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51. Laß jucken, Kumpel 3. Teil - Maloche, Bier und Bett (1974)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Franz Marischka | Stars: Hans-Henning Claer, Helga Bender, Johannes Buzalski, Ulrike Butz
Votes: 78
52. Bohr weiter, Kumpel (1974)
95 min | Comedy
Egon and his four buddies are hoping to someday blow up the jackpot because they've been a committed lottery community for years.
Director: Sigi Rothemund | Stars: Alena Penz, Rinaldo Talamonti, Alexander Grill, Judith Armbrüster
Votes: 102
53. Margaret's Museum (1995)
R | 114 min | Drama
Margaret MacNiel, a girl living in a Cape Breton coal mining town, finds her life changing when she meets Neil Currie, a cheerful bagpipe-playing dishwasher. Unfortunately, neither of them are able to escape the industry around them.
Director: Mort Ransen | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Kate Nelligan, Clive Russell, Craig Olejnik
Votes: 1,397 | Gross: $0.52M
54. Solino (2002)
124 min | Drama, Comedy
In the sixties Romano Amato, his wife Rosa and their two sons Giancarlo and Gigi emigrate from Solino in Italy to Duisburg in the Ruhr area and establish the first Pizza restaurant in town.... See full summary »
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Barnaby Metschurat, Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Tasche, Tiziana Lodato
Votes: 5,745
55. Spring Night Summer Night (1967)
R | 82 min | Drama
Jessica, the eldest daughter of a coal miner-turned-farmer, has a fling with her half-brother Carl, which complicates things more when she becomes pregnant.
Director: Joseph L. Anderson | Stars: Larue Hall, Ted Heimerdinger, Marjorie Johnson, John Crawford
Votes: 748
56. Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love (2016 TV Movie)
TV-G | 85 min | Drama, Family
Last December, just in time for Christmas, Dolly Parton delighted viewers and critics alike with her deeply heartwarming tale drawn straight from her inspiring real life and music.
Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Alyvia Alyn Lind, Gerald McRaney, Dolly Parton, Farrah Mackenzie
Votes: 1,053
57. Confidential Agent (1945)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, Thriller
In 1937, agents from the opposing sides of the Spanish Civil War travel to the neutral UK to secure coal contracts and to undermine each other's efforts.
Director: Herman Shumlin | Stars: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou, Peter Lorre
Votes: 1,373
58. Dark Horse (2015)
PG | 85 min | Documentary, Drama, Sport
An inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men's club who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed themselves a racehorse
Director: Louise Osmond | Stars: Jan Vokes, Howard Davies, Brian 'Daisy' Vokes, Angela Davies
Votes: 1,325
59. Behemoth (2015)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary
Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to ... See full summary »
Director: Liang Zhao
Votes: 1,216
60. Blind Shaft (2003)
Unrated | 92 min | Crime, Drama
Two coal miners and conmen looking for their next murder victim decide on a naïve country boy desperately looking for a job.
Director: Yang Li | Stars: Yixiang Li, Baoqiang Wang, Shuangbao Wang, Jing Ai
Votes: 2,923 | Gross: $0.03M
61. The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
Approved | 120 min | Drama
A press agent brings a dead actress home for burial. To promote her one film, he asks churches to ring bells for 3 days, hoping to get the studio head to release it.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli, Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 1,128
62. Spork (2010)
TV-14 | 86 min | Comedy, Musical
A colorful and foul-mouthed feature musical comedy. A film about a frizzy-haired, pink-cheeked outcast named Spork who is trying to navigate her way through the annals of junior high. When ... See full summary »
Director: J.B. Ghuman Jr. | Stars: Savannah Stehlin, Rodney Eastman, Robert Bradvica, Kevin Chung
Votes: 1,079
63. Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die (1942)
Passed | 79 min | Western
Wyatt Earp cleans up Tombstone and faces the Clanton gang at the O.K. Corral.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Edgar Buchanan, Frances Gifford
Votes: 241
64. Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice (2011 TV Movie)
TV-G | 22 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Lanny and Wayne race to recover classified North Pole technology.
Directors: Kevin Deters, Stevie Wermers | Stars: Dave Foley, Derek Richardson, Sarah Chalke, Rob Riggle
Votes: 2,274
65. Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Musical
Bert Rigby lives in the small English town of Langmore, where most people depend on work at the local mine, which is faring poorly. While his mates are on strike once again, he decides to ... See full summary »
Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: Robert Lindsay, Robbie Coltrane, Cathryn Bradshaw, Jackie Gayle
Votes: 336 | Gross: $0.08M
66. Black Beauty (1987 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 50 min | Animation, Family
This heartwarming adaptation of the novel tells the story of the courageous stallion Black Beauty, a well-bred horse in 19th century England. Black Beauty is happy as a country carriage ... See full summary »
Director: David Cherkasskiy | Stars: Bob Baines, Colin Borgonon, Patrick Dickson, Nicholas Gledhill
Votes: 98
67. Frank Serpico (2017)
Unrated | 98 min | Documentary, Biography
In his own words, Frank Serpico tells the story of his one-man crusade for police reform in the NYPD during the early 1970s.
