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1) My fair lady
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arrogant, irascible, and misogynistic professor of phonetics Henry Higgins believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society. He boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering--also an expert in phonetics--that he could teach any woman to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball. He chooses as an example a sassy, young working-class London flower seller from the...
2) Overboard
Language
English
Formats
Description
A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.
3) Overboard
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Leonardo, a wealthy businessman, has a yachting accident and develops amnesia, an ill-treated employee exacts some revenge. Kate is a single mom who manages to convince Leonardo that she is his wife. Hilarity ensues as Leonardo must take on the task of helping Kate raise her three daughters. Will Kate's plan succeed to perfection, or will she discover that Leonardo isn't such a bad guy after all? It's classic role reversal in this remake of an...
5) Jane Eyre
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Jane comes to Thornfield Hall as a governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. Denied love all her life, Jane can't help but be attracted to the intelligent, vibrant, energetic Mr. Rochester, a man twice her age. But just when Mr. Rochester seems to be returning the attention, he invites the beautiful and wealthy Blanche Ingram and her party to stay at his estates. Meanwhile, the secret of Thornfield Hall could ruin all their chances for happiness....
Series
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Set in rural England during the 1930s, Tilly Trotter is the compelling story of a courageous young girl, envied by women and lusted after by men, who is accused of witchcraft and forced to rise above the predjudice of her community.
7) Kitty Foyle
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Kitty, a working-class girl, endures the rejection of Philadelphia society, makes her own way as a single woman, and ultimately chooses between an unmarried arrangement with Main Line scion Wynnewood Strafford VI or marriage to a struggling physician.
9) Empire Falls
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A powerful portrait of blue-collar America, a timeless tribute to the inherent decency and good humor that sustains working-class people in everyday life.
11) Humble pie
Publisher
Monterey Media
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A well meaning but socially awkward grocery clerk struggles with his troubled family and huge waistline as he seeks dignity, a higher purpose in life, and, at long last, a driver's license.
12) Kes
Series
Criterion collection volume 561
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy is a fifteen-year-old miner's son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life.
13) Ariel
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Finnish
Description
A coal miner takes a road trip looking for a way out of financial despair and criminal trouble. He finds unexpected love instead.
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Español
Description
An absurd black comedy that centers on Gloria, a very resourceful working class housewife and cleaning woman, who is hooked on amphetamines and must contend with her crazy family.
"Gloria (Carmen Maura) is a cleaning woman and housewife who is addicted to amphetamines. She lives in a crowded apartment with her miserable taxi driving husband (who once forged Hitler's diaries), her two teen sons--one who is selling drugs, the other sleeps with older...
15) Easy living
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter.
16) Starter for 10
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Brian is a working class student from Essex navigating his first year at Bristol University with a ragtag group of new friends. Brian's life-long dream is to join the team for the British quiz show University Challenge, and pull Alice, the fittest girl on the team.
Series
Criterion collection volume 946
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Over the course of several hours, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric nuclear family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor. The film rates as a true discovery, one of Fassbinder's earliest and most tender experiments with the possibilities of melodrama....
Series
Criterion collection volume 946
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Over the course of several hours, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric nuclear family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor. The film rates as a true discovery, one of Fassbinder's earliest and most tender experiments with the possibilities of melodrama....
20) Gribiche
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Alexander Kamenka, the head of Albatros, thought Jacques Feyder the greatest French filmmaker, and secured his talent for the dazzling comedy-Jean Forest (Faces of Children, Crainquebille) is Gribiche, a working-class youth who allows himself to be adopted in the hope that his widowed mother can marry a man unwilling to take on a step-son.
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