List of films that depict class struggle

This is a list of films in which the theme of class struggle is a prominent element.

Title	Year	Citation
1984	1956	^[1]
The Admirable Crichton	1957	^[2]
Aladdin	1992
The Angry Silence	1960
Antz	1998
At War	2018
The Battle of Algiers	1966
Battleship Potemkin	1925	^[3]
Bicycle Thieves	1948	^[4]
Blue Collar	1978
Born in Flames	1983	^[5]
Boxcar Bertha	1972
Brazil	1985
Bread and Roses	2000
A Bug's Life	1998
Burning	2018
Chicken Run	2000
Class Warfare	2001
A Clockwork Orange	1971
La Commune (Paris, 1871)	2000
Comrades	1986
The Dark Knight Rises	2012
Dawn of the Dead	1978	^[5]
District 9	2009
Escape from L.A.	1996	^[5]
Escape from New York	1981	^[5]
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore	2022
Fight Club	1999	^[6]
F.I.S.T.	1978
The Florida Project	2017	^[7]
Gattaca	1997
Germinal	1913
Germinal	1963
Germinal	1993
The Grapes of Wrath	1940	^[4]
The Great Dictator	1940	^[5]
Guerrilla Girl	2005
Harlan County, USA	1976	^[4]
Harlan County War	2000
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1	2010
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	2009
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	2007
Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea	2023
Hoffa	1992
The Hour of the Furnaces	1968
The Hunger Games	2012
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	2013
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1	2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2	2015
The Hunt	2020
Hustlers	2019
Ikiru	1952	^[5]
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK	2006	^[5]
I'm All Right Jack	1959	^[5]
The Immigrant	1917	^[5]
I'm No Longer Here	2019
An Inspector Calls	1954
In Time	2011	^[8]
Intolerance	1916	^[4]
Joker	2019	^[5]
Kadaver	2020	^[9]
Kalashnikov	2020
Katips	2021
The Killing Floor	1984
Land and Freedom	1995
Land of the Dead	2005	^[5]
Last Exit to Brooklyn	1989
Lawn Dogs	1997
Libertad	2021	^[10]
Libertarias	1996
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner	1962	^[4]
The Machinist	2004	^[5]
Made in Dagenham	2010
Mad Max	1979	^[5]
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior	1981	^[5]
Mad Max: Fury Road	2015
Malcolm X	1972
Malcolm X	1992
Man of Iron	1981
The Man Who Defended Gavrilo Princip	2014	^[11]
Matewan	1987
Metropolis	1927	^[12]
Modern Times	1936	^[13]
The Molly Maguires	1970
Nineteen Eighty-Four	1984	^[1]
Norma Rae	1979	^[4]^[5]
The Organizer	1963
Pan's Labyrinth	2006
Parasite	2019
Persepolis	2007
The Platform	2019
Pride	2014
Red Lion	1969	^[5]
Revolution Selfie	2017
Reds	1981	^[5]
Salt of the Earth	1954
The Seduction of Mimi	1972
Selma	2014	^[5]
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal	1977
Shark Tale	2004
Snowpiercer	2013
Society	1989
Sometimes a Great Notion	1971
Songbird	2020	^[14]
Sorry to Bother You	2018	^[15]
Space Jam	1996
Spirited Away	2001	^[16]
Squaring the Circle	1984
Star Wars The Last Jedi	2017		Strange Days	1995
Strike	1925	^[17]
Summer in the Golden Valley	2003
Swept Away	1974	^[18]
Taxi Driver	1976	^[5]
They Live	1988	^[5]
Those Who Make Tomorrow	1946
Three Faces West	1940	^[4]
Tout Va Bien	1972
The Travelling Players	1975
Us	2019
The U.S. vs. John Lennon	2006
V for Vendetta	2005
Winstanley	1975
The Working Class Goes to Heaven	1971	^[19]
Xquipi' Guie'dani	2018
The Young Karl Marx	2017	^[20]