Director: Antonino D'Ambrosio | Stars: Frank Serpico, Stanislao Pugliese, Janet Panetta, John O'Connor
Votes: 389 | Gross: $0.01M
68. Dynamite (1929)
Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, Julia Faye
Votes: 494
69. Masterpiece Theatre: Sons and Lovers (1981– )
Drama
BBC adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel about a sensitive young man growing up in a Nottinghamshire mining community.
Stars: Eileen Atkins, Tom Bell, Karl Johnson, Amanda Parfitt
Votes: 31
70. Too Late (1996)
106 min | Drama, Thriller
Dumitru Costa, a young trainee prosecutor is entrusted with the investigation about the suspicious death of a Jiu Valley coal miner in 1990s Romania. Accident or murder?
Director: Lucian Pintilie | Stars: Razvan Vasilescu, Cecilia Bârbora, Victor Rebengiuc, Dorel Visan
Votes: 721
71. Comrade Kim Goes Flying (2012)
81 min | Comedy, Romance
A female coal miner in communist Korea aspires to be an acrobat in a circus.
Directors: Nicholas Bonner, Anja Daelemans, Gwang Hun Kim | Stars: Jong-sim Han, Chung-guk Pak, Ri Yong Ho, Son-nam Kim
Votes: 325
72. Enthusiasm (1930)
Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary
How the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 1,057
73. Pam Fi Duw? (1997–2002)
Comedy, Drama, Family
Stars: Kelly Hanney, Gavin Sims, Cim Ashton, Matthew Eben Harris
Votes: 35
74. Algol: Tragedy of Power (1920)
99 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that gives him superpowers.
Director: Hans Werckmeister | Stars: Emil Jannings, John Gottowt, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Hanna Ralph
Votes: 278
75. The Pennsylvania Miners' Story (2002 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Based on the real-life chronicle of the "nine for nine" Pennsylvania coal miners who were rescued in the summer of 2002. Told from their own perspective, the movie reveals their ... See full summary »
Director: David Frankel | Stars: Graham Beckel, Dylan Bruno, Marisa Ryan, JD Souther
Votes: 182
76. Sub terra (2003)
105 min | Drama
A teacher restarts her relationship with an ex-boyfriend, a coal man who risks his life because of the dangerous conditions.
Director: Marcelo Ferrari | Stars: Francisco Reyes, Paulina Gálvez, Ernesto Malbran, Cristián Chaparro
Votes: 377
77. Kentucky Woman (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
A woman faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing dad.
Director: Walter Doniger | Stars: Cheryl Ladd, Ned Beatty, Philip Levien, Sandy McPeak
Votes: 91
78. Johnny Bull (1986 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
An English girl comes to America to join her American husband in a Pennsylvania coal town in the late 1950's. She faces the ire of her new mother-in-law, a former Hungarian with different ... See full summary »
Director: Claudia Weill | Stars: Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst, Peter MacNicol, Kathy Bates
Votes: 54
79. A Diary for Timothy (1945)
40 min | Documentary, Short
This brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration ... See full summary »
Director: Humphrey Jennings | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Myra Hess, John Gielgud, Frederick Allen
Votes: 755
80. A Minute of Silence (1998)
88 min | Drama
In a dying French mining town near the German border, the last miners are preparing to strike. Marek and Mimmo, two young miners and friends, have different views on the impending strike.
Director: Florent-Emilio Siri | Stars: Benoît Magimel, Bruno Putzulu, Jean-Yves Chatelais, Andrea Schieffer
Votes: 85
81. Rudar (2017)
98 min | Biography, Drama, History
2009, Slovenia, European Union. For 30 years, Alija, the miner, has been one of the many Bosnian immigrant workers. Due to the crisis, miners are losing jobs. Alija is sent to check an ... See full summary »
Director: Hanna Antonina Wojcik Slak | Stars: Leon Lucev, Marina Redzepovic, Zala Djuric, Tin Marn
Votes: 333
82. Megan's Christmas Miracle (2018)
TV-PG | 87 min | Family
Christmas story about a teenage girl that finds hope in a magical nativity display at her church.
Directors: Deven Bromme, Jason Campbell | Stars: Dean Cain, Brooklyn Nelson, Timothy E. Goodwin, Katherine Elise Shaw
Votes: 79
83. Tap World (2015)
Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary, History, Music
About ten years ago, a group of us produced a fourteen-minute short film, 'Tap Heat', which film contrasted the traditional tap with the contemporary, as it's being created and performed by... See full summary »
Director: Dean Hargrove | Stars: Jason Samuels Smith, Joshua Johnson, Ivery Wheeler, Ted Louis Levy
Votes: 57 | Gross: $0.02M
84. Hillbilly: The Real Story (2008 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Documentary
The history and culture of the legendary inhabitants (the "hillbillies") of Appalachia.
