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 captivating, realistic, serious, psychological, political and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with class struggle, society, working class, family relations, social problems, poverty, class differences, death, social differences and politics plots mostly in Drama, History and Thriller genres shot in France, USA, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as class struggle: Snowpiercer (2013), 1900 (1976), At War (2018), A Man is Dead (2018), In Dubious Battle (2016), Parasite (2019), Martin Eden (2019), Casa Grande (2023), Communists (2014), Where Once We Walked (2011).

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 7.1
 387K
Snowpiercer (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, 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: chick flick, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, train, survival, distopia, dystopia, revolution, rebellion, end of the world, social differences, winter, capitalism, snow ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014 ...
Place: britain, south korea, east asia
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 7.7
 27K
1900 (1976)
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, disturbing, controversial, compassionate, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fascism, world war two, revolution, italian history, politics, communism, class struggle, friendship, peasant, socialist, worker, resistance ...
Time: 1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 1910s ...
Place: italy, paris france, europe, france
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 6.9
 2K
At War (2018)
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, business manager, class struggle, hard labor, mayor, factory, worker, anger, struggle ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
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A Man is Dead (2018)
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, captivating, visually appealing ...
Plot: working conditions, communism, strike, class struggle, worker, french politics, working class, war, superhero, communist, filmmaker, labor union ...
Time: year 1950, post world war two
Place: france
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In Dubious Battle (2016)
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, serious, realistic ...
Plot: strike, class struggle, rebellion, righting the wronged, rebelliousness, idealism, landowner, socialist, inspiration, christmas, intrigue, exodus ...
Time: 1930s
Place: california
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 8.5
 942K
Parasite (2019)
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, dark comedy, psychological thriller, exciting ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: poverty, wealthy family, working class, social satire, class differences, wealth, basement, scam, tutor, poor family, plot twist, unemployment ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: south korea, east asia, seoul, asia
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 7.0
 8K
Martin Eden (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to ...
Style: social, touching, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Plot: individualism, class struggle, love at first sight, love and romance, social differences, couples, secret love, love affair, young lovers, love triangle, writers, biopic ...
Time: 70s
Place: naples italy, italy
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 6.4
 165
Casa Grande (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Several families in the farmland of Northern California navigate universal themes of class, immigration, culture and family.
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: immigration, class struggle, lifestyle, eccentric family, village life, family relations, countryside, social issues, life, social problems, family problems
Place: northern california
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 6.0
 195
Communists (2014)
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, realistic, atmospheric, serious, political ...
Plot: communism, working class, state affairs, politics, communist, social differences, society, class struggle, utopia, human nature
Place: tuscany, egypt
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Where Once We Walked (2011)
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, factual, tense, psychological, family saga
Plot: class struggle, civil war, working class, social class, revenge, politics, lower class, socialist, unrequited love, revolutionary, society, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1918, 1910s, 1930s ...
Place: helsinki finland, finland, eastern europe
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 6.7
 7K
Jimmy's Hall (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Ireland, France, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In the 1930s political activist Jimmy Gralton is deported from Ireland during the 'Red Scare'.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, touching, inspirational ...
Plot: society, rebellion, anti communism, fighting the system, deportation, idealism, rebelliousness, human spirit, priest, social relations, injustice, dance school ...
Time: 1930s, year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place: ireland, new york
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Under the Pines (2013)
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: realistic, serious, atmospheric, sincere
Plot: working class, social decay, against the odds, society, follow your dream, social relations, small town, strike, worker, family relations, class struggle, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: europe, france
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Pathonpatham Noottandu (2022)
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, captivating, thrilling, tense
Plot: warrior, class struggle, struggle for survival, fight for supremacy, class conflict, reform, class differences, battles, fight, intrigue
Place: india
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Enslavement: The True Story Of Fanny Kemble (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble fictionalized made-for-TV movie adapted from her Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, starring Jane Seymour and Keith Carradine.
Style: disturbing, captivating, sincere, period drama
Plot: slave, slavery, class struggle, showdown, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, fighting the system, social problems, family problems, domineering husband, family relations, social differences ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1840s
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 6.5
 9K
New Order (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a wealthy family. After the riots have been quashed, they discover the bride has gone missing and plea with the military to help locate her.
Style: tense, captivating, mindfuck, surreal, social ...
Plot: revolution, working class, class differences, male nudity, female nudity, social relations, social problems, class conflict, class struggle, troubled marriage, middle class, family problems ...
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 4.1
 397
2033 (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 2033, Mexico City is a hot, mechanical and chaotic megacity ruled by the military and a tyrannical government. It is an oppressed society with its religious faith and liberty of expression stolen. Pablo, the main character, is a young finantial ...
Style: futuristic, tense, captivating, exciting, apocalyptic
Plot: class struggle, class conflict, class differences, society, resistance fighter, resistance, fight, battles, high society, fighting the system, dystopia, cyberpunk
Time: future
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 8.0
 790
Time of Honor (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Days of honor is a Polish World War II television drama series, broadcast on TVP2 since September 7, 2008.
