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51. Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)

R | 128 min | Documentary

Filmmaker Michael Moore examines the current state of American politics, particularly the Donald Trump presidency and gun violence, while highlighting the power of grassroots democratic movements.

Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Jim Acosta, Roger Ailes, Brooke Baldwin, Ashleigh Banfield

Votes: 20,415 | Gross: $6.35M

52. Carry on Cabby (1963)

91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

A taxi company is threatened when an all-female firm sets itself up in business and starts to steal their customers.

Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey

Votes: 3,027

53. The Trotsky (2009)

Not Rated | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

A Montreal high school student who believes he is the reincarnation of Lev Trotskiy starts a revolution against apathy among his fellow students.

Director: Jacob Tierney | Stars: Liane Balaban, Jay Baruchel, Taylor Baruchel, Dan Beirne

Votes: 6,372

54. Carole & Tuesday (2019)

TV-MA | 22 min | Animation, Drama, Music

Two girls, from different backgrounds but sharing a love for music, meet and change history with their united musical talent.

Stars: Miyuri Shimabukuro, Kana Ichinose, Akio Ôtsuka, Celeina Ann

Votes: 2,469

55. Carry on at Your Convenience (1971)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy

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 ... See full summary »

Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims

Votes: 3,559

56. The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)

Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Romance

A tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn

Votes: 4,786

57. Little Accidents (2014)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

In a small American town still living in the shadow of a terrible coal mine accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws together a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy in a web of secrets.

Director: Sara Colangelo | Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Randy Springer, Jacob Lofland, Beau Wright

Votes: 3,852

58. Bread and Roses (2000)

R | 110 min | Drama

Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo, Jack McGee

Votes: 6,086 | Gross: $0.53M

59. Paternity (1981)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

A single man searches for a woman who will bear his baby with no strings attached.

Director: David Steinberg | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Beverly D'Angelo, Norman Fell, Paul Dooley

Votes: 1,112 | Gross: $18.84M

60. Germinal (1993)

R | 160 min | Drama, Romance

In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.

Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Renaud, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet

Votes: 5,755 | Gross: $0.38M

61. Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)

PG | 114 min | Drama, Sport

A little league player named Chuck refuses to ever pitch again until nuclear weapons are disarmed. Basketball star "Amazing Grace" Smith follows the boy's example, and starts a trend.

Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Gregory Peck, Dean Alexander, Jim Allen

Votes: 1,538

62. Adalen 31 (1969)

X | 115 min | Drama, History, Romance

During a strike strike-breakers are being transported to Lunde, where they are assaulted by the strikers. The military are sent in. On the 14th May 1931 there is a confrontation between ... See full summary »

Director: Bo Widerberg | Stars: Peter Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius, Roland Hedlund, Stefan Feierbach

Votes: 1,755

63. Cesar Chavez (2014)

PG-13 | 102 min | Biography, Drama

A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez.

Director: Diego Luna | Stars: Michael Peña, America Ferrera, Rosario Dawson, John Malkovich

Votes: 3,625 | Gross: $5.55M

64. 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: 2,377

65. I'm All Right Jack (1959)

Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy

A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.

Director: John Boulting | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough

Votes: 4,375

66. Paskal (2018)

TV-14 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A story of true piracy based on an elite unit of the Royal Malaysian Navy's mission.

Director: Adrian Teh | Stars: Hairul Azreen, Ammar Alfian, Henley Hii, Taufiq Hanafi

Votes: 3,268

67. Act of Vengeance (1986 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 95 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.

Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Charles Bronson, Ellen Burstyn, Wilford Brimley, Hoyt Axton

Votes: 818

68. Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant (2015)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A self-anointed 'renegade' male flight attendant must save the day when the airline he works for tries to eliminate flight attendants as a cost-cutting measure.

Director: Sam Friedlander | Stars: Mark Feuerstein, Jessica Lowndes, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Fitzgerald

Votes: 1,567

69. Namak Haraam (1973)

Not Rated | 146 min | Drama

Somnath (Somu) lives in a shanty house in a Delhi slum with his widowed mom, and unmarried sister, Sarla. He is friendly with Calcutta-based wealthy Vikram (Vicky) Maharaj. When Vicky's dad... See full summary »

Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Simi Garewal, Rekha

Votes: 1,806

70. Pitfall (1962)

Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano, Hideo Kanze

Votes: 4,334

71. I Witness (2003)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After 27 bodies are discovered in a collapsed tunnel in Tijuana, a man tries to unravel the mystery before becoming the next victim.

