holiday, working class, social commentary, family drama, economic inequality, lower class ...
Place:
peru, latin america
Is relevant?
259K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never ...
Style:
dark comedy, psychological thriller, philosophical, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
college, class differences, obsession, college student, homoerotic friendship, country estate, university, drug use, murder, butler, teenage boy, violence ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, oxford university, united kingdom
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A story of a middle class guy, passionate about becoming an actor and prove his worthiness to his family. Ditching a job interview as a favor from a father to his son, the story leads to new endeavors.
Style:
semi serious, thrilling, satirical, captivating, sitcom ...
Plot:
punjabi, aspiring actor, problem, social class, middle class, working class, actor, satire, family values, doppelganger, mistaken identity, father son relationship ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A lonely young man moves in a 50-year-old apartment building. When he meets the cheerful residents, he finds himself surrounded by small happiness.
Style:
realistic, social, suspense, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
secret, small village, slice of life, humanism, neighbor, community, everyday life, small town, loneliness, friendship, social relations, fake identity ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
This film is the story of the last years of the life of T.E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - a scholar, writer, soldier and reluctant hero. Retiring to his cottage in Dorset he hopes to escape his past but is pulled into political intrigue. While ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, thrilling, disturbing, period piece ...
Plot:
heroes, world war one, character study, biopic, political intrigue, troubled past, confronting the past, family drama, hidden identity, war, post war, social differences ...
Place:
middle east, britain
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