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Harvest (1937)
, 2h30Directed by Marcel Pagnol, Jean Giono
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes La provence, Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement, Rape in fiction
Actors Fernandel, Gabriel Lelièvre, Orane Demazis, Marguerite Moreno, Robert Le Vigan, Henri Poupon
Il ne reste que trois habitants dans Aubignane, un village isolé perché sur un plateau de Haute-Provence. Un beau jour, le vieux forgeron Gaubert quitte à son tour le village pour rejoindre son fils, laissant derrière lui Panturle, un chasseur robuste et bourru, et la Mamèche, une vieille paysanne italienne restée au village après la mort de son mari, tué dans l'éboulement du puits qu'il creusait. D'après celle-ci, « si Panturle trouve une femme à marier, le village pourra renaître ». Elle part donc dans la plaine chercher l'élue et croise le chemin de Gédémus, le rémouleur itinérant, accompagné d'Arsule, une femme misérable qu'il a recueillie, mais qu'il traite comme une bête de somme. La Mamèche effraie Arsule pour l'attirer vers le village où elle finit par rencontrer Panturle. De ce couple qu'il forme avec Arsule, commence à renaître le village.
La Bête Humaine (1938)
, 1h40Directed by Jean Renoir
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Rail transport films, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux, Jean Renoir, Blanchette Brunoy, Julien Carette
The story centers on a train engineer Jacques Lantier (Jean Gabin) who lusts after Séverine Roubaud (Simone Simon), the wife of his co-worker Roubaud (Fernand Ledoux).
In Old Chicago (1938)
, 1h35Directed by Henry King, Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Action, Historical
Themes Films about families, La fin du monde, Films about the labor movement, Children's films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady, Andy Devine, Phyllis Brooks
The O'Leary family are travelling to Chicago to start a new life when Patrick O'Leary tries to race a steam train in his wagon. He is killed when his horses bolt. His wife Molly and their three boys are left to survive on their own. In town she agrees to prove her skills as a laundress when a woman's dress is accidentally spattered with mud. She quickly proves herself and builds up a laundry business in an area known as "the Patch". Her sons are educated. One, Jack, becomes a reforming lawyer, but another, Dion, is involved in gambling. While washing a sheet, Mrs O'Leary discovers a drawing, apparently created by Gil Warren, a devious local businessman. Her sons realise that it reveals that he has a plan to run a tramline along a street that he and his cronies intend to buy up cheaply.
The Most Beautiful (1944)
, 1h25Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Films about the labor movement, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Yōko Yaguchi, Takashi Shimura, Ichirō Sugai (菅井一郎), Takako Irie, Michiko Oikawa, Akitake Kōno
The film depicts the struggle for the workers at a lens factory to meet production targets during World War II. They continually drive themselves, both singly and as a group, to exceed the targets set for them by the factory directors.
La Terra Trema (1949)
, 2h45Directed by Franco Zeffirelli, Francesco Rosi, Luchino Visconti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Luchino Visconti, Mario Pisu, Antonio Pietrangeli
The story takes place in Aci Trezza (Jaci Trizza), a small fishing village on the east coast of Sicily, Italy.
The Mark Of The Day (1949)
, 1h41Directed by Louis Daquin
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Jean Desailly, René Lefèvre, Michel Piccoli, Loleh Bellon, Paul Frankeur, Jean-Pierre Grenier
La vie quotidienne d'hommes et de femmes qui travaillent aux charbonnages du Nord, et appartiennent à diverses catégories sociales.
