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This paper explores British society of the 1990s through three representative British working class films, Ken Loach’s Raining Stones, Mark Herman’s Brassed Off, and Peter Cattaneo’s The Full Monty. As substantial cultural texts, these films portray the social, political, economic changes British society confronted since Thatcher, whose powerful neo-liberalist policies fundamentally transformed the topography of British society. In the films, the British working class of the 1990s suffers from mass unemployment, destruction of traditional communities, and loss of traditional masculinity of working class males. Above all, these films suggest many agenda British society should face in relation to the formation of the underclass, impaired national identity, and the changing of gender identity after Thatcher’s Britain. This paper analyses the ways these three films represent the crises of individual, community and gender identity in post-industrial British society, and the visions they suggest as the ideologic and cultural reactions to these crises.