Movies and TvShows featuring "garment-worker" theme.

In the cutthroat world of the New York City garment industry in 1957, a labor union organizer and a mobster clash as threats and reprisals ensue. Based on true events, this film-noir explores the labor movement and the struggle for power and survival.

A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims.

During a day filled with supernatural occurrences, three seamstresses living on the outskirts of society unveil their darkest secrets.

The single channel video STICK IT combines television footage of women's gymnastics with recordings of the artist attempting the same routines. Merging himself and the young gymnasts of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta into one composite character, he enters an ambivalent position between envy, identification, rejection and critique of these highly controlled bodies and their restricted performative roles. The video follows the preparation and execution of a floor routine, suspending the marginal moment right before the action, encapsulating ambition, the pressure to succeed and the looming possibility of failure.