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Title | Film Director | Release Date | Cast | Film Production | Distribution | Screenwriting | Genre | Trailer | Synopsis | |
Alvin and the Chipmunks | Tim Hill | 14 December 2007 | Jason Lee David Cross Cameron Richardson Justin Long Matthew Gray Gubler Jesse McCartney |
Janice Karman Ross Bagdasarian Jr. |
20th Century Fox | Jon Vitti Will McRobb Chris Viscardi |
Animation Comedy Family |
Watch | In a tree farm, three musically inclined chipmunks, Alvin, Simon and Theodore, find their tree cut down and sent to Los Angeles. Once there, they meet the frustrated songwriter David Seville, and despite a poor house wrecking first impression, they impress him with their singing talent. Seeing the opportunity for success, both human and chipmunks make a pact for them to sing his songs. While that ambition proves a frustrating struggle with the difficult trio, the dream does come true after all. However, that success presents its own trials as their unscrupulous record executive, Ian Hawke, plans to break up this family to exploit the boys. Can Dave and the Chipmunks discover what they really value amid the superficial glamor around them? | |
American Psycho | Mary Harron | 14 April 2000 | Christian Bale Willem Dafoe Jared Leto Josh Lucas Samantha Mathis Matt Ross Bill Sage Chloë Sevigny Cara Seymour Justin Theroux Guinevere Turner Reese Witherspoon |
Edward R.
Pressman Chris Hanley Christian Halsey Solomon |
Lionsgate Films | Mary Harron | Crime Drama |
Watch | Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence. | |
Among Thieves | Paul H. Boge | 21 April 2009 | David
Dick Meghan Duffy Carey Smith Tyhr Trubiak Dean Harder |
Paul H.
Boge Timothy Horch Chris Radtke |
- | Paul H. Boge | Thriller War |
Watch | Three friends - a reporter, an oil analyst and a financial executive - reunite after ten years and accidentally uncover one of the key, hidden reasons for what motivated the war in Iraq. The trio struggles to present evidence to major media that America invaded Iraq to force oil sales from the Euro back to the Dollar to preserve US global monetary supremacy. Against incredible odds, the team must face their pasts, find willing sources to corroborate the story, and survive the conspirators as they push to bring the truth to light. | |
Arbitrage | Nicholas Jarecki | 14 May 2012 | Richard
Gere Susan Sarandon Tim Roth Brit Marling Laetitia Casta Nate Parker |
Laura
Bickford Kevin Turen Justin Nappi Robert Salerno Mohammed Alturki |
Lionsgate | Nicholas Jarecki | Drama Thriller |
Watch | Robert Miller is a successful financial businessman with a loving wife and a smart daughter ready to take over the family business. Professional secrets involving illegal fraudulent activities start coming out at the same time that Robert's personal secrets take a turn for the worse and threaten to derail everything he has achieved. | |
Atlas Shrugged: Part I | Paul Johansson | 15 April 2011 | Taylor
Schilling Grant Bowler |
John
Aglialoro Harmon Kaslow |
Rocky Mountain Pictures | John
Aglialoro Brian Patrick O'Toole |
Drama Mystery Science Fiction |
Watch | It was great to be alive, once, but the world was perishing. Factories were shutting down, transportation was grinding to a halt, granaries were empty--and key people who had once kept it running were disappearing all over the country. As the lights winked out and the cities went cold, nothing was left to anyone but misery. No one knew how to stop it, no one understood why it was happening - except one woman, the operating executive of a once mighty transcontinental railroad, who suspects the answer may rest with a remarkable invention and the man who created it - a man who once said he would stop the motor of the world. Everything now depends on finding him and discovering the answer to the question on the lips of everyone as they whisper it in fear: Who is John Galt? | |
Atlas Shrugged: Part III | J. James Manera | 12 September 2014 | Laura
Regan Kristoffer Polaha Joaquim de Almeida |
Harmon
Kaslow John Aglialoro |
Atlas Distribution Company | J. James
Manera Harmon Kaslow John Aglialoro |
Drama Mystery Science Fiction |
Watch | Approaching collapse, the nation's economy is quickly eroding. As crime and fear take over the countryside, the government continues to exert its brutal force against the nation's most productive who are mysteriously vanishing - leaving behind a wake of despair. One man has the answer. One woman stands in his way. Some will stop at nothing to control him. Others will stop at nothing to save him. He swore by his life. They swore to find him. Who is John Galt? | |
Bandits | Barry Levinson | 12 October 2001 | Bruce
Willis Billy Bob Thornton Cate Blanchett |
Barry
Levinson Michael Birnbaum |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Harley Peyton | Comedy Crime Drama |
Watch | Two convicts, one charismatic (Willis) and the other a hypochondriac (Thornton), break out of prison and immediately start a bank robbing spree, kidnapping bank managers, spending the night with their families, then going with the managers in the morning to rob the banks. Using a dim-witted stunt man as their getaway driver and lookout, the three successfully pull off several jobs (even gaining the attention of a television show about American criminals), and become known as «The Sleepover Bandits». Things are going great until the bank managers begin to realize that the robbers are non-violent and therefore no threat to them or their employees, changing the game for the Bandits. To add to the complications, a bored & unhappy housewife (Blanchett) ends up in the hands of the criminals, and begins to have romantic feelings for both Willis and Thornton, causing a sticky love triangle. | |
Barbarians at the Gate | Glenn Jordan | 20 March 1993 | James
Garner Jonathan Pryce Peter Riegert |
Ray Stark | HBO | Larry Gelbart | Biography Comedy Drama |
Watch | Self-made multi-millionaire F. Ross Johnson decides to take the tobacco and food conglomerate RJR Nabisco private in 1988 after receiving advance news of the likely market failure of the company's smokeless cigarette called Premier, the development of which had been intended to finally boost the company's stock price. | |
Boiler Room | Ben Younger | 18 February 2000 | Giovanni
Ribisi Vin Diesel Ben Affleck Nia Long Nicky Katt Ron Rifkin Tom Everett Scott Scott Caan |
Jennifer
Todd Suzanne Todd |
New Line Cinema | Ben Younger | Crime Drama Thriller |
Watch | Seth Davis is a college dropout running an illegal casino from his rented apartment. Driven by his domineering fathers disapproval at his illegitimate existence and his desire for serious wealth, Seth suddenly finds himself seduced by the opportunity to interview as a trainee stock broker from recent acquaintance Greg (Nicky Katt). Walking into the offices of JT Marlin, a small time brokerage firm on the outskirts of New York - Seth gets an aggressive cameo performance from Jay (Ben Affleck) that sets the tone for a firm clearly placing money above all else. Seth's fractured relationship with his father and flirtatious glances from love interest Abbie (Nia Long) are enough to keep Seth motivated in his new found career. As he begins to excel and develop a love for the hard sale and high commission, a few chance encounters leads Seth to question the legitimacy of the firms operations - placing him once again at odds with his father and what remains of his morality. With homages to Wall... | |
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America | Kevin Willmott | 15 February 2006 | Rupert
Pate Evamarii Johnson Larry Peterson |
Rick
Cowan Ollie Hall Sean Blake Victoria Goetz Benjamin Meade Andrew Herwitz Marvin Voth |
IFC Films | Kevin Willmott | Comedy Drama War |
Watch | Set in an contemporary alternative world where the Confederate States of America managed to win the American Civil War, a British film documentary examines the history of this nation. Beginning with its conquest of the northern states, the film covers the history of this state where racial enslavement became triumphant and the nation carried sinister designs of conquest. Interspersed throughout are various TV commercials of products of a virulent racist nature as well as public service announcements promoting this tyranny. Only at the end do you learn that there is less wholly imagined material in the film than you might suspect. | |
Capitalism: A Love Story | Michael Moore | 02 October 2009 | Michael
Moore William Black Jimmy Carter |
Anne
Moore Michael Moore |
Overture Films | - | Documentary | Watch | The film centers on the late-2000s financial crisis and the recovery stimulus, while putting forward an indictment of the current economic order in the United States and unfettered capitalism in general. Many topics are covered since the Wall Street's «casino mentality», to for-profit prisons; it also includes topics like Goldman Sachs' influence in Washington, D.C., the poverty-level wages of many workers, the large wave of home foreclosures, corporate-owned life insurance, and the consequences of «runaway greed». The film also wonders, in a religious way, if capitalism is a sin and if it is possible that Jesus would be a capitalist, in order to shine light on the ideological contradictions among evangelical conservatives who support free market ideals. | |
Cash | Stephen Milburn Anderson | 01 March 2010 | Sean
Bean Chris Hemsworth Victoria Profeta Mike Starr Michael Mantell Glenn Plummer Antony Thekkek |
Naveen
Chathappuram Stephen Milburn Anderson Prema Thekkek |
Roadside Attractions | Stephen Milburn Anderson | Comedy Crime Thriller |
