IMDb
6.7 /10
75 votes

Drama · 2014 · 1h 28min
An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a decorated police officer yet he barely earns a living. His new assignment to deport African migrant workers teaches him that foreigners aren’t the only ones with no future in his country. Other plotlines intertwine with Meir’s story: an Israeli-Filipino boy fighting for recognition; a taxi driver whose children are migrating to a distant country; and a veteran migrant worker who’s forced to decide whether to leave or to hide until trouble passes.
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IMDb
6.7 /10
75 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
The tomato isn't ripe
Metacritic took the day off
TMDB
7.0 /10
6 votes
Letterboxd
6.5 /10
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Weighted average
6.7/10