48m; U.S.
Director: Heather Courtney
Synopsis: Immigrant workers.
Contact: Women Make Movies 212-925-0606 Director: 512-371-1337; hcourtney85@hotmail.com
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Losers And Winners (2006)
96m; Germany
Director: Michael Loeken, Ulrike Franke
Synopsis: German efficiency and Chinese industriousness pass each other on globalization’s economic ladder.
Contact: Hans-Peter Metzler Submission Contact buero.metzler@t-online.de +49 (0)7542 951270 (Work)
Lost Boys of Sudan (2003)
87m; U.S.
Director: Megan Mylan, Jon Shenk
Cast: Santino Majok Chuor and Peter Kon Dut
Synopsis: Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa’s cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia
Lost Eden (unreleased)
Director: Elsa Rassbach
Story of the women in the textile mills of Massachusetts in the 1840s; completed but has never aired?
http://www.commondreams.org/elsa–rassbach
Louise-Michel (2008)
94m; France
Director: Gustave de Kervern, Benoît Delépine
Cast: Yolande Moreau, Bouli Lanners and Benoît Poelvoorde
Synopsis: Black comedy about an unemployed French plant worker’s decision to hire a hitman to exact working-class vengeance on the rich and powerful.
Love A La Carte (Adua e le compagne) [1960]
106m; Italy
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Cast: Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni and Sandra Milo
Synopsis: Neorealist comedy about four rebellious prostitutes who open a restaurant.
Love Affair (1967)
79m; Yugoslavia
Director: Dusan Majavejev
Synopsis: Spoof on sexual politics, science, and the lowest of jobs – rat catcher – in a Socialist economy.
Love Crime (2010)
106m
Director: Alain Corneau
Cast: Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott Thomas and Patrick Mille
Synopsis (IMDB): Ruthless executive Christine brings on Isabelle as her assistant, and she takes delight in toying with the young woman’s innocence. But when the protégé’s ideas become tempting enough for Christine to pass on as her own, she underestimates Isabelle’s ambition and cunning — and the ground is set for all out war.
Love and Diane (2002)
155m;
Director: Jennifer Dworkin
Cast: Diane Hazzard, Donyaeh Hazzard and Love Hazzard
Synopsis (IMDB): Documentary on a recovering crack addict and her troubled daughter as they navigate the obstacles of joblessness, parenthood, welfare, and public housing.
Love on the Dole (1941)
Director: John Baxter
Writers: Walter Greenwood (novel), Ronald Gow (play), and 3 more credits
Stars: Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans and George Carney
During the depression in England, a young woman from Lancashire is forced to become a rich bookmaker’s mistress just to help the rest of her family who are unemployed.
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