Watch | A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a tumultuous adventure through the streets of Chicago, each are pulled deeper and deeper into a desperate spiral of deception and violence... All in the name of money. | |
Casino | Martin Scorsese | 22 November 1995 | Robert De
Niro Sharon Stone Joe Pesci |
Barbara De Fina | Universal Pictures | Nicholas
Pileggi Martin Scorsese |
Biography Crime Drama |
Watch | 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. | |
Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy | William
Cran Greg Barker |
24 June 2002 | David Ogden
Stiers Kenneth Baker Gary Becker |
Christopher
Buchanan William Cran |
- | - | Documentary History |
Watch | The Commanding Heights is a brilliant narrative history about the most powerful economic forces at work in the world today. The ideas that are shaping the future and the people who create them. Across the globe, it has become increasingly accepted dogma that economic activities should be dominated by market forces, not political concerns. With chapters on Europe, the US, Britain, the Third World, the Arab States, Asia, China, India, Latin America, and the former communist countries, Yergin and Stanislaw provide an incisive overview of the state of the economy, and of the battles between governments and markets in each region.The Commanding Heights explains a revolution which is unfolding before our very eyes. | |
Confessions of a Shopaholic | P. J. Hogan | 13 February 2009 | Isla
Fisher Hugh Dancy Krysten Ritter John Goodman Joan Cusack John Lithgow Leslie Bibb Julie Hagerty |
Jerry Bruckheimer | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Tim
Firth Tracey Jackson |
Comedy Romance |
Watch | Struggling with her debilitating obsession with shopping and the sudden collapse of her income source, Rebecca Bloomwood unintentionally lands a job writing for a financial magazine after a drunken letter-mailing mix-up. Ironically writing about the very consumer caution of which she herself has not abided, Rebecca's innovative comparisons and unconventional metaphors for economics grants her critical acclaim, public success, and the admiration of her supportive boss Luke. But as she draws closer to her ultimate goal of writing for renowned fashion magazine Alette, she questions her true ambitions and must determine if overcoming her «shopaholic» condition will bring her real happiness. | |
Daylight Robbery | Paris Leonti | 29 August 2008 | Paul
Nicholls Shaun Parkes Geoff Bell |
Paris
Leonti Nick O'Hagan Dean O'Toole Ivan Mctaggart James Johnson Flint |
Daylight Productions | Paris Leonti | Crime Drama Thriller |
Watch | Alex masterminds an ambitious plan to steal millions of untraceable cash that is stacked in the underground vaults of The London Exchange Bank, waiting for its last journey, Incineration. Lucky, Matty, Terry, Chubby, Norman and Jay make up his unlikely gang of robbers. Setting up their alibi, the gang check in for a flight and join in with thousands of England supporters that are part of a mass exodus to The World Cup Tournament in Germany. Instead of passing through to Departure Lounge, the gang head out to the car park, pile into a van and head for Central London where they spectacularly ram raid London Exchange Bank, blocking any exit for those caught up inside. But with an unexpected turn of events, their plan is hampered from the start and they are left with a whole lot more than just a bank robbery to deal with. | |
Dealers | Colin Bucksey | 15 September 1989 | Paul
McGann Rebecca De Mornay Derrick O'Connor John Castle Paul Guilfoyle Adrian Dunbar Sara Sugarman |
William P Cartlidge | J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors | Andrew MacLear | Drama | Watch | The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide by putting a slug through his head while seated at his place in the board room. Despite the high stakes, many of the firm's staff are eager to step into Tony's now-vacated shoes and get credit for saving the company. Daniel Pascoe, the leading trader at the firm, is convinced that he's first in line for the assignment, but the firm imports a new trader from America, Anna Schuman. Daniel is enraged and makes a point of trying to dig up as much dirt on Anna as he can, but things are going to take another turn. | |
Deux jours, une nuit (Two Days, One Night) |
Luc
Dardenne Jean-Pierre Dardenne |
20 May 2014 | Marion
Cotillard Fabrizio Rongione |
Luc
Dardenne Jean-Pierre Dardenne |
Cinéart
(Belgium) Diaphana Films (France) BIM Distribuzione (Italy) |
Luc
Dardenne Jean-Pierre Dardenne |
Drama | Watch | Sandra, a young Belgian mother, discovers that her workmates have opted for a significant pay bonus, in exchange for her dismissal. She has only one weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses so that she can keep her job. | |
Die Niklashauser Fart (The Niklashausen Journey) |
Rainer
Werner Fassbinder Michael Fengler |
26 October 1970 | Michael
König Hanna Schygulla Margit Carstensen Michael Gordon Günther Kaufmann |
Rainer
Werner Fassbinder Michael Fengler |
Kinowelt
Home Entertainment (2005) (Germany) (DVD) Raro Video (2008) (Italy) (DVD) (box set) Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) (1970) (West Germany) (TV) |
Rainer
Werner Fassbinder Michael Fengler |
Drama | - | Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the «Black Monk» in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The «Black Monk» suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary. | |
Die Rothschilds (The Rothschilds) |
Erich Waschneck | 17 July 1940 | Erich
Ponto Carl Kuhlmann Herbert Hübner Albert Florath Hans Stiebner Walter Franck Waldemar Leitgeb |
C.M. Köhn | UFA-Filmverleih
(Germany) International Historic Films |
Mirko
Jelusich C.M. Köhn Gerhard T. Buchholz T. Buck |
Biography Drama |
Watch | Anti-semitic Nazi propaganda «biography» of the Rothschilds, a German Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era. | |
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | Alex Gibney | 22 April 2005 | Andrew
Fastow Jeffrey Skilling Kenneth Lay Gray Davis |
Alex Gibney | Magnolia Pictures | Peter
Elkind Alex Gibney Bethany McLean |
Documentary | Watch | Enron dives from the seventh largest US company to bankruptcy in less than a year in this tale told chronologically. The emphasis is on human drama, from suicide to 20,000 people sacked: the personalities of Ken Lay (with Falwellesque rectitude), Jeff Skilling (he of big ideas), Lou Pai (gone with $250 M), and Andy Fastow (the dark prince) dominate. Along the way, we watch Enron game California's deregulated electricity market, get a free pass from Arthur Andersen (which okays the dubious mark-to-market accounting), use greed to manipulate banks and brokerages (Merrill Lynch fires the analyst who questions Enron's rise), and hear from both Presidents Bush what great guys these are. | |
Floored | James Allen Smith | 01 May 2009 | Bobby
Ansani Jeff Ansani Ron Beebe |
Joseph Gibbons | - | Andrew
McAllister James Allen Smith |
Documentary | Watch | Enter a world where pandemonium reigns and reckless ambition rules: the trading floors in the financial canyons of downtown Chicago. Here, men use strange hand signals to buy and sell everything from pork belly to soybeans while wearing the weight of our complex economy on their shoulders - along with their neon jackets. It's a physical, bruising place, one where a slight gain creates heroes, rich beyond what their high school educations should ever afford. But the wrong move on the wrong day can ruin lives. At a time when millions have lost fortunes in the fickle stock market and fear abounds about the faltering financial system, FLOORED is a gripping, honest look behind the curtain of the trading floor that few have ever seen. | |
Freakonomics | Heidi
Ewing Alex Gibney Seth Gordon Rachel Grady Eugene Jarecki Morgan Spurlock |
03 July 2010 | James
Ransone Tempestt Bledsoe Morgan Spurlock |
Chad
Troutwine Chris Romano Dan O'Meara |
Magnolia Pictures | Peter
Bull Alex Gibney Jeremy Chilnick Morgan Spurlock Eugene Jarecki Heidi Ewing Rachel Grady Seth Gordon |
Documentary | Watch | A collection of documentaries that explores the hidden side of human nature through the use of the science of economics. based on the book «Freakonomics» by economist Steven D. Levitt and writer Stephen J. Dubner. | |
Funny Money | Leslie Greif | 26 January 2007 | Chevy
Chase Penelope Ann Miller Armand Assante Christopher McDonald |
Harry
Basil Heike Bösche Sven Clement Ray Cooney Jeff Franklin Barbara Kearney Philip von Alvensleben |
ThinkFilm | Harry
Basil Leslie Greif Ray Cooney |
Comedy | Watch | Henry Perkins, a mild-mannered accountant, accidentally trades briefcases with another man, to find out that there's five million dollars inside. Henry tells his unsuspecting wife of their new-found fortune, but she doesn't embrace it as well as he does. Soon they're joined by their best friends, a cop on the take, a cop on the hunt, and the dreaded Mr. Big, who has come to claim his million dollars. | |
Glengarry Glen Ross | James Foley | 02 October 1992 | Al
Pacino Jack Lemmon Alec Baldwin |
Jerry
Tokofsky Stanley R. Zupnik |
New Line Cinema | David Mamet | Drama | Watch | The film depicts two days in the lives of four real estate salesmen who are supplied with names and phone numbers of leads and regularly use underhanded and dishonest tactics to make sales. Many of the leads rationed out by the office manager lack either the money or the desire to actually invest in land. | |
Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese | 19 September 1990 | Robert De
Niro Ray Liotta Joe Pesci Lorraine Bracco Paul Sorvino |
Irwin Winkler | Warner Bros. | Nicholas
Pileggi Martin Scorsese |
Biography Crime Drama |
