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Tad, the Lost Explorer, and the Secret of King Midas(2017)

PG
| 1h 25min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 180 votes)

Tad dreams of becoming an archaeologist traveling the world, uncovering hidden secrets and lost treasure, but his job working construction keeps him daydreaming instead of exploring. The chance of a lifetime comes when he is invited to attend archaeologist Sara Lavrof's presentation of her latest discovery - the papyrus that proves the existence of the Necklace of Midas, the legendary King who turned everything he touched into solid gold.

Directed by Enrique Gato
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Tad, the Lost Explorer(2012)

PG
| 1h 30min | Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 249 votes)

Tad is a celebrity archaeologist and adventurer just like his hero Max Mordon... in his dreams! In reality, Tad is a Chicago construction worker. One day, however, he is mistaken for a real professor and takes his place on a flight to Peru in search of the lost city of Paititi.

Directed by Enrique Gato
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Osmosis Jones(2001)

PG
| 1h 35min | Adventure, Animation, Action, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 459 votes)

A white blood cell policeman, with the help of a cold pill, must stop a deadly virus from destroying the human they live in, Frank.

Directed by Tom Sito, Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Piet Kroon - With Bill Murray, Molly Shannon, Chris Elliott, Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne, David Hyde Pierce, ...
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99 Homes(2015)

R
| 1h 52min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 325 votes)

After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tries to win his home back by striking a deal with the devil and working for Rick Carver, the corrupt real estate broker who evicted him.

Directed by Ramin Bahrani - With Andrew Garfield, Cullen Moss, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern, Tim Guinee, Noah Lomax, ...
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Take Shelter(2011)

R
| 2h | Thriller, Drama, Horror
3.5/5 (with 741 votes)

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

Directed by Jeff Nichols - With Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Kathy Baker, Ray McKinnon, Katy Mixon, ...
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Neo Tokyo(1989)

50min | Science Fiction, Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 37 votes)

A trilogy of separate stories. In "Labyrinth labyrinthos", a girl and her cat enter a strange world. In "Running Man", a racer takes on the ultimate opponent. In "Construction Cancellation Order", a man must shut down worker robots.

Directed by Rintaro, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Katsuhiro Otomo

Atlantics(2019)

PG-13
| 1h 44min | Drama, Romance / Love, Fantasy, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 107 votes)

Arranged to marry a rich man, young Ada is crushed when her true love goes missing at sea during a migration attempt — until a miracle reunites them.

Directed by Mati Diop - With Ibrahima Traore
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Leaving(2009)

1h 25min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 50 votes)

Suzanne is a well to do married woman and mother in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room for her in their backyard. When Suzanne and the man hired to do the building meet, the mutual attraction is sudden and violent. Suzanne decides to give up everything and live this all engulfing passion to the fullest.

Directed by Catherine Corsini - With Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi López, Yvan Attal, Aladin Reibel, Bernard Blancan, Geneviève Casile, ...

Lilies of the Field(1963)

NR
| 1h 34min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 65 votes)

An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.

Directed by Ralph Nelson - With Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Dan Frazer, Pamela Branch, Ralph Nelson, Stanley Adams, ...
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Riff-Raff(1991)

1h 35min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 42 votes)

Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.

Directed by Ken Loach - With Robert Carlyle, David Finch, Ricky Tomlinson, Peter Mullan, George Moss, Emer McCourt, ...

La nostra vita(2010)

1h 38min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 57 votes)

Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life.

Directed by Daniele Luchetti - With Raoul Bova, Elio Germano, Isabella Ragonese, Stefania Montorsi, Luca Zingaretti, Giorgio Colangeli, ...

The Fighting Seabees(1944)

NR
| 1h 40min | Drama, Action, War
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.

Directed by Edward Ludwig - With John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley, Leonid Kinskey, J. M. Kerrigan, ...
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Betsy's Wedding(1990)

R
| 1h 34min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 16 votes)

Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife Lola into a financial panic.

Directed by Alan Alda - With Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Madeline Kahn, Joe Pesci, Joey Bishop, Anthony LaPaglia, ...
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We, the Undersigned(1981)

2h 18min | Drama, TV Movie
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

The main events unfold in the train. The acceptance committee from Moscow, revealing deficiencies in the constructed bakery, did not sign the act of its delivery. But the fate of not only many people associated with the construction, but also the life of the town as a whole depends on this. Lyonya Shindin — a conscientious and decent man — is trying by all means and by any means to change the decision of the commission...

Directed by Tatyana Lioznova - With Leonid Kuravlyov, Irina Muravyova, Yury Yakovlev, Klara Luchko, Oleg Yankovsky

Tad Jones(2004)

9min | Adventure, Animation
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Tadeo is a foolish and stubborn adventurer who explores an old pyramid and comes across a modern family of mummies.

Directed by Enrique Gato

Tad Jones and the Basement of Doom(2007)

18min | Animation, Adventure
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Tad, a foolish and stubborn adventurer, seeks for a disappeared cute dog and finds a mysterious basement where a terrible secret is hidden.

