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The life of 11-year old Billy Elliot, a coal miner's son in Northern England, is forever changed when he stumbles upon a ballet class during his weekly boxing lesson. Soon he is demonstrating the kind of raw talent seldom seen by class instructor Mrs. Wilkinson. When his widowed father and overbearing brother discover that Billy has been squandering his boxing money on less than manly pursuits, he is forbidden to continue the class. Meanwhile, Mrs. Wilkinson encourages Billy to try out for the Royal Ballet School in London, where he can refine his craft while escaping his oppressive surroundings.

A 22-year-old clerk takes in a day's worth of needy customers at a convenience store in New Jersey.

As assistant to impossibly demanding New York fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (Streep), young Andy Sachs (Hathaway) has landed a job that a million girls would die for. Unfortunately, her heaven-sent appointment as Miranda's personal whipping girl just might be the death of her!

A frustrated record-store manager dreams of owning the business, then an employee gambles away his down payment.

Erin Brockovich
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Erin Brockovich is the true story of a struggling single mom and legal secretary who uses her driving sense of justice, innate smarts and compassion to help win a multibillion dollar lawsuit against a large utilities corporation that was trying to quietly buy back the contaminated land from the neighboring residents.

John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the Great Depression translates beautifully to the big screen with a young Henry Fonda at his best

Filmmaker Barbara Kopple shows Kentucky coal miners brutally opposed in a 1973 strike. Oscar for best documentary.

Sixty-year-old Huw Morgan looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh minig town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of the closely knit Morgans, his devoted parents, while capturing the sentiments and issues of their times.

A scheming executive promotes a mailroom worker to company president in 1950s Manhattan. Directed by Joel Coen.

An industrialist rules a 21st-century city where the rich play above and slaves toil below. Silent. Directed by Fritz Lang.

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. Her concern for the situation gives her the gumption to visiti a labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.

A self-serving boss, petty annoyances and unbroken monotony dishearten a computer programmer and his co-workers. Written and directed by Mike Judge.

Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs and later meets Father Barry, who tries to force Terry to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers.

Chris Gardner is a bright and talented, but marginally employed salesman. Struggling to make ends meet, Gardner finds himself and his five-year-old son evicted from their San Francisco apartment with nowhere to go. When Gardner lands an internship at a prestigious stock brokerage firm, he and his son endure many hardships, including living in shelters, in pursuit of his dream of a better life for the two of them.

Documentary about the growing despair, homelessness and crime in Flint, Michigan, whe than 30,000 autoworkers were left unemployed by the closing of General Motors plants.

Secretary
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An adaptation of a short story by Mary Gatskill, this is a romantic comedy about a twisted S&M relationship between Edward, a lawyer (Spader) and Lee, his assistant (Gyllenhaal). Lee was just recently released from a mental hospital who enjoys taking orders.

An heiress wants a self-made man to run for president with his estranged wife by his side. Directed by Frank Capra.

Taxi Driver
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DeNiro is Travis Bickle, a New York City cab driver whose rage builds in a lonely, dark world, until his attempt to befriend and free Foster's 12-year-old prostitute from her pimp culminates in a violent shoot-out. You talkin' to me?

Sporting billionaire brothers reverse the roles of a Wall Street commodities broker and a street hustler.

Lucy Kelson, is Chief Counsel for one of New York City's top commercial real estate developers. She's a brilliant lawyer with smart mind and an ulcer. Her millionaire boss, George Wade is the reason for her neurotic self. Handsome, charming and undeniably self-absorbed, he treats her more like a nanny than a Harvard Law grad. Now, after five years of calling the shots-on everything from his clothes to his divorce settlements - Lucy is calling it quits.