mdblist.com logo Movie Search


Ratings
Between
and
Between
and
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Additional filters
m
Lists, Streaming Services, Cast and more
Create List (50 items)

Login to create a dynamic list


poster
Kanopy
89
8.1
/74637/
78
/1195/
78
/856/
4.5
/115908/
99
/95/
95
/1192/
96
/22/

The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
88
8.2
/191116/
80
/2690/
81
/2588/
4.3
/254338/
99
/67/
94
/2156/
cc age 12+

Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
poster
86
8.2
/75897/
81
/2314/
78
/993/
4.1
/68403/
95
/133/
92
/1195/
79
/32/
cc age 14+

Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
7.8
/51078/
75
/822/
78
/1178/
4.1
/67485/
88
/49/
90
/772/
cc age 17+

Amarcord (1973)
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.
poster
83
7.5
/66683/
74
/2418/
73
/1868/
4.0
/160674/
96
/306/
91
/78/
87
/43/
cc age 17+

Pain and Glory (2019)
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
79
7.9
/12642/
76
/298/
81
/757/
4.0
/18760/
89
/9/
90
/85/

Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.6
/17343/
75
/895/
78
/794/
3.9
/65840/
96
/113/
87
/43/
79
/25/

Io Capitano (2023)
Longing for a brighter future, two Senegalese teenagers embark on a journey from West Africa to Italy. However, between their dreams and reality lies a labyrinth of checkpoints, the Sahara Desert, and the vast waters of the Mediterranean.
poster
Hoopla
73
7.2
/10911/
74
/469/
67
/351/
3.5
/5448/
88
/8/
71
/40/

The Gilded Cage (2013)
In the beautiful area of ​​Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear little lodge.
poster
80
71
7.8
/6110/
76
/100/
77
/172/
4.0
/8967/
82
/11/
87
/49/

La Terra Trema (1949)
In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
poster
68
6.2
/1165/
63
/20/
55
/31/
3.3
/707/
60
/5/
84
/234/

Mac (1992)
Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers in 1950s Queens. Mac is a construction builder, a trade he learned from his late father, and helps put his brothers on the job. When they can no longer take working for Polowski, who does shoddy work and is abusive to his staff, Mac and his brothers set up their own company. Together, Vitelli Brothers Construction builds houses with pride and care. But Mac turns out to be an overbearing workaholic, with obsessive concern about the quality of their work and incredible attention to detail. His intensity and driven ambition precludes a happy family life and begins to drive his brothers away.
poster
75
66
7.7
/5162/
71
/90/
70
/84/
3.8
/4275/
75
/8/
85
/40/

Man of Marble (1977)
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
poster
76
65
7.7
/6560/
72
/75/
70
/107/
3.5
/1204/
84
/25/
91
/154/
72
/14/

The Tunnel (2001)
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
64
7.4
/5258/
69
/118/
69
/152/
3.6
/6751/
82
/498/

Pay Day (1922)
A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.
poster
77
60
7.1
/2736/
78
/54/
73
/210/
3.9
/11291/
89
/183/

A Drama of Jealousy (and other things) (1970)
Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, a cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often goes to communist rallies, and enjoys the filthy beaches of Ostia. Will the hostile environment pave a way to jealousy?
poster
Kanopy
71
60
6.9
/3206/
67
/55/
64
/68/
3.5
/1601/
82
/55/
69
/67/
82
/13/

Mademoiselle Chambon (2009)
Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), a single schoolteacher and Jean (Vincent Lindon), discover an unexpected bond that causes them to question the direction of their lives. They move in different social circles but their relationship develops and their lives begin gradually to unravel.
poster
69
52
6.6
/1094/
64
/49/
66
/55/
3.1
/11660/
86
/22/
71
/8/

Enzo (2025)
A 16-year-old boy who defies his bourgeois family’s expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship where he meets a charismatic Ukrainian colleague who shakes up his world.
poster
78
50
7.4
/1015/
68
/23/
70
/35/
3.6
/956/
100
/5/
88
/31/

Homeless Hare (1950)
A construction worker destroys Bugs' home with a steam shovel and refuses to repair the damage.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
48
5.2
/13949/
62
/2605/
57
/374/
2.2
/9829/
50
/24/
27
/142/
cc age 15+

