Anbe Sivam (2003), Modern Times (1936), The Battle of Algiers (1966), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916), How Green Was My Valley (1941), Billy Elliot (2000), 1900 (1976) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Strike movies.
Storyline: Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by The Beatles that defined the time.
Plot Keywords: song, title directed by female, pantyhose, female stockinged legs, black pantyhose, vietnam war, near death experience ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson, Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, signing first Joy Division (who go on to become New Order) then James and the Happy Mondays, who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda - a mecca for clubbers as famous as the likes of Studio 54. Graphically depicting the music and dance heritage of Manchester from the late 70's to the early 90's, this comedy documents the vibrancy that made Mad-chester the place in the world that you would most like to be.
Plot Keywords: kidnapping, dancer, female frontal nudity, fellatio, death, blow job, drug abuse ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1980. In a little town close to Coto of Doñana (Andalusia, south to Spain), two teen girls have disappeared. The father of one of the girls, who have connections with important people in the forces of the law, gets that two police detectives of homicides from Madrid are assigned to the mission to find the girls if they are alive, or find the assassin if they appear died. The detectives are Pedro Suárez and Juan Robles. While that Suárez is a young, taciturn and circumspect agent in a Spain that it tries to find a new identity as democratic country after General Franco's death in 1975, Robles is a veteran, funny and expeditious agent, with a mysterious past as alleged member of Franco's Armed Police dismantled in 1978. Unable to reconcile one with each other, Suárez and Robles find trapped by the hostile environment of a place where the old Franco's methods and customs still alive, and where they two aren't welcome. When the girls appears died, the following investigation move the cops...
Plot Keywords: poacher, eye witness, citroen, torture, violence against women, nude photograph, death of daughter ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Biopic of Abe Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, from his early days in backwoods Kentucky to his election as President. After a time running livestock to New Orleans, he settles in New Salem where he meets and falls in love with Ann Rutledge who is already engaged to someone. Abe makes a home for himself in New Salem, eventually running a store and becoming the postmaster. He's popular with the locals and is eventually elected to the State legislature but afterward established himself in the practice of law. He eventually meets Mary Todd who would become his wife and and is sent to Washington as a Congressman before he is elected president.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: american president, speech, job, love at first sight, fiancee, injustice, freedom ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A women lives a miserable life in the basement of her Milan apartment, with her boring inlaws and three children (boys). Her husband has been injured. Her bleak life takes an unexpected turn when she is diagnosed with tuberculosis and has to go to a sanatorium in the Italian Alps. At the medical clinic in Milan she meets young mechanic with the similar health problems. At the sanatorium she meets again the same man and they start a passionate love affair. All good things must come to an end. When she is cured, she has to return to that rathole from which she only briefly emerged.—marty gottlieb <anangke@erols.com>, prokurator@gmail.com
Plot Keywords: locker room, friendship, food, fog, flashlight, fever, female nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: bartender, cigarette smoking, classroom, class, coffin, conspiracy, courage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent his childhood there. Despite this, we see the life of the community in all its joys and sorrows, of those that live there while others decide to leave for a better life north. For those remaining, things come to a serious situation when one prominent businessman is being muscled out by a white competitor using racist intimidation. In response, the community must make the decision of whether to submit meekly like they always have, or finally fight for their rights.—Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
Plot Keywords: segregation, based on book, coming of age, racism, mississippi, prejudice, race relations ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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 hometown to take a management position in the factory where his father has been working for 30 years. First Frank makes the mistake of actually asking the workers on the assembly line for their opinions. Then upper management manipulates his findings to lay off employees. This creates a huge rift, not only between labor and management, but between father and son. A human morality tale that evokes paternal and filial love, and illustrates the personal risk behind political ideas.—NDNF
Plot Keywords: fight, loan, children, shame, negotiation, suspicion, bullet proof vest ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The relationship between a father and daughter is complicated by the arrival of a handsome young man.
Plot Keywords: tow truck, car breakdown, rain, classmate classmate relationship, concert, ironing, aunt nephew relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Switzerland, 1971: Nora is a young housewife and mother who lives with her husband, their two sons and her father-in-law in a little village. Here, in the Swiss countryside, little or nothing is felt of the huge social upheavals that the movement of May 1968 has caused. Nora's life, too, has been unaffected; she is a retiring, quiet person, well liked by everyone - until she begins to campaign publicly and pugnaciously for women's right to vote, an issue that will be put before the male voters on February 7th, 1971.
Plot Keywords: triple f rated, feminism, f rated, porn magazine, grandfather, farm, snow ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ricky is released from a mental hospital, and knows exactly what he wants to do. He hunts down Marina, a porn film star he once had sex with, and tries to convince her to be his wife. She is a bit reluctant, so he ties her up. Will this approach endear him to her?
Plot Keywords: handcuffs, bound and gagged, female masturbation, tied to a bed, lust, misogynist, tied up while barefoot ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Davey Fenwick (Sir Michael Redgrave) leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny (Margaret Lockwood) who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree. Davey finds he is ill-at-ease in his role, the more so when he realizes Jenny still loves her former boyfriend. When he finds that his father and the other miners are going to have to continue working on a possibly deadly coal seam he decides to act.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: miner, coal mine, college, teacher, cave in, england, education ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a depressing concrete Parisian suburb in the seventies two friends are keeping boredom at bay with loitering and petty crime.
Plot Keywords: prostitution, unemployment, single mother, racism, racial slur, looking for a job, paris metro ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A whimsical comedy about three women who cry at funerals, professionally.
Plot Keywords: microphone, strike, demonstration, audio flashback, death of husband, eating, food ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young woman with a strong-willed father and a Jew-hating brother. The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant, but only then does she learn of his ethnic background. When anti-Jewish riots break out, the two are forced to flee and become separated.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: male female relationship, fight, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, family relationships, explosion, drunkenness ...
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