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THEME EXPLORATION

working-class crime

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
The Street Fighter
The Street Fighter
1974 · Shigehiro Ozawa
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989 · Peter Greenaway
Graveyard of Honor
Graveyard of Honor
1975 · Kinji Fukasaku
Gatao: The Last Stray
Gatao: The Last Stray
2021 · Chiang Jui-chih
7 Boxes
7 Boxes
2012 · Juan Carlos Maneglia
Bad Boys II
Bad Boys II
2003 · Michael Bay
The Irishman
The Irishman
2019 · Martin Scorsese
Blue Collar
Blue Collar
1978 · Paul Schrader
A Midnight Adventure
A Midnight Adventure
1909 · D.W. Griffith
Dead End
Dead End
1937 · William Wyler
Deported
Deported
1950 · Robert Siodmak
I Vinti
I Vinti
1953 · Michelangelo Antonioni
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Ken Loach → United Kingdom

His films consistently portray working-class struggles and petty crime as symptomatic of systemic poverty and social injustice.

Martin Scorsese → United States

He explores how working-class individuals turn to organized crime as a path to survival and respect within their communities.

Coen Brothers → Belgium

Their neorealist cinema focuses on ordinary people from marginalized backgrounds who are driven toward petty crime by economic desperation.

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