Here we've displayed a list of the best Hunger Strike films : Hunger(2008), Some Mother's Son(1996), Food Chains(2014), Prison on Fire(1988), The Round Up(2010), Prison on Fire(1988) ... ...
Drama, History
Ireland|UK
2008
92 Minutes
Michael Fassbender Liam Cunningham Stuart Graham Brian Milligan Liam McMahon Helena Bereen Laine Megaw Lalor Roddy
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Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.
Drama
Ireland|USA
1996
112 Minutes
Helen Mirren Fionnula Flanagan Aidan Gillen David O'Hara John Lynch Tim Woodward Tom Hollander Ciarán Hinds Gerard McSorley Geraldine O'Rawe Dan Gordon
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The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
Documentary
USA
2014
82 Minutes
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There is so much interest in food these days yet there is almost no interest in the hands that pick that food. In the US, farm labor has always been one of the most difficult and poorly ... See full summary »
Action
1988
98 Minutes
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Sentenced to two years for accidentally killing a robber, a man (Tony Leung Ka Fai) befriends another prisoner (Chow Yun-Fat) who helps protect him.
Drama, History
2010
115 Minutes
Jean Reno Mélanie Laurent Gad Elmaleh Sylvie Testud Anne Brochet Raphaëlle Agogué Hugo Leverdez Joseph Weismann Oliver Cywie Mathieu Di Concerto Romain Di Concerto
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During World War II, France's Vichy government takes part in the collection of 13,000 French Jews and holds them in various venues, including an indoor cycling stadium, before shipping them off to their deaths.
Action
1988
98 Minutes
advertising executive prisoner prison guard gangster father bully powerful striking passionate tense hong kong prison cell prison life male bonding organized crime hong kong society hunger strike underdog transformation
Sentenced to two years for accidentally killing a robber, a man (Tony Leung Ka Fai) befriends another prisoner (Chow Yun-Fat) who helps protect him.