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Films with theme "Films about the labor movement", sorted by revenue

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The Fall
The Fall (1976)
, 1h50
Directed by Ruy Guerra, Nelson Xavier
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Nelson Xavier, Lima Duarte, Ruy Guerra, Hugo Carvana, Tonico Pereira

« Voici donc les anciens soldats d' Os Fuzis, à Rio de Janeiro devenus, à la fin des années soixante-dix, ouvriers sur le gigantesque chantier du métro carioca. Pedro porte toujours un uniforme quelconque, car, dit-il, aujourd'hui un homme sans uniforme ne vaut rien . José meurt dans un accident, car il était un bon ouvrier, il a grimpé sur les échafaudages sans ceinture de sécurité pour ne pas retarder le travail, disent ses camarades. Mario, marié à la fille d'un sous-traitant de la construction se porte à l'aide de la veuve de José... »
Cinderella
Cinderella (1977)
, 1h34
Directed by Michael Pataki
Origin USA
Genres Erotic, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement, Erotic films, Les fées, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Cheryl Smith, Sy Richardson

An adaptation of the fairy tale, Cinderella traces the misadventures of our heroine, who, via the help of her "fairy" godmother, is granted heightened sexual prowess, enabling her to win over Prince Charming. After a blindfolded orgy at the royal castle, the nerdy Prince must sleep with every willing woman in his kingdom, until he finds that one mysterious lover who so "stood out" on the night of the sex Ball.
Fire!
Fire! (1901)
, 3minutes
Directed by James Williamson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about the labor movement, Disaster films

L’incendie est découvert par un policier qui tente en vain de pénétrer dans la maison. Il donne l’alerte. Les pompiers sortent une voiture de secours et attellent les chevaux qui s’élancent, immédiatement suivis par un autre véhicule. Dans sa chambre enfumée, un homme se désespère. Suffoquant, il essaye d’éteindre le feu qui le menace en versant l’eau d’un broc, une tentative dérisoire. Il cherche à sortir par la porte, il en est empêché par les flammes que l’on devine sur le palier. L’homme s’effondre sur le lit, évanoui. Lorsque le feu gagne les rideaux, les flammes en dévorant le voilage découvrent un pompier qui est là, derrière la fenêtre, juché sur une échelle. À coups de hache, il abat la croisée et entre, tirant derrière lui une lance d’incendie qu’il met en œuvre. Puis il prend l’homme toujours inconscient dans ses bras et l’évacue par la fenêtre. Portant l’homme sur son dos, il descend l'échelle. Arrivé au sol, le rescapé, qui a retrouvé ses esprits, se lamente, désignant la fenêtre, son enfant est restée dans la maison. Un autre pompier enfonce la porte et revient avec la fillette dans les bras, qu’il tend à son père, reconnaissant. À l’étage, un autre homme apparaît à une fenêtre, on tend une toile de secours, l’homme saute. Il est indemne, on l’évacue.
Mother
Mother (1926)
, 1h30
Directed by Vsevolod Poudovkine
Origin Russie
Genres Drama
Themes Politique, Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Vera Baranovskaïa, Nikolai Batalov, Vsevolod Poudovkine

In this film, the mother of Pavel Vlasov is pulled into the revolutionary conflict when her husband and son find themselves on opposite sides during a worker's strike. After her husband dies during the failed strike, she betrays her son's ideology in order to try, in vain, to save his life. He is arrested, tried in what amounts to a judicial farce, and sentenced to heavy labor in a prison camp. During his incarceration, his mother aligns herself with him and his ideology and joins the revolutionaries. In the climax of the movie, the mother and hundreds of others march to the prison in order to free the prisoners, who are aware of the plan and have planned their escape. Ultimately, the troops of the Tsar suppress the uprising, killing both mother and son in the final scenes.
Moonlighting
Moonlighting (1982)
, 1h37
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration, Films about the labor movement
Actors Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, Trevor Cooper, Renu Setna, David Calder, Kenny Ireland

Un riche polonais envoie quatre compatriotes munis de visas touristiques pour retaper sa maison londonienne. Ce qui est une bonne affaire pour tout le monde. Cependant, les travaux s'avèrent plus compliqués que prévu, et poussent Nowak, le contremaître, à se comporter en véritable tyran avec ses ouvriers. Ils ignorent cependant comment il redouble d'ingéniosité afin de leur procurer nourriture et matériel malgré le petit pécule dont il dispose. Pendant ce temps, l'état de siège est décrété en Pologne. Nowak, qui apprend la nouvelle, décide de ne rien dire à ses camarades.
Man of Aran
Man of Aran (1934)
, 1h16
Directed by Robert Flaherty
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Documentaire sur le monde du travail

The film opens with a boy crab fishing. We then observe three fishermen landing a flimsy holed curragh in the force of the wind and the huge waves. Next we see some of the hardships of mundane Aran life: making a field on the barren rocks using seaweed and soil scraped out of rock crevices, fixing holes in the boat with a mixture of cloth and tar, rendering the liver of the giant basking shark. The film follows as the men of Aran harpoon the huge beasts from their bád iomartha (a wooden carvel hulled craft), the film ends with another storm sequence where the distressed family on shore watch the prolonged struggle of the boat to land safely against the elements.
Our Daily Bread
Our Daily Bread (1934)
, 1h20
Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Romance
Themes Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper, John Qualen, Lloyd Ingraham, Harry Bernard

The film depicts a couple, down on their luck during the Great Depression, who move to a farm to try to make a go of living off the land. They don't have a clue at first, but soon find other people down on their luck to help them. Soon they have a collective of people, some from the big city, who work together on a farm. There is a severe drought, killing the crops. The people then dig a ditch by hand almost two miles long to divert water from a creek to irrigate the crops. The film is an entertaining, uplifting political allegory about the virtues of collective, non-corporate action, self-sufficiency, and the rewards of hard-work rather than the rewards of rapacious finance capitalism; it is not an instructional "how-to" film from an agricultural institute; consequently, the film ends with the people celebrating wildly in the water then harvesting the crops, not showing how they managed to direct the narrow stream of water over the huge plain to evenly irrigate the crops.
Speed
Speed (1936)
, 1h10
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Action, Romance
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors James Stewart, Wendy Barrie, Una Merkel, Ted Healy, Ralph Morgan, Don Brodie

Auto mechanic Terry Martin (James Stewart), the chief car tester for Emery Motors in Detroit, is working on his own time to perfect a revolutionary design for a new carburetor. Automotive engineer Frank Lawson (Weldon Heyburn) is a rival for the attention of Jane Mitchell (Wendy Barrie), who has just been hired to work in the publicity department. Terry has little formal education and resents inferences that his knowledge of cars is inferior to that of the trained Lawson. He nearly loses his job when he makes a jealous spectacle of himself at a company dinner dance that Jane attends with Frank.
Comrades
Comrades (1987)
, 3h3
Directed by Bill Douglas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, La précarité, Political films
Actors Keith Allen, William Gaminara, Phil Davis, Alex Norton, Arthur Dignam, James Fox

C'est l'histoire des Martyrs de Tolpuddle . Des ouvriers agricoles du Dorset exploités par les propriétaires terriens s’organisent et créent la Société amicale des ouvriers agricoles (Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers). En 1834, ils sont déportés en Australie.