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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Hello... is a tale about the events that happen one night at a call center. Told through the views of the protagonist, Shyam, it is a story of almost lost love, thwarted ambitions, absence of family affection, pressures of a patriarchal set up, and ...
Style:
serious, sincere, captivating, emotional, surprise ending
Plot:
love and romance, workplace romance, couples, workplace, mysterious character, boss and employee, unfulfillment, office, call center, erotica, power relations, nightshift ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In Liège, a group of men gathers every day in a café situated near the steel factory which once reigned supreme. They play cards in a warm atmosphere but that hardly masks their quiet desperation. All unemployed, either because they can't ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
crime gone awry, friendship, factory, down on your luck, couple relations, life is a bitch, working class, ex convict, desperation, plan, murder, hostage ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New ...
Style:
contemplative, surreal, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Plot:
human relationship, religion, love letter, italian neorealism, thief, stewardess, satire, post-apocalyptic future, society, human nature, religions or cults, nuclear holocaust ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, paris france, france
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Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1920, workmen of Patagonia (Argentina), grouped into anarchist and socialist societies, decide to strike demanding better working conditions. Among the workers there are numerous European immigrants acting as ideological ferment of their peers. ...
Style:
political
Plot:
anarchism, anarchist, anarchy, capitalist society, gaucho, radical, state terrorism, labor union, political repression, labor strike, massacre, train ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
patagonia, argentina
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A story about slave hunting, colonialism, revenge and love.
Plot:
slave trade, colonialism, black slave, blaxploitation, civil war, human exploitation, nude black woman, female nudity, drowning, waterfall, nudity, profit ...
Time:
year 1978, 1800s, 19th century
Place:
africa
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Cuba
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The story of the Santa María School massacre of miners in 1907.
Style:
allegory
Plot:
post colonialism, employer, capital, collapse, capitalist society, innovation, damage, capitalism, materialism, historian, job, union ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
south america, chile
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.
Style:
sincere, realistic, emotional, serious, political ...
Plot:
working class, labor union, factory worker, factory, rebellion, boss and employee, rebelliousness, power relations, social differences, workplace situations, anarchist, worker ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the ...
Style:
political, touching, inspirational, aesthetic, sad ...
Plot:
labor union, working class, feminist, small town, union, women, labor, business, labor movement, courage, single mother, american politics ...
Time:
20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place:
north carolina, usa, alabama
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) ...
Style:
political, touching, sincere, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, sexual initiation, politics, friendship, poverty, youth, dictatorship, boy, communism, trauma, demonstration ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
chile, latin america, south america, santiago chile, spain ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and ...
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, political, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
working class, unemployment, seaport, friendship, society, redemption, small town, working conditions, job seeking, self esteem, life is a bitch, breaking point ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, galicia, switzerland, spain ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Wronke Prison, 1916. Social democrat Rosa Luxemburg faces a mock execution. Twenty years earlier, Rosa's political gifts are acknowledged by everyone, as she struggles for democratic government in Germany and revolution in Poland. There she ...
Style:
political, political thriller, philosophical, suspense, social ...
Plot:
communist, women, revolution, communism, biopic, capitalism, revolutionary, anarchist, world war one, protest, strike, union ...
Time:
20th century, year 1916
Place:
germany, berlin germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the bestselling book by Andrew Ross Sorkin, 'Too Big to Fail' offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few ...
Style:
factual, tense, political, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot:
wall street, financial crisis, politics, finance, economic crisis, stock market, greed, business, stock broker, money, society, bankruptcy ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., new york, usa, california, middle east
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides ...
Style:
political, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, social ...
Plot:
capitalism, socialism, communism, communist, philosopher, poverty, biopic, factory, writers, industry, money, working class ...
Time:
ancient times, 19th century, year 2017
Place:
soviet union, paris france, manchester, london, prussia ...
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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
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 345 min.
Story:
We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives of the Paris rebels. On a stage-like set, more than 200 actors ...
Style:
political, black and white, informative, powerful, inspirational ...
Plot:
army vs civilians, socialism, anarchism, found footage, anarchist, revolution, worker, union, strike, struggle, labor, civil unrest ...
Time:
victorian era, 20th century, 2000s, turn of the century, 1870s ...
Place:
paris france, france, versailles
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Genre: History
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Tells the story of a great milestone in aviation history: the 1935 crossing of the Pacific Ocean by a Pan American Airways flying boat known as the China Clipper. The documentary series recounts the development of this technological innovation – ...
Plot:
helicopter, airplane crash, boy scout, biplane, negotiation, boeing 747, isolation, press conference, tractor, globalization, negotiator, visionary ...
Time:
year 1934, year 1935, year 1933, year 1941, year 1949 ...
