Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "day-laborer"

1. Machete (2010)

R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.

Directors: Ethan Maniquis, Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba

Votes: 204,248 | Gross: $26.59M

2. Code 8 (2019)

Not Rated | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A super-powered construction worker falls in with a group of criminals in order to raise the funds to help his ill mother.

Director: Jeff Chan | Stars: Kari Matchett, Robbie Amell, Penny Eizenga, Lawrence Bayne

Votes: 52,748

3. Shoplifters (2018)

R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.

Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Kirin Kiki, Mayu Matsuoka

Votes: 86,818 | Gross: $3.31M

4. 1900 (1976)

Unrated | 317 min | Drama, History

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini

Votes: 27,332

5. Everybody Knows (2018)

R | 133 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her two children to attend her sister's wedding. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.

Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darín, Eduard Fernández

Votes: 38,160 | Gross: $2.66M

6. Marshland (2014)

TV-MA | 105 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Two cops lost in the deep south of Spain. One serial killer to catch. A lot of secrets and lies to disclose.

Director: Alberto Rodríguez | Stars: Javier Gutiérrez, Raúl Arévalo, María Varod, Perico Cervantes

Votes: 36,534

7. Fat City (1972)

PG | 96 min | Drama, Sport

Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take different directions.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, Candy Clark

Votes: 10,424

8. Sullivan's Travels (1941)

Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.

Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest

Votes: 28,583

9. Lilies of the Field (1963)

Unrated | 94 min | Drama

A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.

Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Isa Crino

Votes: 13,649

10. A Better Life (2011)

PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, Romance

A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while trying to give his son the opportunities he never had.

Director: Chris Weitz | Stars: Demián Bichir, José Julián, Eddie 'Piolin' Sotelo, Joaquín Cosio

Votes: 16,554 | Gross: $1.76M

11. Papi Chulo (2018)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

A lonely TV weatherman strikes up an unusual friendship with a middle-aged Latino migrant worker.

Director: John Butler | Stars: Matt Bomer, Alejandro Patiño, Elena Campbell-Martinez, Wendi McLendon-Covey

Votes: 1,822 | Gross: $0.08M

12. Ariel (1988)

Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Turo Pajala, Susanna Haavisto, Matti Pellonpää, Eetu Hilkamo

Votes: 8,382

13. Bread and Roses (2000)

R | 110 min | Drama

Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo, Jack McGee

Votes: 6,088 | Gross: $0.53M

14. Father (2020)

120 min | Drama

A Serbian man fights to regain custody of his children.

Director: Srdan Golubovic | Stars: Goran Bogdan, Boris Isakovic, Nada Sargin, Milica Janevski

Votes: 3,055

15. El Norte (1983)

R | 141 min | Adventure, Drama

After their family is killed in a government massacre, siblings Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte": the United States.

Director: Gregory Nava | Stars: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Alicia del Lago

Votes: 5,608

16. Partir (I) (2009)

Unrated | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Suzanne "Dame Kristin Scott Thomas" is a well to do married mother, but her bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist by building an office in their backyard. Then Suzanne falls in love with the man hired to build the office.

Director: Catherine Corsini | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi López, Yvan Attal, Bernard Blancan

Votes: 4,541 | Gross: $0.17M

17. Chop Shop (2007)

Unrated | 84 min | Drama

Alejandro, a resourceful street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his sixteen-year-old sister.

Director: Ramin Bahrani | Stars: Alejandro Polanco, Isamar Gonzales, Rob Sowulski, Carlos Zapata

Votes: 4,721 | Gross: $0.12M

18. At War (2018)

113 min | Drama

After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.

Director: Stéphane Brizé | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Mélanie Rover, Jacques Borderie, David Rey

Votes: 2,205 | Gross: $0.00M

19. Socrates (2018)

Not Rated | 71 min | Drama

After his mother's sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo's coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief.

Director: Alexandre Moratto | Stars: Christian Malheiros, Tales Ordakji, Jayme Rodrigues, Vanessa Santana

Votes: 1,226

20. Exils (2004)

Unrated | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Music

Two French lovers, Zano and Naima, decided to travel to the land of their parents: Algeria. Their road trip gradually becomes a spiritual quest.

Director: Tony Gatlif | Stars: Romain Duris, Lubna Azabal, Zouhir Gacem, Lila Makhlouf

Votes: 3,193

21. Vig (1998 TV Movie)

R | 90 min | Drama

Frankie Peterson has taken money from the mob. Now they want it back.

