Strike Movies

This was a news film with elements of reenactment. From December 1927 to 1932, 2,000 bus and train drivers were fired, provoking a strike. This film...

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...

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

Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's...

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

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

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...

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

Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, eight unassuming women begin the longest bank strike in American history.

A group of paint worker can’t take their salary from the fabricator and they go on strike.

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...

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

In 1977, the workers of the INAVE vehicle assembly company went on strike. This strike was declared legal, one of the few registered in the country. ...

In 1910, women working in the silk industry in Bursa, protest against the working conditions. They go on strike.

Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.

A main agenda of the prewar farmer's movement was struggle against landowners. Prokino also considered this as their prime concern. The main title...