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1. Mayor of Kingstown (2021– )
TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The McLusky family are power brokers tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry.
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Hugh Dillon, Tobi Bamtefa, Taylor Handley
Votes: 46,744
2. Don't Worry Darling (I) (2022)
R | 123 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
While her husband leaves home everyday to work in a top secret facility, a young 1950s housewife begins to question her life when she notices strange behavior from the other wives in the neighborhood.
Director: Olivia Wilde | Stars: Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde
Votes: 147,220 | Gross: $45.31M
3. Dark Waters (2019)
PG-13 | 126 min | Biography, Drama, History
A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman
Votes: 102,097
4. The Rundown (2003)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A tough aspiring chef is hired to bring home a mobster's son from the Amazon but becomes involved in the fight against an oppressive town operator and the search for a legendary treasure.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken, Rosario Dawson
Votes: 143,093 | Gross: $47.73M
5. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, Family
At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp
Votes: 26,498
6. Matewan (1987)
PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, History
A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.
Director: John Sayles | Stars: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham
Votes: 8,918 | Gross: $1.68M
7. Shame (1988)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama
A barrister visiting a town in Western Australian town battles police corruption and the silence of the locals to help a teenage girl seek justice against a gang of young rapists.
Director: Steve Jodrell | Stars: Deborra-Lee Furness, Tony Barry, Simone Buchanan, Gillian Jones
Votes: 732 | Gross: $0.30M
8. Bisbee '17 (2018)
PG | 112 min | Documentary, History, Western
An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.
Director: Robert Greene | Stars: Mike Anderson, Charles Bethea, Chris Dietz, Mary Ellen Dunlap
Votes: 714 | Gross: $0.12M
9. The Man with a Shotgun (1961)
Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Crime
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Hideaki Nitani, Izumi Ashikawa, Yûji Odaka, Yôko Minamida
Votes: 338
10. Letters from Marusia (1975)
110 min | Drama, History
It is 1925 and working conditions in Chile are abysmal. The miners of Marusia go on strike, but the mine owners and the Government use the Chilean Army crush them.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Diana Bracho, Claudio Obregón, Eduardo López Rojas
Votes: 365
11. No Other Woman (1933)
Passed | 58 min | Drama
A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Irene Dunne, Charles Bickford, Gwili Andre, Eric Linden
Votes: 476
12. Cananea (1978)
123 min | Drama, History, Western
The Cananea strike took place in June 1906. This is the true story of strikers in the American owned mine. Cananea is a city in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.
Director: Marcela Fernández Violante | Stars: Yolanda Ciani, Carlos Bracho, Milton Rodríguez, José Carlos Ruiz
Votes: 48
14.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Johnstown Flood
(1991)
TV-PG | 64 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Exploding dam kills thousands in massive flood catastrophe in Pennsylvania in 1889.
Director: Mark Bussler | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Patrick Jordan, Jennifer Lee Dake, Charles King
Votes: 128
15.
Cade's County (1971–1972)
Episode:
Company Town
(1971)
60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Sheriff Cade searches for a bail-jumper in a tightly-knit mining town in the county's outskirts. He runs into a wall of silence about the man from residents fearful of the town boss, and ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Glenn Ford, Edgar Buchanan, Will Geer, Taylor Lacher
Votes: 17
16.
State Trooper (1956–1959)
Episode:
The Silver Duke
(1957)
Drama
Blake goes undercover to learn the identity of crooks who have been stealing silver from a Nevada mine.
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Rod Cameron, Robert Anderson, Kim Spalding, Ernest Sarracino
Votes: 12
17.
Walking Tall (1981– )
Episode:
Company Town
(1981)
60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Sheriff Pusser investigates the disappearance of a miner who has inflamed his bosses with vocal complaints about low wages and unsafe working conditions.
Director: Harvey S. Laidman | Stars: Bo Svenson, Walter Barnes, Harold Sylvester, Courtney Pledger
Votes: 15
18.
Off Limits (2011– )
Episode:
Tennesee
(2011)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary
Stars: Don Wildman, Ben Gibson, Clive Valentine, Joe Baker
19.
Days of Revolt (2015–2016)
Episode:
Company Town
(2016)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: José Castañeda, Chris Hedges, Anthony D. Prince