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Cananea (1978)
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Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.
Plot:
mexican revolution, union, strike, conquistador, labor, conflict, anarchism, economist, revenge, police officer, train, police, soldier, border, mine, repression, massacre, city, master, worker, monopoly, jail, class struggle, cavalry, squad ...
Place:
latin america, mexico, arizona, sonora, american
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Most similar movies to Cananea
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and sincere films with plots about strike, labor, society, union, train, soldier and injustice mostly in Drama, History and Western genres. Some movies like Cananea: Letters from Marusia (1975), Rebellion in Patagonia (1974), No God, No Master (2012), The Molly Maguires (1970), Matewan (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Originally Actas De Marusia, this Mexican film re-creates a dark chapter in the history of Chile. The scene is a small Chilean mining town in 1907. Suffering under the despotic rule of the British mine owners, the workers stage a revolt. The ...
Plot:
strike, union, labor, anarchist, latin american history, worker, town, female pubic hair, school, massacre, exploitation, horse ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
chile, south america
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Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1920, workmen of Patagonia (Argentina), grouped into anarchist and socialist societies, decide to strike demanding better working conditions. Among the workers there are numerous European immigrants acting as ideological ferment of their peers. ...
Style:
political
Plot:
anarchism, anarchist, anarchy, capitalist society, gaucho, radical, state terrorism, labor union, political repression, labor strike, massacre, train ...
Time:
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Place:
patagonia, argentina
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70%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A plot to overthrow the United States government is uncovered in New York City in the summer of 1919 when William Flynn, a field agent for the Bureau of Investigation, is sent to investigate a bomb threat that has targeted some of America's ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, independent film, art film ...
Plot:
politics, investigation, law enforcement, danger, society, terrorism, state affairs, assassination, political unrest, assassination attempt, war on terror, anarchism ...
Time:
year 1919, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish emigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage and murder. A detective, also an Irish emigrant, is hired to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
terrorism, fighting the system, society, injustice, working undercover, legal, social decay, sabotage, union, rebel, social change, coal mine ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, year 1970
Place:
usa, america, pennsylvania
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief ...
Style:
political, independent film, talky, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
labor union, racism, working class, coal mining, small town, shootout, mining, coal mine, strike, revolution, revolutionary, american history ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
west virginia, appalachia, virginia, usa
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement (“unrueh") of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work ...
Style:
philosophical, historical drama, period piece, slow cinema, meditative ...
Plot:
anarchism, industrialization, photography, labor movement, class struggle, working conditions, social change, capitalism, union, labor, factory, strike ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
switzerland
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and ...
Style:
intense, factual, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
ancient times, year 1993, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
mexico, america, arizona, north america, latin america ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, History, War, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.
Style:
epic, serious, realistic, sincere, christian film ...
Plot:
catholic, religious persecution, mexican revolution, faith, civil war, saint, chicano, battles, military, rebellion, fighting the system, rebelliousness ...
Time:
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Place:
mexico, latin america, north america
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of ...
Style:
serious, rough, emotional, exciting, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History, War, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa's head and he's gonna get it. The "Punitive Expedition" proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the ...
Style:
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Plot:
revolution, manhunt, rebelliousness, military, idealism, rebellion, on the run, state affairs, escapades, heroes, obsessive quest, political unrest ...
Time:
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Place:
latin america, mexico
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41%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Cuba
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
allegory
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-TV Western.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
1890s, 19th century
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min.
Story:
Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
Style:
epic, controversial, compassionate, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fascism, politics, world war two, italian history, friendship, revolution, class struggle, communism, peasant, socialist, sex, brutality ...
Time:
1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 1910s ...
Place:
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37%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Plot:
mexican revolution, biopic, political intrigue, ancient, male female relationship, restaurant, train, conspiracy, drunkenness, newspaper, picnic, assassination attempt ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: Poland
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
mexican revolution, violence, obsessive quest, state affairs, rebelliousness, campaign, battle zone, medieval, battles, assassination, battlefield, murder ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Germany, Spain, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Plot:
anarchism, anarchist, working class, sex with neighbor, bricklayer, funeral, prison, strike, neighbor, job seeking, cheating wife, repression ...
Time:
1890s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
italy, florence
Similarity:
32%
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Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Greece, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
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Style:
slow cinema, aesthetic
Plot:
anarchist, anarchism, greek, mythology, anarchy, utopia, greek history, labor, myth, peplum, union, strike ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, tense
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Style:
intellectual, social
Plot:
capitalism, politics, coup, coup d'etat, abuse of power, ambassador, youth, sadism, kidnapping, media, abuse, voting ...
Time:
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Place:
latin america, chile, south america, europe, santiago chile
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Series pilot about a local rebel who is appointed sheriff of a small Arizona town.
Style:
tense, suspense, tv series pilot
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
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Place:
kyoto japan
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The violence and high drama of this film is taken directly from recent Polish history. On December 13, 1981 national security forces swoop down on unsuspecting workers of the Wujek mine and arrest a Solidarity leader. Pushed to the limits, the ...
Style:
historical drama, brutal, intense, period piece, suspense ...
Plot:
protest, martial law, violence, strike, police brutality, riot, working class, tragedy, civil unrest, oppression, resistance, authoritarianism ...
Time:
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Place:
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