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Raining Stones (1993)
, 1h30Directed by Ken Loach
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about families, La précarité
Actors Bruce Jones, Julie Brown, Ricky Tomlinson, Tom Hickey, Karen Henthorn, William Ash
Bob, le personnage principal, vit avec sa femme Anne et sa fille Coleen dans une banlieue misérable de Manchester. Lui et son ami Tommy se débrouillent du mieux qu'ils peuvent pour vivre dans la Grande-Bretagne des années Thatcher. Le film dépeint la précarité de la société anglaise à l'époque, en montrant tous les emplois que Bob est forcé d'exercer, allant de la revente de viande au marché noir jusqu'à être vigile dans une discothèque. En dépit de sa situation pour le moins précaire, Bob tient par-dessus tout à acheter une robe de communion neuve pour sa fille, afin de ne pas perdre la face devant le voisinage. Dans ce combat pour la dignité de sa famille, il va prendre de terribles risques, se heurter à la cupidité et à la violence mais aussi redécouvrir la fraternité et la solidarité.
Thanks Boss! (2016)
, 1h23Directed by François Ruffin
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes La mondialisation, Films about the labor movement, La précarité, Documentaire sur le monde du travail
Actors François Ruffin
François Ruffin est un fan absolu de Bernard Arnault. Qu'importent les services de sécurité qui l'empêchent de rencontrer son idole, ou l'hostilité d'anciens employés licenciés, François va déborder d'ingéniosité pour rétablir le dialogue et partager avec tous sa passion pour le PDG de LVMH.
Bolivia (2001)
, 1h22Directed by Adrián Caetano
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Enrique Liporace, Héctor Anglada
The mostly plot-free film is confined to a café-bar in the lower-middle class Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Crespo, with few trips outside.
Comrades (1987)
, 3h3Directed by Bill Douglas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, La précarité, Political films
Actors Keith Allen, William Gaminara, Phil Davis, Alex Norton, Arthur Dignam, James Fox
C'est l'histoire des Martyrs de Tolpuddle . Des ouvriers agricoles du Dorset exploités par les propriétaires terriens s’organisent et créent la Société amicale des ouvriers agricoles (Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers). En 1834, ils sont déportés en Australie.
Attention danger travail (2003)
, 1h49Directed by Pierre Carles
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about the labor movement, La précarité, Documentaire sur le monde du travail
Ce film développe les points de vue exprimés par ceux qui refusent « des boulots de merde payés des miettes », points de vue éminemment minoritaires dans les médias puisque contrant le discours dominant sur la valeur travail, relayé par les conseillers pour l'emploi. Le film montre par exemple comment un employé est instruit lors de son premier jour du travail chez Domino's Pizza ; puis le spectateur voit les travailleurs de Michelin et les écoute lire le livre de leur PDG relatant son rapport à ses employés. On peut voir parallèlement une assemblée du MEDEF et ses membres exprimer leur positions sur l'emploi en France et, en contrepoint, des chômeurs expliquer pourquoi ils refusent de travailler.
All Three of Us (2015)
, 1h42Directed by Kheiron
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes La banlieue française, Films about immigration, La précarité, L'émigration
Actors Leïla Bekhti, Gérard Darmon, Kheiron, Zabou Breitman, Alexandre Astier, Kyan Kho
Le film narre l’histoire vraie d'Hibat Tabib — joué par son fils, l'humoriste Kheiron — et de son épouse Fereshteh — incarnée par Leïla Bekhti. Jeunes Iraniens, militants pour la démocratie, ils contestent le régime du shah, Hibat passe sept ans dans les geôles du shah. Après la prise du pouvoir par l'ayatollah Khomeini, Hibat et Fereshteh constatent qu'un tyran a succédé à un autre, et sont contraints de fuir leur pays en 1984. Le film raconte leur vie en Iran dans la clandestinité, leur fuite dangereuse puis leur exil en France. Après leur arrivée en Seine-Saint-Denis, ils s'intègrent et s'impliquent dans la vie associative locale. Leur fils s'oriente vers les métiers du spectacle et deviendra l'humoriste Kheiron.
A Better Life (2011)
, 1h38Directed by Chris Weitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Demián Bichir, Joaquín Cosío, Nancy Lenehan, Dolores Heredia, Gabriel Chavarria, Rolando Molina
Carlos Galindo (Demián Bichir) works as a gardener with Blasco Martinez (Joaquín Cosio) in Los Angeles, California. Blasco wants to return to Mexico and continually tries to persuade Carlos to purchase his business from him, which includes the work truck and gardening tools. Carlos's son Luis (José Julián) is in high school and is dating Ruthie Valdez (Chelsea Rendon), the niece of a local gang leader. Luis regularly goes to her house after school where gang members congregate. Luis is embarrassed by his father and, although he does not wish to follow in his footsteps, has a hard time committing himself to his education. However, his relationship with Ruthie and his friendship with Facundo (Bobby Soto) pushes him toward becoming a gang member.
The Full Monty (1997)
, 1h31Directed by Peter Cattaneo
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about sexuality, La précarité, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Striptease
Actors Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape, Steve Huison, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Barber
The once-successful steel mills of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, have shut down and most of the employees have been laid off. Former steel workers Gary "Gaz" Schofield and Dave Horsefall have resorted to stealing scrap metal from the abandoned mills to sell. Gaz is facing trouble from his former wife, Mandy and her boyfriend Barry over child support payments that he's failed to make since losing his job. Gaz's son, Nathan, loves his father but wishes they could do more "normal stuff" in their time together.
