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Kanopy
84
7.6
/3817/
74
/121/
74
/67/
3.9
/2769/
100
/56/
87
/213/
86
/18/

Last Train Home (2009)
A family embarks on an annual tormenting journey along with 130 million other peasant workers to reunite with their distant family, and to revive their love and dignity as China soars as the world's next super power.
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Kanopy
78
7.2
/45380/
71
/822/
68
/478/
3.6
/15150/
94
/142/
82
/1224/
78
/35/

Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.
poster
Kanopy
76
8.0
/22244/
74
/585/
76
/276/
3.8
/6889/
81
73
/28/
cc age 14+

The Corporation (2003)
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.
poster
74
6.1
/32572/
63
/701/
60
/524/
3.1
/8974/
75
/119/
46
/324/
66
/31/
cc age 18+

The Tailor of Panama (2001)
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
74
6.9
/8780/
70
/172/
60
/97/
4.0
/39378/
85
/119/
75
/540/
71
/28/
cc age 14+

Real Women Have Curves (2002)
In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
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Amazon Prime Video
71
6.8
/6220/
68
/145/
68
/100/
3.4
/1866/
87
/83/
67
/269/
68
/26/

The Yes Men (2003)
A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they gain worldwide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization (WTO) on television and at business conferences around the world.
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Amazon Prime Video
71
7.4
/97571/
73
/1416/
72
/1175/
3.9
/63829/
66
/151/
75
/1684/
58
/33/
cc age 17+

Biutiful (2010)
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.
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FXNow
69
7.1
/956124/
73
/44721/
69
/23083/
3.1
/1443551/
79
/327/
78
/17327/
62
/44/
cc age 13+

Iron Man 3 (2013)
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
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Hoopla
68
6.7
/3266/
70
/68/
61
/57/
3.3
/975/
64
/11/
73
/38/

Come See the Paradise (1990)
In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.
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Plex
65
6.9
/275756/
70
/9062/
66
/4080/
3.3
/144825/
62
/101/
71
/20832/
57
/19/
cc age 18+

Crank (2006)
Chev Chelios, a hit man wanting to go straight, lets his latest target slip away. Then he awakes the next morning to a phone call that informs him he has been poisoned and has only an hour to live unless he keeps adrenaline coursing through his body while he searches for an antidote.
poster
64
6.9
/61161/
72
/2552/
67
/1417/
3.5
/51279/
76
/86/
71
/4830/
38
/7/
cc age 5+

An American Tail (1986)
A young mouse named Fievel and his family decide to migrate to America, a "land without cats," at the turn of the 20th century. But somehow, Fievel ends up in the New World alone and must fend off not only the felines he never thought he'd have to deal with again but also the loneliness of being away from home.
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Criterion Channel
81
63
8.0
/3712/
75
/73/
75
/123/
4.1
/5868/
90
/10/
89
/18/

The Organizer (1963)
In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory in Turin, Italy.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
69
61
7.3
/6686/
67
/99/
68
/86/
3.1
/5453/
56
/9/
89
/481/

Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
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62
61
6.8
/19544/
66
/376/
68
/468/
3.5
/17918/
55
/20/
53
/272/
58
/14/

Year of the Dragon (1985)
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures -- even as his concerned wife, Connie, and his superiors beg him to consider the consequences of his actions.
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Kanopy
74
60
7.3
/2845/
71
/47/
69
/55/
3.6
/2346/
83
/6/
77
/42/

The Penalty (1920)
Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.
poster
60
5.7
/19218/
67
/639/
61
/280/
3.4
/44020/
38
/116/
66
/1443/
53
/11/
cc age 8+

The Wiz (1978)
Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher, is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home.
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MGM Plus
57
6.4
/7020/
64
/160/
59
/137/
3.2
/4250/
71
/17/
53
/59/

Best Seller (1987)
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and evidence, while strong forces use any means they can to keep the story untold.
poster
61
57
6.4
/9306/
64
/195/
65
/216/
3.2
/3339/
67
/12/
55
/80/
54
/10/

F.I.S.T. (1978)
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.
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Hoopla
55
6.1
/23701/
59
/507/
58
/277/
2.8
/4591/
50
/148/
39
/4516/
57
/33/
cc age 17+

