Class struggle movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant class struggle movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out period piece, captivating, historical drama, realistic, thought provoking and melancholic films and TV shows about / with class struggle, working class, poverty, betrayal, politics, society, corruption, tragedy, violence and revenge plots mostly in Drama, History and Action genres shot in France, Italy, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as class struggle: 1900 (1976), Snowpiercer (2013), In Dubious Battle (2016), A Man is Dead (2018), At War (2018), Floating City (2012), Manderlay (2005), Pathonpatham Noottandu (2022), Parasite (2019), Howards End (1992).
Best films
New films
| Swim to Me (2025) | 5.5 | |
| Defying Destiny (2026) | 8.1 | |
| Badava (2025) | 6.1 | |
| The Great Warsaw Race (2025) | 6.4 | |
| Interval (2025) | 6.1 |
List of class struggle movies
29K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min.
Story:
Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
Style:
epic, controversial, compassionate, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fascism, politics, world war two, italian history, friendship, revolution, class struggle, communism, peasant, socialist, sex, brutality ...
Time:
1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 1910s ...
Place:
italy, paris france, france, europe
Is relevant?
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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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In the California apple country, nine hundred migratory workers rise up "in dubious battle" against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own-stronger than its individual members and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim ...
Style:
political, captivating, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
strike, class struggle, rebellion, righting the wronged, idealism, rebelliousness, landowner, exodus, conflict, christmas, intrigue, socialist ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
california
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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: 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:
realistic, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, political
Plot:
strike, labor union, working class, capitalism, class struggle, business manager, worker, mayor, factory, hard labor, struggle, protest ...
Time:
2010s, labor day
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Set in Hong Kong in the 1980s, the film follows a fisherman’s son who rises to become a powerful tai pan.
Style:
historical drama, psychological, thrilling, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
class struggle, rags to riches, orphan, social climbing, ambition, colonialism, identity, coping, social problems, social issues, family secret, business tycoon ...
Time:
80s, 1940s
Place:
hong kong
Is relevant?
26K
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Germany, UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially slavery is illegal and Grace stands up against the owners of the farm. She stays with some gangsters in Manderlay and ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, thought provoking, philosophical, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, slavery, plantation, gangster, starvation, blacks and whites, fighting the system, flashback, interracial relations, father daughter relationship, class struggle, righting the wronged ...
Time:
1930s, year 2005, year 2006, 20th century
Place:
america, usa, southern usa, alabama, africa
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Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker, a 19th century fiery social reformer and his unswerving fight against the dominant caste oppressions by the upper classes.
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, tense, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot:
class struggle, warrior, biopic, oppression, resistance, justice, battles, fight for supremacy, class differences, fight, intrigue, reform ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
india
Is relevant?
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: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, emotional, period piece, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
estate, inheritance, sister sister relationship, wealthy family, country house, aristocrat, rich snob, family drama, passion, sword, arrest, terminal illness ...
Time:
1910s, turn of the century, edwardian era, year 1992, 19th century ...
Place:
england, oxford university, britain, london
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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: France, Switzerland
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) ...
Style:
experimental, political, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
communism, working class, state affairs, politics, social differences, society, class struggle, utopia, communist, resistance, revolution, adaptation ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
egypt, italy, switzerland, tuscany
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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: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
Style:
political, philosophical, experimental, art house, cult classic ...
Plot:
politics, revolution, capitalism, class struggle, communism, anarchist, protest, marxist, terrorist, terrorism, suicide, dialectical materialism ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
france, paris france, soviet union, europe, usa ...
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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
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
An old-fashioned love story set in the South Wales valleys during the 1930s. Well-to-do doctor Andrew joins his father's infirmary, and in miner's daughter Bethan finds a spirit lacking in his previous girlfriends. The two fall in love, ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, sentimental, costume drama, melancholic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, class differences, class struggle, couple relations, love story, love and romance, male female relationship, love interest, fall in love, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic relationship ...
Time:
1930s, 1950s, 1940s
Place:
wales
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The film then skips ahead thirty-fold years: Zsadány and Mari are now lovers, with the sound of war in the background halting their romance. ...
Style:
historical drama, dark, period piece, intense, tense ...
Plot:
execution, class struggle, political conflict, betrayal, political repression, socialism, tragedy, landowner, forbidden love, nazi, loss, moral dilemma ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
eastern europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.
Style:
melancholic, period piece, political, social documentary, experimental ...
Plot:
female protagonist, class struggle, gender roles, identity crisis, alienation, moral ambiguity, character study, city life, bittersweet, coming of age, political intrigue, girl ...
Place:
italy
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Serbia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The film is about the workers unpaid for six years who decide to lay down the driveway in front of their factory. Oki is an unemployed factory worker and union leader. His son Gruja is a movie director unemployed for ten years, he shoots weddings ...
