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The Killing Floor (1985)

28 Mar

118m; U.S.
Director: Bill Duke
Cast: Cynthia Baker, Dennis Farina and Clarence Felder

Synopsis (IMDB): During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city’s slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement. He becomes prominent as a leader of fellow African-Americans in the union, though many, including his best friend, view him as a sell-out.

Contact: Elsa Rassbach elsarassbach@gmail.com http://www.thekillingfloor-thefilm.com

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in A: Highly Recommended Labor Films, Blacks, Drama, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Outsourcing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

Kings (2007)

28 Mar

88m; Ireland

Director: Tom Collins

Cast:  Colm Meaney, Donal O’Kelly and Brendan Conroy

Synopsis: In the twenty five years they have been there, done that, the Navvy (Irish working man) clock does not stop for alienation or inner despair. They are working men, strong even indestructible. Those gnawing feelings of something not being quite right are ameliorated by the camaraderie of their mates. So what if it all ends in tears or a thumping. They can give as good as they get or used to. At least they are alive and having the craic. Until it all changes, and a silence falls on the reverie of the gang. Tragedy has struck Jackie the youngest, the brightest and the bravest. The gang does what has always been done – they gather together for a Wake, a final celebration, a cheer, to give Jackie Flavin a send off fit for a king, a king of the Kilburn High Road. He, unlike them is set to return to Ireland – his body found bruised and battered on the railway track, crushed by the passing Kilburn train

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Drama, Working Class

 

Kinky Boots (2005)

28 Mar

107m; U.K.

Director: Julian Jarrold

Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joel Edgerton, Sarah-Jane Potts

Synopsis (IMDB): A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father’s shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Comedy, Drama, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, White Collar, Working Class

 

Kraft Television Theatre: “Patterns” (1955)

28 Mar

59m; U.S.

Director: Fielder Cook

Synopsis: A business psychological drama about a CEO of a company who tries to psychologically intimidate a Vice President into resigning (since at the VP and above level you don’t fire staff according to the CEO). This TV play centers around the interaction between the CEO and the VP, the CEO and the person that’s supposed to replace the VP (though he wasn’t hired knowing this), the CEO and the new hire and the new hire and the VP.

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Drama, White Collar

 

Kuhle Wampe (1932)

28 Mar

71m; Germany

Director: Slatan Dudow

Synopsis: Fragmented vignettes combine to make a political statement about working class potential in Germany, just before it was blocked by Fascism.

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Drama, Politics, Working Class

 

L’America (1994)

28 Mar

116m; Italy

Director: Gianni Amelio

Cast: Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido and Piro Milkani

Synopsis: (IMDB): Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a stooge. They choose an old one in a jail : Spiro. But the youngest italian, Gino, once alone with Spiro, encounter a few problems. Far from his roots, loosing his identity in deep Albania, he begins to change…

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Drama, Immigrants/Immigration, Working Class

 

L’Atalante (1934)

28 Mar

89m; France

Director: Jean Vigo

Synopsis: Portrait of couple and the crew of a cargo boat on the Seine. When separated, the women finds a job and survives and the man falls apart.

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Drama, Women, Working Class

 

L’enfant (The Infant) [2005]

28 Mar

95m; Belgium

Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

Cast: Jérémie Renier, Déborah François and Jérémie Segard

Synopsis: Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Children, Drama, Working Class

 

Ironweed (1987)

23 Mar

143m; U.S.

Director: Hector Babenco

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep and Carroll Baker

Synopsis (IMDB): A schizophrenic drifter spends Halloween in his home town after returning there for the first time in decades.

 

 
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Posted by on March 23, 2012 in Drama, Working Class

 

Island in the Sun (1957)

23 Mar

119m; U.K.

Director: Robert Rossen

Cast: James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte 

Synopsis (IMDB): Set on a fictitious island in the Carribean during colonial British rule. It focuses on the life of a young charismatic and handsome black man with political aspirations. He finds himself confused on returning home when his romantic liaison with a white female tends to conflict with his political views. As rumor has it an interracial screen kiss caused quite a commotion in the U.S. when the film was released. The plot is further strengthened by a look at the lives of a white ex-pat family also living on the island. The family has to deal with problems of infidelity, racism and murder.

 
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Posted by on March 23, 2012 in Drama, Politics, Romance

 
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