Movies tagged as "labor union"

Bread and Roses [2000, UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland ] starting from $1.99

The Balance Of Power Is About To Change.

Genres: Drama Actors: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo, Jack McGee, Monica Rivas, Frankie Davila, Lillian Hurst, Mayron Payes, Maria Orellana, Melody Garrett, Gigi Jackman, Beverly Reynolds, Eloy Méndez, Elena Antonenko, Olga Gorelik Directors: Ken Loach, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.

Casino [1995, USA, France ] starting from $1.99

No one stays at the top forever.

Genres: Crime, Drama Actors: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Frank Vincent, Pasquale Cajano, Kevin Pollak, Don Rickles, Vinny Vella, Alan King, L. Q. Jones, Dick Smothers, Joseph Rigano, John Bloom, Melissa Prophet Directors: Martin Scorsese, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas—it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw—Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.

Roger & Me [1989, USA ] starting from $1.99

The story of a rebel and his mike.

Genres: Documentary Actors: Michael Moore, James Blanchard, James Bond, Pat Boone, Bob Eubanks, Ben Hamper, Timothy Jackson, Tom Kay, Ted Koppel, Correy Lennox, Brian MacDonald, Dan Rather, Ronald Reagan, Fred Ross, Richard Earl Sawdon, Directors: Michael Moore Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.