Highest-Rated Movies about 'Struggle'

A Quiet Place Part II (2021), Pather Panchali (1955), Z (1969), Black (2005), The Miracle Worker (1962), The Big Heat (1953), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), The Work Wife (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Struggle movies.

#16. Viva Zapata! (1952)

Storyline: In 1909, Emiliano Zapata, a well-born but penniless Mexican Mestizo from the southern state of Morelos, comes to Mexico City to complain that their arable land has been enclosed, leaving them only in the barren hills. His expressed dissatisfaction with the response of the President Diaz puts him in danger, and when he rashly rescues a prisoner from the local militia he becomes an outlaw. Urged on by a strolling intellectual, Fernando, he supports the exiled Don Francisco Madero against Diaz, and becomes the leader of his forces in the South as Francisco 'Pancho' Villa is in the North. Diaz flees, and Madero takes his place; but he is a puppet president, in the hands of the leader of the army, Huerta, who has him assassinated when he tries to express solidarity for the men who fought for him. Zapata and Villa return to arms, and, successful in victory, seek to find a leader for the country. Unwillingly, Zapata takes the job, but, a while later, he responds to some petitioners from his own village with no more reassurance than had Diaz years before. Realizing that with power his idealism has gone, he returns with them to Morelos - specifically to investigate their complaints against his brother Eufemio. New leaders take his place, and, egged on by the always surviving Fernando, they decide that Zapata is a threat to their regime.—alfiehitchie

Plot Keywords: mexican revolution, based on true story, warrior, revolt, machine gun, bolt action rifle, winchester rifle ...

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#17. Death and the Maiden (1994)

Storyline: Paulina Escobar is a political activist whose husband is a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country just out of a dictatorship. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the neighbor (Dr. Miranda) was part of the old fascist regime that tortured and raped her, while blindfolded. Paulina takes him captive to determine the truth. Paulina is torn between her psychological repressions and somber memory, Gerardo is torn between his wife and the law, and Dr. Miranda is forced to endure captivity while husband and wife seek out the uncertain truth about the clouded past.

Plot Keywords: suspense, minimal cast, single set production, torture, knife, panic, delusion ...

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#18. Reds (1981)

Storyline: American journalist John Reed journeys to Russia to document the Bolshevik Revolution and returns a revolutionary. His fervor for left-wing politics leads him to Louise Bryant, then married, who will become a feminist icon and activist. Politics at home become more complicated as the rift grows between reality and Reed's ideals. Bryant takes up with a cynical playwright, and Reed returns to Russia, where his health declines.

Plot Keywords: year 1917, russian revolution, revolutionary, communism, american abroad, bolshevik, jail ...

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#19. Sleeper (1973)

Storyline: Miles, a nebbishy clarinet player who also runs a health food store in NYC's Greenwich Village, is cryogenically frozen, and brought back - 200 years in the future, by anti-government radicals in order to assist them in their attempt to overthrow the oppressive government. When he goes off on his own, he begins to explore this brave new world, which has Orgasmatron booths to replace sex and confessional robots.

Plot Keywords: dystopia, android, chase, conformity, death, dictator, disguise ...

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#22. Hard Candy (2005)

Storyline: After having online chat room chats for three weeks, "Thonggrrrl14" convinces "Lensman319" to meet in person in a public place, they being up front that they are a fourteen year old girl and thirty-two year old man respectively. They are indeed precocious fourteen year old Hayley Stark and thirty-two year old photographer Jeff Kohlver. Their interactions, including their meeting, are laced with indirect sexual innuendo, most specifically on Hayley's part, although Jeff is clear also in an indirect manner that he does not have sex with minors. Regardless, Hayley is further able to convince Jeff to continue their face-to-face at his place. There, both Hayley and Jeff's true intentions come to light, their meeting which was no accident on either side, and the intentions which may be incompatible and have serious and deadly consequences.

Plot Keywords: pedophilia, manipulation, missing person poster, sexual predator, online dating, suicide, sociopath ...

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#23. Parenthood (1989)

Storyline: The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.

Plot Keywords: dysfunctional family, black comedy, biracial, vibrator, teenage girl, teenage boy, talking while driving ...

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#24. The Little Thief (1989)

Storyline: A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.—Morganalee

Plot Keywords: 1950s, card playing, catholic, church, cigarette smoking, commitment, confessional ...

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#25. Fashion (2008)

Storyline: Set against the glittering backdrop of the glamorous but ruthless world of haute couture fashion, this is the story of a small town girl with big dreams. Meghna always knew she was meant to be famous, but she was about to find out the hard way that success came at a price. Fashion is the tale of what happens when the price of success becomes too much to pay

Plot Keywords: abortion, drug addict, drug overdose, drunkenness, fashion designer, fashion model, fashion show ...

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#26. Intacto (2001)

Storyline: An enigmatic tale of four incredibly lucky people whose lives are intertwined by destiny are subject to the laws of fate. They discover that they cannot afford to be without luck as they gamble with the highest stakes possible in a deadly game.

Plot Keywords: supernatural power, luck, sole survivor, surprise ending, murder, telephone call, pay phone ...

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#27. Frantic (1988)

Storyline: A doctor and his wife go to Paris for a medical conference. While showering, his wife disappears. His lack of language, and the odd way she disappeared makes it nearly impossible for him to find any official help in his search as he enters the punk/drug culture to find out what has happened to her.

Plot Keywords: hotel room, 1980s, paris france, husband wife relationship, espionage, passport, volkswagen beetle ...

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#28. The Towering Inferno (1974)

Storyline: Doug Roberts, Architect, returns from a long vacation to find work nearly completed on his skyscraper. He goes to the party that night concerned he's found that his wiring specifications have not been followed and that the building continues to develop short circuits. When the fire begins, Michael O'Halleran is the chief on duty as a series of daring rescues punctuate the terror of a building too tall to have a fire successfully fought from the ground.

Plot Keywords: disaster film, firefighter, trapped, burning building, survival, die hard scenario, power failure ...

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#29. Terror by Night (1946)

Storyline: Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, a 423 carat diamond owned by Carstairs' mother, Lady Margaret. Suspecting the diamond will be stolen on a train trip from London to Edinburgh in Scotland, Holmes deftly switches diamonds with Lady Margaret while in her compartment admiring the jewel. Soon after, Roland is murdered and the fake diamond is stolen. Red herrings abound as Holmes, aided by Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade, discover the murderer's hiding place and deduce that long-time nemesis Professor Moriarty's henchman, Colonel Sebastian Moran, is somehow involved in the crime.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>

Plot Keywords: poisoned, menu, impersonating a police officer, dart, teapot, corpse with eyes open, train journey ...

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#30. White Banners (1938)

Storyline: A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.—Dan Navarro <daneldorado@yahoo.com>

Plot Keywords: housekeeper, box, family home, ice, intervention, invention, jealousy ...

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