Watch | Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy. | |
Haven | Frank E. Flowers | 15 September 2006 | Orlando
Bloom Zoë Saldaña Victor Rasuk Bill Paxton Stephen Dillane Anthony Mackie |
Robbie
Brenner Bob Yari |
Haven
Distribution Freestyle Releasing |
Frank E. Flowers | Crima Drama |
Watch | In Cayman Island, the daughter of a powerful man - Andrea - and the fisherman Shy are in a deep but secret love, hidden from Andrea's parents. When Andrea's father sails in a fish-trip, they have a night of love at Andrea's home; however they sleep and are surprised by the arrival of her family in the morning. Later, Andrea's brother Hammer throws acid on the face of Shy and spends four months in prison. In Miami, the dirty businessman Carl Ridley is chased by Federal agents and escapes with his teenage daughter Pippa to Cayman Island trying to reach his lawyer Mr. Allen. Pippa meets the small time thief Fritz sleeping in her room and he invites her to go a party. Before leaving the condo, Fritz sees Carl counting lots of money. Fritz owes money to the dangerous drug dealer Richie Rich and tells him about the fortune Carl has. Along a Friday 13th night, their lives entwine in a chain of tragic events. | |
In Time | Andrew Niccol | 28 October 2011 | Amanda
Seyfried Justin Timberlake Alex Pettyfer Cillian Murphy |
Andrew
Niccol Marc Abraham Amy Israel Kristel Laiblin Eric Newman |
20th Century Fox | Andrew Niccol | Action Science Fiction Thriller |
Watch | Welcome to a world where time has become the ultimate currency. You stop aging at 25, but there's a catch: you're genetically-engineered to live only one more year, unless you can buy your way out of it. The rich «earn» decades at a time (remaining at age 25), becoming essentially immortal, while the rest beg, borrow or steal enough hours to make it through the day. When a man from the wrong side of the tracks is falsely accused of murder, he is forced to go on the run with a beautiful hostage. Living minute to minute, the duo's love becomes a powerful tool in their war against the system. | |
Indecent Proposal | Adrian Lyne | 07 April 1993 | Robert
Redford Demi Moore Woody Harrelson Oliver Platt Seymour Cassel |
Sherry Lansing | Paramount Pictures | Amy Holden Jones | Drama Romance |
Watch | A young couple very much in love are married and have started their respective careers, she as a real estate broker, he as an architect. She finds the perfect spot to build his dream house, and they get loans to finance it. When the recession hits, they stand to lose everything they own, so they go to Vegas to have one shot at winning the money they need. After losing at the tables, they are approached by a millionaire who offers them a million dollars for a night with the wife. Though the couple agrees that this is a way out of their financial dilemma, it threatens to destroy their relationship. | |
Inequality for All | Jacob Kornbluth | 24 April 2015 | Robert Reich Lily Tomlin Candice Bergen |
Jennifer
Chaiken Sara Dosa Sebastian Dungan Chelsea Matter Stephen M. Silberstein |
RADiUS-TWC | - | Documentary | Watch | Robert Reich, author, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, official in three administrations, including United States Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, narrates in the film that in the wake of the 2007–08 financial crisis and the rise of the Occupy movement,the issue of income inequality has gained public awareness. Over the last thirty years, before the latest recession, the U.S. economy double, nonetheless, according to this documentary, these gains only went to the top 1% of earners.The 400 richest Americans now own more wealth than the bottom 150 million combined. While this level of inequality poses a serious risk to all Americans, regardless of income level, much of the rhetoric on this subject has been fueled by anger and resentment from a frustrated middle class who feel their birthright—the American Dream—has been taken away from them. | |
Inside Job | Charles Ferguson | 02 February 2010 | Matt
Damon William Ackma Daniel Alpert |
Audrey
Marrs Charles Ferguson |
Sony Pictures Classics | - | Documentary Crime |
Watch | Welcome to a world where time has become the ultimate currency. You stop aging at 25, but there's a catch: you're genetically-engineered to live only one more year, unless you can buy your way out of it. The rich «earn» decades at a time (remaining at age 25), becoming essentially immortal, while the rest beg, borrow or steal enough hours to make it through the day. When a man from the wrong side of the tracks is falsely accused of murder, he is forced to go on the run with a beautiful hostage. Living minute to minute, the duo's love becomes a powerful tool in their war against the system. | |
Iron Man | Jon Favreau | 2 de maio de 2008 | Robert
Downey Jr. Terrence Howard Jeff Bridges Shaun Toub Gwyneth Paltrow |
Avi
Arad Kevin Feige |
Paramount Pictures | - | Action Adventure Sci-Fi |
Watch | After being held captive in an Afghan cave, an engineer creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil. | |
It Happened Here | Kevin
Brownlow Andrew Mollo |
08 August 1966 | Pauline
Murray Sebastian Shaw Bart Allison Reginald Marsh |
Kevin
Brownlow Andrew Mollo |
United Artists | Kevin
Brownlow Andrew Mollo |
Drama Science Fiction War |
Watch | It is the Second World War. The Nazis have invaded Britain. There is a split between the resistance and those who prefer to collaborate with the invaders for a quiet life. The protagonist, a nurse, is caught in the middle. | |
Ivory Tower | Andrew Rossi | 04 May 2015 | Elizabeth
Armstrong Richard Arum Jamshed Bharucha |
Andrew
Rossi Kate Novack |
Participant
Media Paramount Pictures Samuel Goldwyn Films |
Andrew Rossi | Documentary History |
Watch | The film questions the value of higher education in an era when the price of college has increased more than any other service in the United States. It explores the different types of higher education around the nation. These include: community colleges, four year universities, vocational schools, online courses, and less traditional forms of education. The film argues that the high cost of tuition is at a breaking point. | |
Jamaican Mafia (2015) | Vafomba Donzo | 27 November 2015 | David
Squeeze Annakie John Bling Bennett Robert Braxton |
Dale Foti
Elvis Griffiths Orville Matherson Dale Foti |
- | Mykal Fax | Crime | Watch | Zoolian Anderson (Zoo-Zoo), a frustrated Car Salesman who desperately desires riches and respect, and discovers he's the nephew of a powerful crime-boss when he decides to quit the corporate world to join the illicit organization better known as the 'Jamaican Mafia'. | |
La baie des anges (Bay of Angels) |
Jacques Demy | 23 November 1964 | Jeanne
Moreau Claude Mann |
Paul-Edmond Decharme | Pathé
Consortium Cinéma (1963) (France) (theatrical) (as Consortium Pathé) Pathé Contemporary Films (1964) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled) |
Jacques Demy | Drama Romance |
Watch | Jean Fournier (Claude Mann) is a young bank employee who is encouraged by his friend Caron to take an interest in gambling. After winning money in a game of roulette, he decides to vacation in Nice, where he falls in love with Jackie (Jeanne Moreau), divorced and mother to a child she rarely visits. Though Jackie also enjoys Jean's company, she constantly warns him that her passion for gambling will always be greater. Jean becomes jealous of not having all of her attention and has mixed feelings about gambling, yet he too is to some extent seduced by this new life style that involves taking risks. Despite Jackie's cool façade and alleged control over her choices - she claims she is unattached to the money itself, but rather the thrill of the game, and doesn't mind going from rich to poor in a matter of seconds -, she soon begins to reveal her vulnerability and the emptiness she often feels as result of her addiction. | |
La comunidad (Common Wealth) |
Álex de la Iglesia | 29 September 2000 | Carmen
Maura Emilio Gutiérrez Caba Sancho Gracia Enrique Villén Eduardo Gómez |
Andrés Vicente Gómez | Lolafilms Distribución | Jorge
Guerricaechevarría Álex de la Iglesia |
Comedy Crime Horror |
Watch | La Comunidad is a frenetic black comedy set in a decrepit old house in the center of Madrid. One of the house's new residents is Julia Garcia, a real estate agent who discovers almost 15 million dollars hidden at the apartment of her dead neighbor. She decides to take the winnings and run. It turns out that everyone in the building knew about the money and agreed to share it amongst themselves, a plan severely compromised by Julia's desire to keep the money for herself. | |
Ladrón que Roba a Ladrón | Joe Menendez | 31 July 2007 | Fernando
Colunga JoJo Henrickson Miguel Varoni Ivonne Montero |
Roni Eguia
Menendez James M. McNamara Ben Odell |
Lionsgate | JoJo Henrickson | Action Adventure Comedy |
Watch | Emilio, a Colombian con man, arrives in LA with two weeks to complete his plan to rob a former colleague, Claudio Silvestrini, who's made a fortune using infomercials to peddle snake oil to Latin immigrants. Emilio's friend Alejandro, who sells pirated DVDs, has assembled a team of amateurs, who, as Alejandro says, will go unnoticed because they're immigrants. The team must gain entry to Silvestrini's well-guarded mansion, steal two keys to access a vault, and then get the money off the property. A father and his tomboy daughter, a nervous Cuban actor, a techie, and a muscle man make up the team, plus Alejandro has been courting Silvestrini's nanny. Will they be enough? | |
Let's Make Money | Erwin Wagenhofer | 20 October 2008 | Mark
Mobius Mirko Kovats K. Sujatha Raaju |
Katharina
