Movies like The Machine: Master or Slave? (1941)
The best movies like The Machine: Master or Slave? (1941) are Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), The Machinist (2004) and Flamin' Hot (2023). If The Machine: Master or Slave? hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
The Machine: Master or Slave?
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- Highest ratedFlamin' Hot (2023)8.0/10 from 888 votes
- NewestFlamin' Hot (2023)Released 2023
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Machinist (2004)
Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFlamin' Hot (2023)
The inspiring true story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channeled his Mexican American heritage and upbringing to turn the iconic Flamin' Hot Cheetos into a snack that disrupted the food industry and became a global pop culture phenomenon.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisNorma Rae (1979)
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. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWelcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLast Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRadium Girls (2020)
Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSaboteur (1942)
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLadybird Ladybird (1994)
Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her past still haunts her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMary Shelley (2017)
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisX: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChild's Play 2 (1990)
Chucky is reconstructed by a toy factory to dispel the negative publicity surrounding the doll, and tracks young Andy Barclay to a foster home where the chase begins again.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKhartoum (1966)
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Pajama Game (1957)
An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGung Ho (1986)
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEmily (2022)
The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMiracle on 34th Street (1994)
Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago, but, after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced he's the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all—something to believe in.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBubble (2006)
Set against the backdrop of a decaying Midwestern town, a murder becomes the focal point of three people who work in a doll factory.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Doctor and the Devils (1985)
In Victorian England, graverobbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to seek an easier means of getting the job done.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Machine: Master or Slave??
The closest matches to The Machine: Master or Slave? are Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), The Machinist (2004) and Flamin' Hot (2023). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Machine: Master or Slave??
Start with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), the closest match to The Machine: Master or Slave?.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Machine: Master or Slave??
Flamin' Hot (2023), rated 8.0/10 by 888 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Machine: Master or Slave??
Flamin' Hot (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Machine: Master or Slave??
Yes: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), The Machinist (2004) and Flamin' Hot (2023).
How are movies similar to The Machine: Master or Slave? chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Machine: Master or Slave?, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.