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Sangre (2005)

90m; Mexico

Director: Amat Escalante

Cast: Cirilo Recio Dávila, Claudia Orozco and Martha Preciado

Synopsis (IMDB): Diego’s job is counting people as they enter a large government building. After work, he and his wife Blanca lie on the couch, watch soap operas, or make love on the kitchen table. Their relationship is based on having sex, watching TV, and fighting, until one day their routine is interrupted. Karina, Diego’s daughter from a previous marriage, arrives in search of her father’s love, but Blanca refuses to accept her. Diego finds himself caught between an extremely jealous wife and a daughter in desperate need of guidance. An astonishing climax will lead Diego to a total loss of control.

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Posted by Metro Council on April 26, 2012 in Crime-Action, Working Class

Los Bastardos (2008)

20 Apr

86m; Mexico

Director: Amat Escalante

Cast: Jesus Moises Rodriguez, Rubén Sosa and Nina Zavarin

Synopsis: Pulp crime and cinematic formalism collide in this hauntingly visceral portrait of two Mexican day laborers moved to desperate deeds in a hellish contemporary Los Angeles. Host University of Guadalajara Foundation.

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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Crime-Action, Immigrants/Immigration, Unemployment-Wages

Los Olvidados (1950)

20 Apr

86m; Mexico

Director: Luis Buñuel

Cast: Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo and Estela Inda

Synopsis: A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City.

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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Children, Crime-Action, Drama, Legal System, Working Class

Louise-Michel (2008)

20 Apr

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.

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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Comedy, Crime-Action, Unemployment-Wages, Working Class

Mad Money (2008)

20 Apr

104m; U.S.

Director: Callie Khouri

Cast: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes

Synopsis: Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.

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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Comedy, Crime-Action, Finance, Legal System, Public Sector, Women

Marked Woman (1937)

20 Apr

96m; U.S.

Director: Lloyd Bacon

Cast: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart and Lola Lane

Synopsis: Mary Dwight works as a hostess at the Club Intime run by ruthless gangster Johnny Vanning. When one of her “clients” is murdered prosecutor David Graham questions Mary but she won’t cooperate and Vanning is acquitted. When Mary’s sister Betty is killed by one of Vanning’s thugs she decides to spill the beans and is beaten into disfigurement. At her bedside all the hostesses agree to testify.

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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Crime-Action, Whistleblowers, Women, Working Class

Gamblers (Les Mauvais joueurs) [2005]

20 Apr

85m; France

Director: Frédéric Balekdjian

Cast: Pascal Elbé, Simon Abkarian and Isaac Sharry

Synopsis (IMDB): Vahé, Sahak, and Toros run a bonneteau game on the streets of Paris. They’re Lebanese French of Armenian descent. Vahé also works with his father, a cloth merchant, and is in love with Lu Ann, Chinese French, who’s broken off their affair. Vahé wants to make things right: with Lu Ann, with his father’s business, and with Yuen, Lu Ann’s younger brother, who’s on the edge of delinquency and owes money to the gang who arranged his passage from China. Vahé tries to be like a father to Yuen, teaching him a work ethic. When Yuen impetuosity puts his own life in jeopardy, Vahé tries to save him. Will Vahé’s impulses and hopes die on the streets of Paris?

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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Crime-Action, Drama, Immigrants/Immigration

Moi et mon Blanc (2003)

20 Apr

90m; Burkina Faso/France

Director: S. Pierre Yameogo

Cast: Serge Bayala, Pierre-Loup Rajot and Anne Roussel

Synopsis (IMDB): Mamadi is struggling to complete a doctorate at a Parisian university after the government of his country has stopped paying his scholarship. Thanks to his acquaintances in the African community, he finds a job as night watchman in an underground car park. There, a French colleague, Franck, helps the friendly African academic getting around. However, the car park is also a meeting point for dubious characters, and when Mamadi accidentally wrecks a drug trafficking operation, Franck is really hard-pressed to put his pal and himself out of harm’s way. Wouldn’t Mamadi’s home country be the ideal place to escape the gangsters’ wrath

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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Crime-Action, Drama, Education, Immigrants/Immigration

Tags: Africa

Outland (1981)

20 Apr

112m; U.S.

Director: Peter Hyams

Cast: Sean Connery, Frances Sternhagen and Peter Boyle

Synopsis (IMDB): Marshal W.T. O’Niel is assigned to a mining colony on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. During his tenure miners are dying – usually violently. When the marshal investigates he discovers the one thing all the deaths have in common is a lethal amphetamine-type drug, which allows the miners to work continuously for days at a time until they become “burned out” and expire. O’Niel follows the trail of the dealers, which leads to the man overseeing the colony. Now O’Niel must watch his back at every turn, as those who seek to protect their income begin targeting him.

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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Crime-Action, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Safety & Health, SciFi, Working Class

Tags: Mining