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Ladybird, Ladybird (1994)

30 Mar

101m; U.K.

Director: Ken Loach

Cast: Crissy Rock, Vladimir Vega and Sandie Lavelle

Synopsis (IMDB): This Ken Loach docu-drama relates the story of a British womanUs fight with Social Services over the care of her children. Maggie has a history of bouncing from one abusive relationship to another. She has four children, of four different fathers, who came to the attention of Social Services when they were injured in a fire. Subsequently, Maggie was found to be an “unfit mother” and her children were removed from her care. She finally meets the man of her dreams, a Paraguayan expatriate, and they start a family together. Unfortunately, Social Services seems unwilling to accept that her life has changed and rends them from their new children. She and Jorge together, and separately, fight Social Services, Immigration, and other government bureaucrats in a desperate battle to make their family whole again

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Children, Drama, Immigrants/Immigration, Women, Working Class

 

Ladies Who Do (1963)

30 Mar

85m; U.S.

Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards

Cast: Peggy Mount, Robert Morley and Harry H. Corbett

Synopsis (IMDB): The “Ladies Who Do” are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Comedy, Women, Working Class

 

Laila’s Birthday (2008)

30 Mar

71m; Palestine/Tunisia/Netherlands

Director: Rashid Masharawi

Cast: Mohammed Bakri, Areen Omari and Nour Zoubi

Synopsis (IMDB): Abu Laila used to be a judge, but because the government doesn’t have the means to renew his assignment he is forced to be a taxi driver. On the day his daughter Laila becomes seven years old his wife insists that he’ll be at home early and bring her a present and a cake. Abu Laila’s has nothing else on his mind then completing this mission. But the daily life in Palestine has other plans.

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Children, Drama, Politics, Service Workers, Working Class

 

Land Without Bread (1933)

30 Mar

30m; Spain

Director: Luis Buñuel

Cast: Abel Jacquin and Alexandre O’Neill

Synopsis (IMDB): A surrealistic documentary portrait of the region of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Working Class

 

Land and Freedom (1995)

30 Mar

109m; U.K.

Director: Ken Loach

Cast: Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor and Icíar Bollaín

Synopsis: A young British communist volunteers to fight in Spain with the POUM militia in the civil war.  He joins an international set of leftists in the fight, however the POUM eventually becomes a target not only of the fascists, but also of the Stalin-backed Spanish republic.  The film is loosely based on George Orwell’s memoir of the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catalonia.

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Drama, Labor History, Politics, War, Working Class

 

The Job (Ill Posto) [1961]

28 Mar

93m; Italy

Director: Ermanno Olmi

Synopsis: Alienated experience of Italian youth in a big company.

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

 

Joe (1970)

28 Mar

107m; U.S.

Director: John G. Avildsen

Cast: Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick and Susan Sarandon

Synopsis (IMDB): Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter’s drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at a bar. There he runs into a drunken factory worker named Joe, who hates hippies, blacks, and anyone who is “different”, and would like to kill one himself. The two start talking, and Bill reveals his secret to Joe. Complications ensue

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

 

John & Jane Toll-Free (2005)

28 Mar

77m; India

Director: Ashim Ahluwalia

Synopsis: Eye-opening behind-the-scenes look at an Indian call-center.

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Documentary, Global Economy, Service Workers

 

John Q (2002)

28 Mar

116m; U.S.

Director: Nick Cassavetes

Cast: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall and Gabriela Oltean

Synopsis: A down-on-his luck father, whose insurance won’t cover his son’s heart transplant, takes the hospital’s emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to perform the operation.

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Drama, Safety & Health, Working Class

 

John and the Missus (1987)

28 Mar

100m; Canada

Director: Gordon Pinsent

Cast:  Gordon Pinsent, Jackie Burroughs and Randy Follett

Synopsis (IMDB): A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine–the town’s only source of income–is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government

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

 

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