Style: captivating, suspense, exciting
Plot: world war two, resistance movement, resistance, wartime, war, resistance fighter, military officer, life is a bitch, power struggle, wartime life, officer, military ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: poland
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 7.2
 7K
Howards End (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 240 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, romantic, captivating, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: class differences, social class, wealthy family, class system, sister, house, couples, love affair, society, love, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 1900s, victorian era, 1910s
Place: england, britain
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 5.7
 338
Polycarp (2015)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Anna, a young slave girl, is rescued and adopted by Christians in 2ND Century Smyrna, and befriended by their aged bishop, Polycarp. As Anna is taught by Polycarp and her new family, she struggles to reconcile her beliefs with those of the ...
Style: christian film, philosophical, psychological, biblical, melancholic
Plot: christian, faith, roman empire, moral dilemma, life philosophy, mentor, foster home, religions or cults, religion, repression, destiny, haunted by the past ...
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 7.2
 25K
Manderlay (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Germany, UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 139 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, psychological, art house, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: slavery, racism, plantation, freedom, gangster, torture, blacks and whites, fighting the system, interracial relations, father daughter relationship, class struggle, righting the wronged ...
Time: 1930s, year 2005, year 2006, 20th century
Place: alabama, america, usa, southern usa
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The People Under the Stairs (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When young Poindexter "Fool" Williams breaks into the creepy, immense old home of his family's greedy and uncaring landlords, he uncovers a disturbing scenario underneath the stairs.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, black comedy, surreal, disturbing ...
Plot: child abuse, serial killer, home invasion, kidnapping, cannibalism, disturbed individual, rottweiler, murder, incest, cannibal, child in peril, guard dog ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, california, los angeles
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The Given Word (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min.
Story: ZĂ© is a very poor man from the Brazilian countryside. His most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls terminally ill, ZĂ© makes a promise to Saint BĂ¡rbara: If his donkey recovers, he will carry a cross - like Jesus - all the way ...
Style: anthropological, spiritual, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: religion, priest, catholic, catholic church, spirit, journalism, spirituality, prostitution, church, simple man, class struggle, once promising ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place: brazil, northeast brazil, latin america
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Antonio das Mortes (1969)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Brazil, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mauricio do Valle reprises his role as Antonio das Mortes, the troubled hitman from Black God, White Devil. A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antonio to wipe out his old ...
Style: political, social, allegory, serious, realistic ...
Plot: society, redemption, landscape, underground, desert, revolution, class struggle, revenge, corruption, massacre, blind man, poverty ...
Time: year 1969, 20th century, 1940s
Place: brazil, latin america
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Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 931 min.
TV show
Story: Berlin Alexanderplatz, originally broadcast in 1980, is a 14-part television film adapted and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the Alfred Döblin novel of the same name, and stars GĂ¼nter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, ...
Style: art house, avant garde, spiritual, mind blowing, psychological ...
Plot: ex convict, lgbt, german history, european, hardcore, badass, spirituality, moving, psychopath, interwar period, prison, pimp ...
Time: 1920s, year 1980, 20th century
Place: germany, west germany, berlin germany, europe
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 7.5
 3K
Marat/Sade (1967)
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under ...
Style: disturbing, stylized, psychological, talky, biting ...
Plot: french revolution, art, politics, revolution, insanity, sex maniac, fighting the system, mental illness, murder, psychopath, chaos, violence ...
Time: 18th century, year 1967, 19th century, 1790s, 1800s
Place: france, europe, paris france
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 7.4
 36K
Howards End (1992)
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, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: english countryside, estate, wealthy family, sister sister relationship, family drama, infidelity, inheritance, dysfunctional family, greed, character study, country house, rich snob ...
Time: 1910s, turn of the century, edwardian era, 19th century, year 1992 ...
Place: england, britain, oxford university, london
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Miss Friman's War (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Sweden
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story: Not all battles are violent. Meet a courageous group of women who takes on both the male rulers of the day and a corrupt grocery industry. Savvy is their strategy and cans of healthy food are their weapons. The three hour drama series "Miss ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, retro, historical drama
Plot: women's rights, social relations, civil rights, social problems, food, social issues, civil rights movement, women, rationing, strong female lead, human rights, society ...
Time: edwardian era
Place: stockholm sweden
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Cathedral of the Sea (2018)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: In the 14th century, Barcelona is experiencing one of its most prosperous moments. The city has grown to La Ribera, a fishing district in which the largest Marian temple ever known is built: Santa MarĂ­a del Mar. But the construction runs parallel ...
Style: biblical, brutal, suspenseful, suspense, depressing ...
Plot: medieval, genocide, religion, envy, social relations, rich and poor, society, father son relationship, sea, social problems, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 14th century, middle ages, medieval times
Place: spain, barcelona
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5th Passenger (2017)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Set in the aftermath of an oppressive class war, a pregnant officer aboard an escape pod must struggle to survive with her remaining crew when a mysterious and vicious life form attacks, determined to become the dominant species.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, tense, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: escape pod, rivalry, war, officer, danger, youth, survival, friendship, science, ufo, alien invasion, trapped ...
Time: future
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 7.8
 129
Enough Praying (1972)
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 ...
Plot: liberation theology, priest, catholic priest, working conditions, class struggle, social problems, inequality, poverty, church, solidarity, religion, conscience ...
Time: 60s
Place: chile
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