Natasha kan ikke finde sin far, så hun overtaler sømanden Chance til at hjælpe. Heldigvis kan Chance karate og det får han brug får, da det afsløres, at Natashas far er blevet dræbt af en gruppe rigmænd, der jager hjemløse for sjov. Snart må Chance og Natasha flygte ind i Louisianas sumpe med de bindegale menneskejægere lige i hælene.
Bud Fox er en ung børsmægler med enorme ambitioner. Han vil gøre alt for at nå til tops, og måske er vejen banet, da det lykkes ham at blive Gordon Gekko's protege. Bud opfatter Gekko som den perfekte mentor. Han er den mest succesfulde aktiehandler på Wall Street - og den mest skruppelløse. I Manhattans finansverden har Gekko det som en fisk i vandet. En grådig haj, der æder alt på sin vej. Michael Douglas modtog en Oscar for sin præstation som Gekko.
Den tidligere bokser Terry Malloy kunne været blevet en mester, men nu knokler han for bossen Johnny Friendly på den gangsterstyrede havnefront. Terry begynder at blive plaget af dårlig samvittighed, da han forårsager en oprørsk arbejders død. Men det kræver Edie Doyles kærlighed, den døde arbejders søster, at få Terry til at indse, hvor dybt han er faldet.
Han myrdede Paraguays premierminister med en gaffel men det gav ham ingen glæde.Hans psykiater arbejder kun under dødstrusler og hans ærkerival vil starte en fagforening for rejemordere. For Martin Q. Blank er livet, som lejemorder, tomt og uden mening. Da Martin får en indbydelse til at deltage i jubilæet på den high school, han i sin tid gik på, vender han tilbage til sin barndomsby Grosse Pointe. Her møder han Debbie, den ungdomskæreste, han til et skolebal for 10 år siden, gav afkald på. Han møder også de gamle klassekammerater, som stadig tror på den amerikanske drøm. Samtidig dukker et sidste job op. Et job som han ikke er alene om.
Den 14. april 1865 bliver USA's præsident Abraham Lincoln dræbt af skud. En ung advokat får til opgave at forsvare Mary Surratt - den eneste kvinde, der mistænkes for at have medvirket i konspirationen. Er hun skyldig eller blot en brik i et langt større spil?
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York Women in Film & Television in 2004.
Members of the American Federation of Labor, the Atlantic & Gulf Coast District of the Seafarers International Union commissioned budding filmmaker and magazine photographer Stanley Kubrick to direct this half-hour documentary. The director's first film in color, it is more of an industrial film than a documentary, it served as a promotional tool to recruit sailors to the union.
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.
A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand boy for a shipping company and vents his frustrations by plucking on the guitar.
Two coworkers decide to blackmail the corrupt demolition company they work for by setting up a fake accident.
Alí and José María, friends on a work trip in an old Volkswagen, get stranded in a village and make friends, but they discover that their job could alter the fate of the place.
Allonias decides that enough is enough. He works 12-13 hours driving his taxi every day and still has no money left to pay for rent and clothes for their three children.
He begins a battle against Sweden’s largest taxi company owned by billionaire Rolf Karlsson. It leads to Rolf Karlsson selling the entire empire for around 2-3 billion SEK. But for Allonias it has a high price…
Two filmmakers, eager to make a feature film that will improve the tarnished reputation of the longshoreman's union, meet with union officials. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.