Movies: Labor

  • 1966
    Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail

    Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail (1966)

    Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail

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    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 shows the currents that brought them together and the facets of their natures that first made them ...

    Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail
  • 2017
    Squid Jigging Fishing Boat

    Squid Jigging Fishing Boat (2017)

    Squid Jigging Fishing Boat

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    Every December to January, almost a hundred squid fishing boats from Ch'ien-chen Fishing Harbor in Kaohsiung will sail from East 120 to West 60 to work at Falkland Islands in the South West Atlantic. The sailing takes 35-40 days and crew members name...

    Squid Jigging Fishing Boat
  • 2010
    Habilito: Debt for Life

    Habilito: Debt for Life (2010)

    Habilito: Debt for Life

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    Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon. It focuses particularly on a system of debt peonage known locally as ‘habilito’. This system is used t...

    Habilito: Debt for Life
  • 2023
    Doi Boy

    Doi Boy (2023)

    Doi Boy

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    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 relationship with one client, an investigator probing a political activist....

    Doi Boy
  • 2021
    Jobs for All!

    Jobs for All! (2021)

    Jobs for All!

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    A highly choreographed review of the Industrial Age as we know it today – an intense and playful roller coaster ride that demands the viewer confronts how “work works.” Culled entirely from archival footage, the film unfolds in the filmmakers’ tradem...

    Jobs for All!
  • 1985
    Chidambaram

    Chidambaram (1985)

    Chidambaram

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    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 leading to betrayal and eventually to the purgatory of guilt....

    Chidambaram
  • 2022
    Sewing Sisters

    Sewing Sisters (2022)

    Sewing Sisters

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    In the late 1960s and early 1970s, girls aged 12 to 16 began working at Pyeonghwa Market. Running sewing machines, they also study the Labor Standards Act under the tutelage of Jeon Taeil. On September 9, 1977, they were imprisoned fighting against t...

    Sewing Sisters
  • 2025
    Love Lessons

    Love Lessons (2025)

    Love Lessons

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    Strong and independent Eliza works as the Polish teacher in a village school and begins an affair with local delinquent Stach. They have a child out of wedlock. When Stach is sent on forced labourer in Germany, Eliza and her child set off on an epic ...

    Love Lessons
  • 1975
    Open files

    Open files (1975)

    Open files

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    A more experimental aproach to labor protection films. In the line of Săucan's style, the soundtrack is as important as the image, the threatening music, full of shrillness, composed by Ion Dumitrescu potentiating the visual construction that mixes -...

    Open files
  • 1988
    Rat Man

    Rat Man (1988)

    Rat Man

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    After a model is brutally murdered on a Caribbean island, her sister's investigation uncovers a horrifying rat-like creature....

    Rat Man
  • 2010
    Ip Man 2

    Ip Man 2 (2010)

    Ip Man 2

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    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 to make a living, Master Ip opens a kung fu school to bring his celebrated art of Wing Chun to the tr...

    Ip Man 2
  • 1969
    Indian In A Box

    Indian In A Box (1969)

    Indian In A Box

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    An Indian immigrant awakens inside a confined metal box, with the walls slowly closing in... unless he can do the work assigned to him....

    Indian In A Box
  • 2011
    The Curious Case of Curt Flood

    The Curious Case of Curt Flood (2011)

    The Curious Case of Curt Flood

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    Inside the life of former baseball star Curt Flood whose fight against MLB's 'Reserve Clause' led to reform, but destroyed his career....

    The Curious Case of Curt Flood
  • 2017
    Night Working

    Night Working (2017)

    Night Working

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    Lin, a migrant female worker from Cambodia, and Yeon-hee, a Korean, are friends who work together at a factory at night. One day, the two will go to the sea together for the weekend. However, the factory manager only forces Lin to work overtime on th...

    Night Working
  • 1990
    American Dream

    American Dream (1990)

    American Dream

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    When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair. But as the work stoppage d...

    American Dream
  • 2017
    My Turn

    My Turn (2017)

    My Turn

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    It's not her turn, but she's pregnant....

    My Turn
  • 2024
    Blueberry Waggle Dance

    Blueberry Waggle Dance (2024)

    Blueberry Waggle Dance

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    It's a warm spring night, and the bee cowboys of Prince Edward Island begin rounding up their hives....

    Blueberry Waggle Dance
  • 2022
    Footsteps

    Footsteps (2022)

    Footsteps

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    In Footsteps, Fiona Tan creates connections between personal stories and the world around us. The footage shows children at play and Dutch windmills, but above all people engaged in heavy physical labour in the countryside and in factories. In a fasc...

    Footsteps
  • 2023
    Sweatshop Girl

    Sweatshop Girl (2023)

    Sweatshop Girl

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    Inés works as a seamstress in a sweatshop where pregnancy tests are periodically administered. When she becomes pregnant, she is sure that her condition will get her fired. She does everything she can to keep it a secret....

    Sweatshop Girl
  • 1981
    Man Versus Man

    Man Versus Man (1981)

    Man Versus Man

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    Man-pulled rickshaw, which have served Kolkata for over eight decades face virtual extinction as a result of legislation introduced by the State Government in 1981. This would rob over 100,000 people of a living. The film analyzes the critical situat...

    Man Versus Man