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List of working class movies
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
It's July 1981, the Royal Wedding of Charles and Diana. In a small Welsh town where her fifteen-year-old daughter Tammy has organized a street party, Linda Caddock recently made redundant and married to wannabe singer and all-round dreamer ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, humorous, emotional ...
Plot:
working class, society, gender, feminism, social relations, social differences, couple relations, couples, male female relationship, wedding, family drama, small town life ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
pregnancy, working class, blackmail, unwanted pregnancy, couples, workplace, society, disorder, friends, life turned upside down, friendship, sexual relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when he was 11-years-old.
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, humorous, emotional, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
boy, working class, youth, family relations, family life, misfit, cons and scams, social differences, physical appearance, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, friendship ...
Time:
80s, 1940s, year 1942, year 1965, 20th century ...
Place:
canada, montreal, quebec, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 476 min.
TV show
Story:
A sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic look at domestic relationships and labour relationships, with particular focus on skilled worker Jochen and his new girlfriend, Marion.
Style:
melancholic, art house, political drama
Plot:
working class, blue collar, solidarity, everyday life, factory worker, family drama, labor movement, social realism, class conflict, community, intimate, male protagonist ...
Time:
70s
Place:
west germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Charlotte is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, working class, summer vacation, rebel, child prodigy, coming of age, adolescence, crazy love, friendship, age difference, children, female nudity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
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Genre: Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are the main characters of the film, heroes in a time of no ...
Style:
realistic, touching, art house, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
working class, impossible love, young lovers, looking for love, love affair, hopes, life is a bitch, fall in love, society, mentally unstable, starting over, love story ...
Place:
russia
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
Style:
psychological, tense, rough, captivating, neo noir ...
Plot:
working class, urban ghetto life, investigation, uncover truth, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, down on your luck, society, death, suspicion, outdoor sex, neighborhood ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Buddy Visalo (Michael Rispoli) is a factory worker, a frustrated crooner who once had a shot at the big time. Buddy's dreams of greatness have been reduced to an endless series of failed moneymaking schemes. His latest is buying a two-family ...
Style:
touching, sincere, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
working class, friendship, culture clash, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, couple relations, couples, down on your luck, pregnancy, love, ambition ...
Time:
90s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
new york, usa, ireland, new jersey
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10K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.
Style:
witty, feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
beauty salon, working class, fashion, competition, eccentricity, family relations, model, love and romance, follow your dream, relationship vs career, underdog, contests and competitions ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s
Place:
england, yorkshire, europe, london, detroit ...
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1K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Niccolo (Mac) Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers and leads their family after their beloved father dies. Their father was a builder and his sons continue in this family trade. At first, they work for Polowski, who does shoddy work and cheats on ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
working class, family business, ambition, workplace, society, boss and employee, family in crisis, family life, construction, brother brother relationship, bare chested male, male pubic hair ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 1992
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man ...
Style:
emotional, talky, intense, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night, kids
Plot:
high school, coming of age, friendship, preparatory school, anti semitism, american football, justice, boarding school life, prejudice, judaism, working class, youth ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1992, 80s
Place:
israel, massachusetts, harvard university, usa, boston
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Jean is a family man and factory worker who dreams of becoming a songwriter. Pinning his hopes on his teenage daughter, Marva, he takes her to singing contests in which the awkward and overweight girl struggles to belt out a tune. When Jean is ...
Style:
touching, satirical, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
kidnapping, father daughter relationship, working class, obsession, farce, crime gone awry, unemployment, showbiz, desire for fame, unlikely criminals, obsessive quest, teenage life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, belgium, australia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, in central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Yet, the untimely death of his father places him in that position, only ...
Style:
touching, humorous, feel good, laugh out loud, satirical ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
transvestism, drag queen, cabaret, gay interest, small town, gay slur, fashion, society, fashion show, transvestite, gay, gay bashing ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
milan italy, europe, england, italy, london
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet ...
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, unusual plot structure, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couples, high society, adultery, working class, immigrant, hopes, maid, class differences, impossible love, strong female character, starting over, self discovery ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1965, year 1962
Place:
paris france, spain, europe, france, argentina ...
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20K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help and find it in Steve, a young middle class lad ...
Style:
humorous, emotional, realistic, sensual, erotic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, alcoholic father, family problems, white trash, working class, gay teenager, social misfits, alcohol abuse, gay, single father, parents and children, siblings relations ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, northern england, manchester, europe
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8K
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, Kenny Smyth delivers porta-loos to them all. Ignored and unappreciated, he is one of the cogs in society's machinery; a knight in shining overalls taking care of business with his ...
