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Parasite(2019)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 13min | Comedy, Thriller, Drama
4.3/5 (with 7,857 votes)

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

Directed by Bong Joon-ho - With Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Jang Hye-jin, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, ...

Overboard(1987)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 46min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 353 votes)

Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get even.

Blue Jasmine(2013)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 39min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1,563 votes)

After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but she will be haunted by anxiety and memories of the past.

Cemetery Junction(2010)

1h 34min | Drama, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 122 votes)

In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.

Belfast(2021)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 37min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 538 votes)

Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.

Freaks – You're One of Us(2020)

1h 33min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 139 votes)

After having a chance encounter with a mysterious character, Wendy, a young working class mother, discovers that she has super powers.

Inventing the Abbotts(1997)

1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 100 votes)

In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break the hearts of rich young women. But sensitive Doug has a real romance with Pamela, which Jacey and the Abbott patriarch, Lloyd, both frown upon.

Brooklyn(2015)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 51min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.7/5 (with 1,431 votes)

In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown(1989)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 43min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 385 votes)

In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to have a intellectual disability for the first ten years of his life.

Rocco and His Brothers(1960)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 58min | Crime, Drama
4.0/5 (with 235 votes)

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

Tell It to the Bees(2019)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 46min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.8/5 (with 176 votes)

Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.

Sorry We Missed You(2019)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 40min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 309 votes)

Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self-employed delivery driver. It's hard work, and his wife's job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.

Directed by Ken Loach - With Mark Burns
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Here on Earth(2000)

1h 36min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.1/5 (with 77 votes)

Three lives of three young people intersect over the course of one summer. A rich student and a young working-class man accidentally destroy a diner when their impromptu road race takes a disastrous turn. Ordered by a judge to spend the summer repairing the building, they find themselves becoming rivals for the affections of the owner's daughter.

Where to Invade Next(2015)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 1min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 200 votes)

To understand firsthand what the United States of America can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully “invades” some to see what they have to offer.

Directed by Michael Moore - With Michael Moore, Krista Kiuru

Land and Freedom(1995)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 49min | Drama, History, War, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 108 votes)

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

Raining Stones(1993)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 53 votes)

Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.

Directed by Ken Loach - With Bruce Jones, Julie Brown

Pelle the Conqueror(1987)

2h 37min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 64 votes)

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to travel to the United States of America.

The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime(2014)

1h 38min | Drama, Crime
3.9/5 (with 42 votes)

This incredibly disturbing story follows the exploitation of an apprentice butcher, Hermógenes, and his trial after he murders his boss in broad daylight. Hermógenes, a farmhand from northern Argentina, relocates to Buenos Aires in search of a better life for himself and his young wife, but soon finds himself at the mercy of a corrupt boss. The film is based on a thorough investigation of a real event that happened in Buenos Aires 10 years ago. Almost every scene in the film is inspired by real facts or based on well documented daily practices of the “meat business” and its environment. Both a shocking exposé of unscrupulous practices in the meat industry and a heart-wrenching personal story, El Patrón became one of the most successful Argentine films of 2014.

Kes(1970)

1h 50min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 167 votes)

A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.

Romance & Cigarettes(2005)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 45min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 58 votes)

Down-and-dirty musical love story set in the world of the working class. Nick is an ironworker who builds and repairs bridges. He's married to Kitty, a dressmaker, a strong and gentle woman with whom he has three daughters. He is carrying on a torrid affair with a redheaded woman named Tula. Nick is basically a good, hardworking man driven forward by will and blinded by his urges.

Radio Days(1987)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama, Music
3.5/5 (with 233 votes)

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

Nil by Mouth(1997)

2h 8min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 50 votes)

The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.

Breaking Away(1979)

1h 40min | Drama, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 110 votes)

Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his 3 friends, The comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends and parents annoyance.

Support the Girls(2018)

1h 31min | Drama, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 68 votes)

Lisa Conroy is general manager at a highway-side 'sports bar with curves', Double Whammies. She nurtures and protects her employees fiercely - but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction... Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy, but what happens when reality pokes a bunch of holes in it?

Directed by Andrew Bujalski

All or Nothing(2002)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 8min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 60 votes)

Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.

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, ...

My Brother Is an Only Child(2007)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 183 votes)

Accio and Manrico are two working-class brothers in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, womanizing, and loved by all, while younger Accio is moody, hotheaded, and lives everything as if it was a war, much to his parents' chagrin. When the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite. His flimsy beliefs are put to test when he meets Manrico's like-minded girlfriend, falling in love with her.

Life Is Sweet(1990)

1h 43min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 67 votes)

Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend's new restaurant and dotes on Andy, a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, and with a drunken friend, buys a broken down lunch wagon. Natalie, with short neat hair and a snappy, droll manner, is a plumber; she has a holiday planned in America, but little else. Last is Nicola, odd man out: a snarl, big glasses, cigarette, mussed hair, jittery fingers, bulimic, jobless, and unhappy. How they interact and play out family conflict and love is the film's subject.

Requiem for the American Dream(2015)

1h 13min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 79 votes)

Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority – while also looking back on his own life of activism and political participation. He provides penetrating insight into what may well be the lasting legacy of our time – the death of the middle class, and swan song of functioning democracy.

Directed by Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott

Ovosodo(1997)

1h 40min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 191 votes)

From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.

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