Bogensberger Helmut Grasser |
Celluloid
Dreams (International Sales) Filmladen GmbH (Austria - Theatrical) Frenetic Films (Switzerland) |
Erwin Wagenhofer | Documentary | Watch | Most of us don't know where their money is. However, one thing is for certain, it's is not in the bank to which we entrusted it. The bank and our money is already a part of the cycle of the global money market. | |
Made | Jon Favreau | 31 August 2001 | Vince
Vaughn Jon Favreau Joe Goossen |
Peter
Billingsley Jon Favreau John H. Starke Vince Vaughn |
Artisan Entertainment | - | Comedy Crime Drama |
Watch | Two aspiring boxers, lifelong friends, get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group. | |
Mafia (1996) | Aziz Sajawal | 24 May 1996 | Ishrat
Ali Somy Ali Ali Asghar |
Vijay Mehta | Prathima Films | Yunus Sajawal | Crime Drama |
- | Gowda is a goonda (an Indian Mafioso) whose octopus like tentacles have a hold on illegal numbers game (matka), brewing and distribution of illicit liquor, smuggling of firearms and other contraband. To aid and abet him, he has the cooperation of a senior police officer, a minister and the entire official machinery under their control. | |
Margin Call | J.C. Chandor | 21 October 2011 | Kevin
Spacey Paul Bettany Jeremy Irons Zachary Quinto Penn Badgley Simon Baker Mary McDonnell Demi Moore Stanley Tucci |
Joe
Jenckes Robert Ogden Barnum Corey Moosa Michael Benaroya Neal Dodson Zachary Quinto |
Lionsgate Roadside Attractions Benaroya Pictures |
J. C. Chandor | Drama Thriller |
Watch | Margin Call is a 2011 American independent drama film written and directed by J.C. Chandor. The story takes place over a 36-hour period at a large Wall Street investment bank and highlights the initial stages of the financial crisis of 2007-08. In focus are the actions taken by a group of employees during the subsequent financial collapse. | |
Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenderst | James Scurlock | 10 March 2006 | Mark
Mumma Ronald Reagan Elizabeth Warren Chris Barrett Louis C.K. Dave Ramsey |
James Scurlock | Magnolia
Home Entertainment Netflix Red Envelope Entertainment Truly Indie |
James Scurlock | Documentary | Watch | Maxed Out takes us on a journey deep inside the American debt-style, where everything seems okay as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. Sure, most of us may have that sinking feeling that something isn't quite right, but we're told not to worry. After all, there's always more credit! Maxed Out shows how the modern financial industry really works. | |
Money for Nothing | Ramón Menéndez | 10 September 1993 | John
Cusack Debi Mazar Michael Madsen Benicio del Toro |
Tom Musca | Buena Vista Pictures | Ramón
Menéndez Tom Musca Carol Sobieski |
Comedy Crime Drama |
Watch | When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash. | |
Moneyball | Bennett Miller | 23 September 2011 | Brad Pitt Jonah Hill Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Michael De
Luca Rachael Horovitz Brad Pitt |
Columbia Pictures | Steven Zaillian Aaron Sorkin |
Biography Drama Sport |
Watch | In 2001, General Manager Billy Beane's Oakland A's lose to the Yankees in the playoffs then lose three stars to free agency. How can Beane field a competitive team when the A's player salaries total less than a third of the rich teams'? To the consternation of his scouts, Beane hires and listens to Peter Brand, a recent Yale grad who evaluates players using Bill James' statistical approach. Beane assembles a team of no names who, on paper, can get on base and score runs. Then, Beane's manager, Art Howe, won't use the players as Beane wants. Can Beane circumvent Howe, win games, make it to the 2002 Series, and stand baseball's hidebound conventions on their heads? | |
New in Town | Jonas Elmer | 30 January 2009 | Renée
Zellweger Harry Connick Jr., Siobhan Fallon Hogan J.K. Simmons Frances Conroy |
Peter
Safran Darryl Taja Tracey E. Edmonds Paul Brooks Phyllis Laing Andrew Paquin |
Lionsgate | C. Jay
Cox Ken Rance |
Comedy Romance |
Watch | A high-powered consultant in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle is sent to a middle of nowhere town in Minnesota to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant. After enduring a frosty reception from the locals, icy roads and freezing weather, she warms up to the small town's charm, and eventually finds herself being accepted by the community. When she's ordered to close down the plant and put the entire community out of work, she's forced to reconsider her goals and priorities, and finds a way to save the town. | |
Other People's Money | Norman Jewison | 18 October 1991 | Danny
DeVito Gregory Pec Penelope Ann Miller |
Norman
Jewison Ric Kidney |
Warner Bros. | Alvin Sargent | Comedy Drama Romance |
Watch | A young couple very much in love are married and have started their respective careers, she as a real estate broker, he as an architect. She finds the perfect spot to build his dream house, and they get loans to finance it. When the recession hits, they stand to lose everything they own, so they go to Vegas to have one shot at winning the money they need. After losing at the tables, they are approached by a millionaire who offers them a million dollars for a night with the wife. Though the couple agrees that this is a way out of their financial dilemma, it threatens to destroy their relationship. | |
Other People's Money | Norman Jewison | 18 October 1991 | Danny
DeVito Gregory Peck Penelope Ann Miller |
Norman
Jewison Ric Kidney |
Warner Bros. | Alvin Sargent | Comedy Drama Romance |
Watch | Lawrence Garfield is a corporate raider known as Larry the liquidator because he buys up businesses and sells their assets. He has his eyes on a wire and cable company. He meets with Jorgensen, the company President and tells him his usual plan. Jorgensen tells him, he won't do that. So Garfield plans to challenge him for control at the next stockholder's meeting. So Jorgensen asks his step daughter, Kate, a lawyer to help. She meets with Garfield and he is enamored with her but he still sets out on his plan and a battle to see who can get the most shares ensues. | |
People's Republic of Capitalism | Tom Bettag | 9 July 2008 | - | - | - | - | Documentary | - | In this in-depth four-part documentary, Ted Koppel examines China's new status as an economic superpower and its complex relationship with the United States. He focuses on Chongqing-a city in Sichuan Province with a burgeoning population and big plans for the future. While peasants in outlying areas eke out a meager living, the rising middle class revels in new riches, challenging traditional ideas about religion, sexuality, and consumerism. All this reverberates here in America, where companies scramble for cheap labor, workers find jobs shipped overseas, and shoppers snap up Chinese-made goods at big box retailers.A year in the making, The People's Republic of Capitalism shows China's extraordinary changes through the eyes of its industrialists, assembly line workers, coal miners, taxi drivers, and farmers. Along the way, it provides surprising perspectives on a country fast becoming America's greatest economic rival and biggest business partner. | |
Promised Land | Gus Van Sant | 04 January 2013 | Matt
Damon Frances McDormand John Krasinski |
Chris
Moore Matt Damon John Krasinski |
Focus Features | John
Krasinski Matt Damon |
Drama | Watch | A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources. | |
Rogue Trader | James Dearden | 26 June 1999 | Ewan
McGregor Anna Friel |
Janette
Day James Dearden Paul Raphael |
Pathé
(UK) Cinemax (USA) |
James Dearden | Crime Drama History |
Watch | Ambitious, wide-eyed boy Nick Leeson is determined to rise in the world and be more than a simple bank clerk. When his employers, Barings Bank, offer him the opportunity to go to Jakarta to sort out a problem that nobody else wants, he seizes the opportunity with both hands. In Jakarta he meets and marries Lisa and together they go to Singapore when the bank offers him the job of setting up their future options trading operation. To save money the bank allows Nick to operate both the floor trading and the back office facilities and force him to employ cheap, unskilled staff. His first year of trading is a big success and he makes large profits for the bank even though he has illegally broken trading rules and secretly covered up losses. Given more freedom, even more money and continuing unchecked, Nick starts to make losses and again attempts to trade out of them but this time he comes unstuck as his illegal trading generates even bigger losses. After the death of his unborn child... | |
Rollover | Alan J. Pakula | 11 December 1981 | Jane
Fonda Kris Kristofferson Hume Cronyn |
Bruce Gilbert | Warner Bros. | David Shaber | Drama Mystery Romance |
Watch | An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos. Fonda stars as former film star Lee Winters, who inherits a multimillion-dollar company when her corporate bigwig husband is murdered. She teams up with banker Hubbell Smith (Kris Kristofferson) in order to find her husband's killer and survive in the world of high-stakes international finance. | |
Scarface | Brian De Palma | 9 December 1983 | Al Pacino | Martin
Bregman |
Universal Pictures | Oliver Stone |
Crime Drama |
Watch | In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed. | |
Slowdown | Saman Yaghmai-Aledavoud | 17 July 2011 | Ali
Saam JT Alexander Glen Vaughan Myles Cranford Sydney Hunt |
Brian
Pasternak Ali Saam Saman Yaghmai-Aledavoud Piran Zarifian |
- | Ali
Saam Saman Yaghmai-Aledavoud |
Short Action Drama |
