Movies and TvShows featuring "meatpacking" theme.

In 'Prime Cut,' a mob enforcer, played by Gene Hackman, is sent to a small community to collect a debt. However, he discovers a corrupt meat-processing factory involved in white slavery. Seeking revenge, he teams up with an old flame and battles the Irish-American gangsters involved.

Fast Food Nation is a satirical comedy that reveals the dark side of the fast food industry, exploring themes such as American culture, capitalism, and the unhealthy and unethical practices of the industry. The plot follows various characters as they navigate through the impacts of fast food on society, including greed, cruelty, and environmental issues.

A crumbling pier, its walls covered with graffiti and erotic frescoes reminiscent of pagan Pompeii, the locus of the seduction rituals of men longing for men, is the focus of this meditation on gay cruising at the height of sexual freedom before AIDS. Shot in 1982, this is the first segment of a film capturing the life, death, and rebirth of the legendary “sex piers” over the last three decades.

Tropic of Cancer is a thrilling movie set in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The story revolves around a doctor who finds himself tangled in a web of murder, voodoo rituals, and a Lynch mob. As he unravels the truth, he discovers the dark secrets of a peacock-spider cocktail and an actual animal sacrifice at a voodoo ceremony. With a captivating plot, Tropic of Cancer explores themes of sexuality, crime, and the meat industry in an exotic and dangerous setting.

In a small town, a series of brutal murders shocks the community. As the body count rises, the police struggle to catch the mysterious killer. With no leads and a frightened town, they must unravel the dark secrets hidden within the community before it's too late.

Over the course of a decade Brooks, Alberta, transformed from a socially conservative, primarily white town to one of the most diverse places in Canada as immigrants and refugees flocked to find jobs at the Lakeside Packers slaughterhouse. This film is a portrait of those people working together and adapting to change through the first-ever strike at Lakeside.

American Dream (1990) is a documentary that explores the challenges faced by the working class and labor unions. It showcases the frustrations, anger, and struggles of the workers as they fight for their rights and better working conditions. The film delves into themes of inequality, greed, and the impact of corporate decisions on the lives of ordinary people. Through interviews, secret meetings, and television reports, the documentary sheds light on the complexities of the labor movement and the hardships faced by those involved.

A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.

Lithuanian immigrant, Jurgis Rudkus, gains a job in the Chicago stockyards. Once working at the stockyards he meets and marries Ona. But due to cut backs at the stockyards, loses his job, and they fall into financial hardship. Ona, in order to get money to feed their child, engages in sexual activity with her husband's foreman, Connor. Connor, rapes her. When Rudkus finds out about the affair, he throws Connor into a cattle pen where he is killed. While in prison Ona dies. When Rudkus gets out of prison he becomes an advocate for women via the Socialist Party. Considered a lost film.

"A family of Polish immigrants has a difficult time adjusting to life in the United States. The story centers on the son, named Janek, who has trouble fitting in at school and with his family."

A short story of paralysis and waste set in Colfax, Louisiana.

At the end of the 19th century, Chicago completely transformed the way Americans eat, and the Union Stockyards on the South Side were the center of that revolution. Experience the sights, sounds, and awful smells of the Union Stockyards and the complex of meat factories next to it, known as Packingtown. (Part of the Chicago Stories series on PBS)