Smart People (2008)
Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.
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Amazon Prime Video
73
55
7.1
/7458/
73
/331/
74
/257/
3.1
/7644/
88
/2/

Checkered Ninja (2018)
A possessed Ninja doll teams up with a teenage boy to avenge the murder of a poor child factory worker.
poster
55
6.5
/68823/
67
/2178/
61
/629/
3.2
/50952/
40
/50/
74
/5063/
38
/18/

BASEketball (1998)
Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop and Remer, invent a new game combining basketball with the rules of baseball. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire's help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities. When a rival owner wants to institute major rule changes, Coop and Remer's team is the only one standing in the way.
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Kanopy
69
51
7.0
/2329/
61
/30/
61
/31/
3.7
/5353/
81
/31/
69
/27/
cc age 11+

Hester Street (1975)
A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.
poster
56
51
6.1
/5281/
62
/161/
53
/65/
3.1
/3187/
50
/26/
64
/7522/
41
/13/

The Hebrew Hammer (2003)
When a psychotic Santa tries to destroy Chanukah by hypnotizing Jewish children with bootlegged copies of the Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life," it's up to the Hebrew Hammer to save the day. Together with Mohammed, head of the Kwanzaa Liberation Front, the Hammer takes no prisoners in his quest to hunt down the renegade Santa and make the holiday season safe for all.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
51
6.7
/25389/
65
/712/
61
/397/
2.9
/3663/
15
/107/
49
/1010/
38
/31/
cc age 17+

Crossing Over (2009)
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.
poster
46
5.5
/1678/
60
/42/
52
/22/
3.0
/1583/
13
/16/
38
/10/

Cookie (1989)
Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, all that Dino wants is to settle some old scores, and make up for lost time with his daughter.
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Kanopy
46
5.5
/16237/
60
/575/
54
/330/
2.5
/13214/
24
/21/
41
/379/
39
/10/
cc age 14+

From Prada to Nada (2011)
Two spoiled Beverly Hills sisters who have been left penniless after their father's sudden death are forced to move in with their estranged aunt in East Los Angeles.
poster
65
39
6.6
/1380/
65
/30/
64
/25/
3.3
/1592/
65
/81/

The Garment Jungle (1957)
Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.
poster
76
35
7.3
/382/
53
/3/
72
/11/
83
/12/
100
/7/
76
/13/

The City (1999)
The stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.
poster
36
35
4.5
/10693/
55
/348/
49
/269/
2.7
/9877/
27
/11/
19
/179/
8
/10/

The Mangler (1995)
A laundry-folding machine has been possessed by a demon, causing it to develop homicidal tendencies.
poster
60
34
6.3
/1200/
60
/32/
59
/14/
3.2
/251/
56
/57/
60
/290/
60
/16/

What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)
A serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of Christmas. What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt!
poster
59
33
6.7
/1241/
54
/15/
59
/26/
3.6
/1047/
54
/26/
63
/12/
46
/12/

Esther Kahn (2000)
A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.
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Kanopy
80
24
7.5
/286/
90
/1/
80
/2/
67
/18/
90
/16/

Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005)
This examination of cultural and economic globalization follows the life-cycle of Mardi Gras beads from a small factory in Fuzhou, China, to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and to art galleries in New York City.
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Amazon Prime Video
57
15
6.4
/1325/
56
/16/
62
/8/
3.2
/334/
43
/17/

The Perils of Pauline (1947)
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take
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Hoopla
?
7.5
/16/
20
/1/

David Macaulay: Mill Times (2001)
Travel back to late 18th century Lowell, MA, now infamous for its textile mills and its "Lowell Girls," the poor, barely-educated waifs who helped turn those mills into sweatshops.
poster
?
8.2
/34/
50
/5/

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping (2002)
Reverend Billy, a.k.a. Bill Talen, is an actor/performance artist and a leading figure within the anti-globalization movement. His work combines the ideas of social and political change with the means of theater arts to counteract our media-laden culture. The film follows the Reverend's "shopping interventions/actions" into cultural dead zones such as Starbucks, Disney and the New York University construction site at Poe House.
poster
?
6.4
/43/
10
/1/

Talleres clandestinos (2010)
Juana, a young Bolivian woman, gets a job in a sewing workshop in Buenos Aires. In exchange, she has to leave her husband and son behind in Bolivia. Upon arriving in Buenos Aires, she discovers that the promised workshop is a prison where work is carried out under inhumane conditions. When Juana receives news from home, she tries to escape by any means possible.
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?
8.2
/8/
10
/1/

