Movies and TvShows featuring "laundry-worker" theme.

Ruby, a young woman, moves to a resort town in Florida and encounters various people while trying to find her place in life.

Heroes for Sale is a pre-code film that follows the life of a war hero turned bank clerk who faces various challenges during the great depression. It highlights the struggles of the protagonist as he navigates through societal and personal tragedies, unrequited love, and the harsh realities of war and political criticism.

A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.

A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.

Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.

Saddled with a slavish, boring laundry job and no social life whatsoever, Kikuchi rarely leaves his bare apartment except to follow home and spy on a supermarket check-out girl. But there's no one he can tell about his secret passion, least of all his gawping, work-shy colleague. Even a stray kitten can't alleviate Kikuchi's frustration; clearly, something's got to give... This first film by a former manga illustrator, a terse and enigmatic blend of black comedy and psychodrama, has been compared to both Eraserhead and Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman; another point of reference might be the slow, deceptively banal domestic dramas of Ozu, with whom Iwamoto shares a penchant for a mostly static camera, simple compositions, and an eye for the absurd details of everyday life.