Director: Rowdy Herrington | Stars: Jeff Daniels, James Spader, Portia de Rossi, Clifton Collins Jr.

Votes: 1,584

72. Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)

GP | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

In 1920s Boston, Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are scrutinized for their anarchist beliefs while on trial for robbery and murder.

Director: Giuliano Montaldo | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack, Rosanna Fratello

Votes: 3,735 | Gross: $0.19M

73. The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay city supervisor.

Director: Rob Epstein | Stars: Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg, Tory Hartmann

Votes: 6,589 | Gross: $0.01M

74. Cairo Station (1958)

Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama

A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Hind Rustum, Youssef Chahine, Hassan el Baroudi

Votes: 5,372

75. No God, No Master (2013)

PG-13 | 94 min | Crime, Drama, History

When a series of package bombs shows up on the doorsteps of prominent politicians and businessmen in the summer of 1919, U.S. Bureau of Investigation Agent William Flynn (Strathairn) is ... See full summary »

Director: Terry Green | Stars: David Strathairn, Ray Wise, Sam Witwer, Alessandro Mario

Votes: 968 | Gross: $0.01M

76. All's Well (1972)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama

Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.

Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin | Stars: Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli, Elizabeth Chauvin

Votes: 3,901

77. Harlan County War (2000 TV Movie)

104 min | Drama

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 lines for a long, violent strike.

Director: Tony Bill | Stars: Holly Hunter, Stellan Skarsgård, Ted Levine, Wayne Robson

Votes: 621

78. At War (2018)

113 min | Drama

After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.

Director: Stéphane Brizé | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Mélanie Rover, Jacques Borderie, David Rey

Votes: 2,179 | Gross: $0.00M

79. The Garment Jungle (1957)

Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The struggle of a lady's garment workers' organization to unionize a New York clothing sweat shop; the owner of which is determined to keep the union out of his business at any cost.

Directors: Vincent Sherman, Robert Aldrich | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala, Richard Boone

Votes: 1,226

80. The Spirit of '45 (2013)

94 min | Documentary, History

A documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Eileen Thompson, Julian Tudor Hart, Dai Walters, Sam Watts

Votes: 1,311

81. The Seafarers (1953)

Not Rated | 29 min | Documentary, Short

Stanley Kubrick's first film made in color, lost for over forty years. The documentary extols the benefits of membership to the Seafarers International Union.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Don Hollenbeck, Paul Hall

Votes: 3,253

82. American Dream (1990)

PG-13 | 98 min | Documentary

Recounts the 1985-86 strike against the Hormel Foods Corporation in Minnesota after its employees' wages and benefits were cut.

Directors: Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke, Lawrence Silk | Stars: Lewie Anderson, R.J. Bergstrom, Ron Bergstrom, Wayne Goodnature

Votes: 1,016 | Gross: $0.27M

83. The Last Outpost (1951)

Approved | 89 min | Drama, Western

Despite their fighting on opposite sides during the Civil War, brothers Vance and Jeb Britton have to set their differences aside in order to survive an Indian attack.

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Bruce Bennett, Bill Williams

Votes: 637

84. Man of Iron (1981)

PG | 156 min | Drama, History

A few years after the events of Man of Marble (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut's son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.

Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania, Wieslawa Kosmalska

Votes: 3,803

85. The Great Postal Heist (2022)

Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary

The Great Postal Heist follows director Jay Galione's father, a 30-year US Post Office clerk, who was harassed, threatened, and fired for standing up for his colleagues. A moving indictment... See full summary »

Director: Jay Galione | Stars: Jay Galione, Robert Galione, Wayne Barr, Audrey Davis

Votes: 46

86. My Wife Went Crazy (1966)

92 min | Comedy, Romance

Anna thinks up a clever plan to bring her husband Manos on track. Having discovered that he is cheating on her, she decides to pay him back in the same coin.

Director: Dimitris Nikolaidis | Stars: Mary Aroni, Labros Konstadaras, Giannis Vogiatzis, Melpo Zarokosta

Votes: 299

87. Rebellion in Patagonia (1974)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, History, Western

In 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions. The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored.