Style:
realistic, art house, melancholic, independent film, tragicomedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
factory, labor strike, working class, poverty, class struggle, unemployment, worker, social commentary, social realism, union, father son relationship, survival ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
serbia, eastern europe
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Genre: Action, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
In a village crushed under a brutal landlord's rule, fear silences the poor, and justice is denied. When a young woman constable challenges the system and an innocent family is burnt alive, outrage erupts into a violent uprising. What follows ...
Style:
political thriller
Plot:
social justice, village, class struggle, oppression, abuse of power, anger, political corruption, power struggle, corruption, female protagonist, extreme violence, poverty ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine social drama. A peasant woman is raped by a lecherous wealthy lesbian, and chaos breaks out in the ...
Style:
historical drama, serious, period piece, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
village, class struggle, oppression, rape, sexual abuse, repression, political unrest, poverty, social realism, massacre, riot, rebellion ...
Time:
1900s, 90s
Place:
romania, transylvania
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Genre: Comedy, History, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
In St. Petersburg, behind the Narva outpost, there is great excitement - the revolutionary Nechaev has appeared, who will incite the workers to fight. Neither the policeman, nor the policeman, nor the owner of the tavern - no one knows what he looks ...
Style:
historical drama, tense, intense, suspenseful, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revolutionary, working class, class struggle, underground movement, political intrigue, conspiracy, suspicion, secret identity, manhunt, betrayal, propaganda, singing ...
Is relevant?
975
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness. However since they have no money, Ali starts to work for Dr. Sameri who deals in blood.
Style:
grim, neorealism, bleak, intense, crime drama ...
Plot:
poverty, social commentary, exploitation, corruption, realism, inequality, black market, class struggle, desperation, working class, moral dilemma, moral corruption ...
Place:
iran, persia, tehran, tehran iran
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
In a story of two men switched at birth, noble-born Chun Doong lives as a slave and becomes a heroic outlaw, while beggar-born Gwi Dong lives as a nobleman and police chief; then each falls in love with the same girl, Dong Nyeo.
Style:
historical drama, dramatic, sageuk, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
switched at birth, love triangle, korean history, nobleman, joseon dynasty, poverty, justice, class struggle, criminal, fall in love, fight for justice, social injustice ...
Place:
korea
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
La Seine no Hoshi is an anime series by Sunrise, which premiered in Japan on Fuji TV from April 4, 1975 and finished its run on December 26, 1975, spanning a total of 39 episodes. The title translates to English as "Star of the Seine" or ...
Style:
anime, historical drama, costume drama, action adventure
Plot:
french revolution, secret identity, aristocracy, masked vigilante, justice, class struggle, political corruption, revenge, vigilantism, rebellion, tyranny, female hero ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A pair of working class lovers - a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry.
Style:
satirical, ironic, period piece, melancholic
Plot:
socialism, hypocrisy, class struggle, social satire, social commentary, political satire, social climbing, dark humor, sibling rivalry, manipulation, moral ambiguity, bittersweet ...
Time:
60s
Place:
italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, Chile, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A strange disease kills off some of the richest and most influential people on the planet. First it was the billionaires, then the multi-millionaires and so on progressively... Then it threatens to strike anyone with any sort of fortune. With the ...
Style:
apocalyptic, dark comedy, action thriller, political drama
Plot:
dystopia, social experiment, family drama, class struggle, pandemic, social commentary, moral dilemma, human nature, cautionary tale, moral ambiguity, panic, greed ...
Time:
near future
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 3825 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the eponymous White Deer Village in Shaanxi Province where the two most important families – Bai and Lu – and their sons have always lived together in peace. But the turmoil leads to a fierce struggle for land ownership. A young woman new ...
Style:
tense, family saga, historical drama, epic, period piece ...
Plot:
revolution, social change, class struggle, chinese history, civil war, war, society, lifestyle, culture clash, showdown, social relations, japanese culture ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
china
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Against his wishes, 'Cuba' Mukundan (Sreenivasan) goes to Dubai to make good his father's alleged misappropriation of funds from the local cooperative bank. It is there that he learns the true meaning of the term 'working ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, political thriller, political, political drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
corruption, frustration, working class, communism, political corruption, class struggle, social realism, activism, ethical dilemma, betrayal, cultural conflict, whistleblower ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
dubai, cuba
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The Harbour shows how two brothers end up on opposing sides of this system. One becomes the leader of an employer’s gang of thugs, while the other becomes an activist. All the while, the women in their family go hungry and the community is ravaged ...
Style:
dramatic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
protest, harbor, social justice, class struggle, class conflict, brothers, brother vs brother, rebel leader, political protest, insurgent, political party, communist party ...
Time:
1950s
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