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7.1

Ariel

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

1988-10-21 | fi

7.9

Dancer in the Dark

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life's troubles – even if just for a moment – by dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.

2000-09-01 | en

7.1

Forest Giant

Pasi returns to his childhood town, asked to reconfigure the local plywood factory. With a child on the way with his upper-class wife, Pasi sees an opportunity – this is his ticket to climb the professional ladder in the company. On arrival, he bumps into his childhood friend Janne, who works in the factory he is about to downsize. Pasi begins to struggle with the fact that he is supposed to care for the profits – not for the people.

2020-09-11 | fi

6.0

Pôle Emploi, Ne quittez pas !

This is the story of a team of 40 agents facing 4,000 job seekers at a job centre in the Parisian suburbs. Samia, Corinne, Thierry, Zuleika must support and monitor, bring in the numbers, obey policy guidelines and communication injunctions, and find job offers while none is to be found. Will their strong sense of humor save them from the Kafkaian world they work in?

2014-11-19 | fr

7.1

Solino

The movie portrays the story of an Italian family emigrated in Germany in the 1970s. Romano (Gigi Savoia), the father, decides to open a pizzeria which, by mutual decision with the wife Rosa (Antonella Attili), will call Solino, leaving his sons Gigi and Giancarlo to work there. A hostile relationship comes to life between the father and his sons, which will end up in the escape of the boys from family.

2002-09-23 | de

6.0

Gung Ho

When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.

1986-03-14 | en

5.9

Godard's Passion

While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.

1982-05-26 | fr

6.8

The Navigators

In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization, their lives will never be the same. When the trusty British Rail sign is replaced by one reading East Midland Infrastructure, it is clear that there will be the inevitable winners and losers as downsizing and efficiency become the new buzzwords.

2001-09-14 | en

5.4

Spotswood

Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.

1992-01-23 | en

7.0

Velaikkaran

An enterprising youngster in a slum wants his people to lead a life of dignity, but has to take on an ambitious capitalist, who only wants to dominate his field.

2017-12-22 | ta

7.4

Blue Collar

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.

1978-02-10 | en

6.7

Kinky Boots

Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.

2005-08-30 | en

7.4

The Match Factory Girl

Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.

1990-01-12 | fi

6.2

The Swindlers

Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth, but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.

1959-09-23 | it

7.0

The Secret Life of Words

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

2005-12-15 | en

7.3

The Promised Land

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.

1975-02-21 | pl

7.4

Matewan

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 heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.

1987-08-28 | en

6.4

Bootmen

Sean Odkin loves to dance—much to his fathers distain. When the woman he loves cannot return his love, he goes in search of the only thing that can make him whole again—dancing.

2000-10-05 | en

0.0

The Dancing Monkey

After being compared to a dancing monkey by one of the factory owners, Wayne, a factory worker sets out to find an answer to a question that will decide his fate and those around him.

2023-05-05 | en

6.0

Kuro Arirang

The film depicts the story of four people working in a sewing factory in Guro Industrial Complex in Seoul and the problems they face.

1989-07-01 | ko

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Ariane Castellanos

Marc-André Grondin

Nelson Coronado

Ève Duranceau

Gerardo Miranda

Micheline Bernard

Luis Oliva

Antonio Ortega

Denis Marchand

María Mercedes Coroy

Carlos Guerra

Émile Schneider

Nicolas Berno

Hubert Proulx

David Gagnon

Sasha Migliarese

Danny Gilmore

Marc Beaupré

Hugolin Chevrette

Monique Gosselin

Marvin Coroy

Darrell Lloyd Tucler

Jean-François Boudreau

Charlotte Aubin

Sylvie Lemay

Mathieu Dufresne

Véronique Ledoux

Olivier Turcotte

Yann Aspirot

Wilson Guerrero

Daniel Deburghgraeve

María Telón

Darlin Sofia Livar Coroy

André Nadeau

Jason Desjardins

Danny Duarte

Hugo Leonel Rucuch López

Manuel Pelletier

José Zapata

Pénélope Cournoyer

Valeri Koudriavtsev

Daniel Lortie

Carole Desbiens

Claudia Cayer