Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "strike-breaker"

1. The River (1984)

PG-13 | 124 min | Drama

A farming family battles severe storms, while taking a valiant stand against a bank foreclosure and a powerful land grabber.

Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, Shane Bailey, Becky Jo Lynch

Votes: 7,776 | Gross: $11.49M

2. Made in Dagenham (2010)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, History

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

Director: Nigel Cole | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone

Votes: 16,089 | Gross: $1.09M

3. Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)

PG | 103 min | Documentary

A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.

Director: Barbara Kopple | Stars: John L. Lewis, Carl Horn, Norman Yarborough, Logan Patterson

Votes: 6,654

4. Fury (1936)

Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot

Votes: 13,751

5. Black Fury (1935)

Approved | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

An immigrant coal miner finds himself in the middle of a bitter labor dispute between the workers and the mine owners.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Paul Muni, Karen Morley, William Gargan, Barton MacLane

Votes: 1,069

6. The Valley of Decision (1945)

Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance

An Irish maid falls for the son of her wealthy boss, though their disapproving fathers and a bitter strike at the steel mill complicate matters.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp, Lionel Barrymore

Votes: 2,379

7. The Organizer (1963)

Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, History

A former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile factory.

Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli, Folco Lulli

Votes: 3,301

8. Human Resources (1999)

TV-14 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama

The 35-hour work week has all of France in its thrall. This film turns it into a feature about economic and familial politics. Frank, a business school graduate, returns to his provincial ... See full summary »

Director: Laurent Cantet | Stars: Jalil Lespert, Jean-Claude Vallod, Chantal Barré, Véronique de Pandelaère

Votes: 2,813 | Gross: $0.12M

9. The Railroad Man (1956)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

The railroad engineer Andrea Marcocci has been working with his partner and friend Gigi Liverani for thirty years and feels happy and proud of his work, drinking wine after hours with his ... See full summary »

Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Pietro Germi, Luisa Della Noce, Sylva Koscina, Saro Urzì

Votes: 1,423

10. Bayan Ko (1984)

108 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An apolitical worker in a printing press who works as a scab during a company strike belatedly realizes that everyone is affected by the evils of society.

Director: Lino Brocka | Stars: Phillip Salvador, Gina Alajar, Venchito Galvez, Ariosto Reyes Jr.

Votes: 563

11. Behind the Screen (1916)

TV-G | 30 min | Short, Comedy, Romance

Charlie is an overworked labourer at a film studio who helps a young woman find work even while his coworkers strike against his tyrannical boss.

Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Albert Austin

Votes: 3,038

12. Konets Sankt-Peterburga (1927)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama

A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed man is arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns to rebel.

Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller | Stars: Aleksandr Chistyakov, Vera Baranovskaya, Ivan Chuvelyov, Vladimir Obolensky

Votes: 1,866

13. Alambrista! (1977)

Not Rated | 110 min | Adventure, Drama

After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family back home, he finds that working hard is not enough.

Director: Robert M. Young | Stars: Domingo Ambriz, Trinidad Silva, Linda Gillen, Ned Beatty

Votes: 777

14. Native Land (1942)

Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, History

Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill of rights being under attack during the 1930s by union busting corporations, their spies and contractors. ... See full summary »

Directors: Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand | Stars: Paul Robeson, Fred Johnson, Mary George, John Rennick

Votes: 380

15. Strikebound (1984)

101 min | Drama

The dramatised story of a coal-miners' strike in 1930s Australia, in the small south Gippsland town of Korumburra. The story is told through the struggles of Agnes and Wattie Doig, two Scottish immigrants, who were real people.

Director: Richard Lowenstein | Stars: Chris Haywood, Carol Burns, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rob Steele

Votes: 72

16. If You Were Young: Rage (1970)

89 min | Action, Crime

Riveting story of five kids who come to Tokyo for work in 1960. Fukasaku shows the shocking consequences for these idealistic youths whose dreams are soon torn apart in the chaos of class turmoil and youthful indiscretion.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tetsuo Ishidate, Gin Maeda, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Hideki Hayashi

Votes: 243

17. Deserter (1933)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a picket-line and had ... See full summary »

Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: Boris Livanov, Vasili Kovrigin, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Tamara Makarova

Votes: 320

18. Eila (2003)

94 min | Drama

A cleaning woman decides to sue the state for illegal discharge.