Bitter Rice (1949)
, 1h48Directed by Giuseppe De Santis
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Crime, Italian neorealism
Themes Feminist films, Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Nico Pepe, Checco Rissone
The film begins at the start of the rice-planting season in northern Italy. In an effort to escape the law, two small-time thieves, Francesca (Doris Dowling) and Walter (Vittorio Gassman), hide amongst the crowds of female workers heading to the rice fields of the Po Valley. While attempting to board the train for the fields, the pair runs into Silvana (Silvana Mangano), a peasant rice worker. Francesca boards the train with Silvana, who introduces her to the planter's way of life. Francesca does not have a work permit, and struggles with the other "illegals" to find a place on the rice fields. After initial resistance from documented workers and bosses, the scabs are allowed a place in the fields. At the fields, Silvana and Francesca meet a soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco (Raf Vallone), who unsuccessfully tries to attract Silvana's interest.
Germinal (1913)
, 2h20Directed by Albert Capellani
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Henry Krauss, Jean Jacquinet, Auguste Mévisto, Jeanne Cheirel, Paul Escoffier, Sylvie
1er carton : le mécanicien Étienne Lantier est un bon ouvrier dont le tempérament violent est heureusement compensé par un excellent cœur.
Taxi, Trailer and Bullfight (1958)
, 1h26Directed by André Hunebelle
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about families, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles
Actors Louis de Funès, Raymond Bussières, Annette Poivre, Jacques Dufilho, Paulette Dubost, Michel Galabru
Maurice Berger (Louis de Funès), chauffeur de taxi parisien, qui part en Espagne passer ses vacances avec sa femme Germaine (Paulette Dubost) et son fils Jacques (Guy Bertil), accepte d'accrocher à sa voiture la roulotte confectionnée par son beau-frère Léon (Raymond Bussières), accompagné de sa femme Mathilde (Annette Poivre) et de leur fille Nicole (Sophie Sel). Pleins de bonne humeur, les vacanciers passent la frontière espagnole. Mais à la suite du tour de main de Myriam (Véra Valmont), complice de bandits voleurs de bijoux, pour passer la douane, Maurice se retrouve avec un diamant dans la poche. Les bandits font alors tout pour récupérer la pierre.
I'm All Right Jack (1959)
, 1h45Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Margaret Rutherford, Terry-Thomas
After leaving the army and returning to university, newly graduated upper-class Stanley Windrush
Araya (1959)
, 1h19Directed by Margot Benacerraf
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about the labor movement, Documentaire sur le monde du travail
Actors Laurent Terzieff, José Ignacio Cabrujas
Witness in the City (1959)
, 1h26Directed by Édouard Molinaro
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles, Auto-justice
Actors Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Franco Fabrizi, Daniel Ceccaldi, Jacques Berthier, Robert Dalban
Un nommé Verdier tue sa maîtresse en la jetant d'un train. Il bénéficie d'un non-lieu au bénéfice du doute.
The Naked Island (1960)
, 1h34Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about the labor movement
Actors Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama
The film depicts a small family, a husband and wife and two sons, struggling to get by on a tiny island in the Seto Inland Sea, over the course of a year. They are the island's only occupants, and survive by farming. They must repeatedly carry the water for their plants and themselves in a row boat from a neighboring island.
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
, 1h25Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Jim O'Connolly
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films about the labor movement, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Howard Marion-Crawford, Ernest Thesiger
Sidney Stratton, a brilliant young research chemist and former Cambridge scholarship recipient, has been dismissed from jobs at several textile mills in the north of England because of his demands for expensive facilities and his obsession with inventing an everlasting fibre. Whilst working as a labourer at the Birnley Mill, he accidentally becomes an unpaid researcher and invents an incredibly strong fibre which repels dirt and never wears out. From this fabric, a suit is made—which is brilliant white because it cannot absorb dye and slightly luminous because it includes radioactive elements.
Mister Taxi (1952)
, 1h15Directed by André Hunebelle
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles
Actors Michel Simon, Louis de Funès, Jane Marken, Claire Olivier, Jean Brochard, Roland Alexandre
Monsieur Taxi comes across a bag a passenger seems to have forgotten on the backseat. The bag contains a considerable amount of money and he is desperate to return it. While trying to find the owner of the bag he is eventually taken for a criminal and arrested by police. But in the end everything is straightened out and he lives to see his both children get married.