Movies like Strike
If Strike's mix of police brutality, strike and street riots stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Strike's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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La Haine
1995 · Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz · 98 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: police brutality, street riots, riot police
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously…
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Mirror
1975 · Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky · 107 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: soviet union history · Also a Russian drama
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
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Norma Rae
1979 · Directed by Martin Ritt · 110 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: labor union, worker's rights
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.
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Andrei Rublev
1966 · Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky · 183 min7.9
Why you'll like itAlso a Russian drama
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his…
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The Trial
1962 · Directed by Orson Welles · 119 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: oppression
Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.
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Rendition
2007 · Directed by Gavin Hood · 120 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: police brutality
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention…