Tag: factory worker

  • Working Class

    Yam, Sunny and Ah Hing are buddies and all dismissed creating havoc in their jobs. The trio is employed by a noodle factory, which has a very poor labor relationship. The manager, supervisor and foreman are always picking on their subordinates. Finally the workers decide to take an united front to oppose their superiors.

  • A Single Spark

    Activist and law school graduate Kim is being persecuted by the mid-’70s Park regime for trying to write a book about Jeon Tae-il, a union activist who immolated himself at age 22 to protest government hypocrisy.

  • Dancer in the Dark

    Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life’s troubles – even…

  • MouseHunt

    Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren’t happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit… until they discover the estate is worth millions. Before they can cash in, they have to rid the house of its single, stubborn occupant—a tiny and tenacious mouse.

  • Another Day

    Kate’s boyfriend dies in a fire after a fight over the couple’s unborn child. After Kate is involved in a near-drowning accident a few years later, she wakes up on-shore to find that she’s living two days before her boyfriend’s fatal fire.

  • Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

    A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the factories of Tiexi are closing. Director Wang Bing introduces us to some of the workers affected by the closures, and to their families.

  • Fat Slags

    Leaving their hometown of Fulchester in the North of England, Sandra and Tracey head for the bright lights of London, shagging and boozing their way to fame and fortune.

  • Kinky Boots

    Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father’s place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.

  • The Secret Life of Words

    A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

    A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world’s most unusual candy maker.

  • Bee Movie

    Barry B. Benson, a recent college graduate who wants more out of his life than making honey, decides to sue the human race after learning about the exploitation of bees at the hands of mankind.

  • Gung Ho

    When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time…

  • The True Cost

    Film from Andrew Morgan. The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet.

  • Nomadland

    A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.