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THEME EXPLORATION

restaurant workers

14 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
A Better Tomorrow II
A Better Tomorrow II
1987 · John Woo
Mobile Men
Mobile Men
2008 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
24 City
24 City
2008 · Jia Zhangke
Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses
2000 · Ken Loach
History Is Made at Night
History Is Made at Night
1937 · Frank Borzage
The Cook
The Cook
1918 · Buster Keaton
The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
1966 · Jean Rouch
Trunk Conveyor
Trunk Conveyor
1954 · Lindsay Anderson
Terence Conran
Terence Conran
1981 · Peter Greenaway
Blood Money
Blood Money
1974 · Antonio Margheriti
Foreign Earth
Foreign Earth
1954 · Sergio Corbucci
The Journey of the Blind Musicians
The Journey of the Blind Musicians
1972 · Nagisa Oshima
Chinese Doctors
Chinese Doctors
2021 · Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
There Is a Japanese Woman in My Room
There Is a Japanese Woman in My Room
2019 · EROPING
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Ken Loach → United Kingdom

A master of social realism who has extensively documented the lives of working-class people including restaurant and hospitality workers in films like 'I, Daniel Blake'.

Hong Sang-soo → South Korea

Repeatedly explores restaurant and bar settings as spaces where human relationships, class dynamics, and service work intersect in films like 'Hahaha' and 'In Another Country'.

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