| Norma Rae (1979) | 7.3 | |
| Urban Cowboy (1980) | 6.5 | |
| Sorry We Missed You (2019) | 7.6 | |
| Parasite (2019) | 8.5 | |
| Breaking Away (1979) | 7.7 |
Working class movies and TV shows – page 3
Best films
New films
| Cash Queens (2026) | 5.5 | |
| Daagi (2025) | 6.0 | |
| Giant (2025) | 7.0 | |
| Out There (2025) | 7.0 | |
| Drunkard Morning (2025) | 5.7 |
List of working class movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Zhou Heung Kong (Anthony Wong) runs the film projector in a Hong Kong cinema and staunchly embraces a left-wing viewpoint. Dedicated to his work, he screens movies over the course of decades, while also witnessing turbulent events of the times, ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, semi serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
working class, family relations, couples, hopes, longing, bittersweet, society, idealism, family life, life, social change, nostalgia ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, 90s, 60s ...
Place:
hong kong, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Working Class is an American television sitcom created by Jill Cargerman, which premiered on CMT on January 28, 2011. The network ordered twelve episodes for the comedy, which is the first scripted series for the network.
On April 11, 2011, CMT ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
working class, single parent, society, suburbs, parents and children, rich and poor, fish out of water, social differences, family relations, single mother, misfit, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Worker Agostino, one day returning to his apartment in the suburb of a big city, after the First Communion of his child, finds the house occupied by another family. Thus begins his personal battle to get it back together with his grandfather, his ...
Style:
sincere, humorous, semi serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
eviction, working class, satire, life turned upside down, family relations, forced into action, family life, society, family problems, righting the wronged, hopes, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
With an enthralling central performance by Gilbert Sicotte, this masterful debut feature examines the life of the top car salesman in a fading Quebec town as events challenge the 67-year-old’s sense of identity and the meaning of life at the most ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, sentimental, contemplative, touching ...
Plot:
aging, small town, working class, bittersweet, obsession, society, retiring, elderly, workplace situations, social relations, car salesman, tragedy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
David Jason stars as cockney ex-docker Don Mitchell in this emotional drama. Don is incredibly proud of his son David’s affluent lifestyle. The cars, the detached house and private schooling for the children were things Don could only dream about ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
working class, family relations, parents and children, estrangement, relationship vs career, couples, emotionless, society, family in crisis, life turned upside down, husband wife relationship, heart attack ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair ...
Style:
realistic, erotic, touching, sincere, talky ...
Plot:
working class, loneliness, life, multiple storylines, existentialism, parents and children, couple relations, society, relationships, sister sister relationship, missing person, making love ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
london, los angeles, england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, political ...
Plot:
unemployment, economic crisis, working class, supermarket, society, petty theft, coworker relationship, layoff, job interview, social realism, life is a bitch, rivalry ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015
Place:
france
Is relevant?
10K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief ...
Style:
political, independent film, talky, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
labor union, racism, working class, coal mining, small town, shootout, mining, coal mine, strike, revolution, revolutionary, american history ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
west virginia, appalachia, virginia, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, light, humorous, emotional ...
Plot:
working class, tragedy, family relations, family problems, parents and children, society, mafia, loss of child, murder, friendship, grief, poverty ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
italy, sicily
Is relevant?
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, robbery, labor union, money, female nudity, drinking, caper, blaxploitation, crime gone awry, fighting the system, criminal ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place:
detroit, michigan, usa, africa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.
Style:
sitcom, biting, slapstick, dark comedy, talky ...
Plot:
working class, dysfunctional family, conservative, bigotry, mother-in-law, success, family life, controversy, argument, husband wife relationship, topical humor, ignorance ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
49K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story:
A working-class family struggles to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, funny, biting, cynical ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
working class, overweight, girl, dysfunctional family, husband wife relationship, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, child, tomboy, blue collar, chubby ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
illinois, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil, Argentina
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politician in Brazil's history.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, sincere, serious
Plot:
working class, president, urban ghetto, ambition, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, family problems, social differences, hopes, political activism, single parent, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
latin america, brazil
Is relevant?
796
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Coming-of-age tale set aboard a shipping freighter traveling America's Great Lakes. Dale is an Ivy League college student who briefly joins a world-weary crew. Exposed to a seafaring lifestyle which falls short of his literary visions, Dale ...
Style:
surreal, melancholic, stylized, satirical, realistic ...
