Working Class Movies

A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.

Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned...

In Margate, England, life is not easy for teenager Sarah Taylor, between being bullied at school, being exploited by a dominant boss and having to...

This incredibly disturbing story follows the exploitation of an apprentice butcher, Hermógenes, and his trial after he murders his boss in...

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live together at the junk...

A feature length documentary about love, passion, pigeons and what home means to people. Daniel-John Williams an unknown Teesside actor, explores the...

Seeking evidence of an afterlife for her seriously ill father, a Dublin teenager attempts to contact the spirit of late Irish rockstar Phil Lynott.

Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is not only having trouble coping with his new...

A hard-hearted old woman in a bombed-out Tokyo neighborhood reluctantly takes in an abandoned boy, leading to a heartwarming bond between them.

‘Moscou’ is a densely populated working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. Matty, mother of three, bumps her car...

Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the...

In this offbeat coming-of-age tale, a charming, rebellious high school dropout named Kanta befriends the kind, provincial Shoji. The two bring out...

A recently laid off steel mill worker in a little seaside town starts losing his wife to a local TV anchor.

Openly gay Ernesto and closeted Gabe grapple with the sad tribulations of being gay in a small, working-class Texas town

An intimate and political history of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.

A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.

Don Letts examines the history of this notorious subculture in a fascinating documentary, which features interviews with members of different...

A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.

The story of a young man of the working class, who has grown up practically an orphan due to his father’s repeated jailings for anarchistic...