Abstract: The aim of this brief overview is to investigate representations of the worker and the working class in Brazilian cinema. Three feature-length fiction films in particular will emerge as key texts in this analysis: Luís Sérgio Person's São Paulo S.A. (1965), Leon Hirszman's They Don't Wear Black-Tie (Eles Não Usam Black-Tie, 1981), and Beto Brant's The Trespasser (O Invasor, 2001). These films provide useful paradigms for our analysis of possible ruptures and continuities in terms of a film production with a focus on work. Contemporary cinema will also be examined in order to discuss the role of the worker as a constant "intruder." As a whole, this study seeks to demonstrate that the worker, the working class, and labor issues have emerged as recurring motifs that lurk beneath a number of film narratives, even though in an oblique or collateral way Ver menos