116m; U.S.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Paul Sorvino, Tony Lo Bianco, Richard Gere
Synopsis: A young man is torn between following in his brothers’ footsteps or striking out on his own.
Category Archives: Themes
Blood Feud (1983)
210m; U.S.
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: Robert Blake, Cotter Smith, Danny Aiello
Synopsis: Film on the feud between Jimmy Hoffa and Robert F. Kennedy.
Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)
80m; U.S.
Director: Billy Woodberry
Cast: Nate Hardman, Kaycee Moore and Angela Burnett
Synopsis: Life in Watts.
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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