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The Replacements(2000)

PG-13
| 1h 58min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 403 votes)

Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot.

Directed by Howard Deutch - With Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Brooke Langton, Jon Favreau, Orlando Jones, Brett Cullen, ...
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Don Camillo(1952)

1h 47min | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 123 votes)

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.

Directed by Julien Duvivier - With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Vera Talchi, Franco Interlenghi, Saro Urzì, Leda Gloria, ...

Made in Dagenham(2010)

R
| 1h 53min | Comedy, Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 127 votes)

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

Directed by Nigel Cole - With Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson, Rosamund Pike, Andrea Riseborough, Daniel Mays, ...
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Zazie dans le Métro(1960)

1h 33min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 68 votes)

A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle. He and the viewer get more than they bargained for, however, in this anarchic comedy that rides roughshod over the City of Light. Based on a popular novel by Raymond Queneau that had been considered unadaptable, the audacious Zazie dans le Métro, made with flair on the cusp of the French New Wave, is a bit of stream-of-consciousness slapstick, wall-to-wall with visual gags, editing tricks, and effects.

Directed by Louis Malle - With Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Vittorio Caprioli, Jacques Dufilho, Yvonne Clech, Annie Fratellini, ...

The Funeral(1996)

R
| 1h 39min | Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 69 votes)

The story concerns the funeral of one of three brothers in a family of gangsters that lived in New York in 1930s. Details of the past of the brothers and their families are shown through a series of flashbacks.

Directed by Abel Ferrara - With Christopher Walken, Chris Penn, Annabella Sciorra, Isabella Rossellini, Vincent Gallo, Benicio del Toro, ...

Animal Factory(2000)

1h 34min | Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 91 votes)

Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug dealer, he faces a five-year jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unaccustomed to his rough surroundings, Ron is primed to fall victim to sexual predators and bullying guards – that is, until he's befriended by Earl, a veteran inmate who finds meaning in protecting the vulnerable new kid.

Directed by Steve Buscemi - With Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Danny Trejo, John Heard, Mickey Rourke, Tom Arnold, ...
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The Pajama Game(1957)

1h 41min | Comedy, Music
3.2/5 (with 21 votes)

An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.

Directed by George Abbott, Stanley Donen - With Doris Day, Barbara Nichols, Reta Shaw, Jack Straw, Eddie Foy, Jr.

Strike(1925)

1h 29min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 90 votes)

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

Directed by Sergei Eisenstein - With Aleksandr Pavlovich Antonov, Grigori Aleksandrov, Maxim Strauch

Man of Iron(1981)

2h 27min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 28 votes)

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.

Directed by Andrzej Wajda - With Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Bogusław Linda, Artur Barcis, Janusz Gajos, Marian Opania, ...

The Organizer(1963)

2h 10min | Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 44 votes)

The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is sent by (presumably) the Socialists to help them organize their strike and give form to their struggle.

Directed by Mario Monicelli - With Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Gabriella Giorgelli, Folco Lulli, Bernard Blier, ...

Carry On at Your Convenience(1971)

1h 30min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 26 votes)

This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes...

Directed by Gerald Thomas - With Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Bernard Bresslaw, ...
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In Dubious Battle(2016)

R
| 1h 50min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 65 votes)

In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own—stronger than its individual members, and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism—'courage, never submit, or yield'.

Directed by James Franco - With Nat Wolff, Vincent D'Onofrio, Selena Gomez, Robert Duvall, Bryan Cranston, Ed Harris, ...
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Atlas Shrugged: Part I(2011)

PG-13
| 1h 37min | Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery
2.7/5 (with 81 votes)

A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.

Directed by Paul Johansson - With Taylor Schilling, Grant Bowler, Jsu Garcia, Michael Lerner, Paul Johansson, Edi Gathegi, ...
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This Happy Breed(1944)

PG
| 1h 55min | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family, History
3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival.

Directed by David Lean - With Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Stanley Holloway, John Mills, Amy Veness, Alison Leggatt, ...
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Goodbye First Love(2011)

NR
| 1h 48min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 64 votes)

A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.

Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve - With Sebastian Urzendowsky, Lola Créton, Serge Renko, Valérie Bonneton, Özay Fecht
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Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi(2013)

2h 22min | Romance / Love, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 22 votes)

Kasi and Suni are close friends who studied together in an engineering college. Assi, who comes to Kerala to study engineering under the North East quota falls in love with Kasi. Certain incidents that follow set Kasi and Suni on a road trip to Nagaland on two motorcycles. The incidents that happen during this road adventure forms the film.

