90m; Bolivia
Director: Jorge Sanjinés
Synopsis: Dramatic reconstruction of 1967 massacre of striking Bolivian tin miners.
Author Archives: Metro Council
Cover boy: L’ultima rivoluzione (2007)
97m; Italy
Director: Carmine Amoroso
Synopsis: The story of a friendship between two young men—a Romanian immigrant and an Italian lower-class worker.
Contact: from Todd at AFI
Crane World (1999)
90m; Argentina
Director: Pablo Trapero
Cast: Luis Margani, Adriana Aizemberg and Daniel Valenzuela
Synopsis (IMDB): The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1935)
80m; France
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry
Synopsis (IMDB): A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police’s description. His name is Amedee Lange, he murdered Batala in Paris. His lady friend Valentine tells the whole story : Lange was an employee in Batala’s little printing works. Batala was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers of Valentine’s laundry… One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. But the plot is less important that the description of the atmosphere just before the Popular Front government.
Crimes Against Nature (2008)
120m; U.S.
Director: Angus Young
Synopsis: Details the systematic dismantling of America’s environmental laws and policies by the Bush administration and its corporate cronies.
Contact: http://crimesagainstnaturemovie.com/thefilm.html
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Crossroads (2007)
7m; U.K.
Director: Matthew Hoad-Robson
Synopsis: Slick and stylish, a man and a woman compete for the same job. They meet in a bold, stark environment, each desperate to win out over the other.
Contact: Youtube link to full film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E93BCu3pKvc Found on 2007 Palms Springs Shorts Film Festival: http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=19323&FID=31
The Crowd (1928)
104m; U.S.
Director: King Vidor
Synopsis: Drama presenting the plight of workaday men and women in New York city at the turn of the century. In his youth John Sims is convinced that he’s destined to be a man of importance but twenty seven years later, he is merely one of the faceless crowd, an underpaid clerk in a huge New York office building.
Cry of the Children (1912)
29m; U.S.
Director: George O. Nicholas
Synopsis: An expression of the pre-World War One reform movement concerning child labor.
The Cry of the People (Al Grito de este Pueblo) [1972]
65m; Bolivia
Director: Humberto Rios
Synopsis: A political history of Bolivia which shows the working conditions of the miners.
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