Director: Elsa Rassbach
Story of the women in the textile mills of Massachusetts in the 1840s; completed but has never aired?
http://www.commondreams.org/elsa–rassbach
Author Archives: Metro Council
Louise-Michel (2008)
94m; France
Director: Gustave de Kervern, Benoît Delépine
Cast: Yolande Moreau, Bouli Lanners and Benoît Poelvoorde
Synopsis: Black comedy about an unemployed French plant worker’s decision to hire a hitman to exact working-class vengeance on the rich and powerful.
Love A La Carte (Adua e le compagne) [1960]
106m; Italy
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Cast: Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni and Sandra Milo
Synopsis: Neorealist comedy about four rebellious prostitutes who open a restaurant.
Love Affair (1967)
79m; Yugoslavia
Director: Dusan Majavejev
Synopsis: Spoof on sexual politics, science, and the lowest of jobs – rat catcher – in a Socialist economy.
Love Crime (2010)
106m
Director: Alain Corneau
Cast: Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott Thomas and Patrick Mille
Synopsis (IMDB): Ruthless executive Christine brings on Isabelle as her assistant, and she takes delight in toying with the young woman’s innocence. But when the protégé’s ideas become tempting enough for Christine to pass on as her own, she underestimates Isabelle’s ambition and cunning — and the ground is set for all out war.
Love and Diane (2002)
155m;
Director: Jennifer Dworkin
Cast: Diane Hazzard, Donyaeh Hazzard and Love Hazzard
Synopsis (IMDB): Documentary on a recovering crack addict and her troubled daughter as they navigate the obstacles of joblessness, parenthood, welfare, and public housing.
Love on the Dole (1941)
Director: John Baxter
Writers: Walter Greenwood (novel), Ronald Gow (play), and 3 more credits
Stars: Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans and George Carney
During the depression in England, a young woman from Lancashire is forced to become a rich bookmaker’s mistress just to help the rest of her family who are unemployed.
Loves of a Blonde (1965)
88m; Czechoslavkia
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Hana Brejchová, Vladimír Pucholt and Vladimír Mensík
Synopsis: Young Czech woman escapes from regimented life in a state dormitory and factory labor to run off to the big city seeking romance.
Lucia (1969)
160m; Cuba
Director: Humberto Solas
Cast: Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez and Adela Legrá
Synopsis: Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban working women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the Cuban war of independence (with Spain), the 1930’s, and the 1960’s.
Lunch Break (2005)
28m; U.S.
Director: John W. McKelvey
Cast: Tiffany Anne Carrin, John W. McKelvey and Elise Falanga
Synopsis: A working mother is faced with the unexpected arrival of an invasive documentary film crew and the prospect of losing her job as a cashier at a major supermarket, when a group of managers from out of town drop by for an “informal inspection.”
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