The Mexicans (1980)
1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.
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?
30
/2/

Love (1920)
A young woman, Natalie Storm works in a sweatshop and struggles to support her mother and little sister, Beatrice. Their mother dies and Beatrice suffers from poverty. Because of her circumstances, Natalie rejects the marriage proposal of Tom Chandler, a self-educated mining engineer. He then leaves for South America, where he intends to make his fortune. To save her sister and herself, Natalie becomes the mistress of a wealthy Wall Street magnate, Alvin Dunning. When he publicly humiliates her, however, she becomes determined to free herself. Meanwhile, Chandler discovers a copper mine in South America and returns. He is invited to a party at Dunning's home. When he meets Natalie as Dunning's mistress he is heartbroken and abruptly leaves. Natalie is by now desperate to get away from Dunning. She then acquires enough money from a lucky stock tip to leave him.
poster
?
7.2
/24/

The Eternal Grind (1916)
Louise (Pickford) is a sewing-machine girl in a sweatshop in New York City. She lives together with her sisters Amy (Loretta Blake) and Jane (Dorothy West) and are all deprived by bad conditions at work and sickness. Louise tries for the three of them to survive and regards herself as the keeper of her sisters. Meanwhile, she stands up to her bosses and complains about the dreadful circumstances they work in. When Amy is seduced by the son of the shop-owner, Louise butts in and stops the romance. He eventually abandons Amy and becomes seriously injured in a cave-in. Louise has a secret crush on the son herself and tries to rescue him, hoping he will admit he loves her. The film is inspired by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which took place in 1911. The only version of the film is a nitrate print in the Cinematheque Francaise, but only the first half remains.
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?
6.3
/74/
10
/1/
40
/3/

Kissing Miranda (1995)
A young man falls in love with a co-worker's mail order bride from Latin America.
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?
8.1
/12/

The North Pole Deception (2010)
A tragically realistic portrayal of the working conditions of Santa's Elves in the North Pole.
poster
?
7.5
/79/
70
/1/
40
/1/
81
/8/

Made in L.A. (2007)
Made in L.A. follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from a mega-trendy clothing retailer. In intimate verité style, Made in L.A. reveals the impact of the struggle on each woman's life as they are gradually transformed by the experience. Compelling, humorous, deeply human, Made in L.A. is a story about immigration, the power of unity, and the courage it takes to find your voice.
poster
67
?
6.0
/143/
80
/1/
62
/6/

Children of Eve (1915)
An illegitimate child of the slums comes to faith. Later, she chooses to labor in a canning factory in order to investigate its poor conditions, not realizing she has a significant connection to the cold-hearted factory owner.
poster
70
?
7.8
/279/
67
/11/
66
/8/

The New Rulers of the World (2001)
The myths of globalisation have been incorporated into much of our everyday language. "Thinking globally" and "the global economy" are part of a jargon that assumes we are all part of one big global village, where national borders and national identities no longer matter. But what is globalisation? And where is this global village? In 2001, John Pilger made 'The New Rulers of the World', a film exploring the impact of globalisation. It took Indonesia as the prime example, a country that the World Bank described as a 'model pupil' until its 'globalised' economy collapsed in 1998. Globalisation has not only made the world smaller. It has also made it interdependent. An investment decision made in London can spell unemployment for thousands in Indonesia, while a business decision taken in Tokyo can create thousands of new jobs for workers in north-east England.
poster
?
5.0
/53/
60
/1/
55
/2/

Reform Girl (1933)
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter.
poster
67
?
7.2
/287/
67
/4/
62
/6/

Border Street (1949)
The story of Polish and Jewish families living side by side in one Warsaw street. Everything changes once and for all with the Nazi invasion.
poster
?
5.8
/282/
74
/10/
41
/7/

A House Is Not a Home (1964)
Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.
poster
54
?
6.3
/413/
47
/3/

Man, Woman and Sin (1927)
A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy himself and his mother a house. He lands a position in a newspaper office and falls in love with the beautiful society editor, who is secretly having an affair with the married managing editor. She returns the young man's affections in order to make her lover jealous, but finds herself falling for him.


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