The Bricklayer (2023)
Someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the agency is responsible. As the world begins to unite against the U.S., the CIA must lure its most brilliant – and rebellious – operative out of retirement, forcing him to confront his checkered past while unraveling an international conspiracy.
poster
Netflix
66
47
6.4
/3813/
65
/259/
63
/120/
3.1
/3260/
77
/3/
cc age 15+

A Man of Action (2022)
Loosely inspired by the life of Lucio Urtubia, explore the figure of the so-called anarchist 'Robin Hood,' who ran a legendary counterfeiting operation in Paris that put him in the crosshairs of America's largest bank, when he managed to obtain a huge amount of money by forging traveler's checks to invest in causes he believed in.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
43
7.5
/1204/
64
/23/
78
/16/
3.8
/1418/
94
/80/

All My Good Countrymen (1969)
The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.
poster
Kanopy
59
43
5.9
/1791/
55
/52/
52
/40/
3.2
/3969/
66
/64/

Puberty Blues (1981)
Two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney ingratiate themselves with a new group of boys.
poster
58
42
6.5
/1294/
68
/54/
66
/44/
3.3
/2252/
58
/12/
56
/29/
32
/7/

The Middle of the World (2003)
Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of seven journeys 2,000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles. Along the way, the story explores the inner dynamics of a family facing a great challenge with the courage to pursue dreams.
poster
66
36
6.8
/1162/
61
/31/
68
/40/
3.4
/1369/

Pigs in a Polka (1943)
A tuxedo-clad wolf Master of Ceremonies announces the evening's program: the tale of the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs, set to the music of Johannes Brahms's Hungarian Dances. Queue the fairy tale.
poster
60
31
6.4
/1274/
61
/25/
59
/24/
3.2
/925/
55
/377/

They're a Weird Mob (1966)
An Italian sports journalist arrives in Australia but finds no work. The only employment he can find is as a builder's labourer. At first, he cannot comprehend the culture, but eventually he finds mateship and romance.
poster
63
25
6.3
/528/
76
/12/
59
/20/
56

Sources of Life (2013)
This is a family story that covers thirty years in the life of the Freytag family (narrated by the grandson, Robert). When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes. Klaus, Robert's father, wants to become a writer. He marries Gisela who almost immediately gets pregnant with Robert - but the marriage doesn't work. Both parents abandon the child, and Robert goes on living with both pairs of grand parents. While his father belongs to the 1968 generation that rebels against their fathers he falls in love with the neighbor's's daughter Laura.
poster
67
23
7.1
/733/
63
/20/
65
/21/
3.5
/951/

Rhapsody in Rivets (1941)
A construction foreman conducts his workers like a symphony orchestra as they build a skyscraper to Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2."
poster
VIX
65
22
7.7
/285/
46
/3/
65
/31/
3.6
/681/

The Bricklayers (1976)
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
poster
61
21
6.1
/777/
61
/43/
60
/128/
3.2
/555/
60
/1/

Rich and Poor (1983)
Pozzetto is a rich man obsessed by the idea of becoming poor. So, his psychiatric suggests him to leave home and live just like a poor man for some days. He will then become familiar with this way of living, and fear less the idea of becoming poor. So he does, and his old family & friends soon forget about him. They don't miss him at all.
poster
56
20
4.8
/453/
64
/33/
52
/59/
3.2
/482/

Charlots Go to Spain (1972)
Four friends from Paris are living misadventures of all sorts in Spain when their group of travelers is forced to split due to a travel scam.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
49
14
5.4
/1154/
57
/12/
54
/19/
3.0
/459/
19
/9/

Mission to Moscow (1943)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
poster
61
11
6.4
/359/
56
/9/
56
/10/
3.4
/446/

The Bricklayer (1973)
Joseph Malesa is a former party activist, labor leader, and mason. The documentary describes his career and life through ups and downs.
poster
65
11
7.3
/431/
60
/4/
55
/14/
3.6
/305/

Give Us This Day (1949)
Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.
poster
?
5.3
/69/
23
/3/
40
/2/

