Lupeni 29
★ 8 · 1963 · Drama
Based on true events. In the Romanian town of Lupeni August 5, 1929, driven to despair by hard labor conditions miners under the leadership of Communists organized a strike. The miners demanded higher wages and an eight-hour workday. They opposed the government's attempts to shift the entire burden of the economic crisis onto the workers' shoulders. The government, concerned about the scale of the strike and the workers' determination not to give in to their demands, ordered troops to shoot at unarmed people. On August 7, the strike was brutally suppressed. Many workers were killed. But these events have forever gone down in the history of the Romanian labor movement as an example of solidarity, heroism and invincibility of the people.
More Like This
Strike
2021 · ★ 1.5
In 1910, women working in the silk industry in Bursa, protest against the working conditions. They go on strike.
More info →
Some Mother's Son
1996 · ★ 6.8
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.
More info →
Strike
1925 · ★ 7.4
Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
More info →
Made in Dagenham
2010 · ★ 6.7
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
More info →
Motel the Operator
1940 · ★ 10
Motel, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by strikebreakers, his wife, Esther, and infant son are left destitute. Desperate to save her starving child, Esther gives him up for adoption to a wealthy couple, and then commits suicide. The richly-rendered beautiful Yiddish songs by Sholem Secunda featuring Cantor Leibele Waldman and Joel Feig's famous choir are a good example of the bittersweet melodrama in the finest tradition of the Yiddish theater.
More info →
This Happy Breed
1944 · ★ 7.1
A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.
More info →
The Organizer
1963 · ★ 7.5
In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory in Turin, Italy.
More info →
The Revolutionary
1970 · ★ 5.3
"A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more radical methods by the older, experienced leftist organizer Despard, "A" unwittingly becomes party to a labor strike that turns violent. Ultimately held responsible by the authorities for the fracas, "A" allies himself with terrorist Leonard, who intends to avenge those jailed in the protest.
More info →
Atlas Shrugged: Part I
2011 · ★ 5.5
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.
More info →
The Valley of Decision
1945 · ★ 7.2
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.
More info →
Lunch Break
2021 · ★ 7
1979. Four female workers have lunch break inside the ladies' room, at a metallurgical factory. Between laughs and scuffles, each one has a secret of their own.
More info →
A Room in Town
1982 · ★ 6.4
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.
More info →