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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It's the 800-pound gorilla in American life that most Americans don't think about: how do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social class? Class can be harder to spot than racial or ethnic differences, yet in many ways it's the most important predictor of what kind of financial and educational opportunities someone will have in life. But class is a hard subject...
2) Flatland
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1962 John Hubley came to Harvard University as the first teacher of animation in the new Visual Arts Center. It was his idea to make a film based on Edwin Abbott's famous novel about life in a two-dimensional world, Flatland.
Series
Publisher
Televisa
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Español
Description
It is a story about love, romance, encounters, disagreements and several funny entanglements between two families with absolutely nothing in common but who are yet forced to live in the same house: on one side "The Ruizpalacios", a lineage, millionaire family, and on the other "The Menchacas", a typical ghetto family.
4) Phantom
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Flicker Alley, in partnership with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation is proud to present, Phantom, which marked a major turning point in the influential career and the groundbreaking style of cinema poet F.W. Murnau. In this beautifully reconstructed and restored edition from an amazingly detailed, original 1922 negative, Alfred Abel (Metropolis, Dr. Mabuse) plays Lorenz Lubota, a man obsessed with his own desires to achieve fame and wealth,...
5) Jamón jamón
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Traces the romantic entanglements of the beautiful and pregnant underwear factory worker Silvia; Jose Luis, the father of her child and heir to the factory fortune; Raul, underwear model, seducer, and would-be-bullfighter; and Conchita, Jose Luis' doting mother, family matriarch, and Raul's lover.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Master of social discomfort Ruben Östlund trains his unsparing lens on the world of wealth, beauty, and privilege in this audacious, Palme d'Or, winning satire of our status-obsessed culture. A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down. Pushing each provocative set piece...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
The members of the Bushwood Country Club still insist that only a privileged few are permitted to walk miles in the sun while wearing silly pants and whacking a little ball from hole to hole. Blue-collar millionaire Jack Hartounian is concerned more with the way people treat each other than whether they use the right words in polite society or raise the proper finger to drink a glass of beer.
8) New order
Publisher
Neon
Language
Español
Formats
Description
In this riveting, suspenseful dystopian drama, a lavish upper-class wedding goes awry in an unexpected uprising of class warfare that gives way to a violent coup d’état. As seen through the eyes of the sympathetic young bride and the servants who work for—and against—her wealthy family, NEW ORDER breathlessly traces the collapse of one political system as a more harrowing replacement springs up in its wake. Winner of the Silver Lion at the...
9) Jawbreaker
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Three of the most popular girls in high school play a practical joke on the prom queen and accidentally kill her with a jawbreaker. In the ensuing investigation only the powerful succeed and the girls find out who their friends really are.
Publisher
Kino International [distributor]
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere in 1927. After years of restoration the sci-fi epic was re-released in theaters in 2010 as The Complete Metropolis.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
As Season One ended, so did the revolution, with Layton emerging as Snowpiercer's leader and another threat to the survivors fast approaching in the form of a rival train. In Season Two, Mr. Wilford arrives, bringing a secret from Melanie's past. A new power struggle emerges, causing a dangerous rift as people are divided between their loyalties to Layton and to Mr. Wilford, who has a new train, new technology and a game plan that keeps everyone guessing....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
What are the connections between healthy bodies, healthy bank accounts and skin colour? Our opening episode travels to Louisville, Kentucky, not to explore whether medical care cures us but to see why we get sick in the first place, and why patterns of health and illness reflect underlying patterns of class and racial inequities. The lives of a CEO, a lab supervisor, a janitor, and an unemployed mother illustrate how class shapes opportunities for...
14) North & south
Series
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When the privileged Margaret Hale's father uproots the family to take work in the northern mill town of Milton, she is shocked by the dirt and gruffness of the people. But she reserves her highest contempt for the charismatic mill-owner, John Thornton.
16) The notebook
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A wealthy & fiercely independent young woman falls for an impoverished & passionate young man.
Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who disapprove of Noah's poor family, and move Allie away. When Allie doesn't hear from Noah after several years, she meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, with her love still alive for Noah, stops by Noah's home to...
Series
Tyler Perry the play collection volume 1
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
I can do bad all by myself: See what happens when a family is torn apart by one sister's selfishness and another sister's refusal to let go of the love of her life. All the while, Madea is in rare form and is determined to get and keep the family together.
The haves and the have nots: When a wealthy family is asked for financial help by their maid, they get a chance to see how the other half lives.
Madea's class reunion: The year is 2003 and the...
19) The flamingo kid
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It's going to be a summer to remember! Jeffrey Willis is out to set the world on fire, starting with a well to do Long Island beach club!
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
On the eve of retirement, a judgmental middle-class snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.
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