Movies like Strike 2006
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Strike (2006)
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Original name: Strajk - Die Heldin von Danzig
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In poverty, she found strength. In oppression, she found courage. In solidarity, she found a reason to believe again. Acclaimed German actress Katharina Thalbach (THE TIN DRUM, SOPHIES CHOICE) stars in this hard-hitting historical drama set during the rise of Polands Solidarity movement. An illiterate single mother, Agnieszka Kowalska is a Socialist "heroine of labor" for working long hours as a shipyard welder
until her superiors deny compensation to the widows of 21 workers killed in an industrial disaster. Risking her job, her life, and the love of her son to defy the bureacracy, Agnieszka inspires the largest labor strike in world history
and becomes a national hero. Volker Schlöndorff adapted this "ballad based on historical events" from the biography of Anna Walentynowicz, the free trade activist who mobilized a million Poles for Solidarity and helped hasten the fall of Communism. Filmed entirely on location at Polands Lenin Shipyard, where history was made.
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sincere, captivating
Plot:
politics, working class, labor union, human spirit, rebellion, fighting the system, ambition, life is a bitch, injustice, legal, rivalry, society, rebelliousness, workplace, revolution, family problems, communism, feminist, non violence, ship, heroes, legal action, memory loss, orphan, family relations ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
poland, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Duration: 114 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1897, in Lota, Chile, in the face of long days, low pay, debts to the company store, unsafe and deadly working conditions, and widespread child labor, men try to establish a miners' association at one of the largest coal mines in the world. ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
chile
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, sincere, captivating, emotional, political ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, emotional
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, serious, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, History
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Country: USA, Afghanistan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The Mansouri family opens up a new restaurant after the fall of the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan only to be subsequently targeted by factional Taliban elements.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, islamic ...
Plot:
hopes, rebellion, fighting the system, against the rules, danger, human spirit, society, life is a bitch, terrorism, state affairs, injustice, political unrest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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80s
Place:
spain, europe
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, disturbing, realistic, captivating, political
Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
touching, emotional, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing
Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid.
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, uplifting, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, 60s
Place:
south africa, africa
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, social, epic ...
Plot:
realism, immigrant, working class, injustice, society, employment agency, politics, fighting the system, workplace, legal, life is a bitch, workplace situations ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
britain, england, europe
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
If global economy came to a sudden stop what would be the effect on families worldwide? People in different countries or continents might not seem to be interrelated but there is more than meets the eye and we might be more connected than we ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
politics, international crisis, society, materialism, state affairs, life is a bitch, family relations, adaptation, rivalry, globalization, financial crisis, unemployment ...
Time:
21st century
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Nahal is around thirty and in her fourth month of pregnancy. During a routine check-up she learns that her baby has died and she now faces a curettage abortion in two days’ time. When she tries to address the subject, neither her mother nor her ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, sad, art house ...
Plot:
miscarriage, pregnancy, rebellion, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, family relations, society, estrangement, strong female presence, stillbirth, women's issues, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran
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100%
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