Plot:
working class, graduate student, adaptation, ship, college, machismo, coming of age, male female relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, student, trust ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago, tennessee, boston, england, tokyo ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of a decaying Midwestern town, a murder becomes the focal point of three people who work in a doll factory.
Style:
meditative, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, realistic ...
Plot:
murder mystery, murder, working class, small town, investigation, love triangle, character study, factory, society, police detective, workplace romance, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 2005, 70s, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa, california
Is relevant?
157K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A luxury condo manager leads a staff of workers to seek payback on the Wall Street swindler who defrauded them. With only days until the billionaire gets away with the perfect crime, the unlikely crew of amateur thieves enlists the help of petty ...
Style:
sexy, entertaining, feel good, parody, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
heist, safecracker, robbery, fbi, skyscraper, perfect crime, thanksgiving, working class, thief, bank robbery, revenge, corrupt businessman ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Style:
sentimental, touching, melancholic, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
working class, love story, opposites attract, food, happy ending, education, unemployment, love and romance, couple relations, teachers and students, family problems, couples ...
Time:
80s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the ...
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, culinary ...
Plot:
working class, immigrant, food, cooking, fish, fishing boat, shipyard, ex husband ex wife relationship, restaurant, business venture, family problems, hopes ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, africa, middle east, europe
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The film focuses on Angie (Kierston Wareing), a working class woman who, after being fired by the agency that she works for, decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend Rose (Juliet Ellis). Taking ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, social, epic ...
Plot:
realism, immigrant, working class, injustice, society, employment agency, politics, fighting the system, workplace, legal, life is a bitch, workplace situations ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
britain, england, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When Agnes Browne's husband died, she discovered something amazing... Herself.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, humorous, melancholic, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
poverty, working class, children, terminal illness, friendship, death, justice, family drama, best friend, happy ending, single father, childhood ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 60s, year 1967
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, boston
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Powerful historical drama series, based on the lives of real people, telling the story of young 19th-century apprentices taking their lives into their own hands for the first time.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, stylized, costume drama ...
Plot:
working class, workplace, society, life is a bitch, factory, parents and children, social differences, family relations, power relations, mechanic, realism, rich and poor ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, britain
Is relevant?
117K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the ...
Style:
black and white, period piece, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
working class, bigotry, british politics, intolerance, riot, child, poverty, child protagonist, family relations, european, boy, social problems ...
Time:
year 1969, year 1970, 60s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Greece, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Sotiris is a police investigator in Athens who lives by a strict moral code. An honest man, he carries himself as though held down by the weight of the world. Dora is a cleaning lady, struggling to get by any way she can. Dealt a rough hand in life, ...
Style:
realistic, crime drama, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
working class, moral dilemma, society, cop witness relations, dark humor, injustice, uncover truth, law enforcement, police, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, police corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece, athens greece
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A destitute 14 year old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major ...
Style:
emotional, harsh, tense, rough, grim ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
redemption, child abuse, children, coming of age, boy, dysfunctional family, working class, juvenile detention, youth, corporal punishment, childhood, poverty ...
Time:
year 1999, 70s, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After decades of laboring as a Glasgow shipbuilder, Frank Redmond, a no-nonsense 55-year-old working-class man, suddenly finds himself laid off. For the first time in his life, he is without a job or a sense of direction, and he's too proud to ...
Style:
humorous, touching, feel good, emotional, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, working class, swimming, self discovery, family relations, life philosophy, character study, hopes, swimmer, couple relations, down on your luck, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
scotland, english channel, glasgow scotland, europe, france ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, sexy, emotional ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, ship, natural disaster, catastrophe, storm at sea, survival, storm, boat, fish, forces of nature, shipwreck, sea ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, y2k, 90s
Place:
atlantic ocean, boston, new england, nova scotia, portugal
Is relevant?
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 ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom, is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, thought provoking, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
poverty, single parent, native american reservation, winter, survival, native american, smuggling, working class, christmas, courage, parenthood, u.s. canadian border ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, canada, new york state, usa, quebec ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
Style:
soap opera, captivating, realistic, serious, crime drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
working class, workplace intrigue, small community, parent grown child relationship, social relations, family business, family in crisis, neighbor neighbor relationship, husband wife relationship, jealousy, social realism, small town ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 2000s, 2010s, 90s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, east end london
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.
Plot:
pub, working class, cathedral, village, pet dog, female photographer, racism, solidarity, social realism, poverty, syrian refugee, community ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016
Place:
northern england
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