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Taru Mäkelä Director

Vesa Vierikko as Jylhäkorpi

Pirkko Hämäläinen as Kätilö neuvolassa

Elina Knihtilä as Nainen neuvolassa

Joonas Makkonen as Young man in childbirth info occasion

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 side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main prize but he wants to have the right numbers in exactly the order in which they appear from the lottery machine. Raninen is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. Rousku's freedom is threatened by his relationship to the saleswoman Karita. Rousku wants to keep a distance to the woman except in bed. Karita has decided otherwise.

A Kind of Loving

1962

7.3

♡ 4

93%

85%

1960s

John Schlesinger Director

Joe Gladwin as Bus Driver

James Bolam as Jeff

Alan Bates as Vic

Douglas Livingstone as Window Cleaner

As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.

Holiday

1930

6.3

♡ 8

91%

Edward H. Griffith Director

Mary Astor as Julia Seton

Ann Harding as Linda Seton

Paul Power as Party Guest

Hedda Hopper as Susan Potter

A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.

All or Nothing

2002

7.5

♡ 7

82%

Mike Leigh Director

Daniel Ryan as Crash Driver

Lesley Manville as Penny

Sally Hawkins as Samantha

Leo Bill as Young Man

Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.

Os Verdes Anos

1963

Portuguese

7.4

♡ 4

60%

Paulo Rocha Director

Manoel de Oliveira as

Isabel Ruth as Ilda

Rui Gomes as Júlio

Ruy Furtado as Raúl

Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes a regular shop visitor, his working-class values collide with the bourgeois trappings of modern life.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

1960

7.5

♡ 2

87%

Karel Reisz Director

Albert Finney as Arthur Seaton

Avis Bunnage as Blousy Woman

Colin Blakely as Loudmouth

Robert Cawdron as Robboe

A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.

Tell It to the Bees

2018

6.5

♡ 75

49%

61%

Annabel Jankel Director

Anna Paquin as Dr. Jean Markham

Holliday Grainger as Lydia

Kate Dickie as Pam Kranmer

Emun Elliott as Robert

Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.

Pelle the Conqueror

1987

Danish

7.7

♡ 6

84%

89%

Bille August Director

Björn Granath as Erik

Sofie Gråbøl as Jomfru Sine

Max von Sydow as Lassefar

Thure Lindhardt as Skoleelev

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to travel to the United States of America.

Place de la République

1974

French

7.0

♡ 2

100%

Louis Malle Director

Louis Malle as Self

Louis Malle presents his entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris.

Belfast

2021

7.2

♡ 76

86%

92%

1960s

the troubles (north ireland, 1966-98)

belfast, north ireland

working class

Kenneth Branagh Director

Jude Hill as Buddy

John Sessions as Joseph Tomelty

Caitriona Balfe as Ma

Ciarán Hinds as Pop

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 conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.

The Working Class Goes to Heaven

1971

Italian

7.6

♡ 11

92%

Elio Petri Director

Luigi Diberti as Bassi

Mariangela Melato as Lidia

Gian Maria Volonté as Ludovico 'Lulù' Massa

Gino Pernice as Sindacalista

After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups.

Jellyfish

2018

7.2

♡ 1

84%

James Gardner Director

Cyril Nri as Adam Hale

Sinead Matthews as Karen Taylor

Ria Zmitrowicz as Nightclub Girl

Liv Hill as Sarah Taylor

In Margate, England, life is not easy for teenager Sarah Taylor, between being bullied at school, being exploited by a dominant boss and having to take care of her depressive mother and her two siblings. But Sarah finds a way to channel her growing despair and fight adversity when her drama teacher gives her a new purpose.

Chuck Chuck Baby

2023

6.5

♡ 2

100%

Janis Pugh Director

Emily Fairn as Amy

Sorcha Cusack as Gwen

Louise Brealey as Helen

Emily Aston as Lynn

Helen's mundane life at the chicken factory takes an unexpected turn with Joanne's return. They were each other's secret teenage passion. As they fall in love, Helen's zest for life returns but Joanne faces something darker from her past.

Requiem for the American Dream

2015

8.0

♡ 21

92%

Kelly Nyks Director

Noam Chomsky as Himself

Malcolm X as Self

Gloria Steinem as Self / civil rights activist

Ronald Reagan as self / US President

Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority – while also looking back on his own life of activism and political participation. He provides penetrating insight into what may well be the lasting legacy of our time – the death of the middle class, and swan song of functioning democracy.

Sorry We Missed You

2019

7.6

♡ 36

88%

Ken Loach Director

Micky McGregor as Davis

Mark Burns as Homeless man

Lee Hall as Les - A Driver

Kris Hitchen as Ricky Turner

Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self-employed delivery driver. It's hard work, and his wife's job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.

Pit Stop

2013

6.0

♡ 7

100%

Yen Tan Director

Bill Heck as Gabe

Lila Schmitz as Movie Theater Teenager 2

Jonny Mars as Russ

Amy Seimetz as Shannon

Openly gay Ernesto and closeted Gabe grapple with the sad tribulations of being gay in a small, working-class Texas town

The Old Oak

2023

7.1

♡ 24

82%

Ken Loach Director

Kika Markham as

Trevor Fox as Charlie

Micky McGregor as Estate Agent

Neil Leiper as Rocco

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.

Working Class

1985

Cn

6.3

♡ 1

Hark Tsui Director

Bolo Yeung as Giant Kickboxer Ken Lo

Ken Lo as Kickboxer

Ken Boyle as Snr Police Officer

David Wu as Supervisor

Yam, Sunny and Ah Hing are buddies and all dismissed creating havoc in their jobs. The trio is employed by a noodle factory, which has a very poor labor relationship. The manager, supervisor and foreman are always picking on their subordinates. Finally the workers decide to take an united front to oppose their superiors.

Raining Stones

1993