Strike Movies

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

At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts....

In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile...

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.

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...

At WC Boggs' Lavatory factory, Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat. However, eventually everyone gets fed...

When 90% of Iceland’s women walked off the job and out of their homes one morning in 1975, they brought their country to its knees and...

The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his...

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...

A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.

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

A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket...

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

After years of making sure everything is perfect for her family, Joy Robertson is saying “enough,” and decides to go on strike for the...

A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he is already married.

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...

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

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly...

Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune...

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.