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Working-class Angie, sacked from a recruitment agency for bad public behaviour, teams up with her flatmate to run a similar business from their kitchen. With immigrants desperate for work, the opportunities are considerable, particularly for two girls so in tune with these times.
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I, Daniel Blake
Film · 2016 · also dramaA 59-year-old carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as they navigate the impersonal, Kafkaesque benefits system. With equal...
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Mister Johnson
Film · 1991 · also dramaIn 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local B...
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Night and the City
Film · 1950 · also dramaLondoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her...
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In America
Film · 2003 · also dramaA family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
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Come Sunday
Film · 2018 · also dramaEvangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
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In This World
Film · 2003 · also dramaTorn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on...
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The Girl in the Book
Film · 2015 · also dramaThe story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
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This Sporting Life
Film · 1963 · also dramaIn early 1960s Northern England, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
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The Old Oak
Film · 2023 · also dramaA pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty...
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Norma Rae
Film · 1979 · also dramaNorma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key as...
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