Director: David Huntley | Stars: Billy Ray Cyrus, Popcorn Sutton, Tim Smith, Roddy Moore
Votes: 50
85. Tamas and Juli (1997)
60 min | Drama, Romance
Tamas and Juli, a small town coal miner and a teacher, begin dating, but something always ends up interrupting their time together.
Director: Ildikó Enyedi | Stars: Márta Angyal, György Barkó, Csaba Czene, Ferenc Elek
Votes: 195
86. Shanghai Lil and the Sun Luck Kid (1973)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
A recently jailed martial arts master teams up with a wronged woman to take down the man's brother, a coal baron who rules a small town with an iron fist.
Directors: Ching-Yun Chu-Ko, Ching-Chen Yang | Stars: Szu Shih, Han Chin, Yuan Yi, Fei Lung
Votes: 66
87. Bad Charleston Charlie (1973)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Crime
Inept Illinois coal miners Charlie (Ross Hagen) and Thad (Kelly Thordsen) become inept 1930s gangsters.
Director: Ivan Nagy | Stars: Ross Hagen, Kelly Thordsen, Hoke Howell, Dal Jenkins
Votes: 31
88. Before the Mountain Was Moved (1970)
60 min | Documentary, Drama
A group of poor people in Raleigh County, West Virginia organize when strip mining is damaging their houses and community. They work to get the state legislature to pass some strong laws protecting citizens against coal mining interests.
Director: Robert K. Sharpe
Votes: 47
89. Koniec wakacji (1975)
86 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Fifteen-year-old Jurek is to spend his holidays at home, in Silesia. After returning from school, he does not find her mother or her things. His father tells him a story about his mother's ... See full summary »
Director: Stanislaw Jedryka | Stars: Marek Sikora, Agata Siecinska, Józef Nalberczak, Tadeusz Bialoszczynski
Votes: 64
90. The Man Who Dared (1933)
Passed | 72 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15, 1933.
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Preston Foster, Zita Johann, Joan Marsh, Irén Biller
Votes: 38
91. The Eyes of Van Gogh (2005)
111 min | Biography, Drama
After the disastrous months spent with Gauguin in the yellow house in Arles, Vincent van Gogh, in desperate search for a cure from attacks that increasingly plague him, voluntarily enters an insane asylum.
Director: Alexander Barnett | Stars: Diana Agostini, John Alexander, Alexander Barnett, Dean Curtis
Votes: 132
92. The Silent Village (1943)
36 min | Documentary, Drama, Short
The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
Director: Humphrey Jennings | Stars: Villagers of Cwmgiedd, Arwel Michael
Votes: 194
93. Kubi (1968)
99 min | Crime, Drama, War
During the WWII, a coal miner died at a police station and the cause of death was announced as cerebral hemorrhage. A lawyer hired by the dead man's family decides to prove that he was tortured to death.
Director: Shirô Moritani | Stars: Keiju Kobayashi, Masao Shimizu, Masanobu Ôkubo, Shigeo Katô
Votes: 20
94. Young Hearts Run Free (2011)
93 min | Drama, History, Romance
Community, Friendship, First Loves, Rebellion! 1974: Against the backdrop of a violent miners strike in their quiet Northumbrian village, a likeable teenage artist falls in love with the ... See full summary »
Director: Andy Mark Simpson | Stars: Andy Black, Jennifer Bryden, Lyndsey Lennon, Danny McCready
Votes: 23
95. North of Pittsburgh (1992)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
Set in 1975, Tony Andretti (Jeff Schultz) is an aimless young Ontario man who earns a dangerous living running pot from Pittsburgh to the Canadian border. Rosa Andretti (Viveca Lindfors is ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Martin | Stars: Jeff Schultz, Byron Lucas, John Cassini, Viveca Lindfors
Votes: 34
96. A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner (1910)
9 min | Short, Documentary
A coal miner says good-bye to his wife and children, and heads off to work. He reaches the mine, prepares his lamp, and then descends into the mine along with some other workers. As he and ... See full summary »
Votes: 295
97. Song of Heroes (1932)
50 min | Documentary
Soviet solidarity is strong in Germany where the Communist Party (KPD) marches under the clenched fist in spite of police harassment... Radio broadcasts reach all parts of the Soviet Union,... See full summary »
Director: Joris Ivens
Votes: 108
98. Pick and Shovel (1923)
Not Rated | 13 min | Comedy, Short
Trouble ensues when an incompetent man, played by Stan Laurel, goes to work in "A Worthless Mine" and falls for the bosses daughter.
Director: George Jeske | Stars: Stan Laurel, James Finlayson, Katherine Grant, George Rowe
Votes: 110
99. Mira (II) (2018)
70 min | Documentary, Drama
The film's action happens in the Donbas region of Ukraine in the present day. The protagonist is the Slovak Mira, who leaves his life in England behind to go to the Luhansk People's ... See full summary »
Director: Denis Shabaev | Stars: Miroslav Rogach, Arkhip Petrov, Aleksandr Zaslavskiy
Votes: 18