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1. The Deer Hunter (1978)
R | 183 min | Drama, War
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.
Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage
Votes: 362,430 | Gross: $48.98M
2. North & South (2004)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Romance
North and South is a four-part adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's love story of Margaret Hale, a middle-class southerner who is forced to move to the northern town of Milton.
Stars: Daniela Denby-Ashe, Richard Armitage, Tim Pigott-Smith, Sinéad Cusack
Votes: 34,989
3. Slap Shot (1977)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
A failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Strother Martin, Jennifer Warren
Votes: 41,265 | Gross: $28.00M
4. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour | Stars: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh, Mozhan Navabi
Votes: 38,658
5. Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Not Rated | 179 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Claudia Cardinale
Votes: 21,209
6. Attenberg (2010)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stuck in her boring factory town, twenty-three-year-old Marina is at the mercy of both her father's impending death and her distaste for other humans.
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari | Stars: Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Votes: 7,676 | Gross: $0.02M
7. Blood & Oil (2015)
TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A young married couple of newcomers looks to cash in on the modern-day oil boom in North Dakota and becomes involved with sly local oil baron, Hap Briggs, and his troubled family.
Stars: Don Johnson, Chace Crawford, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Scott Michael Foster
Votes: 4,365
8. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Unrated | 116 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband who believes he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
Votes: 11,097
9. Roger & Me (1989)
R | 91 min | Documentary
After General Motors closes its factory in Flint, Michigan, eliminating 35,000 jobs, filmmaker Michael Moore undertakes a quixotic quest to interview General Motors' chairman, Roger B. Smith.
Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, Roger B. Smith, Rhonda Britton, Fred Ross
Votes: 27,518 | Gross: $6.71M
10. The Organizer (1963)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, History
A former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile factory.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli, Folco Lulli
Votes: 3,287
11. Spring and Port Wine (1970)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working-class Bolton.
Director: Peter Hammond | Stars: James Mason, Diana Coupland, Hannah Gordon, Susan George
Votes: 992
12. I'm All Right Jack (1959)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy
A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough
Votes: 4,367
13. Mondocane (2021)
116 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Taranto is a ghost town that no one dares to enter. The poorest are left fighting for survival, while gangs are competing for territory. Two thirteen-year-old orphans, who grew up together, dream of joining one of the gangs.
Director: Alessandro Celli | Stars: Dennis Protopapa, Giuliano Soprano, Alessandro Borghi, Barbara Ronchi
Votes: 769
14. The Seduction of Mimi (1972)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
Forced to leave his family in Sicily, Mimí finds a job in a factory in Turin, where he gets involved in an extramarital affair.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Agostina Belli, Luigi Diberti
Votes: 2,729 | Gross: $0.47M
15. Body of My Enemy (1976)
116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a football star lie slaughtered. He thinks he has been framed by the mob. Going underground, he finds that the trail leads all the way to the top - to ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bernard Blier, Marie-France Pisier, Charles Gérard
Votes: 2,403
16. Beneath the Harvest Sky (2013)
Not Rated | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A teen drama set during the fall potato harvest in a small northern Maine town.
Directors: Aron Gaudet, Gita Pullapilly | Stars: Emory Cohen, Callan McAuliffe, Kymberli Bryant, Zoe Levin
Votes: 1,097 | Gross: $0.03M
17. Caterina in the Big City (2003)
Unrated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
Caterina, forced to leave her small town at the age of thirteen, faces the complications of living in the big metropoly of Rome.
Director: Paolo Virzì | Stars: Alice Teghil, Sergio Castellitto, Margherita Buy, Antonio Carnevale
Votes: 3,162 | Gross: $0.29M
18. Ratataplan (1979)
G | 95 min | Comedy
Misadventures of Colombo, an engineer in Milano. He is the only winner of an admission test for a job, and just for this reason he isn't hired. So he becomes a barman, and he discovers a ... See full summary »
Director: Maurizio Nichetti | Stars: Maurizio Nichetti, Angela Finocchiaro, Edy Angelillo, Lidia Biondi
Votes: 451
19. The Way We Laughed (1998)
124 min | Drama
Turin at the end of the fifties: two brothers have emigrated there from Sicily and the older works very hard to let the younger study and free himself from poverty through culture. The boy ... See full summary »
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Francesco Giuffrida, Enrico Lo Verso, Fabrizio Gifuni, Calogero Caruana
Votes: 838 | Gross: $0.04M
20. All Screwed Up (1974)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
A multitude of immigrants struggling to survive in Milan rent an apartment and face the reality of everyday life in the metropolis.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Luigi Diberti, Lina Polito, Nino Bignamini, Sara Rapisarda
Votes: 428
21. Detropia (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
A documentary on the city of Detroit and its woes, which are emblematic of the collapse of the U.S. manufacturing base.
Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady | Stars: Noah Stewart, Rachele Gilmnore, Michael Wanko, Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra
Votes: 1,626 | Gross: $0.36M
22. Joki (2001)
104 min | Drama, Romance
Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck ... See full summary »
Director: Jarmo Lampela | Stars: Sanna Hietala, Antti Ikkala, Jyri Ojansivu, Antti Mikkola
Votes: 849
23. No Other Woman (1933)
Passed | 58 min | Drama
A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Irene Dunne, Charles Bickford, Gwili Andre, Eric Linden
Votes: 476
24. Il sindacalista (1972)
107 min | Comedy
The misadventures of Saverio Ravizzi, a Sicilian worker who escapes death during a demonstration and therefore finds a new job in a factory in Bergamo. The man begins to mobilize his fellow... See full summary »
Director: Luciano Salce | Stars: Lando Buzzanca, Renzo Montagnani, Isabella Biagini, Dominique Boschero
Votes: 88
25. It's a Hard Life (1964)
104 min | Comedy
Luciano Bianchi lives with his wife and son in the small town of Guastalla. As an intellectual and bibliophile, he works as head of cultural initiatives at a mining plant.
Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Giovanna Ralli, Rossana Martini, Giampiero Albertini
Votes: 422
26. The Right of the Weakest (2006)
116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In Liège, a group of men gathers every day in a café situated near the steel factory which once reigned supreme. They play cards in a warm atmosphere but that hardly masks their quiet ... See full summary »
Director: Lucas Belvaux | Stars: Éric Caravaca, Lucas Belvaux, Claude Semal, Patrick Descamps
Votes: 714
27. Acciaio (1933)
67 min | Drama
In the huge steel factories in Terni (Umbria, Italy), two friends (Mario and Pietro) fight for the love of the same girl (Gina). Pietro dies because of a work accident at the factory. The ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Ruttmann | Stars: Piero Pastore, Isa Pola, Vittorio Bellaccini, Alfredo Polveroni
Votes: 102
28. Signorina Effe (2007)
95 min | Drama
Emma was born and raised in a working-class family, but she's long had bourgeois ambitions and has risen through the ranks to become a white-collar employee with the Fiat automobile company.
Director: Wilma Labate | Stars: Filippo Timi, Valeria Solarino, Sabrina Impacciatore, Fausto Paravidino
Votes: 170
29. Saint-Jérôme (1968)
117 min | Documentary
-Documentary and social action film, "St-Jérôme" focuses on technological changes and their effects on a small town.
Director: Fernand Dansereau | Stars: Maurice Bellemare, Gérard Brunet, Gérard Desgagné, Édouard Gagnon
30. Il raccomandato di ferro (1959)
95 min | Comedy
An Italian clerk has been helped to his position by a fake kickback letter from a politician who, meanwhile has become a state secretary. His colleagues thus send him to Rome to settle an ... See full summary »
Director: Marcello Baldi | Stars: Mario Riva, Franca Marzi, Alessandra Panaro, Aroldo Tieri
Votes: 21
31. Bata-ville: We Are Not Afraid of the Future (2005)
93 min | Documentary
Bata-ville is a bittersweet record of a coach trip to the origins of the Bata shoe empire in Zlín in the Czech Republic. Against the backdrop of regeneration in their local communities, ... See full summary »
Directors: Karen Guthrie, Nina Pope | Stars: Karen Guthrie, Nina Pope
Votes: 16
32. Qalaqi adre igvidzebs (1967)
100 min | Family, Drama, Romance
Director: Siko Dolidze | Stars: Shalva Kherkheulidze, Sesilia Takaishvili, Megi Tsulukidze, Otar Koberidze
Votes: 16
33. Tanssi perhoseni tanssi (1999 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama
Director: Heikki Heikinheimo | Stars: Mira-Netta Härkönen, Emilia Pokkinen, Timo Torikka, Jukka Voutilainen
Votes: 9
34. Giovanna (1955)
36 min | Drama, Short
This short is set in the early 1950s in a small textile factory in central Italy (Prato). Giovanna and her fellow female workers decide to enact a protest against the direction of the ... See full summary »
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Armida Gianassi, Carla Pozzi
Votes: 29
37. Vaihdokas (1927)
57 min | Drama
Director: Teuvo Puro | Stars: Sven Relander, Helmi Lindelöf, Lilja Haltia, Ilmari Unho
Votes: 14
38. Midnight Oil: Blue Sky Mine (1990 Music Video)
5 min | Short, Music
The music video for the song "Blue Sky Mine" by the Australian rock band Midnight Oil from the 1990 album "Blue Sky Mining".
Director: Claudia Castle | Stars: Peter Garrett, Dwayne Hillman, Rob Hirst, Midnight Oil
Votes: 21
40. Yer Old Faither (2020)
84 min | Documentary, Biography
An affectionate documentary about an extraordinary Glaswegian.
Director: Heather Croall | Stars: John Croall, Heather Croall, Gary McNair
Votes: 5
41. Almost Gone (2006)
20 min | Documentary, Short
A visual journey through what remained of the Bethlehem Steel plant on the day that Bethlehem Steel Corporation officially dissolved on December 31st, 2003.
Directors: Richard Behrens, Marc Reed
43. Rocking the Foundations (1985)
92 min | Documentary
Australian documentary about the New South Wales Builders' Labourers' Federation, 1940-1975.
Director: Pat Fiske | Stars: Nita McCrae, Jack Mundey, Joe Owens, Bob Pringle
Votes: 8
44.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Johnstown Flood
(1991)
TV-PG | 64 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Exploding dam kills thousands in massive flood catastrophe in Pennsylvania in 1889.
Director: Mark Bussler | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Patrick Jordan, Jennifer Lee Dake, Charles King
Votes: 128
45.
North & South (2004)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2004)
TV-14 | 58 min | Drama, Romance
Margaret Hale, a 19-year-old lively young girl, and her parents leave the south, when her father Richard resigns as the clergy in Helstone on a matter of conscience. The family moves to ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Percival | Stars: Daniela Denby-Ashe, Tim Pigott-Smith, Emma Owen, Travis Oliver
Votes: 503