Tag: upper class

  • Spanglish

    Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can’t handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah decides they should move into the Clasky home. Cultures clash and tensions run high as Flor and the Claskys struggle to share space while raising their children on their own, and very different, terms.

  • Tara Road

    A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

  • Caché

    George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.

  • Match Point

    Chris, a former tennis player, looks for work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a wealthy young man whose sister Chloe falls in love with Chris. But Chris has his eye on Tom’s fiancee Nola.

  • Scoop

    An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.

  • The Queen

    The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public’s demand for an overt display of mourning.

  • Upside Down

    In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually stunning romantic adventure that poses the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?

  • Inequality for All

    Based on Reich’s 2010 book Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future, the film examines widening income inequality in the United States. U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich tries to raise awareness of the country’s widening economic gap. He publicly argued about the issue for decades, and producing a film of his viewpoints was a “final frontier” for him. In addition to being a social issue documentary, Inequality for All is also partially a biopic regarding Reich’s early life and his time as Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton’s presidency. Warren Buffett and Nick Hanauer, two entrepreneurs and investors in the top 1%, are interviewed in the film, supporting Reich’s belief in an economy that benefits all citizens, including those of the middle and lower classes.

  • High-Rise

    Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.

  • Call Me by Your Name

    In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father’s research assistant.