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The Godfather (1972)
, 2h55Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Tommy Wiseau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Mob film, Crime
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, La précarité, Gangster films, Films about marriage
Actors Marlon Brando, Megan Fox, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall
On the occasion of his daughter Connie's wedding, Vito Corleone hears requests in his role as the Godfather, the Don of a New York crime family. Vito's youngest son, Michael, wearing a Marine Corps uniform, introduces his girlfriend, Kay Adams, to his family at the reception. Johnny Fontane, a famous singer and godson to Vito, seeks his help in securing a movie role; Vito dispatches his consigliere, Tom Hagen, to Los Angeles to talk the abrasive studio head, Jack Woltz, into giving Johnny the part. Woltz is unmoved until he wakes up in bed with the severed head of his prized stallion.
The Flight (1971)
, 3h16Directed by Alexandre Alov, Alexandre Alov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about immigration, Politique, Théâtre, La précarité, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Lioudmila Savelieva, Alexeï Batalov, Mikhaïl Oulianov, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, Nikolay Olyalin
Année 1920. La guerre civile dans le sud de la Russie est presque terminée. Alors que l'armée rouge fait son entrée en Crimée, commence l'exode de tous ceux qui redoutent le changement du régime.
Mektoub (1970)
, 1h25Directed by Ali Ghalem
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Pierre Mirat, Abder El Kebir, Ali Ghalem, Anouk Ferjac
Un manœuvre Algérien, Ahmed, jeune père de famille, quitte son pays et débarque en France, pensant y trouver un emploi par l’intermédiaire de Salah, un ami qui demeure en banlieue parisienne depuis plusieurs années. Sa déception est grande quand il arrive à Nanterre, où Salah habite dans un taudis de bidonville. Sans aucun appui, Ahmed va devoir quotidiennement faire le tour des bureaux d'embauche comme des tas d’autres immigrés qui s’étaient bercés, comme lui, de douces illusions…
Letter To Jail (1969)
, 1h10Directed by Marc Scialom
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration, La provence, La précarité
In 1970, Tahar, a young Tunisian, travels to France for the first time to help his older brother, who is wrongly accused of murder and incarcerated in Paris. He first stops in Marseille, where he meets Tunisians very different from those familiar to him; enigmatic French people; and a strange atmosphere that makes him doubt his brother’s innocence, his own innocence and his own mental integrity.
Il Gaucho (1964)
, 1h50Directed by Dino Risi
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about films, Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Vittorio Gassman, Gino Buzzanca, Nino Manfredi, Silvana Pampanini, Annie Gorassini, Maria Grazia Buccella
Marco Ravicchio, responsable des relations publiques d'une modeste société de production cinématographique italienne, part pour Buenos Aires pour présenter un film lors d'un festival. Il est accompagné d'un scénariste vorace et sordide, deux actrices sans talent à la recherche de publicité et une troisième actrice, Luciana, qui n'est plus très jeune et qui espère trouver un mari argentin fortuné. A Buenos Aires, le groupe est importuné par un riche émigrant italien, l'ingénieur Marucchelli, qui a fait de la nostalgie son passe-temps favori. Marco n'obtient pas de le prêt de son ami Stefano, émigré des années auparavant et demande l'argent à l'ingénieur Marucchelli qui ne lui donne que des belles paroles. A la fin du festival, le groupe retourne en Italie avec un peu d'expérience et beaucoup déception.
America America (1963)
, 2h48Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité, L'émigration
Actors Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, John Marley, Robert H. Harris, Lou Antonio, Estelle Hemsley
In this tall, loosely based upon the life of Kazan's uncle, the director uses little-known cast members, with the entire storyline revolving around the central performance of Greek actor Stathis Giallelis (born 1941), twenty-two years old at the time of production, who is in virtually every scene of the nearly three-hour movie.
Flame in the Streets (1961)
, 1h33Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration, Théâtre, La précarité, Films based on plays
Actors John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda De Banzie, Earl Cameron, Wilfrid Brambell, Ann Lynn
Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of post-war Britain. Trades Union leader Jacko Palmer fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter, Kathie, is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the hysterical prejudice of his wife Nell.
The Magnificent Tramp (1959)
, 1h19Directed by Gilles Grangier, Jacques Deray
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about alcoholism, La précarité
Actors Jean Gabin, Darry Cowl, Bernard Blier, Paul Frankeur, Dora Doll, Sacha Briquet
A sophisticated tramp lives during summer in a half-finished construction site. Because he doesn't want to be cold in the winter, he decides to get imprisoned on time. Therefore he demolishes a bar but he is only incarcerated for a single week. He promises he will find a way to come back.