References

^ ^a ^b Bossche, Edmond van den (1 January 1984). "The Message for Today in Orwell's '1984'". The New York Times.
^ Giddins, Gary (2001). Bing Crosby: a pocketful of dreams: the early years, 1903-1940. Hachette Digital, Inc. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-316-88188-3. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
^ Rennie, Paul (8 September 2008). "Revolution on the barrel of a gun". The Guardian.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Rampell, Ed (31 August 2014). "Top Ten Working Class Hero Films". The Progressive. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t Flaneur (23 October 2013). "Working class cinema: a video guide". Libcom.org. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
^ Lalor, Brendan (2000). "Fight Club: Marx & Hegel in the Pitt". Open Philosophy.
^ ""The Florida Project" Offers a Rare Glimpse of Poverty on the Edge of Paradise". 19 October 2017.
^ In Time (2011 film) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-05-26
^ Kadaver(2020 film) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-05-26
^ Martínez, Beatriz (8 July 2021). "'Libertad', una luminosa 'coming-of age' sobre la lucha de clases". El Periódico.
^ The Man Who Defended Gavrilo Princip (2014) - IMDb, retrieved 2020-12-17
^ Porter, Chris (6 February 2015). "A look at class struggle and the future, two elements that made Metropolis one of the most influential and relevant films in history". Go Flik. Archived from the original on 30 November 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
^ imdb review of Modern Times
^ Songbird (2020) - IMDb, retrieved 2020-12-17
^ "Boots Riley on His Anti-Capitalist Film "Sorry to Bother You," the Power of Strikes & Class Struggle". Democracy Now!. 3 September 2018.
^ Pin, Cecile (2016). "Spirited Away and the critique of Capitalism".
^ imdb review of Strike
^ Giroux, Henry A. (2002). Breaking in to the movies: film and the culture of politics. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0-631-22604-8. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
^ Film Review, http://linchpin.ca/Blogs/Film-Review-Working-Class-Go-Heaven Archived 2013-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
^ The Young Karl Marx (2017) - IMDb, retrieved 2019-03-30

[eightyfour-1] Bossche, Edmond van den (1 January 1984). "The Message for Today in Orwell's '1984'". The New York Times.

[2] Giddins, Gary (2001). Bing Crosby: a pocketful of dreams: the early years, 1903-1940. Hachette Digital, Inc. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-316-88188-3. Retrieved 25 November 2011.

[3] Rennie, Paul (8 September 2008). "Revolution on the barrel of a gun". The Guardian.

[workingclass-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Rampell, Ed (31 August 2014). "Top Ten Working Class Hero Films". The Progressive. Retrieved 20 March 2016.

[videoguide-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t Flaneur (23 October 2013). "Working class cinema: a video guide". Libcom.org. Retrieved 21 March 2016.

[6] Lalor, Brendan (2000). "Fight Club: Marx & Hegel in the Pitt". Open Philosophy.

[7] ""The Florida Project" Offers a Rare Glimpse of Poverty on the Edge of Paradise". 19 October 2017.

[8] In Time (2011 film) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-05-26

[9] Kadaver(2020 film) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-05-26

[epc072021-10] Martínez, Beatriz (8 July 2021). "'Libertad', una luminosa 'coming-of age' sobre la lucha de clases". El Periódico.

[11] The Man Who Defended Gavrilo Princip (2014) - IMDb, retrieved 2020-12-17

[12] Porter, Chris (6 February 2015). "A look at class struggle and the future, two elements that made Metropolis one of the most influential and relevant films in history". Go Flik. Archived from the original on 30 November 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2016.

[13] review of Modern Times

[14] Songbird (2020) - IMDb, retrieved 2020-12-17

[15] "Boots Riley on His Anti-Capitalist Film "Sorry to Bother You," the Power of Strikes & Class Struggle". Democracy Now!. 3 September 2018.

[16] Pin, Cecile (2016). "Spirited Away and the critique of Capitalism".

[17] review of Strike

[18] Giroux, Henry A. (2002). Breaking in to the movies: film and the culture of politics. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0-631-22604-8. Retrieved 25 November 2011.

[19] Film Review, http://linchpin.ca/Blogs/Film-Review-Working-Class-Go-Heaven Archived 2013-05-09 at the Wayback Machine

[20] The Young Karl Marx (2017) - IMDb, retrieved 2019-03-30

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