20 movies like Strike, ordered by similarity : Saturday Night and Sunday Morning(1960), Bright Future(2003), Black Legion(1937), Human Resources(1999), The Lower Depths(1937), The Organizer(1963), Riffraff(1935), Christmas Incorporated(2015), My Name Is Ivan(1963), L.A. Confidential(1997), They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), Enemy at the Gates(2001) ...
Drama
1924
73 Minutes
Grigori Aleksandrov Maxim Strauch Mikhail Gomorov Aleksandr Antonov Judith Glizer Boris Yurtsev Vladimir Uralsky Vera Yanukova
factory worker boss spy soldier brooding dark striking russia factory protest class distinctions capitalism underdog wretched excess rivalry 1900s
Authorities try to suppress a strike by factory workers in 1912 czarist Russia, with violent results.
Drama
UK
1960
90 Minutes
Albert Finney Rachel Roberts Shirley Anne Field Hylda Baker Norman Rossington Bryan Pringle Robert Cawdron Edna Morris Elsie Wagstaff Frank Pettitt
factory worker pregnant woman dark raw brooding england nottingham, england factory abortion alcoholism infidelity self-destruction love forbidden love wretched excess growing up 1960s
A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.
Drama
Japan
2003
92 Minutes
Jô Odagiri Tadanobu Asano Tatsuya Fuji Takashi Sasano Marumi Shiraishi
factory worker factory director shop owner best friend creative creepy offbeat japan factory apartment shop sewer troubled youth city life father/son relationship murder supernatural underdog wretched excess 2000s
Two young guys work in a plant that manufactures oshibori (those moist hand-towels found in some Japanese restaurants). Their weird bond is based on uncontrollable rage--something neither ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1937
83 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Dick Foran Erin O'Brien-Moore Ann Sheridan Robert Barrat Helen Flint Joe Sawyer Addison Richards Eddie Acuff Clifford Soubier Paul Harvey
factory director immigrant wife best friend factory worker disturbing disheartening intense midwest factory hate group xenophobia immigration lynching secret plans fall wretched excess revenge 1930s
A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Drama
France|UK
1999
103 Minutes
Jalil Lespert Jean-Claude Vallod Chantal Barré Véronique de Pandelaère Michel Begnez Lucien Longueville Danielle Melador Pascal Sémard Didier Emile-Woldermard Francoise Boutigny Felix Cantet
student factory worker father dark emotional paris factory household politics communism courage class distinctions social change teamwork pursuit sacrifice 1990s
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 »
Drama
France
1937
92 Minutes
Jean Gabin Louis Jouvet Jany Holt Suzy Prim Vladimir Sokoloff Junie Astor Robert Le Vigan
landlady landlord sister thief actor baron dark raw brooding russia rooming house poverty abuse murder investigation accidental death affair friendship fall underdog pursuit
A charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief's slum. Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family.
Crime, Drama
USA
1963
126 Minutes
Marcello Mastroianni Renato Salvatori Gabriella Giorgelli Folco Lulli Bernard Blier Raffaella Carrà François Périer Vittorio Sanipoli Mario Pisu Kenneth Kove Annie Girardot
professor factory worker intense spirited turin, italy factory italy social change protest blue collar class distinctions quest transformation 1960s
Travelers in the 1870s Southwest discuss a recent murder trial in which all the principals told differing stories about the events.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
89 Minutes
Jean Harlow Spencer Tracy Una Merkel Joseph Calleia Mickey Rooney Victor Kilian J. Farrell MacDonald Roger Imhof Juanita Quigley Paul Hurst Vince Barnett
fisherman factory worker night watchman union boss sister wife melodramatic fiery bleak coast factory california prison small town house worker's rights marriage thievery pregnancy poverty
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. He quits his poorly paid job to concentrate on getting better working conditions as union leader. Unfortunately, the union members disagree ... See full summary »
Other, Drama, Romance
USA
2015
85 Minutes
Shenae Grimes Steve Lund Ron Lea Hannah Spear Jane Moffat Penny Eizenga Sara Botsford Derry Robinson Katie Boland Neil Whitely Scott Wickware
young man young woman assistant factory owner factory worker love interest charming amusing playful dreamy heartwarming lighthearted factory christmas helping others relationships money business love adventure
Three sisters struggle to find happiness through the holiday season as the youngest sister and bride to be is traumatized when she discovers that her first love has been hired as her wedding photographer.