Director: Graham Theakston | Stars: Peter Falk, Lauren Holly, Timothy Hutton, Freddie Prinze Jr.

Votes: 606

22. The Bastards (2008)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Jesus and Fausto, two low-paid Mexican laborers working illegally across the border in LA, are offered big money and a sawn-off shotgun to break into the home of a drug addicted single mother and take her hostage.

Director: Amat Escalante | Stars: Jesus Moises Rodriguez, Rubén Sosa, Nina Zavarin, Kenny Johnston

Votes: 1,520

23. Passing Fancy (1933)

100 min | Drama

Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Ôhinata, Chôko Iida

Votes: 1,479

24. Ameriikan raitti (1990)

120 min | Crime, Drama

Two small-time crooks take off to Florida to escape unpaid taxes and failure.

Director: Lauri Törhönen | Stars: Kari Sorvali, Mari Rantasila, Jari Järvimaa, Åke Lindman

Votes: 316

25. Amexicano (2007)

PG-13 | 84 min | Drama

A look at the bond between an illegal immigrant and a blue-collar Italian-American from Queens.

Director: Matthew Bonifacio | Stars: Hugo Aleman, Sophia Antonini, Michael Aronov, Edison Carrera

Votes: 300 | Gross: $0.01M

26. Havukka-ahon ajattelija (2009)

110 min | Comedy, Drama

Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing ... See full summary »

Director: Kari Väänänen | Stars: Kai Lehtinen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Tommi Korpela, Ilkka Heiskanen

Votes: 558

27. A Day's Work (I) (2008)

TV-G | 17 min | Short, Drama

What was a typical job escalates into a violent argument in this heart-stopping drama. Enrique is a young man far from home trying to make a living wage as a day laborer on the streets of ... See full summary »

Director: Rajeev Dassani | Stars: Jack Brand, Luis Chávez, Hugo Garcia, Leigh Higginbotham

Votes: 117

28. Day Labor (2008)

Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Comedy

Burned out by the grind of boring, anonymous jobs, Corey and Dale really need a day off. But with no vacation time left, and a mandatory sales meeting to attend, they need to find a ... See full summary »

Director: David Lindabury | Stars: Wes Bailey, Sylvester Berry, Justin Cave, Jodie Charlop

29. Hamara Shahar - Bombay, Our City (1985)

82 min | Documentary

The film story based on daily battle for survival of the 4 million slum dwellers of Bombay who make up half the city's population

Director: Anand Patwardhan | Stars: Deepa Arora, Rita Bhatia, Supriya Pathak, Om Puri

Votes: 58

30. Intolerance (2022)

Short, Drama

After their car breaks down, a Latino couple seeks out help at the first place they find, a gas station owned by a racist.

Star: Anthony Hernandez

31. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Capitol Crimes (2006)

TV-14 | 22 min | Documentary, Crime

The driver said he couldn't have hit and killed a pedestrian on a Harrisburg street. The Jeep Grand Cherokee he was leasing around that time had been sold months ago to a buyer in another ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Jordan | Stars: Peter Thomas, Kenneth Cains, Louis Cains, Robert Clark

Votes: 85

32. Broke (2020)
Episode: Mom's Secret (2020)

TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy

Jackie & Elizabeth find some old letters revealing that their mother had an affair with "Alex." Convinced that Alex must be her real father, Elizabeth insists that they find him. Javier ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Gonzalez | Stars: Jaime Camil, Pauley Perrette, Natasha Leggero, Izzy Diaz

Votes: 62

33. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Promote This! (2009)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The prosecution of a group of teenagers for the brutal beating of an illegal Honduran immigrant proves to be a thorny and delicate issue for the District Attorney's office.

Director: Michael W. Watkins | Stars: Jeremy Sisto, Anthony Anderson, S. Epatha Merkerson, Linus Roache

Votes: 237

34. Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012– )
Episode: Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis (2012)

TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Actor and musician Harry Connick, Jr. and legendary jazz musician Branford Marsalis share their love of jazz and New Orleans itself, but they both also have European immigrant ancestors who blazed unconventional trails in America.

Stars: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harry Connick Jr., Branford Marsalis, Art Green

Votes: 50

35. Labor Days (2012– )
Episode: The Ferral's Doomsday Bunker (2012)

Not Rated | 15 min | Comedy

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Director: John Huynh | Stars: John Huynh, Forrest Shaw, Orlando Leyba, Kirk Meadows