Movies tagged as "working class"

All or Nothing [2002, UK, France ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Comedy, Drama Actors: Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Alison Garland, James Corden, Ruth Sheen, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Sam Kelly, Kathryn Hunter, Sally Hawkins, Helen Coker, Daniel Mays, Ben Crompton, Robert Wilfort, Gary McDonald, Directors: Mike Leigh Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket. Their daughter Rachel cleans in a home for elderly people, and their son Rory is unemployed and aggressive. The joy has gone out of Phil's and Penny's life, but when an unexpected tragedy occurs, they are brought together to rediscover their love. All or Nothing is set on a London working-class housing estate over a long weekend, and also tells the stories of a range of Phil and Penny's neighbors, some of whom become involved in the family's lives, and all of whom experience an emotional journey.

Fracture [2007, USA ] starting from $1.99

If you look close enough, you'll find everyone has a weak spot.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz, Billy Burke, Cliff Curtis, Fiona Shaw, Bob Gunton, Josh Stamberg, Xander Berkeley, Zoe Kazan, Judith Scott, Gary Cervantes, Petrea Burchard, Directors: Gregory Hoblit Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot who's soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it's an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum's weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy's a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in predictable ways.

Full Monty, The [1997, UK ] starting from $1.99

Six men. With nothing to lose. Who dare to go....

Genres: Comedy Actors: Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape, Steve Huison, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Barber, Hugo Speer, Lesley Sharp, Emily Woof, Deirdre Costello, Paul Butterworth, Dave Hill, Bruce Jones, Andrew Livingston, Vinny Dhillon Directors: Peter Cattaneo, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Six unemployed steel workers, inspired by the Chippendale's dancers, form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.

Nil by Mouth [1997, UK, France ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Drama Actors: Ray Winstone, Charlie Creed-Miles, Jon Morrison, Jamie Foreman, Steve Sweeney, Terry Rowley, Sam Miller, Gerry Bromfield, Neil Maskell, Sid Golder, John Blundell, Kenan Hudaverdi, Everton Nelson, Ronnie Fox, Dan Carey Directors: Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.

On the Buses [1971, UK ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Comedy Actors: Reg Varney, Doris Hare, Michael Robbins, Anna Karen, Stephen Lewis, Bob Grant, Andrea Lawrence, Pat Ashton, Brian Oulton, Pamela Cundell, Pat Coombs, Wendy Richard, Peter Madden, David Lodge, Brenda Grogan, Directors: Harry Booth Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Stan gets a little annoyed when his Mum and Sister keep buying expensive items on hire purchase, but the money he earns for overtime working as a bus driver means that he can afford it... just! His job is secure, as bus drivers are hard to come by, and his overtime prospects are good, until the bus company decide to revoke a long standing rule and employ women bus drivers. Aghast at the thought of no overtime and, therefore, less wages, he joins forces with his long time work colleague Jack to sabotage the new female employees.

Riding in Cars with Boys [2001, USA ] starting from $1.99

Based on a true story.

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama Actors: Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, Adam Garcia, Brittany Murphy, James Woods, Lorraine Bracco, Directors: Penny Marshall Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. Born in 1950, Beverly grew up bright and ambitious in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut; her father was a tough but good-hearted cop who listened to his daughter's problems, and her mother was a nervous woman eager to imagine the worst. From an early age, Beverly displays a keen intelligence and an interest in literature, and dreams of going to college in New York and becoming a writer. However, she also develops an early interest in boys, and at 15 finds herself madly in love with a boy from her high school. However, an attempt to get his attention leads to an embarassing incident at a party, and Ray, a sweet but thick-headed 18-year-old, steps forward to defend her. Beverly and Ray end up making out, and after one thing leads to another, Beverly discovers she's pregnant. Telling Ray is only marginally less difficult than informing her parents, and at 16, Beverly is a wife and mother. Against the odds, Beverly is determined to still finish high school and go on to college, but that goal becomes more difficult with time, especially after Beverly's marriage begins to fall apart. Ray tries to do the right thing but has trouble holding a job, and becomes addicted to heroin.

Rocky [1976, USA ] starting from $1.99

His whole life was a million-to-one shot.

Genres: Action, Sport Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, Thayer David, Joe Spinell, Jimmy Gambina, Bill Baldwin, Al Silvani, George Memmoli, Jodi Letizia, Diana Lewis, George O'Hanlon, Larry Carroll, Directors: John G. Avildsen Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The 'Italian Stallion', Rocky Balboa, is an aspiring boxer in downtown Philadelphia. His one chance to make a better life for himself is through his boxing and Adrian, a girl who works in the local pet store. Through a publicity stunt, Rocky is set up to fight Apollo Creed, the current heavyweight champion who is already set to win. But Rocky really needs to triumph, against all the odds...

Spider [2002, France, Canada, UK ] starting from $1.99

The only thing worse than losing your mind... is finding it again.

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave, John Neville, Bradley Hall, Gary Reineke, Philip Craig, Cliff Saunders, Tara Ellis, Sara Stockbridge, Arthur Whybrow, Nicola Duffett, Jake Nightingale, Alison Egan Directors: David Cronenberg, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed "Spider" by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience his increasingly fragile grip on reality.

Steptoe and Son [1972, UK ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Comedy, Drama Actors: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Carolyn Seymour, Arthur Howard, Victor Maddern, Fred Griffiths, Joan Heath, Fred McNaughton, Lon Satton, Patrick Fyffe, Patsy Smart, Mike Reid, Alec Mango, Michael Da Costa, Enys Box, Directors: Cliff Owen Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The hilarious British comedy depicts an episode in the life of Albert Steptoe (Wilfred Brambell) and his son Harold (Harry H. Corbett), two carefree junk dealers living peacefully together in the junk yard. All goes well until Harold, who likes visiting hot spots, becomes enamoured of an alluring stripper named Zita (Carolyn Seymour). He loves her so much that he decides to marry her. But when Harold takes his wife home, Albert flies into a rage and schemes to turn his daughter-in-law out of doors by all means.

Till Death Us Do Part [1969, UK ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Comedy Actors: Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Una Stubbs, Anthony Booth, Liam Redmond, Bill Maynard, Brian Blessed, Sam Kydd, Frank Thornton, Cleo Sylvestre, Ann Lancaster, Michael Robbins, Bob Grant, Jack Jordan, Edward Evans, Directors: Norman Cohen Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The film version of '"Till Death Do Us Part" (1965)' . tells the story of Alf Garnett and his family living through the London Blitz.

Vanity Fair [2004, UK, USA ] starting from $1.99

In a time of social climbers, Becky Sharp is a mountaineer.

Genres: Drama, Romance Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Angelica Mandy, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Ruth Sheen, Kate Fleetwood, Reese Witherspoon, Lillete Dubey, Romola Garai, Tony Maudsley, Deborah Findlay, John Franklyn-Robbins, Paul Bazely, Rhys Ifans, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Charlie Beall, Directors: Mira Nair Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father's paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.