Le Chômeur de Clochemerle (1957)
, 1h32Directed by Jean Boyer
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement, La précarité, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Fernandel, Rellys, Ginette Leclerc, Maria Mauban, Henri Vilbert, Jane Marken
Baptistin Lachaud, dit Tistin, est un marginal qui vit de braconnage et aime lever le coude avec ses copains. Il est naturellement surveillé par le garde-champêtre, mais celui-ci se laisse parfois aller jusqu'à manger avec lui le produit de ses braconnages.
The Ten Commandments (1956)
, 3h42Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Action, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about slavery, Films about religion, La précarité, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism, L'émigration
Actors Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget
Pharaoh Rameses I of Egypt has ordered the death of all firstborn Hebrew males after hearing the prophecy of the Deliverer, but a Hebrew woman named Yoshebel saves her infant son by setting him adrift in a basket on the Nile. Bithiah, the Pharaoh's daughter, who had recently lost her husband and the hope of ever having children of her own, finds the basket and decides to adopt the boy even though her servant, Memnet, recognizes the child is Hebrew and protests.
The Path of Hope (1950)
, 1h45Directed by Pietro Germi
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, La précarité, L'émigration
Actors Raf Vallone, Saro Urzì, Elena Varzi, Renato Terra
The film presents the travel of a group of poor Sicilians to France in their dreams of a better life.
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
, 1h33Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Films about religion, Films about the labor movement, La précarité
Actors Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri, Sergio Leone, Memmo Carotenuto
In post-World War II Val Melaina neighbourhood of Rome, Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani) is desperate for work to support his wife Maria (Lianella Carell), his son Bruno (Enzo Staiola), and his small baby. He is offered a position posting advertising bills, but tells Maria that he cannot accept because the job requires a bicycle. Maria resolutely strips the bed of her dowry bedsheets—prized possessions for a poor family—and takes them to the pawn shop, where they bring enough to redeem Antonio's pawned Fides brand bicycle.
It Rains on Our Love (1946)
, 1h35Directed by Ingmar Bergman, Lorens Marmstedt, Herbert Grevenius
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes La précarité
Actors Barbro Kollberg, Birger Malmsten, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gösta Cederlund, Ludde Gentzel, Douglas Håge
David Lindell (Birger Malmsten) and Maggi (Barbro Kollberg) are not lucky. David landed in prison, but now wants to start a new life. Maggi aimed to be an actress, but got pregnant during a chance encounter and has now fled to a provincial town to give herself a second chance. The lovers represent everything the straitlaced society rejects. Yet even when people take advantage of them, when the couple are accused of theft, when they are thrown out of their apartment – at least they seem to have a guardian angel, who appears in the unlikely form of the “Man with the Umbrella”.
Modern Times (1936)
, 1h27Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Films about the labor movement, La précarité
Actors Paulette Goddard, Charlie Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford, Chester Conklin, Hank Mann
Modern Times portrays Chaplin as a factory worker employed on an assembly line. There, he is subjected to such indignities as being force-fed by a "modern" feeding machine and an accelerating assembly line where he screws nuts at an ever-increasing rate onto pieces of machinery. He finally suffers a nervous breakdown and runs amok, throwing the factory into chaos. He is sent to a hospital. Following his recovery, the now unemployed factory worker is mistakenly arrested as an instigator in a Communist demonstration. In jail, he accidentally ingests smuggled cocaine, mistaking it for salt. In his subsequent delirium, he gets out of the jail. When he returns, he stumbles upon a jailbreak and knocks the convicts unconscious. He is hailed a hero and is released.
Toni (1935)
, 1h25Directed by Jean Renoir
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about immigration, La provence, La précarité
Actors Charles Blavette, Andrex, Jenny Hélia, Édouard Delmont, Max Dalban
Looking for a job Toni goes from Italy to Southern France. A local woman named Marie takes him in as her tenant and becomes his lover. But when the Spanish guestworker Josepha comes to town, Toni falls for her. To his disappointment Josepha has a wedding with a wealthier man. So Toni marries Marie after all but he cannot hide that Josepha was his greatest love. After Marie has thrown him out of her house he is determined to see Josepha again. He finds her on a farm in the mountains where she lives with her increasingly abusive husband. Josepha is about to run away and for that purpose she steals money from her spouse who catches and hits her. While Toni is around she kills the man. Toni sacrifices himself in order to cover up for her.