Directed by Enrique Gato

Moonlighting(1982)

1h 37min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski - With Jeremy Irons, David Calder, Eugene Lipinski

A Land Imagined(2019)

1h 35min | Mystery, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 20 votes)

A cop in Singapore investigates the disappearance of a Chinese migrant construction worker who spent sleepless nights playing a mysterious video game.

Directed by Siew Hua Yeo
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Bouzouki Strumming(1966)

1h 14min | Comedy, Music
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

One day, while Grigoris is working and singing at a construction site, a conductor, Vangelis, and two bouzouki musicians happen to pass by. They listen, enchanted by his limpid voice, and suggest that he becomes a member of their orchestra. Thus, the newly-wed day laborer gets a second job at Mr. Lefteris’ night club. His wife, Marina, soon joins him at the club, and, before long, she too goes on stage, cuts capers and charms everyone. Her success, however, has a negative impact on the couple’s relationship, since Marina’s admirers as well as those of Grigoris’, turn one away from the other.

Directed by Giorgos Skalenakis - With Aliki Vougiouklaki, Dimitris Papamichael, Vasilis Avlonitis, Rika Dialina, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Petros Lohaitis, ...

Trace of Stones(1966)

2h 19min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses unconventional methods to overcome the problems. New Socialist Unity Party secretary Werner Horrath is charged with bringing the rough-and-ready builder crew into line. The task seems doomed to fail as the two men compete for the affections of young engineer Kati Klee. But when she gets pregnant by married man Horrath, he is in danger of being expelled from the party, and Balla takes his side...

Directed by Frank Beyer - With Manfred Krug, Eberhard Esche, Krystyna Stypułkowska, Johannes Wieke, Walter Richter-Reinick, Hans-Peter Minetti, ...

If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer(2002)

1h 41min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 28 votes)

Frustrated with their lazy new intern, a trio of offbeat builders decide to teach him a lesson with a series of escalating pranks.

Directed by Peter Thorwarth - With Dietmar Bär, Ralf Richter, Hilmi Sözer, Willi Thomczyk, Peter Thorwarth, Alexandra Maria Lara, ...

Love and Bruises(2011)

1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

Hua, a young woman from Beijing, is a recent arrival in Paris. Exiled in an unknown city, she wanders between her tiny apartment and the university, drifting between former lovers and recent French acquaintances. She meets Matthieu, a young worker who falls madly in love with her. Possessed by an insatiable desire for her body, he treats Hua like a dog. An intense affair begins, marked by Matthieu’s passionate embraces and harsh verbal abuse. When Hua determines to leave her lover, she discovers the strength of her addiction, and the vital role he has come to play in her life as a woman.

Directed by Lou Ye - With Adèle Ado, Jalil Lespert, Patrick Mille, Tahar Rahim, Vincent Rottiers

Vesna Goes Fast(1996)

1h 32min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation.

Directed by Carlo Mazzacurati - With Antonio Albanese, Marco Messeri, Silvio Orlando, Ivano Marescotti, Patrizia Piccinini, Tony Sperandeo, ...

Vuelven los albañiles(2000)

1h 30min | Comedy
2.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Construction workers try to make a housing complex and a group of female builders join along.

Concrete Plans(2020)

1h 31min | Thriller
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

When their employer tries to cheat them out of a job, a rugged crew of workmen turn first on him then each other, leading to a bloody confrontation.

My Father's Wings(2016)

1h 41min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Set against the backdrop of construction activity promising to fill in the empty spaces of the urban landscape with entirely new neighborhoods, a story unfolds of an aging construction worker who, unlike his peers, has to drop all plans for the future after being diagnosed with a malignant tumor. This self-assured debut contemplates the dignity of the individual within the context of modern Turkish society.

The Twelve Months of the Summer(1988)

2h 10min | Horror, Science Fiction, Drama, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Roger and Lars are family men who live a life as a traveling construction workers on large sites worldwide. They are offered a very generous contract they can't turn down. One-years work for a ten year salary. All they have to do is sign and honor the contract. But they don't know where they are going or what they are supposed to build. Blindfolded they are brought to a place with summer the year round. At this strange place they meet fellow workers. Together, they realize that there is something very wrong in this paradise.

Directed by Richard Hobert - With Hans Mosesson

Homeless Hare(1950)

7min | Animation, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 15 votes)

A construction worker destroys Bugs' home with a steam shovel and refuses to repair the damage.

Directed by Chuck Jones

Norwegian Building Blocks(1972)

1h 34min | Comedy
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

A young couple decides to build their dream house, but run into numerous complications in the process. Everything from useless carpenters to building control gets in their way. Norwegian comedian Rolv Wesenlund plays 7 different roles in this movie.

Directed by Pål Bang-Hansen - With Rolv Wesenlund, Bjørn Sand, Thea Stabell, Arve Opsahl, Ingeborg Cook, Dag Frøland, ...

Tsubok(1990)

1h 25min | Drama

A butcher and his associate befriend a group of workers from construction site. Escape from family problems only makes new ones for the duo.

With Danilo Lazović, Ljubomir Ćipranić, Melita Bihali, Ljiljana Blagojević, Dara Džokić, Slobodan Ćustić, ...
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