Watch | In the midst of a recession, a quiet homeless man has taken it upon himself to befriend a charming young bank teller and, through an unexpected series of events, ultimately reveals the deeper connection that the two share. | |
Spur der Steine | Frank BeyerFrank Beyer | 01 July 1966 | Manfred
Krug Krystyna Stypułkowska Eberhard Esche |
Dieter Dormeier | PROGRESS Film-Verleih | Frank
Beyer Karl-Georg Egel |
Comedy Drama Romance |
Watch | Hannes Balla is the foreman of a group of building construction workers at the large construction site «Schkona» in the GDR. They spend most of their time working hard and drinking harder - to some they are fun, to some they are a public nuisance. Things get more complicated when the good-looking Kati Klee is employed as a young technician, and the ambitious new Party Secretary, Werner Horrath, aims to boost work efficiency and downsize Balla's ego. Kati slowly warms up to Werner, but is also attracted to Balla's nonconformity. A contemporary movie about work, love, and everything in between. | |
Subprime | James Repici | 21 June 2011 | Ken
Baranda Adam Lopez Patrick A. McCall Fernando Martinez Chris Greene Geovanni Gopradi |
Darius
Amendolia Bill Cogan Frank Provenzano James Repici Nikki Willson |
Synkronized | Darius Amendolia James Repici |
Drama | Watch | The year is 2001 and both David's life and the mortgage industry are in balance. After the attacks on 9/11 the stock markets shut down for over a week marking its biggest decline since the great depression. America's economy is in the tank and the mortgage industry's response is easy lending and easier money. It was the dawn of the biggest boom in the mortgage industry's history and a young and naive David Martin was interviewing at a chop shop brokerage called Empire Funding. Once hired, David joins an unsavory group of unethical mortgage brokers led by Empire's manipulative and controlling owner, Michael Banco. It is here where David is exposed to the mortgage industry's veritable group of crooks, cons and cheats - Realtors, Appraisers and Investors - and they all have a con of their own. David is soon faced with the decision of abandoning what he knows is right, for big money and a sense of self-worth and accomplishment. | |
Thank You for Smoking | Jason Reitman | 14 April 2006 | Aaron
Eckhart Maria Bello Cameron Bright Adam Brody Sam Elliott Katie Holmes |
David O. Sacks | Fox Searchlight Pictures | Jason Reitman Monica Church |
Comedy Drama |
Watch | Nick Naylor is a handsome, smooth-talking tobacco lobbyist and the vice-president of a tobacco lobby called the «Academy of Tobacco Studies», which for 15 years has been «researching» the link between tobacco smoking and lung cancer. They claim that their research-funded primarily by tobacco companies-has found no definitive evidence of any linkage. Naylor's job consists mainly of reporting the questionable research of the «Academy» to the public and defending Big Tobacco on television programs by questioning opposing health claims and advocating personal choice. | |
The Ascent of Money | Adrian Pennick | 17 November 2008 | Gareth
Armstrong Niall Ferguson Richard Lintern |
- | - | - | Documentary | Watch | Niall Ferguson takes us on a historical adventure through the ascent of money, applying fact and opinion throughout. | |
The Babysitters | David Ross | 09 May 2008 | Katherine
Waterston John Leguizamo Cynthia Nixon Andy Comeau |
Kathy
DeMarco Jason Dubin Jennifer Dubin John Leguizamo Cora Olson |
Peace Arch Releasing | David Ross | Drama | Watch | Seventeen-year-old Shirley (Katherine Waterston) is a good student who works as a babysitter in order to make money for college. One night Michael (John Leguizamo), a father Shirley works for, confesses he's unhappy with married life. Shirley has a crush on Michael, and seizes this moment to kiss him. Michael is so happy he presents Shirley with a big tip, which gives her an idea. Shirley plans to make extra money by setting up her teenage friends with other unhappy fathers. | |
The Bank | Robert Connolly | 06 September 2001 | David
Wenham Anthony LaPaglia Sibylla Budd |
John Maynard | Madman Entertainment | Robert Connolly | Drama Thriller |
Watch | A young man fascinated with the workings of the world of banking forms an alliance with an unscrupulous corporate predator in this drama. Jim Doyle (David Wenham) developed an interest in finance while he was a young boy growing up in a small Australian town, and as an adult he and his partners have developed BTSE (Bank Training Simulation Experiment), a sophisticated computer program that can anticipate the ups and downs of the world's money markets. | |
The Big Short | Adam McKay | 11 December 2015 | Christian
Bale Steve Carell Ryan Gosling Brad Pitt Melissa Leo Hamish Linklater John Magaro Rafe Spall Jeremy Strong Finn Wittrock Marisa Tomei |
Dede
Gardner Jeremy Kleiner Arnon Milchan Brad Pitt |
Paramount Pictures | Charles
Randolph Adam McKay |
Biography Comedy Drama |
Watch | Three separate but parallel stories of the U.S mortgage housing crisis of 2005 are told. Michael Burry, an eccentric ex-physician turned one-eyed Scion Capital hedge fund manager, has traded traditional office attire for shorts, bare feet and a Supercuts haircut. He believes that the US housing market is built on a bubble that will burst within the next few years. Autonomy within the company allows Burry to do largely as he pleases, so Burry proceeds to bet against the housing market with the banks, who are more than happy to accept his proposal for something that has never happened in American history. The banks believe that Burry is a crackpot and therefore are confident in that they will win the deal. Jared Vennett with Deutschebank gets wind of what Burry is doing and, as an investor believes he too can cash in on Burry's beliefs. An errant telephone call to FrontPoint Partners gets this information into the hands of Mark Baum, an idealist who is fed up with the corruption in the ... | |
The Bonfire of the Vanities | Brian De Palma | 01 October 1987 | Tom
Hanks Bruce Willis Melanie Griffith Morgan Freeman |
Brian De Palma | Warner Bros. Pictures | Michael Cristofer | Comedy Drama Romance |
Watch | Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss. | |
The Company Man | John Wells | 21 January 2011 | Ben
Affleck Kevin Costner Chris Cooper Tommy Lee Jones |
John
Wells Paula Weinstein Claire Rudnick Polstein |
The Weinstein Company | John Wells | Drama | Watch | When the multi-billion dollar publicly held shipbuilding corporation Global Transportation Systems, or GTX, is downsized in the midst of the recession, many employees are fired, including Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck). Walker is a white-collar, corporate ladder-climbing employee with a six-figure salary, a wife, and a teenage son and younger daughter. | |
The Corporation | Mark Achbar Jennifer Abbott |
10 September 2003 | Mikela
Jay Rob Beckwermert Christopher Gora Nina Jones Richard Kopycinski Karen Lam Sean Lang |
Mark
Achbar Bart Simpson |
Zeitgeist Films | Joel
Bakan Harold Crooks Mark Achbar |
Documentary History |
Watch | Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it. | |
The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest | Mick Jackson | 11 October 2002 | Adam
Garcia Rosario Dawson Jake Busey |
Trevor
Albert Kym Bye Michele Imperato Neil A. Machlis Harold Ramis |
- | - | Comedy | Watch | Andy, a successful marketing guy quits his job, because he feels disconnected with the values about work he learned from his father. He gets a new job at a top notch research facility, where he quickly makes a powerful enemy who makes him volunteer for a nearly impossible project: The $99 Personal Computer. He recruits the only available guys at the lab, three sociopaths. Together they really compile a revolutionary PC for $99, but then they become the victims of a venture capitalist and Andy's old foe from the research lab. Can he and his new friends find a way to overcome the problems? | |
The Girl in the Café | David Yates | 25 June 2005 | Bill
Nighy Kelly Macdonald Marit Velle Kile |
Hilary Bevan Jones | BBC
(UK) HBO (US) |
Richard Curtis | Drama Romance |
Watch | A May-December comedy becomes a political drama. Lawrence, a spindly, self-effacing civil servant, is a senior researcher for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, preparing for a G-8 summit that will determine the scope of the world's effort to reduce extreme poverty. In a crowded café, he chats awkwardly with Gina, a young Scot with time on her hands. They share a couple of meals, and he invites her to accompany him to the summit in Reykjavík. Once there, as romance blooms, Gina's past, Lawrence's work and proclivity to compromise, and the presence of ministers and presidents spur her to act. | |
The Girlfriend Experience | Steven Soderbergh | 22 May 2009 | Sasha
Grey Chris Santos Glenn Kenny Peter Zizzo |
Mark
Cuban Gregory Jacobs Todd Wagner |
Magnolia Pictures | Brian
Koppelman David Levien |
Drama | Watch | Chelsea (Sasha Grey) is a high-priced $2,000-an-hour call girl in Manhattan, offering a «girlfriend experience»: she'll dress with the client in mind, go to dinner and a movie, listen attentively to talk about work and finances, and she'll provide sex. It's October, 2008: a presidential election nears and the economy is in free fall. She has a boyfriend, Chris (Chris Santos), who's a personal trainer. We are shown five non-consecutive days in Chelsea's life. She's working on her Web page, talking to image consultants, and being interviewed by a reporter. She asks clients when their birthdays are and uses that for an astrological prediction. She's drawn to a new client, a writer from L.A. Should she break her rules for him? What if it risks her relationship with Chris? Should she invest in gold? | |
