Chance Bordeaux (Jean Claude Van Damme) este un marinar dur care isi cauta de lucru in New Orleans, un oras unde necazurile se tin lant. Politia nu mai face fata problemelor cu care se confrunta orasul si anarhia pare sa cuprinda metropola. Intre timp, Natasha Binder (Yancy Butler) ajunge in New Orleans cu scopul de a-si gasi tatal care disparuse de ceva timp de acasa. Ea nu stie ca tatal sau care a ramas lefter a ales sa devina, pentru bani, o tinta vie intr-un joc denumit vanatoarea de oameni in care sfarseste prin a fi ucis. Natasha il angajeaza pe Chance sa-i gaseasca tatal, iar acesta prinde firul disparitiei batranului si, ca sa-i descopere asasinii, intra in acest joc periculos.
Un agent de bursă tânăr și nerăbdător Bud Fox este dispus să facă orice pentru a ajunge în vârf. După ce îl întâlnește pe speculatorul fără scrupule, de milioane de dolari, Gordon Gekko, un vis pare să devină realitate. Dar acest vis are un preț. Bud este atras de Gekko într-un vârtej de activități criminale. Cu toate acestea, când Gekko amenință că va distruge compania aeriană pentru care lucrează tatăl lui Bud, își dă seama de greșeala sa.
Terry Malloy visează a fi un luptător cu premii, în timp ce își îngrijește porumbeii și face comisioane la docuri pentru Johnny Friendly, șeful corupt al uniunii docatorilor. Terry este martor la o crimă a doi dintre lacheii lui Johnny și mai târziu se întâlnește cu sora mortului și se simte responsabil pentru moartea lui. Ea îi face cunoștiință cu părintele Barry, care încearcă să-l forțeze să furnizeze informații instanțelor care vor zdrobi ciubucarii de docuri.
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
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.
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.
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.
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A union leader dies in a sleazy hotel room, then the wife, mistress, police, co workers, reporters, colleagues, and political figures arrive to the hotel and each has its own intentions.
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.