104m; U.S.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Cast: Linda Lavin, Richard Jaeckel, and Nicholas Pryor
Category Archives: Drama
A Civil Action (1998)
115m; U.S.
Director: Steven Zaillian
Cast: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H. Macy
The families of children who died sue two companies for dumping toxic waste: a tort so expensive to prove, the case could bankrupt their lawyer.
A Corner in Wheat (1909)
14m; U.S.
Director: D.W. Griffith
Synopsis: A greedy tycoon decides, on a whim, to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing the grain’s producers into charity lines and further into poverty. The film continues to contrast the ironic differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.
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A Kind of Loving (1962)
112m; U.K.
Director: John Schlesinger
A young man (Alan Bates), inching his way up from working-class traditions via a white-collar job, finds himself trapped by the frightening reality of his girlfriend’s (June Richie) pregnancy and is forced into marrying her and moving in with his mother-in-law due to a housing shortage in their Northern England town.
A La Place Du Coeur (1998)
113m; France
Director: Robert Guediguian
love & struggle in a ethnic working class neighborhood in Marseilles
A Lion Is In the Streets (1953)
88m; U.S.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: James Cagney, Barbara Hale, and Anne Francis
A Shock to the System (1990)
91m; U.S.
Director: Jan Egleson
Cast: Michael Caine, Elizabeth McGovern
Synopsis: Focuses on office politics, featuring sneaky personalities and office traitors. It is dark and brooding.
A Very British Coup (1988)
148m; England
Director: Mick Jackson
Synopsis: When Harry Perkins, a steel worker and third-generation socialist from Sheffield, becomes Britain’s Prime Minister, he sends shockwaves through the government, both at home and abroad.
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Accatone (1961)
120m; Italy
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Synopsis: Picture of alienated young man, slum life, Italian youth, and the Roman underworld.
Act of Vengeance (1986)
96m; U.S.
Director: John MacKenzie
Cast: Charles Bronson, Ellen Burstyn, Wilford Brimley
Synopsis: Drama about the 1969 assassination of Jock Yablonski, who was challenging UMWA President Tony Boyle.
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