Style:
clever, mockumentary, humorous, funny, talky ...
Plot:
working class, family relations, lone hero, existentialism, adaptation, society, parent child relationship, buddies, friendship, friends, misfit, found footage ...
Place:
australia, nashville tennessee, melbourne, california, new zealand
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Narrator (Woody Allen) tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, emotional, touching, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
radio, working class, dysfunctional family, coming of age, rescue, lifestyle, love and romance, family problems, parents and children, new year's eve, world war two, nostalgia ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1987, 70s ...
Place:
new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
Adaptation of John Braine's novel about a young man on the make in 1950s Yorkshire.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, contemplative, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
class differences, working class, social status, death of lover, ex soldier, love triangle, adultery, car accident, social climbing, post war, rich and poor, female nudity ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
yorkshire, england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A woman who has a funny bone for a backbone, Funny Cow charts the rise of a female stand-up comic who delivers tragedy and comedy in equal measure in the sometimes violent and always macho clubs of Northern England in the '70s.
Style:
comedy drama, disturbing, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
comedian, working class, female protagonist, stand up comedy, stand up comedian, female comedian, sexism, comedy club, resilience, lifestyle, social problems, troubled past ...
Time:
70s
Place:
northern england
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is not only having trouble coping with his new 'home', but also with the long commute to work, the long walk to the corner pub, his ...
Style:
period piece, dark comedy, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
working class, racism, class conflict, satire, generation gap, city life, domestic drama, slice of life, unemployment, gender roles, social realism, fanatic ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
east end london
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Directed by Robert Kramer
Style:
experimental, touching, serious, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
working class, family relations, immigrant, husband wife relationship, mysterious man, dysfunctional family, blindness, immigration, exile, intimate, social realism, getting home ...
Place:
france
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244K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
Style:
costume drama, captivating, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
aristocracy, estate, traditional versus modern, relatives, manners, countryside, high society, servant, country estate, butler, family life, aristocrat ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, edwardian era, 1920s, 50s ...
Place:
england, britain, hawaii, europe, yorkshire ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, sad ...
Plot:
immigrant, politics, culture clash, working class, bosnian war, war, wartime, chase, refugee, british, dysfunctional family, honest ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place:
london, england, bosnia, balkan, cyprus ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
Style:
cult classic, surreal, stylized, melancholic, depressing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
motorcycle, coming of age, music, gang, rock, pharmacy, rock and roll, dancing, teenage boy, sex scene, street fight, love interest ...
Time:
year 1965, 20th century, year 1979, 60s, 70s
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, brighton ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Accio (Elio Germano) and Manrico (Riccardo Scamarcio) are working class brothers who live in Italy in the 1960s. While his brother becomes drawn into left-wing politics, Accio, the hotheaded younger brother, is taken under the wing of a market ...
Style:
captivating, sentimental, humorous, saga, family saga ...
Plot:
politics, romantic rivalry, working class, coming of age, fascism, family relations, rebelliousness, love and romance, social relations, parents and children, brother brother relationship, communism ...
Time:
60s, 70s, year 2007, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union bosses, the hooligans and the gay community set in the early 50s.
Style:
bleak, disturbing, rough, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
prostitute, rape, transsexual, gang rape, prostitution, sex, labor union, working class, outdoor sex, hooker, union, fight ...
Time:
50s, year 1989, 1950s, 20th century, year 1952
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, berlin germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Married... with Children is an American sitcom that aired for 11 seasons. It featured a dysfunctional family living in a fictional Chicago, Illinois, suburb. The show, notable for being the first prime-time television series to air on Fox, ran from ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, parody, hilarious, psychedelic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, promiscuous daughter, family life, working class, struggle, adult humor, family problems, parents and children, misfit, social satire, stupidity, suburbs ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
Style:
road movie, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
road trip, on the road, character study, alienation, dysfunctional family, drifter, piano, pianist, father son relationship, hitchhiker, oil field, diner ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place:
california, usa, washington state, oregon, northern california ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in the 1980's, Debby Miller (Uma Thurman) goes out in New Jersey looking for a man after she is diagnosed with "hysterical blindness".
Style:
psychological, stylized, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
friendship, working class, loneliness, oral sex, character study, single parent, love and romance, couple relations, family relations, looking for love, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new jersey, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The incredible misadventures of two handymen on the road and the extraordinary people they meet along the way.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, captivating, feel good, light ...
Plot:
working class, construction worker, nothing goes right, family relations, workplace, disorder, society, workplace situations, family business, destruction, partner, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, northern england, europe
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