Most Similar Movies to The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
If you are looking for movies like The Grapes of Wrath (1940), you might like movies tagged with keyword : poverty, social injustice, family struggle, american dream, class conflict, labor exploitation, resilience, solidarity, survival, displacement, economic hardship, injustice, oppression, hope, desperation, social realism, human rights, california, depression era, farmers .
I, Daniel Blake (2016), Heroes for Sale (1933), Wild Boys of the Road (1933), Raining Stones (1993), Nothing But a Man (1964), Sounder (1972), The Holy Innocents (1984) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
I, Daniel Blake (2016)
After having suffered a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight the bureaucratic forces of the system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance.
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Heroes for Sale (1933)
A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.
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Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.
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Raining Stones (1993)
This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic...Read all
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Nothing But a Man (1964)
A black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
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Sounder (1972)
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
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The Holy Innocents (1984)
Members (Alfredo Landa, Francisco Rabal, Terele Pavez) of a poor family obey the whims of the aristocrats they work for in rural 1960s Spain.
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Alambrista (1978)
Struggling to support his family in Mexico, Roberto (Domingo Ambriz), a young Mexican man, illegally crosses the border to the United States in search of work. Exploited by his American employers, Roberto labors in harsh conditions for insufficient wages and fails to make enough money for his family. Continually on the lookout for immigration raids, Roberto has to maintain a constant vigilance as he travels from town to town, searching for employment.
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In Dubious Battle (2016)
An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s.
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Capernaum (2018)
After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
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The Bicycle Thief (1948)
A poor man (Lamberto Maggiorani) and his son (Enzo Staiola) search postwar Rome for the stolen bicycle he needs to work as a bill poster.
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Bitter Rice (1949)
Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.
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The Golden Dream (2013)
A road movie about teenage immigrants and their journey to the U.S.
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Vaya (2016)
Three people board the train bound for Johannesburg. Strangers, each on their own mission, with a simple task to complete and in search of family to help them. But when they are betrayed by the very people whose protection they sought, they find themselves trapped in the city - invisible and alone. Vaya interweaves three separate plots, that intersect and intertwine i...Read all
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Sorry We Missed You (2019)
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.
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Daens (1992)
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 petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Cat...Read all
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The Long Walk Home (1990)
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.
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American Violet (2008)
A single mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused and arrested for dealing drugs in an impoverished town in Texas.
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