The Dervish Boys (1960)
Unable to hold down a job for long, two unlucky and perpetually broke friends overhear their boss' plans to give away in marriage his sister, who is secretly in love with his poor employee. Can the clumsy duo avert this loveless union?
poster
The Roku Channel
?
6.5
/45/
66
/3/
61
/9/

El albañil (1975)
Construction worker falls in love with a handicapped woman who aspires to a career as a singer.
poster
?
10
/1/

O komínku zedníky laškovně nakřivo postaveném aneb Souboj pantátův se zedníky (1968)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

I Was Building a City (1973)
A story of one of the builders (Szczepan Brzezisnki) of Nowa Huta. He talks about the beginning of the city and combine. The past makes him proud. Nowa Huta still fascinates him. His son’s opinion is totally different. The Old Town in Cracow fascinates him.
poster
?
7.1
/14/
10
/1/
60
/1/

On the Tightrope (1963)
N/A
poster
?
5.3
/37/
10
/1/
10
/1/

Kluk za dvě pětky (1983)
Even under socialism, it was not advisable to cross the line between rich and poor. When a mason's apprentice falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family who lives in a magnificent villa during his first thug, he can hardly expect his feelings to be fulfilled. The schematic and lifeless depiction of the young generation has hardly contributed to a truer view of contemporary reality.
poster
?
6.6
/61/
76
/3/
47
/3/

Teesh and Trude (2002)
Teesh and Trude is the humorous, yet biting story of two hard and damaged women living on a diet of soapies, frustration and sarcasm. It reveals the dysfunction, denial and desperation of two people trapped by circumstances, apathy and class.
poster
?
6.5
/22/
10
/1/
35
/4/

Los maistros (1988)
Mexican feature film
poster
58
?
6.6
/243/
50
/3/
65
/12/

The Story of Boys and Girls (1989)
At a farmhouse, a large family cooks mountains of food for the next day's engagement party for Silvia and her city fiancé, Angelo. Her parents feud about infidelity; an aging salesman who rents a cottage from them arrives with a young French woman; in Bologna, Angelo's mother frets that her son is marrying beneath him; his sisters are less critical. Early the next morning, the four of them go by train to the farmhouse, joined by Angelo's married, unpregnant sister. The day-long dinner is riotous, couples display affection and impatience, children chase angels. Angelo's family stays the night, and his sister Linda has a visitor. A silver elephant makes the perfect gift.
poster
60
?
6.3
/597/
55
/5/
61
/9/
3.2
/233/

Coney Island (1943)
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
poster
54
?
5.5
/433/
52
/17/
55
/38/

Di che segno sei? (1975)
Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his boss wife. A guard is too much proactive and this will cause many troubles.
poster
?
40
/1/

Building a Brick House (1946)
This film makes clear for the layperson the whole pattern of building construction for a brick home, from the moment that the architect prepares working plans to the completion of the house itself. It was originally intended as an instructional film to be shown to Australian servicemen taking courses in the building trades as part of their rehabilitation for civil life after World War Two.
poster
52
?
5.7
/166/
48
/6/
55
/4/

Adventure in Marienstadt (1954)
While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men
poster
73
?
7.8
/659/
76
/18/
59
/10/
3.7
/391/

The Millennial Bee (1983)
A family saga taking place mostly in a small Slovak village over a period of thirty years (1887–1917). The first part captures the life of Martin Pichandu in the development of his craft, masonry; in the second part, his son is center stage living in a period of socio-political crisis, which ultimately results in the first World War. After originally airing on Czechoslovakian television in 1983 as a four-part 226-minute mini-series, this production received a 163-minute theatrical release in 1984.
poster
59
?
6.4
/311/
60
/14/
54
/13/

Os fenómenos (2014)
Coast of Almeria, Spain. When Neneta, who lives in a van, is abandoned by her partner, she decides to return with her baby to her hometown in Galicia.
poster
?
5.3
/45/
50
/1/
50
/1/

Tuhottu nuoruus (1947)
Kirsti works as a reception assistant to Dr. Varjo and is secretly clinging to the doctor's son, Eino, who is studying to become an architect. Even though the film reflects early social problems and class jokes, there is no humor about describing everyday life.


mdblist.com © 2020 | Contact | Reddit | Discord | API | Privacy Policy