Richelieu
Genres
Overview
A French-to-Spanish interpreter working for a food processing plant that hires seasonal workers from Guatemala is, at first determined to obey the sometimes excessive directives of the young boss, but she befriends the workers and tries to defend them against the exploitation they suffer.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
89 min
Release Date
2023-09-01
Status
Released
Original Language
French
Vote Count
18
Vote Average
7.5
Ariane Castellanos
Ariane
Marc-André Grondin
Stéphane
Nelson Coronado
Manuel
Ève Duranceau
Michèle
Gerardo Miranda
Alfonso
Micheline Bernard
Nicole
Luis Oliva
Juan
Antonio Ortega
Guillermo
Denis Marchand
Marcel
María Mercedes Coroy
Maria
Carlos Guerra
Julio
Émile Schneider
Mathieu
Nicolas Berno
Monsieur Ricard (voice)
Hubert Proulx
Richard
David Gagnon
Ambulancier #1
Sasha Migliarese
Christine
Danny Gilmore
Dr. Gagnon
Marc Beaupré
Agent d'indemnisation (voice)
Hugolin Chevrette
Sylvain
Monique Gosselin
Caissière
Marvin Coroy
Hector
Darrell Lloyd Tucler
Marcos
Jean-François Boudreau
Dr. Malo
Charlotte Aubin
Infirmière externe
Sylvie Lemay
Secrétaire
Mathieu Dufresne
Ghislain
Véronique Ledoux
Infirmière
Olivier Turcotte
Technicien caméra #1
Yann Aspirot
Technicien caméra #2
Wilson Guerrero
Alfredo
Daniel Deburghgraeve
Voisin curieux
María Telón
Grand-mère guatémaltèque
Darlin Sofia Livar Coroy
Roxana
André Nadeau
Travailleur québécois #1
Jason Desjardins
Travailleur québécois #2
Danny Duarte
Rigoberto
Hugo Leonel Rucuch López
Felipe
Manuel Pelletier
Nouveau travailleur guatémaltèque #1
José Zapata
Nouveau travailleur guatémaltèque #2
Pénélope Cournoyer
Ambulancière #2
Valeri Koudriavtsev
Cadre de l'usine #1
Daniel Lortie
Cadre de l'usine #2
Carole Desbiens
Cadre de l'usine #3
Claudia Cayer
Stagiaire de direction
7.3
The Promised Land
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1975-02-21 | pl
7.0
The Secret Life of Words
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
2005-12-15 | en
6.0
Jeong-sun
Jeong-sun as her name lives an uncluttered life with modest behavior even though working at a food factory. Young-soo, a factory colleague, approaches her. As they get closer, they enjoy their secret relationship, and he takes candid shots in beds with his mobile camera. One day, she gets inappropriate stares from others.
2024-04-17 | ko
6.2
Another Promise
Taxi driver Sang-gu is an ordinary father who has made a happy family. Due to their unfortunate financial circumstances, he is sorry that he cannot afford to send his daughter Yoon-mi to university like other parents. Yet, with a bright smile on her face, Yoon-mi tells her father that she will one day buy him a new car and pay college tuition fees for her younger sibling. However, less than two years after Yoon-mi begins her job at a large corporate company, she gets seriously ill and returns home. Sang-gu is heartbroken to see his young daughter in such a condition.
2014-02-06 | ko
7.5
Camera Buff
Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.
1979-11-16 | pl
6.0
Gung Ho
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.
1986-03-14 | en
7.4
Blue Collar
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
1978-02-10 | en
7.1
Forest Giant
Pasi returns to his childhood town, asked to reconfigure the local plywood factory. With a child on the way with his upper-class wife, Pasi sees an opportunity – this is his ticket to climb the professional ladder in the company. On arrival, he bumps into his childhood friend Janne, who works in the factory he is about to downsize. Pasi begins to struggle with the fact that he is supposed to care for the profits – not for the people.
2020-09-11 | fi
5.6
Making Of
Simon, a well-known French filmmaker, starts shooting his next film. A story about workers fighting to protect their factory from being relocated. But nothing goes as planned... His producer Viviane wants to rewrite the ending and is threatening to cut the budget; his own crew goes on strike; his personal life is in shambles; and to make things worse, his lead actor Alain is an egocentric jerk. Joseph, an extra who wants to get into the film industry, agrees to direct the making of and shoot the behind-the-scenes. He takes his role very seriously and starts following around the crew, capturing all this mess... What follows is proof that the making of can sometimes be far better than the film itself!
2024-01-10 | fr
6.7
Kinky Boots
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.
2005-08-30 | en
7.0
The Dreamlife of Angels
Isa and Marie bond while working in a French sweatshop and soon begin sharing an apartment that Marie is watching for a hospitalized mother and daughter. Marie, hoping to avoid a life of struggle and poverty, takes up with Chriss, a nightclub owner whose most attractive asset is his money. Isa recognizes the ultimate futility of the relationship and tries to keep Marie away from him, but her interference puts their friendship at risk.
1998-10-16 | fr
7.1
Solino
The movie portrays the story of an Italian family emigrated in Germany in the 1970s. Romano (Gigi Savoia), the father, decides to open a pizzeria which, by mutual decision with the wife Rosa (Antonella Attili), will call Solino, leaving his sons Gigi and Giancarlo to work there. A hostile relationship comes to life between the father and his sons, which will end up in the escape of the boys from family.
2002-09-23 | de
5.5
Spotswood
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
1992-01-23 | en
5.9
Godard's Passion
While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.
1982-05-26 | fr
6.8
The Navigators
In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization, their lives will never be the same. When the trusty British Rail sign is replaced by one reading East Midland Infrastructure, it is clear that there will be the inevitable winners and losers as downsizing and efficiency become the new buzzwords.
2001-09-14 | en
7.7
Golgotha
Six widows demand compensation for the death of their husbands, who were killed during a worker's strike. The women are arrested and taken to the police quarters, where the authorities try to make them retract their statements, but it turns out they're not so easily intimidated.
1966-12-26 | en
5.7
Factory B
A group of oil drillers of the Factory B, focused on success rather than praise, strive to find the oil despite the decision on the suspension of the drilling works.
1958-12-28 | sh
7.4
Europe '51
A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity.
1952-12-04 | it
7.0
Loves of a Blonde
Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and leaves town assuming he'll never see Andula again. But when Andula doesn't hear from him, she packs up and heads to Prague, to the surprise of Milda and his parents.
1965-11-12 | cs
6.2
The Swindlers
Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth, but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.
1959-09-23 | it