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Sweatshop Girl

Inés works as a seamstress in a sweatshop where pregnancy tests are periodically administered. When she becomes pregnant, she is sure that her conditi

2023

Car Wash

This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of e

1976

The Wages of Fear

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships a

1953

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

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

1975

The Hasty Man Drinks His Tea with a Fork

A blend of drama and documentary, this film follows several people caught up in the turmoil of the modern world. The drama centres on a woman who has

2003

Norma Rae

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumpt

1979

Ip Man 2

Having defeated the best fighters of the Imperial Japanese army in occupied Shanghai, Ip Man and his family settle in post-war Hong Kong. Struggling t

2010

Doi Boy

Sorn, an ethnic Shan sex worker, tries to build a future in Chiang Mai, Thailand, as a refugee far from home, but he is drawn into a complex relations

2023

The Paradise of Thorns

When his partner Sek dies, Thongkam loses his property to his late love's eager family and must fight to reclaim the home they built together.

2024

Yellow River Fighter

In this martial arts action-drama, a swordsman named Toh Hong travels home after a long battle to discover his wife and children have been brutally mu

1988

Convicts

In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the crusty o

1991

WALKA!

France: 2020s. Piotr, a young Polish immigrant stuck in a string of odd jobs, crosses paths with Stefano, a burly mover. Little did Piotr know, this e

2024

Reunirse

A Mexican farmhand migrates to America to better support his family, but his dream crashes to the ground when his wife and daughter can't meet him acr

2024

The Plumber

A Widowed Plumber races against time to follow-up on the payment for his rendered service in order to save his critically ailing son.

2019

Harlan County War

A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lin

2000

Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail

The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The film

1966

Traces

A woman seeks quiet labor as a way out of institutional power, only to encounter the same hierarchies inside the homes she cleans. Instead of open res

2025

La vida no vale nada

Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion ma

1955

Techno Precariousness

Dioni, like every day, is late for work. His boss already warned him that if this happened again, he would leave him on the street. Someone is going t

2022

Chidambaram

Chidambaram is based on a short story by noted Malayalam writer C. V. Shriraman. The film is a deeply symbolic exploration of the man-woman attraction

1985