The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola | 24 March 1972 | Marlon
Brando Al Pacino James Caan Richard Castellano Robert Duvall Sterling Hayden John Marley Richard Conte Diane Keaton |
Albert S. Ruddy | Paramount Pictures | Mario
Puzo Francis Ford Coppola |
Crime Drama |
Watch | The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. | |
The Godfather: Part II | Francis Ford Coppola | 20 December 1974 | Al Pacino Robert Duvall Diane Keaton Robert De Niro Talia Shire Morgana King John Cazale Marianna Hill Lee Strasberg |
Francis Ford Coppola | Paramount Pictures | Francis Ford
Coppola Mario Puzo |
Crime Drama |
Watch | The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe, Nevada to pre-revolution 1958 Cuba. | |
The Godfather: Part III | Francis Ford Coppola | 25 December 1990 | Al Pacino Diane Keaton Talia Shire Andy García Eli Wallach Joe Mantegna Bridget Fonda George Hamilton Sofia Coppola |
Francis Ford Coppola | Paramount Pictures | Mario
Puzo Francis Ford Coppola |
Crime Drama |
Watch | In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in New York and Italy in 1979, aging Mafia don Michael Corleone seeks to avow for his sins while taking a young protégé under his wing. | |
The Iron Lady | Phyllida Lloyd | 6 January 2012 | Meryl
Streep Jim Broadbent Iain Glen Olivia Colman Anthony Head Richard E. Grant |
Damian Jones | 20th Century
Fox (U.K.) The Weinstein Company (U.S.A.) Icon Productions (Australia) |
- | Biography Drama History |
Watch | An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister. | |
The Method | Marcelo Piñeyro | 23 September 2005 | Eduardo
Noriega Najwa Nimri Eduard Fernández |
Ricardo
García Arrojo Gerardo Herrero Francisco Ramos Alicia Tellería |
Palm Pictures | Mateo Gil
Marcelo Piñeyro |
Drama | Watch | On a troubled day in Madrid, with strike and protest against the World Bank and the IMF on the streets, seven candidates are put together in a meeting room in front of notebooks by a secretary as part of a selection process for one important position in a Spanish corporation. They fulfill another application form informing that they would be submitted to the Grönholm Test. While speculating about the possible existence of hidden cameras and microphones, the test begins and they read a message on the screen telling that one of them is not a candidate but an employee from the HR analyzing their attitudes. Along the day, the group is submitted to tests that eliminate each candidate until the final dispute between the two last ones. | |
The Pursuit of Happyness | Gabriele Muccino | 15 December 2006 | Will Smith
Jaden Smith Thandie Newton Brian Howe Dan Castellaneta James Karen Kurt Fuller Takayo Fischer |
Will
Smith Todd Black Jason Blumenthal James Lassiter Steve Tisch |
Columbia Pictures | - | Biography Drama |
Watch | In 2001, corporate raider Gordon Gecko completes a prison sentence for money laundering. No one is there to meet him. Jump seven years: Gecko is promoting his book, his estranged daughter Winnie is a political muckraker engaged to Jake Moore, a hot-shot Wall Street trader, and an old nemesis of Gecko's, Bretton James, devours the firm Jake works for. When Jake's mentor takes his life, Jake wants revenge and Gordon may be the perfect ally. With the fiscal crisis of September 2008 as background, can Jake maintain Winnie's love, broker a rapprochement with her father, get his revenge, and find funds for a green-energy project he champions; or will greed trump all? | |
The Recess Ends | Austin
Chu Brian Chu |
30 September 2009 | Austin Chu Brian Chu |
- | - | - | Documentary | Watch | One brother gets laid off and convinces his younger brother to quit his job and embark on a fifty state journey through America filming a documentary on the economy and the recession. This film documents the communities and the people they met along the five month journey. | |
The Rover | David Michôd | 18 May 2014 | Guy
Pearce Robert Pattinson Scoot McNairy |
David
Linde Liz Watts David Michôd |
Roadshow Films | David Michôd | Crime Drama |
Watch | Ten years after a global economic collapse, a cold-blooded drifter traverses the scorched Australian outback on a mission to track down the men who stole his last remaining possession - his car. When he crosses paths with a badly wounded member of the gang, he takes the vulnerable, naive young man along as his unwitting accomplice. | |
The Wolf of Wall Street | Martin Scorsese | 17 January 2014 | Leonardo
DiCaprio Jonah Hill Margot Robbie Matthew McConaughey |
Martin
Scorsese Leonardo DiCaprio Riza Aziz Joey McFarland Emma Tillinger Koskoff |
Paramount Pictures | Terence Winter | Biography Comedy Crime Drama |
Watch | The story is based on facts. It tells the adventures of a broker, Jordan Belfort, who made a fortune in the stock market manipulations and selling by his company a junk shares. Poor guy who decides to become a stockbroker finally earns a fortune, but by his unfair business, so he starts with interest of FBI. | |
Tokyo Mafia (1995) | Seiichi Shirai | 1 December 1995 | Riki
Takeuchi Masayuki Imai Reiko Yasuhara |
John
O'Donnell Kaeko Sakamoto Stephanie Shalofsky Eric P. Sherman |
- | Clark
Cheng Stephen Krueger Kazuhiko Murakami Eric P. Sherman |
Crime Action |
- | Ginya Yabuki is a successful criminal on the fringes of Kabukicho, dealing in whale meat and flash memory chips with a small group of six comrades. But it wasn't always like this. Yabuki used to be a member of the Yamaryu crime syndicate. However, by cozying up to the boss he earned himself a major beat down from the 2nd in command of the Yamaryu group, Iwagami. Nowadays, Yabuki is content to make his cabbage in deals with the various criminal organizations around Tokyo, including the Chinese mafia (who have a habit of cutting off limbs of people who oppose them), and spreading the cash around the guys in his little group - including some white dude named 'Smith'. But, as the money rolls in his small cadre starts to grow, and his old Yakuza connections start to get interested in Yabuki's goings-ons. | |
Too Big to Fail | Curtis Hanson | 23 May 2011 | James
Woods John Heard William Hurt |
Ezra Swerdlow | HBO | - | Drama History News |
Watch | Too Big to Fail chronicles the 2008 financial meltdown, focusing on the actions of U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to contain the problems during the period of August 2008 to October 13, 2008. Dick Fuld , CEO of Lehman Brothers, is seeking external investment, but investors are wary as Lehman is seriously exposed to toxic housing assets and the Treasury is ideologically opposed to offering any sort of bailout as it did for Bear Stearns. | |
Too Big to Fail | Curtis Hanson | 23 May 2011 | William
Hurt Edward Asner Billy Crudup Paul Giamatti Topher Grace Cynthia Nixon Bill Pullman Tony Shalhoub James Woods |
Ezra Swerdlow | HBO Films | Peter Gould | Drama History News |
Watch | A close look behind the scenes, between late March and mid-October, 2008: we follow Richard Fuld's benighted attempt to save Lehman Brothers; conversations among Hank Paulson (the Secretary of the Treasury), Ben Bernanke (chair of the Federal Reserve), and Tim Geithner (president of the New York Fed) as they seek a private solution for Lehman's; and, back-channel negotiations among Paulson, Warren Buffet, investment bankers, a British regulator, and members of Congress as almost all work to save the U.S. economy. By the end, with the no-strings bailout arranged, modest confidence restored on Wall Street, and a meltdown averted, Paulson wonders if banks will lend. | |
Trading Places | John Landis | 08 June 1983 | Dan
Aykroyd Eddie Murphy Ralph Bellamy Don Ameche Denholm Elliott Jamie Lee Curtis |
Aaron Russo | Paramount Pictures | Timothy
Harris Herschel Weingrod |
Comedy | Watch | Duke brothers Randolph and Mortimer own Duke & Duke, a successful commodities brokerage in Philadelphia. Holding opposing views on nature versus nurture issue, they make a wager and agree to conduct an experiment switching the lives of two people at opposite sides of the social hierarchy and observing the results. They witness an encounter between their managing director, the well-mannered and educated Louis Winthorpe III engaged to the Dukes' niece Penelope and a poor African-American street hustler named Billy Ray Valentine. | |
Twilight of the Yakuza (2013) | Sebastian Stein | - | Daikaku
Chôdôin Shorai Horitoku Jaime Morris Yoichi Nakamura Norio Tamura Toyohiko Tanaka |
Jay So Sebastian Stein |
- | Sebastian Stein | Documentary | - | The Yakuza, Japan's organised crime syndicates, are a dying breed. Their members are aging and the government of Japan has launched a large-scale crackdown on them to eradicate them once and for all. But who are the Yakuza? The cancer of a nation or a necessary evil in a country with one of the lowest crime rates in the industrialised world? Undoubtedly the Yakuza are involved in crimes including extortion, fraud, murder, drugs and gambling. However, Japan has one of the lowest crime rates in the industrialised world, with crimes related to drugs - officially against the Yakuza code of honour - or street gangs strikingly low, a fact that many contribute to the presence of the Yakuza. | |
Wall Street | Oliver Stone | 11 December 1987 | Michael
Douglas Charlie Sheen Daryl Hannah Martin Sheen Hal Holbrook Terence Stamp |
Edward R. Pressman | 20th Century Fox | Oliver
Stone Stanley Weiser |
Crime Drama |
Watch | A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing. | |
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | Oliver Stone | 23 September 2010 | Michael
Douglas Shia LaBeouf Josh Brolin Carey Mulligan Frank Langella |
Edward R.
