Most Similar Movies to Salt of the Earth (1954)


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Made in Dagenham (2010), American Violet (2008), The Cool World (1964), A Regular Woman (2019), The Exiles (1961), The Organizer (1963), Drum (2004) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

Made in Dagenham (2010)

Made in Dagenham (2010)

7.2/10 Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

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American Violet (2008)

American Violet (2008)

7.0/10 Drama

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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The Cool World (1964)

The Cool World (1964)

6.6/10 Drama

A look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society.

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A Regular Woman (2019)

A Regular Woman (2019)

9.4/10 Drama

A German woman of Turkish descent struggles to achieve the life she wants. Faced by opposition and threats from her family, she leaves.

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The Exiles (1961)

The Exiles (1961)

8.9/10 Drama

In a Native American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Homer (Homer Nish) lives with his pregnant wife, Yvonne (Yvonne Williams), in a crowded apartment. While Homer goes drinking with his friend Tommy (Tom Reynolds), Yvonne is left at a movie by herself. As the men get progressively drunker, Yvonne realizes her husband is not coming home. Meanwhile, Homer and Tommy wander through the nighttime city, looking for fights, playing poker and discussing their problems as Native Americans.

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The Organizer (1963)

The Organizer (1963)

8.8/10 Drama, Crime

A political refugee (Marcello Mastroianni) visiting an Italian friend in 19th-century Turin leads a strike and helps form a labor union.

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Drum (2004)

Drum (2004)

8.6/10 Mystery, Drama, Thriller

In 1950s Johannesburg, black South African reporter Henry Nxumalo (Taye Diggs) uncovers an explosive story.

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The County (2019)

The County (2019)

7.7/10 Other, Drama, Romance

The rise and fall of the circus experience. The story of the circus as an American experiment and entertainment. The story of those who brought it to life.

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Cairo 678 (2010)

Cairo 678 (2010)

7.5/10 Drama

Unfolds the poignant story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of sexual harassment in Egypt.

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John and the Missus (1987)

John and the Missus (1987)

7.4/10 Drama

A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government.

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North Country (2005)

North Country (2005)

7.3/10 Drama

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States, Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.

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Killer of Sheep (1977)

Killer of Sheep (1977)

7.3/10 Drama

Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.

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Where the Spirit Lives (1989)

Where the Spirit Lives (1989)

7.1/10 Drama

A young Native Canadian (First Nations person) fights to keep her culture and identity when she is abducted to a residential school.

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Bread and Roses (2000)

Bread and Roses (2000)

7.0/10 Drama

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

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Rosa Luxemburg (1986)

Rosa Luxemburg (1986)

6.9/10 Biography, Drama

After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

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The Proud Valley (1940)

The Proud Valley (1940)

6.7/10 Drama

In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.

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Storm Center (1956)

Storm Center (1956)

6.7/10 Drama

During the 1950s, a small-town librarian is shunned by the locals after she refuses the City Council's request to remove a book on Communism from the library's shelves.

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Bamako (2006)

Bamako (2006)

6.7/10 Drama

Bamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up... In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa's woes... Amidst the pleas and the testimonies, ...Read all

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