Director: Héctor Olivera | Stars: Pedro Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni, Franklin Caicedo

Votes: 1,292

88. The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story (1994 TV Movie)

R | 123 min | Biography, Drama

Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers who want to cut down their part of the rainforest for a new road and ... See full summary »

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Raul Julia, Carmen Argenziano, Sonia Braga, Kamala Lopez

Votes: 757

89. Never Steal Anything Small (1959)

Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Jake MacIllaney will do just about anything to win the presidential election of longshoreman union Local 26. When he encounters young upright attorney Dan Cabot and Cabot's attractive wife,... See full summary »

Director: Charles Lederer | Stars: James Cagney, Shirley Jones, Roger Smith, Cara Williams

Votes: 365

90. Sister Stella L. (1984)

103 min | Drama

A nun becomes involved in an on-going labor strike. She starts out non-politicized, but later learns about the plight of the simple working man and inevitably, the government's neglect of the poor masses. Filipino Tagalog movie.

Director: Mike De Leon | Stars: Vilma Santos, Jay Ilagan, Gina Alajar, Laurice Guillen

Votes: 134

91. Bordello (1985)

130 min | Drama, History

In 1897 Crete, as the armies of the Great Powers jockey for position, the French madam, Rosa Bonaparte, arrives in Chania escorted by twelve of her girls to start a brothel. All that she wants is a peaceful life. Will her dream come true?

Director: Nikos Koundouros | Stars: Marina Vlady, Eleonora Stathopoulou, Vasilis Laggos, Aris Retsos

Votes: 143

92. Breaking Social (2023)

93 min | Documentary

Examines turning points that make people want to organise and protest such as the assassination of an investigative journalist in Malta and a dried up river in Chile.

Director: Fredrik Gertten | Stars: Rutger Bregman, Gerald Bryson, Sarah Chayes, Pasquale Cioffi

Votes: 158

93. The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams (2005)

R | 96 min | Action, Biography, Drama

Robert Adams was a valorous southern Captain who used his heart of fire to rally his men to fight. He fell in love with Eveline, a smart, kind and strong willed school teacher from the north. As they met, the Civil War was upon them.

Directors: Julian Adams, A. Blaine Miller | Stars: Julian Adams, Gwendolyn Edwards, Eric Holloway, Amy Redford

Votes: 511

94. Give 'em Hell, Harry! (1975)

PG | 104 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

One-man show about the presidency of Harry S. Truman.

Directors: Steve Binder, Peter H. Hunt | Star: James Whitmore

Votes: 578 | Gross: $11.00M

95. Dolores (I) (2017)

Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, Biography, History

In the 1950's, a working-class wife and mother of eleven children helps to establish a farmer's union, which later develops into a platform for feminism and gender equality.

Director: Peter Bratt | Stars: Dolores Huerta, Martin Luther King, Luis Valdez, Ricardo S. Chavez

Votes: 376 | Gross: $0.56M

96. The Red Man's View

137 min | Action, Adventure, Drama | Pre-production

A film about a Shoshone band who lived in a secluded valley in the 1860's, during the time of the last 'Free' roaming Native Americans in the midst of the American Civil War. They are discovered by a group of Union soldiers and squatters, and forced to move from their home. They are moved from valley to valley as the Union takes more and more of their land in a plan to eradicate the country of '... See full summary »

Director: Thomas R. Bond II | Stars: Zahn McClarnon, Booboo Stewart, Crystle Lightning, Daniel Baldwin

97. El barrendero (1982)

113 min | Comedy, Drama

A humble street sweeper is the sole witness of a crime committed by art thieves.

Director: Miguel M. Delgado | Stars: Cantinflas, María Sorté, Ursula Prats, Elena Silva

Votes: 678

98. The Awful Truth (1999–2000)

30 min | Documentary

Activist film director Michael Moore hosts a show where he continues his crusade to expose wrongdoing by the high and mighty.

Stars: Michael Moore, Jay Martel, Gideon Evans, Karen Duffy

Votes: 2,260

99. Loan Shark (1952)

Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

At the request of factory owners and union leaders, a tough ex-con infiltrates a gang of loan sharks who are preying on financially desperate factory workers.

Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: George Raft, Dorothy Hart, Paul Stewart, John Hoyt

Votes: 775

100. Cart (2014)

110 min | Drama

The employees of a big-box discount retailer band together when the contract workers are summarily laid off.

Director: Ji-young Boo | Stars: Yum Jung-ah, Moon Jeong-Hee, Kim Yeong-ae, Do Kyung-soo

Votes: 1,145