93m; France
Director: Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche
Synopsis: An industrial pallet-repair operation on the outskirts of Paris becomes a microcosm of Muslim immigrant hopes and tensions.
Category Archives: Drama
The Agitator (1945)
85m; U.K.
Director: John Harlow
Synopsis: A socialist inherits the ownership of a major firm and begins wrestling with his beliefs.
Acla’s Descent into Floristella (1992)
86m; Italy
Director: Aurelio Grimaldi
Synopsis (IMDB): Brutal film about the exploitation of a young Italian boy, who is virtually sold to the operators of a sulphur mine where he is beaten and sexually molested.
Alambrista or “The Illegal” (1976)
110m; U.S.
Director: Robert Young
Synopsis: A dramatic feature tells the story of a young Mexican farmworker who crosses the border into the US illegally.
All That I Love (2009)
95m; Poland
Director: Jacek Borcuch
Synopsis: Set in 1981, just as Poland’s Solidarity movement was about to become an active force for social and political change, writer-director Jacek Borcuch’s film blends elements of an American ’80s teen sex comedy, a Romeo and Juliet-style romance and raucous punk rock into a thoroughly winning story. In an industrial port town on the Baltic coast, Jacek (Mateusz Kosciukiewicz), the teenaged son of a navy captain, and his friends court controversy by forming a punk rock band. Jacek begins a tentative romance with schoolmate Basia (Olga Fryz), whose father is a union leader. As events come to a head, and the young lovers find their families in opposition, Jacek and his band, backed by the town’s youth, take a stand for freedom.
All Screwed Up (1974)
105m; Italy
Director: Lina Wertmuller
Synopsis: A group of immigrants from the south of Italy live collectively in the Milano’s suburbia in the 1974. Not only they share the house, but also hopes and troubles that in those years where part of the Italian society.
All Or Nothing (2002)
128m; U.K.
Director: Mike Leigh
Synopsis: Penny’s love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket. Their daughter Rachel cleans in a home for elderly people, and their son Rory is unemployed and aggressive.
Alamo Bay (1985)
98m; U.S.
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Ho Nguyen
Synopsis (IMDB): A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
128m; U.S.
Director: Daniel Petrie
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil , Ruby Dee
Synopsis (IMDB): A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
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