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Movies Like Hard Working Portuguese Girls

If you liked Hard Working Portuguese Girls (2021), a movie, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Advantageous

    Advantageous (2015)

    ★ 6/10

    In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, Jules, do all they can to hold on to their joy, despite the instability surfacing in their world.

  2. 2Sorry We Missed You

    Sorry We Missed You (2019)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of modern-day labour exploitation.

  3. 3Roger & Me

    Roger & Me (1989)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.

  4. 4The Beautiful Game

    The Beautiful Game (2024)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A group of advocates to end homelessness organize an annual tournament for homeless people to compete in a series of football matches known as The Homeless World Cup.

  5. 5L.A. Story

    L.A. Story (1991)

    ★ 6.5/10

    With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.

  6. 6Riff-Raff

    Riff-Raff (1991)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. Working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with…

  7. 7Salt of the Earth

    Salt of the Earth (1954)

    ★ 7/10

    At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a…

  8. 8Dummy

    Dummy (2002)

    ★ 5.9/10

    An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.

  9. 9The Kids Are All Right

    The Kids Are All Right (2010)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers' backs to meet with the donor. Life becomes…

  10. 10My Awkward Sexual Adventure

    My Awkward Sexual Adventure (2012)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A hyper-repressed and schlubby accountant (Jonas Chernick) strikes a deal with a worldly but disorganized stripper (Emily Hampshire): he'll help her with her crushing debt if she helps him become a better lover.

  11. 11Two Weeks Notice

    Two Weeks Notice (2002)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Dedicated environmental lawyer Lucy Kelson goes to work for billionaire George Wade as part of a deal to preserve a community center. Indecisive and weak-willed George grows dependent on Lucy's guidance on everything…

  12. 12Two Moon Junction

    Two Moon Junction (1988)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.

  13. 13The Ladies Man

    The Ladies Man (1961)

    ★ 6.3/10

    After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with…

  14. 14The Knack... and How to Get It

    The Knack... and How to Get It (1965)

    ★ 6/10

    A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up with a new girl in town, as well as a friendly lunatic who can’t help…

  15. 15Dogville

    Dogville (2003)

    ★ 7.7/10

    A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

  16. 16Larry Crowne

    Larry Crowne (2011)

    ★ 6/10

    When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his…

  17. 17Merrily We Live

    Merrily We Live (1938)

    ★ 7/10

    Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of…

  18. 18A Time to Love and a Time to Die

    A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.

  19. 19Bananas

    Bananas (1971)

    ★ 6.7/10

    When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.

  20. 20Idiocracy

    Idiocracy (2006)

    ★ 6.4/10

    To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events…

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