Directed by Sameer Thahir - With Dulquer Salmaan, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Sunny Wayne

Güeros(2015)

NR
| 1h 46min | Drama, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 54 votes)

Set amidst the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, this coming-of-age tale finds two brothers venturing through the city in a sentimental search for an aging legendary musician. Shot in black-and-white, Güeros brims with youthful exuberance.

Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios - With Ténoch Huerta, Ilse Salas, Leonardo Ortizgris
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Cart(2014)

1h 43min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 15 votes)

In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.

Directed by Boo Ji-young - With Yeom Jeong-a, Moon Jeong-hee, Kim Young-ae, Kim Kang-woo, D.O., Chun Woo-hee, ...

Salt of the Earth(1954)

1h 34min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 35 votes)

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 hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife, Esperanza, with a similar unfairness. When an injunction stops the men from protesting, however, the gender roles are reversed, and women find themselves on the picket lines while the men stay at home.

Directed by Herbert Biberman - With Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer, David Wolfe
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Mutiny on the Buses(1972)

1h 29min | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 24 votes)

Bus driver Stan Butler agrees to marry Suzy, much to the anguish of Mum, her son-in-law, Arthur, and daughter Olive. How, they wonder, will they ever manage without Stan's money coming in? Then Arthur is sacked, and Stan agrees to delay the wedding. Meanwhile, he hits on an idea: Arthur should learn to drive a bus. Somehow he does just that, and even gets a job. Stan then blackmails the Depot Manager into giving him the job of driver on the new money-making Special Tours Bus. A great idea ...if only the inspector hadn't taken Stan on his trial run to the Windsor Safari Park.

Directed by Harry Booth - With Reg Varney, Anna Karen, Michael Robbins, Doris Hare, Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis, ...

A Room in Town(1982)

1h 34min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 32 votes)

Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.

Directed by Jacques Demy - With Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry, Michel Piccoli, Anna Gaylor, Fabienne Guyon, ...

Harlan County U.S.A.(1977)

PG
| 1h 43min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 41 votes)

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA.

Directed by Barbara Kopple - With John O'Leary

The Angry Silence(1960)

NR
| 1h 35min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

A young factory worker stands alone against a proposed strike.

Directed by Guy Green - With Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee, Alfred Burke, Bernard Horsfall, ...
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The Valley of Decision(1945)

NR
| 1h 59min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 10 votes)

Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.

Directed by Tay Garnett - With Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp, Lionel Barrymore, Preston Foster, Marsha Hunt, ...

Tout Va Bien(1972)

1h 35min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 23 votes)

A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin - With Jane Fonda, Yves Montand, Anne Wiazemsky, Éric Charden, Vittorio Caprioli, Ibrahim Seck, ...

Some Mother's Son(1996)

R
| 1h 52min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 17 votes)

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.

Directed by Terry George - With Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David O'Hara, John Lynch, Tom Hollander, ...
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Lady Caliph(1970)

1h 36min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 6 votes)

La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.

Directed by Alberto Bevilacqua - With Romy Schneider, Ugo Tognazzi, Marina Berti, Roberto Bisacco, Gigi Ballista, Guido Alberti, ...

Sunday Too Far Away(1975)

1h 33min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

A hard-drinking but hard-working gun shearer leads a group of Outback sheep herders into striking after wealthy landowners attempt to drive them from their territory.

Directed by Ken Hannam - With Jack Thompson
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Wedding Wars(2006)

1h 28min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 12 votes)

In the midst of organizing his brother Ben's wedding, Shel, a gay party planner, decides to go on strike for equal rights when he learns that Ben is behind a political speech against gay marriage.

Directed by Jim Fall - With John Stamos, Eric Dane, Bonnie Somerville, Sean Maher, James Brolin, Rosemary Dunsmore, ...
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CIA: Comrade In America(2017)

2h 14min | Action, Adventure, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 15 votes)

A young Aji Mathew is a communist who goes the whole nine yards for the ideologies he believes in. When the girl he loves leaves to the US out of the blue and her parents fix her wedding, Aji is left with just a fortnight to reach the country albeit with no passport or visa. How far he is willing to go for love forms the plot.

Directed by Amal Neerad - With Dulquer Salmaan, Sidhique, Chandini Sreedharan, John Vijay, Dileesh Pothan, Soubin Shahir, ...
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