Director: Jarmo Lampela | Stars: Sari Mällinen, Ilkka Koivula, Hannes Suominen, Kristiina Halkola

Votes: 348

19. Our Leading Citizen (1939)

Approved | 89 min | Drama, Romance

Lem Schofield practices law in a formerly small-town that has grown to be an industrialized big city, He bases his ideals on the examples set by Abraham Lincoln and never waivers in them ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Bob Burns, Susan Hayward, Joseph Allen, Elizabeth Patterson

Votes: 68

20. The Price of Power (1916)

Drama

Tired of his wife and factory job, John Belmont runs away to another city, changes his name to John Roberts, and finds an executive position. He soon marries again, buys the factory where ... See full summary »

Stars: Orrin Johnson, Marguerite Marsh, Charles Clary, Gladys Brockwell

21. När ängarna blommar (1946)

77 min | Drama

The farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.

Director: Hampe Faustman | Stars: Sigurd Wallén, Dagny Lind, Birger Malmsten, Ludde Gentzel

Votes: 21

22. The Strike (1904)

5 min | Short, Drama

During a strike, several workers are killed in a confrontation. The wife of one of them kills the factory owner. At her trial, the owner's son asks for mercy, knowing that his father was wrong. Because of that the wife is freed.

Director: Ferdinand Zecca

Votes: 43

23. Hard Time (2008)

Unrated | 6 min | Short, Action, Romance

August Day, a young man imprisoned in a strange futuristic lab, recalls the strange events of his seemingly 150 years of ageless life. He relives the same experiences in different eras of ... See full summary »

Director: Brian Clement | Stars: Matt McLaughlin, Michelle Adams, Robert Nolan, Evan Spergel

Votes: 5

24. West Is West (1920)

Western

Finding himself out of funds, cowboy Dick Rainboldt accepts a job from an employment agency which sends him to the Torpedo mine in San Clemente. En route, he meets Katie Wigfall and is ... See full summary »

Director: Val Paul | Stars: Harry Carey, Charles Le Moyne, Ted Brooks, Ed Lattell

25. Biography (1987– )
Episode: Allan Pinkerton: The Original Private Eye

TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History

Alan Pinkerman was a Scotish immigrant who escaped the slums of Glasgow to found the first, and for a time, the world's most prominent detective agency in the United States. His many ... See full summary »

Stars: Jack Perkins, Allan Pinkerton

26. The Guardian (2001–2004)
Episode: Solidarity (2002)

TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Drama

Nick takes the case of mother Maria, opposing self-supporting model student Dan Braczyk's emancipation request. He hands over the case when he learns of a conflict of interest, as she works... See full summary »

Director: Lou Antonio | Stars: Simon Baker, Alan Rosenberg, Wendy Moniz, Charles Malik Whitfield

Votes: 119

27. Promised Land (2022)
Episode: La Cosecha (The Harvest) (2022)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama

Joe finds himself in a standoff with the union.

Director: Lily Mariye | Stars: John Ortiz, Cecilia Suárez, Augusto Aguilera, Christina Ochoa

Votes: 24

28. Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014)
Episode: Georgia Peaches (2011)

TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama

Jimmy's supporters fail to break up Chalky's strikers and negotiations fail as Margaret thinks she can buy Emily's recovery and Manny Horvitz exacts revenge.

Director: Jeremy Podeswa | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon

Votes: 2,080

29. Ripper Street (2012–2016)
Episode: Tournament of Shadows (2013)

TV-MA | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A Jewish man is murdered, and it soon becomes clear that he had uncovered a complex spy plot involving striking workers and the Russian secret police.

Director: Colm McCarthy | Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, Michael McElhatton

Votes: 557

30. Hell on Wheels (2011–2016)
Episode: Scabs (2012)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Western

After tragedy strikes one of their own, Cullen must diffuse an internal threat to the railroad.

Director: Catherine Hardwicke | Stars: Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Common, Dominique McElligott

Votes: 657

31. Republic of Doyle (2010–2014)
Episode: When the Whistle Blows (2014)

TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

The Doyles work with Jimmy and Wolf to help protect a whistle blower at the docks. Someone from Sloan's past comes back and makes trouble.

Director: Eleanore Lindo | Stars: Allan Hawco, Sean McGinley, Lynda Boyd, Krystin Pellerin

Votes: 56

32. Inspector George Gently (2007–2017)
Episode: Gently and the New Age (2017)

TV-MA | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The Met's new Special Investigations Squad boss asks Gently to investigate high levels of corruption within the force.

Director: Bryn Higgins | Stars: Martin Shaw, Roger Barclay, Damien Matthews, Adam Levy

Votes: 380

33. Machine Gun: History Down the Barrel of a Gun (1999)
Episode: The Gun Comes Home then Goes to War Again (1999)

60 min | Documentary

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