🏷 Discover The Best Union Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Unite and Watch: Discovering the Best Movies and TV Shows Related to Labor Unions

Get ready to join the fight for workers' rights with our curated list of movies and TV shows that highlight the struggles and triumphs of labor unions. From gritty dramas to inspiring documentaries, explore the world of unionism and its impact on society.

Cast

Marlon Brando

Eva Marie Saint

Karl Malden

Lee J. Cobb

On the Waterfront (1954)

7.9 1.8K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.

Plot: corruption, new jersey, murder, mafia, black and white, union, dock, longshoreman, ...

Cast

Michael Douglas

Charlie Sheen

Martin Sheen

Daryl Hannah

Wall Street (1987)

7.2 2.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, whom takes the youth under his wing.

Plot: new york city, fraud, wall street, broker, finances, stockbroker, lawyer, union, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Isabelle Huppert

Gru00e9gory Gadebois

Marina Fou00efs

Alexandra Maria Lara

La Syndicaliste (2023)

6.6 185 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Germany, France

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: 15

Story: The true story of the Irish national Maureen Kearney- head tradeunion representative-turned-whistleblower of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. After denouncing top-secret deals that shook the sector, Kearney’s life is suddenly turned upside-down when she is violently assaulted in her own house.

Plot: based on novel or book, investigation, nuclear power plant, based on true story, union, threat, sexual assault, whistleblower

Cast

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Arnold Vosloo

Lance Henriksen

Yancy Butler

Hard Target (1993)

6.5 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.

Plot: martial arts, showdown, psychopath, new orleans, louisiana, mercenary, fistfight, money, ...

Cast

Stephen Lang

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Burt Young

Peter Dobson

Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)

6.5 115 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: new york city, prostitute, based on novel or book, fight, sexuality, union, brooklyn, new york city

Time: 1950s

Cast

Richard Pryor

Lonette McKee

Margaret Avery

Morgan Woodward

Which Way Is Up? (1977)

6.1 36 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid spouse, Annie Mae. He heads for Los Angeles, where he falls for union organizer Vanetta. Annie Mae seeks solace from local preacher Lenox Thomas, who eventually impregnates her. When Leroy catches wind, he heads home for a showdown with Lenox.

Plot: adultery, domestic abuse, labor union, triple role, union struggle