Pressman Eric Kopeloff |
20th Century Fox | Allan
Loeb Stephen Schiff |
Drama | Watch | In 2001, corporate raider Gordon Gecko completes a prison sentence for money laundering. No one is there to meet him. Jump seven years: Gecko is promoting his book, his estranged daughter Winnie is a political muckraker engaged to Jake Moore, a hot-shot Wall Street trader, and an old nemesis of Gecko's, Bretton James, devours the firm Jake works for. When Jake's mentor takes his life, Jake wants revenge and Gordon may be the perfect ally. With the fiscal crisis of September 2008 as background, can Jake maintain Winnie's love, broker a rapprochement with her father, get his revenge, and find funds for a green-energy project he champions; or will greed trump all? | |
Working Girl | Mike Nichols | 21 December 1988 | Harrison
Ford Sigourney Weaver Melanie Griffith |
Douglas Wick | 20th Century Fox | Kevin Wade | Comedy Drama Romance |
Watch | Tess McGill is a frustrated secretary, struggling to forge ahead in the world of big business in New York. She gets her chance when her boss breaks her leg on a skiing holiday. McGill takes advantage of her absence to push ahead with her career. She teams up with investment broker Jack Trainer to work on a big deal. The situation is complicated after the return of her boss. | |
Outsourced | John Jeffcoat | 12 September 2006 | Josh
Hamilton Ayesha Dharker Asif Basra Arjun Mathur Siddarth Jadhav |
Tom
Gorai Gwen Bialic (co-producer) David Skinner (producer) |
ShadowCatcher Entertainment | George Wing | Comedy Drama Romance |
Watch | When the call center he manages in Seattle is outsourced to India, Todd travels there to train his replacement. Housed in a new building that looks like an above-ground bunker, the call center is staffed by willing novices whom Todd trains to sound American. One star on the staff is Asha, who teaches Todd that he should learn about India, and proceeds to do just that. | |
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers | Michael Samuels | 09 September 2009 | James
Cromwell Ben Daniels Corey Johnson Michael Landes James Bolam |
Ruth
Caleb Lisa Osborne |
BBC | Craig Warner | Drama | Watch | The heads of Wall Street's biggest investment banks were summoned to an evening meeting by the US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, to discuss the plight of another - Lehman Brothers. After six months' turmoil in the world's financial markets, Lehman Brothers was on life support and the government was about to pull the plug. Lehman CEO, Dick Fuld, recently sidelined in a boardroom coup, spends the weekend desperately trying to resuscitate his beloved company through a merger with Bank of America or UK-based Barclays. But without the financial support of Paulson and Lehman's fiercest competitors, Fuld's empire - and with it, the stability of the world economy - teeters on the verge of extinction. | |
The Big Kahuna | John Swanbeck | 16 September 1999 | Kevin
Spacey Danny Devito Peter Facinelli |
Elie
Samaha Kevin Spacey Andrew Stevens |
Lions Gate Films | Roger Rueff | Comdy Drama |
Watch | On the last evening of a convention two seen-it-all industrial lubricant salesmen and a youngster from the research department gather in the hotel's hospitality suite to host a delegates party. The main aim is to get the business of one particular big fish. When it becomes apparent that it is the lad who has developed a direct line to the guy, his strong religious beliefs bring him into sharp conflict with his older and more cynical colleagues. | |
August | Austin Chick | 22 January 2008 | Josh
Hartnett Naomie Harris David Bowie Rip Torn Adam Scott Emmanuelle Chriqui |
Josh
Hartnett David Guy Levy Charlie Corwin Clara Markowicz Elisa Pugliese |
First Look Studios | Howard A. Rodman | Drama | Watch | Tom and Josh Sterling have a start-up dot-com. It's gone public to initial success. Josh is the technical genius. Tom is the fast-talking and abrasive CEO, in charge of the business side. It's August, 2001, less than a month before they can sell their shares and, perhaps, make lots of money. But the company is running out of cash, its main client is stalling, and share values are falling. For Tom to maintain the firm's appearance, he must find cash: investors could rescue him, but at a high cost of his potential wealth and company control. Tom goes to his brother for a loan. At the same time, an old flame, Sarrah, comes back to the city. Can Tom hold things together, bravura and all? | |
The Insider | Michael Mann | 05 November 1999 | Al
Pacino Russell Crowe Christopher Plummer Diane Venora Bruce McGill Philip Baker Hall Lindsay Crouse Debi Mazar |
Michael Mann Pieter Jan Brugge |
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution | Eric Roth Michael Mann |
Biography Drama Thriller |
Watch | Balls-out "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honor a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, he goes on camera for a Mike Wallace interview and risks arrest for contempt of court. Westinghouse is negotiating to buy CBS, so CBS attorneys advise CBS News to shelve the interview and avoid a lawsuit. "60 Minutes" and CBS News bosses cave, Wigand is hung out to dry, Bergman is compromised, and the CEOs of Big Tobacco may get away with perjury. Will the truth come out? | |
Syriana | Stephen Gaghan | 23 November 2005 | George
Clooney Matt Damon Jeffrey Wright Chris Cooper William Hurt Mazhar Munir Tim Blake Nelson Amanda Peet Christopher Plummer Alexander Siddig |
Jennifer
Fox Michael Nozik Georgia Kacandes |
Warner Bros. Pictures | Stephen Gaghan | Drama Thriller |
Watch | American oil companies Connex and smaller Killen are undergoing a merger, the new company named Connex-Killen. The move is in response to Connex losing a number of oil fields in the Persian Gulf region as Prince Nasir Al-Subaai, his country's foreign minister, and the oldest son of the Emir and thus the heir apparent to the throne, signed a contract with the Chinese instead. As Killen somehow managed to get the contract for the oil fields in Kazahkstan, the merger would give Connex-Killen additional control of the industry in the Middle East. Connex's retained law firm, headed by Dean Whiting, assigns Bennett Holiday to demonstrate to the US Department of Justice that due diligence has been done to allow the merger to proceed i.e. that the merger would not break any antitrust regulations. The US government is unhappy with Prince Nasir's decision to award the contract to the Chinese, and in combination with issues around illegal weapons, the CIA assigns field agent Bob Barnes, who has ... | |
Modern Times | Charlie Chaplin | 05 February 1936 | Charlie
Chaplin Paulette Goddard Henry Bergman Tiny Sandford Chester Conklin |
Charlie Chaplin | United Artists | Charlie Chaplin | Comedy Drama |
Watch | Chaplins last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society, the machine age, (The use of sound in films ?) and progress. Firstly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production line, tightening bolts. He is selected for an experiment with an automatic feeding machine, but various mishaps leads his boss to believe he has gone mad, and Charlie is sent to a mental hospital... When he gets out, he is mistaken for a communist while waving a red flag, sent to jail, foils a jailbreak, and is let out again. We follow Charlie through many more escapades before the film is out. | |
A Beautiful Mind | Ron Howard | 21 December 2001 | Russell
Crowe Ed Harris Jennifer Connelly Paul Bettany Adam Goldberg Judd Hirsch Josh Lucas Anthony Rapp Christopher Plummer |
Brian
Grazer Ron Howard |
Universal
Pictures (North America) DreamWorks Pictures (International) |
Akiva Goldsman | Biography Drama |
Watch | From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally - late in life - received the Nobel Prize. | |
Owning Mahowny | Richard Kwietniowski | 23 January 2003 | Philip
Seymour Hoffman John Hurt Minnie Driver Maury Chaykin |
Andras
Hamori Seaton McLean |
Sony
Pictures Classics (US) Alliance Atlantis (CAN) |
Maurice Chauvet | Crime Drama Thriller |
Watch | Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession. | |
Office Space | Mike Judge | 19 February 1999 | Ron
Livingston Jennifer Aniston Stephen Root Gary Cole |
Daniel
Rappaport Michael Rotenberg |
20th Century Fox | Mike Judge | Comedy | Watch | In the Initech office, the insecure Peter Gibbons hates his job and the abusive Division VP Bill Lumbergh that has just hired two consultants to downsize the company. His best friends are the software engineers Michael Bolton and Samir Nagheenanajar that also hate Initech, and his next door neighbor Lawrence. His girlfriend Anne is cheating on him but she convinces Peter to visit the hypnotherapist Dr. Swanson. Peter tells how miserable his life is and Dr. Swanson hypnotizes him and he goes into a state of ecstasy. However, Dr. Swanson dies immediately after giving the hypnotic suggestion to Peter. He dates the waitress Joanna and changes his attitude in the company, being promoted by the consultants. When he discovers that Michael and Samir will be fired, they decide to plant a virus in the account system to embezzle fraction of cents in each financial operation into Peter's account. However Michael commits a mistake in the software and instead of decimals, they steal a large amount. The desperate trio tries to fix the problem or they will go to prison. | |
The Hudsucker Proxy | Joel Coen | 11 March 1994 | Tim
Robbins Jennifer Jason Leigh Paul Newman |
Ethan Coen | Warner Bros.
