Blow for Blow
Genres
Overview
The film describes a strike in a French textile factory, when the striking workers occupy the factory.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
89 min
Release Date
1972-06-01
Status
Released
Original Language
French
Vote Count
8
Vote Average
6.9
Simone Aubin
Jacqueline Auzellaud
Élodie Avenel
Anne-Marie Bacquié
Jean-Pierre Baronsky
Antoinette Barrois
Ginette Bellegueule
Jacques Bellegueule
Aïsha Benfatta
S. Béranger
Paul Bertault
Martine Berthelin
Patricia Berthon
Martine Blé
Marcel Boche
Agnès Bouloche
Sylvianne Broucker
Patrick Cabouat
Martine Cailly
Êvelyne Cailly
Marie-Madeleine Carton
Lucie Chemin
Danielle Chinsky
Florence Cian
Jacqueline Clouet
Eva Damien
Nelly Debert
Maïté Delamare
Jean-Noël Delamarre
Jean Philippe Delamarre
Martine Delaunay
Annie Demarest
Thérèse Desperrois
Marie-José Dubost
André du Breuil
Marin Karmitz
Roger Knobelspiess
Christine Lipinska
André Rouyer
6.9
Man of Iron
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
1981-07-27 | pl
7.6
Gandhi
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
1982-12-01 | en
0.0
On This Earth
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.
1957-11-22 | ja
7.5
A Matter of Sex
Dramatization of the true story of the so-called Willmar Eight, a group of Minnesota bank workers who braved freezing conditions whilst picketing their branch in a struggle for union rights.
1984-01-01 | en
6.9
Salt of the Earth
At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife, Esperanza, with a similar unfairness. When an injunction stops the men from protesting, however, the gender roles are reversed, and women find themselves on the picket lines while the men stay at home.
1954-03-14 | en
7.5
Happiness
The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.
1998-10-11 | en
6.4
Animal Factory
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.
2000-10-13 | en
7.2
Cart
In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.
2014-11-13 | ko
8.2
Billy Elliot: The Musical Live
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.
2014-09-28 | en
6.9
The Mother and the Law
After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The second of these was 'The Mother and the Law', which demonstrates how crime, moral puritanism, and conflicts between ruthless capitalists and striking workers help ruin the lives of marginal Americans.
1919-08-18 | en
6.6
Tout Va Bien
A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.
1972-04-28 | fr
5.5
Lady Caliph
La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.
1970-12-31 | it
6.5
A Room in Town
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.
1982-10-27 | fr
7.5
Güeros
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.
2014-04-17 | es
7.3
3rd Reich Mothers, in the Name of the Master Race
Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from their Alsatian family to cooperate in the war effort in Germany. After spending six months in a indoctrination camp, they are both sent to a munitions factory where they are tasked to perform inhuman works. An explosion erupts, they are suspected of sabotage and threatened with being sent to a boot camp. Alice and Lisette believe they saved when transferred to a maternity where they continue living the hell of war.
2012-09-14 | fr
6.4
Karanlıkta Uyananlar
A group of paint worker can’t take their salary from the fabricator and they go on strike.
1964-01-01 | tr
0.0
The Man with the Iron Heart
I.M. Mann, millionaire president of a large corporation, is known as "the man with the iron heart." James Boyd, cashier for Mann's corporation, is delayed one morning because of a dying mother, and is discharged. Then Boyd goes to Union headquarters with his story. The thousands of workmen employed by Mann finally reach the limit of endurance, and at a union meeting, resolve to demand increased wages, a cessation of child labor and other benefits, or strike. He refuses to hear a committee of workmen and says, "I'll close up the factories and let you starve."
1915-09-02 | en
0.0
Freies Volk
Directed by Martin Berger.
1925-01-02 | de
5.6
The Most Beautiful
The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and tremendous personal hardship, the women persevere in their tasks, devoted to their work and their country's cause.
1944-04-13 | ja
5.6
Wedding Wars
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.
2006-12-11 | en