Brassed Off (1996)
, 1h47Directed by Mark Herman
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about the labor movement, La précarité, Musical films, Political films
Actors Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson, Jim Carter, Philip Jackson
Gloria Mullins has been sent to her old hometown of Grimley to determine the profitability of the pit for the management of British Coal. She also plays the flugelhorn brilliantly, and is allowed to play with the local brass band after playing Concierto de Aranjuez with them, the band is made up of miners from whom she must conceal her purpose. She renews a childhood romance with Andy Barrow, which soon leads to complications. It is later revealed during a confrontation between Gloria and the management of the colliery that the decision to close the colliery had been made two years previously, and that this was to have gone ahead regardless of the findings of her report; the report simply being a public relations exercise to placate the miners and members of the public sympathetic to their plight.
Le Havre (2011)
, 1h33Directed by Aki Kaurismäki
Origin Finlande
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Elina Salo, Évelyne Didi
Marcel Marx, a former bohemian and struggling author, has given up his literary ambitions and relocated to the port city Le Havre. He leads a simple life based around his wife Arletty, his favourite bar and his not too profitable profession as a shoeshiner. As Arletty suddenly becomes seriously ill, Marcel's path crosses with an underage illegal immigrant from Africa. Marcel and friendly neighbors and other townspeople help to hide him from the police. The police inspector may, or may not, be hot on their heels.
Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
, 1h21Directed by Jean Renoir
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about alcoholism, Théâtre, La précarité, Films based on plays
Actors Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Jean Gehret, Jean Dasté, Max Dalban, Jacques Becker
Bourgeois Parisian, Latin Quarter bookseller, Edouard Lestingois, (Charles Granval), rescues a tramp, Boudu, from a suicidal plunge into the river Seine, from the Pont des Arts. Boudu is brought into Lestingois' household. The family adopts the man and dedicates itself to reforming him into a proper middle class person. Boudu (Michel Simon) shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound manners of his hosts and seduces not only the housemaid but also Madame Lestingois herself. Gradually Boudu is tamed, shaved and given a haircut, and put in a suit. Then he wins a large sum of money on the lottery, and is guided into marrying the housemaid. Finally however, at the wedding scene, Boudu capsizes a rowing boat and floats away from the wedding party, and "back to his old vagrancy, a free spirit once more.
Dheepan (2015)
, 1h54Directed by Jacques Audiard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Seafaring films, Transport films, La précarité
Actors Vincent Rottiers, Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Marc Zinga, Faouzi Bensaïdi, Joséphine de Meaux, Tassadit Mandi
Sivadhasan (Antonythasan Jesuthasan), is a Tamil Tiger soldier during the last days of the bloody Sri Lankan Civil war. After the armed conflict resolves, his side loses and he is forced to move to a refugee camp. There he decides to move to France to take a fresh chance at life. However, in order to secure political asylum, he requires a convincing cover story. He is given the passport of a dead man, Dheepan, and pairs with people he barely knows posing as his family. Along with his supposed wife, Yalini (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and his supposed 9-year-old daughter, Illayaal (Claudine Vinasithamby) they get on a ship bound for Paris. Upon arrival, he lands a job as a resident caretaker and starts building a new life in a housing project in Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, a northeastern suburb of Paris, which turns out to be another conflict zone for him.
Marina (2013)
, 1h40Directed by Stijn Coninx
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Luigi Lo Cascio, Donatella Finocchiaro, Warre Borgmans, Jelle Florizoone, Vincent Grass, Jappe Claes
Salvatore Granata is a rather poor man who lives with his wife, son and daughter in Calabria in Italy. One day Salvatore decides to move to Belgium to work in the coal mine of Waterschei as a gastarbeider. His family will stay in Italy as Salvatore will only be in Belgium for three years. He hopes to earn much money in a rather small timeframe so he can buy a forge for his son Rocco who is now still a 9 year old boy. After a year, Salvatore decides his family should be with him, so they also move to Belgium. They soon discover the life of a gastarbeider is difficult: they have to live in some kind of barracks, they are neglected by the Belgian people and they do not earn much. They are astonished when they hear Salvatore signed a contract of five years and male children of gastarbeiders are ought to work in the mines as soon they leave high school. Rocco meets Helena, the daughter of the local grocer shop. However, the man is a racist and forbids his daughter to play with Italian boys.
Shun Li and the Poet (2011)
, 1h40Directed by Andrea Segre
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, Films about racism, La précarité
Actors Rade Šerbedžija, Zhao Tao, Marco Paolini, Roberto Citran, Giuseppe Battiston
Shun Li (Zhao Tao) has been working in a textile workshop in the outskirts of Rome for eight years trying to obtain the documents to bring her son to Italy. She is suddenly transferred to Chioggia, a small island town situated in the Venetian lagoon to work as a bartender in a tavern. Bepi (Rade Šerbedžija), a fisherman of Slavic origin, nicknamed by friends as "the Poet", has been visiting the little inn for years. Their meeting is a poetic escape from loneliness, a silent dialogue between different cultures. It is a journey into the heart of a deep lagoon, known to be a mother and birthplace of identity. But the friendship between Shun Li and Bepi disturbs both communities, Chinese and Chioggia, which hinders this new journey, which perhaps is simply still too scary.
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.