1984, Pohjois-Englanti. Kaivosmiehet ovat lakossa ja tunnelma on kireä. 11-vuotiaan Billy Elliotin isä ja veli ovat mukana lakossa, mutta Billyllä on muuta mielessä. Hän kiinnostuu tyttöjen balettitanssista. Lakon vain kiristyessä Billy harjoittelee salaa baletinopettaja rouva Wilkinsonin avulla. Nuorella Billyllä on lahjoja ja taivas auki, mutta tuleeko hänen vanhoillinen perheensä ikinä hyväksymään tanssitossuissa sipsuttelevaa poikaa?
Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot.
Sir Ben Kingsley näyttelee Mohandas Gandhia Sir Richard Attenboroughn mukaansatempaavassa elämäkerrassa miehestä, joka nousi vaatimattomasta asianajajasta koko maailman tuntemaksi rauhan ja väkivallattomuuden symboliksi.Kriitikoiden ylistämä mestariteos GANDHI on kiehtova tarina aktivismista, politiikasta, passiivisesta vastarinnasta ja vapaudesta. Sen keskiössä on ainutlaatuinen mies, joka taisteli väkivallattoman taistelun britti-imperiumia vastaan ja vapautti kokonaisen kansakunnan.GANDHI voitti 8 Oscar®-palkintoa, mukaan lukien parhaan elokuvan, parhaan ohjaajan (Sir Richard Attenborough) ja parhaan miespääosan palkinnot. Sen ylistettyyn näyttelijäkaartiin kuuluvat myös Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, Sir John Gielgud, Roshan Seth ja Martin Sheen.
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug dealer, he faces a five-year jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unaccustomed to his rough surroundings, Ron is primed to fall victim to sexual predators and bullying guards – that is, until he's befriended by Earl, a veteran inmate who finds meaning in protecting the vulnerable new kid.
The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia is sent by (presumably) the Socialists to help them organize their strike and give form to their struggle
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
Yhdeksänsataa Kalifornian omenatarhojen maatyöläistä nousee kapinaan maanomistajia vastaan, kun luvatusta palkasta maksetaankin vain murto-osa. Joukko alkaa elää omaa elämäänsä - se on vahvempi ja pelottavampi kuin sen yksittäiset jäsenet. Heitä johtaa kovia kokenut Jim Nolan (Wolff), jonka traagiseen ideologiaan lakko perustuu - koskaan ei alistuta tai anneta periksi.
After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.
A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.
In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family’s set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes in a musical that questions masculinity, gender norms and conformity.
Lakko (Стачка, Statška) on Sergei Eisensteinin ohjaama neuvostoliittolainen mykkäelokuva, joka valmistui vuonna 1925. Elokuvan valmisteluissa Eisenstein keräsi tarkkoja tietoja vuoden 1912 lakon tapahtumista ja perehtyi sekä sen taustoihin että seurauksiin. Lisäksi hän suunnitteli etukäteen kuvauksia, jotta kuvausten alkaessa kaikki olisi mahdollisimman valmista. Eisenstein hylkäsi tyypillisen, henkilöhahmoihin keskittyvän kerronnan ja kuvasi sen sijaan suuria massoja.
Set amidst the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, this coming-of-age tale finds two brothers venturing through the city in a sentimental search for an aging legendary musician. Shot in black-and-white, Güeros brims with youthful exuberance.
Kasi and Suni are close friends who studied together in an engineering college. Assi, who comes to Kerala to study engineering under the North East quota falls in love with Kasi. Certain incidents that follow set Kasi and Suni on a road trip to Nagaland on two motorcycles. The incidents that happen during this road adventure forms the film.
A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.
In the midst of organizing his brother Ben's wedding, Shel, a gay party planner, decides to go on strike for equal rights when he learns that Ben is behind a political speech against gay marriage.
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.
When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.