War, Drama
1963
97 Minutes
Kolya Burlyayev Valentin Zubkov Ye. Zharikov Stepan Krylov Nikolay Grinko Dmitri Milyutenko
nazi russian spy boy orphan captain chilling powerful dark russia prison camp east germany military academy spying war traumatic past murder world war ii prison break transformation revenge
During World War II, a 12-year-old Russian sneaks behind enemy lines to spy on the Germans who killed his parents.
Crime, Drama
USA
1997
136 Minutes
Kevin Spacey Russell Crowe Guy Pearce James Cromwell David Strathairn Kim Basinger Danny DeVito Graham Beckel Simon Baker-Denny Matt McCoy John Mahon
police officer detective journalist mobster prostitute actor dark chilling suspenseful emotional coffee shop police station los angeles government building street big city corruption murder prostitution organized crime
As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
War, Drama
Ireland|UK|France|Germany|USA
2001
131 Minutes
Joseph Fiennes Jude Law Rachel Weisz Bob Hoskins Ed Harris Ron Perlman Gabriel Marshall-Thomson Eva Mattes Matthias Habich Sophie Rois Mikhail Matveev
russian soldier german soldier double agent beautiful woman intense powerful passionate russia battlefield military base war battle of stalingrad rivalry romance betrayal rivalry quest 1940s
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Crime, Drama
Italy
2008
137 Minutes
Salvatore Abruzzese Simone Sacchettino Salvatore Ruocco Vincenzo Fabricino Vincenzo Altamura Italo Renda Gianfelice Imparato Maria Nazionale Salvatore Striano Salvatore Cantalupo Ciro Petrone
teen boy tailor crime boss government official courier engaging powerful intricate naples, italy slum factory beach apartment building campania, italy crime syndicate corruption drug trade weapons mafia rivalry
Scampia Vele is the corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.
Drama
France|Belgium
1999
95 Minutes
Émilie Dequenne Jean-Pierre Dardenne Fabrizio Rongione Anne Yernaux Olivier Gourmet
teen girl mother friend boss dark gritty moving belgium trailer street factory poverty alcoholism friendship mother/daughter relationship employment growing up underdog sacrifice 1990s
Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
Biography, Music, Drama
USA
2015
147 Minutes
O'Shea Jackson Jr. Corey Hawkins Jason Mitchell Neil Brown Jr. Aldis Hodge Marlon Yates Jr. R. Marcos Taylor Alexandra Shipp Paul Giamatti Elena Goode Keith Powers
rapper manager fan rival woman gang member brash brooding intense south central house recording studio street car restaurant gangs hip-hop business friendship rivalry
The rap group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.
Drama
UK|France|Belgium
2019
100 Minutes
Kris Hitchen Debbie Honeywood Rhys Stone Katie Proctor Mark Birch Alfie Dobson Charlie Richmond
entrepreneur employee father wife husband mother child boss bleak brooding dark disheartening emotional gritty melancholy moving profound raw sad solemn
Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation.
Drama
USA
1955
111 Minutes
Jack Palance Ida Lupino Rod Steiger Shelley Winters Wendell Corey Jean Hagen Ilka Chase Everett Sloane Wesley Addy Paul Langton Nick Dennis
actor wife agent tabloid reporter producer gripping frenetic brooding hollywood, calif. movie studio blackmail movies scandal marriage hit and run escape temptation wretched excess rivalry 1950s
Hollywood actor Charles Castle is pressured by his studio boss into a criminal cover-up to protect his valuable career.
War, Biography, Drama, History
UK|USA
2017
125 Minutes
Gary Oldman Kristin Scott Thomas Ben Mendelsohn Lily James Ronald Pickup Stephen Dillane Nicholas Jones Samuel West Richard Lumsden Charley Palmer Rothwell Hannah Steele
winston churchill nazi king soldier politician adolf hitler brooding rousing passionate striking tense spirited london great britain war zone nazi germany government building house of parliament world war ii nazi occupation
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
Drama
Japan
1957
125 Minutes
Toshirô Mifune Isuzu Yamada Kyoko Kagawa Ganjirô Nakamura Minoru Chiaki Kamatari Fujiwara Akemi Negishi Nijiko Kiyokawa Kôji Mitsui Eijiro Tono Haruo Tanaka
landlady thief sister husband actor gambler striking passionate boardinghouse japan infidelity jealousy love triangle sibling rivalry poverty decadence rivalry revenge 19th century
In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
Drama
Belgium|France|Netherlands
1992
134 Minutes
Jan Decleir Gérard Desarthe Antje de Boeck Michael Pas Johan Leysen Idwig Stephane Linda Van Dijck Wim Meuwissen
priest socialist foreman prostitute bishop child dark disheartening belgium village school factory pub worker's rights rape adolf daens child labor catholic church corruption underdog
In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the ... See full summary »