80m; U.S.
Director: Billy Woodberry
Cast: Nate Hardman, Kaycee Moore and Angela Burnett
Synopsis: Life in Watts.
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Black Orpheus (1959)
107m; Brazil
Director: Marcel Camus
Cast: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn and Lourdes de Oliveira
Synopsis: A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
Black Legion (1937)
83m; U.S.
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Dick Foran
Synopsis: When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Black Gold: A Film About Coffee and Trade (2006)
78m; U.K.
Director: Mark & Nick Francis
Synopsis: How unfair trade and labor practices in the coffee industry have kept Africa mired in poverty.
Contact: Brought to our attention in 2010 by: Nicola Seyd for London Socialist Film Co-op nseyd@hotmail.com movie website: http://www.blackgoldmovie.com/ distribution@blackgoldmovie.com
For Man Must Work or The End of Work (2000)
52m; Canada
Director: Jean-Claude Burger
Synopsis: Globalization and the impacts of plant closings.
Contact: First Run/Icarus Films 718-488-8642 f 718-488-8900 v Tom Hyland
The Full Monty (1997)
91m; U.K.
Director: Peter Cattaneo
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson and Mark Addy
Synopsis: Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for “the full monty” – total nudity.
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The Happy Lands (2012)
UK
Director: Robert Rae
108m
It’s the General Strike 1926 – only seven years after the slaughter of the trenches, miners unions lead the country against savage austerity cuts handed to the nation by a Liberal-Conservative government. Inspired by true stories from local families in Fife, the Happy Lands follows the journey of law-abiding citizens who become law-breakers in a heroic battle against the state. It’s never a good time to stand up for your rights – but it’s always the right time.
The Great Pretenders (2007)
30m; U.S.
Director: Jeremy Cohen
Cast: Raniah Al-Sayed, Keith Brown and Al Bundonis
Synopsis (IMDB): A biting satire from the front lines of the American workplace, where layoffs are so routine they’ve created their own industry – outplacement. Elite Transition Services promises laid-off worker Scott Matter help finding a job and getting back on his feet. But as the job search grows increasingly desperate, Scott finds himself caught in a corporate purgatory where the absurdities of office life are brought into vivid relief.
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The Gronholm Method (El Método) [2005]
115m; Spain, Argentina, Italy
Director: Marcelo Piñeyro
Cast: Eduardo Noriega, Najwa Nimri and Eduard Fernández
Synopsis: Brilliant. A modern version of Rod Serling’s classic TV morality play “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” crossed with “Survivor,” white collar job applicants are put in a room and choose up sides and press their individual advantages.
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Human Resources (1999)
100m; France
Director: Laurent Cantet
Cast: Jalil Lespert, Jean-Claude Vallod and Chantal Barré
Synopsis: The 35-hour work week has all of France in its thrall. This film turns it into a feature about economic and familial politics. Frank, a business school graduate, returns to his provincial hometown to take a management position in the factory where his father has been working for 30 years. First Frank makes the mistake of actually asking the workers on the assembly line for their opinions. Then upper management manipulates his findings to lay off employees. This creates a huge rift, not only between labor and management, but between father and son. A human morality tale that evokes paternal and filial love, and illustrates the personal risk behind political ideas.
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