Place:
the philippines, pacific ocean, rio de janeiro, hawaii, san francisco ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Five world class surfers travel to New Guinea in search of undiscovered waves, but end up discovering so much more.
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surfing, survival, surfer, human rights, nature, isolation, exploration, cannibal, storytelling, investigation, activism, conservation ...
Place:
papua new guinea
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Strangled by debt and the banks, the owner of a factory that is on the brink of closing will go to any lengths to solve his financial and marital problems.
Style:
tense, melancholic, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
entrepreneurship, debt, industrialist, economic crisis, bankruptcy, troubled marriage, family business, desperation, character study, small business owner, inheritance, working class ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland, France, Ukraine
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A middle aged woman declares war on the heavy industry in her town. She resorts to sabotage and is willing to risk everything for nature and these virgin highlands… until a Ukrainian orphan enters her life.
Style:
light, captivating, feel good, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot:
environmental activist, adoption, climate change, sabotage, strong female character, tourist, sister sister relationship, dog, twins, environmentalism, musician, women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iceland, sarajevo, reykjavik iceland, ukraine
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In Madrid seven candidates report for a job interview that uses "the Grönholm method" of selection, as protestors rise up in public protest in the street over the IMF-World Bank Summit attempting globalisation of workers' unions.
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
mind game, office, workplace intrigue, manipulation, workplace, workplace situations, job seeking, rivalry, career, uninhibited rivalry, rise to the top, contests and competitions ...
Time:
year 2005
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Style:
sexy, philosophical, political, psychological, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
rebelliousness, politics, rebel, debt, twists and turns, businessman, anarchist, boyfriend, friends, revolution, kidnapping, vandalism ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, year 1968, 21st century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, barcelona
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Egypt
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Adam is the son of a wealthy Egyptian-American family who is studying at UCLA and returns home for a brief vacation. Upon his arrival he meets beautiful reporter Hanane, with whom he begins an intense love affair, and eventually they marry. Trouble ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, biting, sincere ...
Plot:
terrorist, sex with father, arab, investigative journalism, terrorism, father daughter sex, manipulation, couple relations, life is a bitch, politics, obsession, society ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, egypt, cairo egypt
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
While on a trip to Thailand, a successful American businessman tries to radically change his life. Back in New York, his wife and daughter find their relationship with their live-in Filipino maid changing around them. At the same time, in the ...
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, melancholic, depressing, multicultural ...
Plot:
doctor, loneliness, life philosophy, moral dilemma, family problems, maid, parents and children, corporate world, couple relations, social differences, rich and poor, mother ...
Time:
year 2009, 90s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, the philippines, thailand, usa, asia ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Qatar
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Style:
tense, emotional, intense, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, culture clash, wall street, muslim, 9/11, terrorism, conspiracy, political unrest, civil rights, american dream, false accusation, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, middle east, pakistan, istanbul turkey, usa ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The opening titles explain that American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rape, protagonist as suspect, murder, journalist, corruption, investigation, uncover truth, police corruption, serial killer, survival, sex slave, rape victim ...
Time:
90s, year 2006
Place:
mexico, latin america, chicago, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, West Germany, Italy, Senegal
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Events in an idyllic African village are shown in detail in the period just before logging trucks come in and cut down the forest around the villagers, forcing them to move into the wretched shantytowns that surround major cities throughout the ...
Style:
art house, realistic, reflective, melancholic, poignant ...
Plot:
deforestation, industrialization, village life, slice of life, social change, environmental destruction, slum, poverty, minimalism, bittersweet, estrangement, native ...
Time:
80s
Place:
senegal
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The moving relationship of a man in crisis who would like to be a father, and a fatherless, mentally orphaned young rebel.
Style:
emotional, realistic, psychological, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
on the road, sexuality, rebel, globalization, family drama, relationships, fatherhood, male bonding, character study, crisis, orphan, coming of age ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two friends with very different personalities decide to write a script for a movie. Their discussions and confrontations are constant, but the story slowly takes shape around a poor family that has a small car repair business. Times are hard and ...
Style:
political drama
Plot:
american football, biker, see through clothes, worker, working class, screenwriter, pregnancy, big business, death of husband, actor, actress, father in law ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
marseille
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Mali, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up... In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, captivating, social ...
Plot:
young lovers, politics, fighting the system, social decay, injustice, legal investigation, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, legal, unemployment, racism ...
Place:
africa, south africa
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Country: Serbia and Montenegro, Germany, Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An ex-soldier storms a supermarket and takes all the cashiers captive because one of them insulted his grandmother.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, satirical, entertaining, realistic
Plot:
hostage, store, hostage situation, vengeance, satire, criminal, surrealism, love affair, male female relationship, relationships, psychiatry, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, former yugoslavia
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