(United States) Universal Pictures (International) |
Joel
Coen Ethan Coen Sam Raimi |
Comedy Fantasy |
Watch | When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. When the stock falls low enough, Sidney and friends can buy it up for pennies on the dollar, take over the company, and restore its fortunes. They choose idealistic Norville Barnes, who just started in the mail room. Norville is whacky enough to drive any company to ruin, but soon, tough reporter Amy Archer smells a rat and begins an undercover investigation of Hudsucker Industries. | |
The Informant! | Steven Soderbergh | 18 September 2009 | Matt
Damon Scott Bakula Joel McHale Melanie Lynskey |
Gregory
Jacobs Jennifer Fox Michael Jaffe Howard Braunstein Kurt Eichenwald |
Warner Bros. Pictures | Scott Z. Burns | Biography Comedy Crime Drama |
Watch | Mark Whitacre has worked for lysine developing company ADM for many years and has even found his way into upper management. But nothing has prepared him for the job he is about to undertake - being a spy for the FBI. Unwillingly pressured into working as an informant against the illegal price-fixing activities of his company, Whitacre gradually adopts the idea that he's a true secret agent. But as his incessant lies keep piling up, his world begins crashing down around him. | |
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | David Swift | 09 March 1967 | Robert
Morse Michele Lee Rudy Vallee Anthony Teague |
David
Swift Walter Mirisch Irving Temaner |
United Artists | David Swift | Comedy Musical |
Watch | Twenty-seven year old New York window washer, J. Pierpont Finch, believes he can be a success in the corporate world after he impulsively picks up the book "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying". The book promises its reader that he can climb the corporate ladder simply and quickly. The Worldwide Wicket Corporation, the business in the office building whose windows he washes is, according to the book, the perfect type of business. There he meets secretary Rosemary Pilkington, who sees in Ponty (as she calls him) an unassuming man who she believes the corporate world will eat alive. But Ponty, memorizing what the book tells him, does quickly climb the corporate ladder but not by doing any real work. Ponty has a few obstacles along the way such as: Bud Frump who sees Ponty as a rival and is the nephew by marriage of the company president J.B. Biggley; Hedy La Rue, a curvaceous but simple woman who has a secret or not-so-secret tie to someone important in the company; Mr. Ovington, an executive who Ponty can't figure out; and Ponty possibly making a fatal error by not reading far enough ahead in the book. Ponty ultimately has to decide if climbing to the top of the ladder is worth stepping on all those along the way and risk losing the love of Rosemary. In the end telling the truth may set him free. | |
Cash McCall | Joseph Pevney | 27 January 1960 | James
Garner Natalie Wood |
Henry Blanke | Warner Bros. | Lenore J.
Coffee Marion Hargrove Cameron Hawley (novel) |
Drama Romance |
Watch | Cash McCall is a young and slick business man who buys failing businesses and resells them. Grant Austen's Plastics is even more of a prize to Cash, for Cash is also making a bid for Austen's beautiful daughter, Lory. This is Cash's toughest deal ever. | |
Far and Away | Ron Howard | 22 May 1992 | Tom
Cruise Nicole Kidman |
Ron
Howard Brian Grazer Bob Dolman |
Universal Pictures | Bob Dolman | Adventure Drama Romance |
Watch | A young man leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big give-away in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving money. The man becomes a local bare-hands boxer, and rides in glory until he is beaten, then his employers steal all the couple's money and they must fight off starvation in the winter, and try to keep their dream of owning land alive. Meanwhile, the woman's parents find out where she has gone and have come to the U.S. to find her and take her back. | |
Buy & Cell | Robert Boris | 01 November 1987 | Robert
Carradine Randall "Tex" Cobb Imogene Coca Malcolm McDowell |
Charles
Band Frank Yablans |
New World Pictures | Ken
Krauss Merrin Holt |
Comedy | Watch | Herbie Altman is framed for Stock fraud by his boss when the SEC starts investigating his company. Sent to prison, he helps a fellow inmate successfully invest his money. Soon all the inmates want his help. To manage all the money, he forms CON INC. and runs it from the prison under the noses of the warden and the guards. But when the IRS and SEC begin to investigate this successful company, it looks like he may be in trouble again. | |
Up in the Air | Jason Reitman | 04 December 2009 | George
Clooney Vera Farmiga Anna Kendrick Danny McBride |
Daniel
Dubiecki Jeffrey Clifford Ivan Reitman Jason Reitman |
Paramount Pictures | Jason
Reitman Sheldon Turner |
Drama Romance |
Watch | Ryan Bingham flies around the country firing people. He's good at his job and is constantly in the air flying from one city to another. He's also an accumulator of frequent flyer miles and has a goal: he wants to get to 10 million miles. His routine is interrupted by the arrival of Natalie Keener who thinks the travel is unnecessary and the firings can be done through videoconferencing. Ryan's boss loves the idea but wants Ryan to take Natalie on the road with him to show her how he does it. It proves to be a life lesson for Natalie after one of her counseling sessions goes wrong. Ryan also learns that some of the choices he's made have not always been the correct one. | |
Woman's World | Jean Negulesco | 30 September 1954 | Cllifton
Webb June Allyson Van Heflin Lauren Bacall Fred MacMurray Arlene Dahl Cornel Wilde |
Charles Brackett | 20th Century Fox | Claude
Binyon Russel Crouse Howard Lindsay Mary Loos Richard Sale Mona Williams (story) |
Drama | Watch | Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence. | |
The Wheeler Dealers | Arthur Hiller | 14 November 1963 | James
Garner Lee Remick |
Martin Ransohoff | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | George
Goodman Ira Wallach |
Comedy | Watch | Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas where his oil wells are drying up and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who he falls in love with. She tries to ignore the attention he lavishes on her, but, in the end, she falls for his charm. | |
The Solid Gold Cadillac | Richard Quine | 22 August 1956 | Judy Holliday | Fred Kohlmar | Columbia Pictures | Abe Burrows | Comedy Romance |
Watch | Skewering the corporate world at every turn, this sparkling comedy centers on the struggle of a plucky blonde (Judy Holiday), who dreams of owning the title automobile, to wrest control of a big business from the greedy hands of a crooked board of directors and turn it over to stock holders like herself.Skewering the corporate world at every turn, this sparkling comedy centers on the struggle of a plucky blonde (Judy Holiday), who dreams of owning the title automobile, to wrest control of a big business from the greedy hands of a crooked board of directors and turn it over to stock holders like herself. | |
The Secret of My Succe$s | Herbert Ross | 10 April 1987 | Michael J.
Fox Helen Slater Richard Jordan Margaret Whitton |
Herbert Ross | Universal Pictures | Jim
Cash Jack Epps, Jr. A.J. Carothers |
Comedy Romance |
Watch | Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York. On his first work day in New York, he is fired in a hostile take-over and learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his distant uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room. Then Brantley meets Christy Wills, who happens to be one of the top executives. Brantley sees how poorly the company is being run and decides to create a position under the name Carlton Whitfield, to influence and improve the company's operations. Soon things get unexpectedly out of hand, not in the least because of his aunt, his girl and leading a double life. | |
The Scam | Lee Ho-jae | 12 February 2009 | Park
Yong-ha Kim Min-jung Park Hee-soon |
Kim
Su-jin Yoon In-beom David Cho |
Showbox/Mediaplex | Lee Ho-jae | Action Crime Drama |
Watch | After losing everything, Hyun-soo (Park Yong-ha) spends five years glued to the computer screen as an unshaven, full-time "ant" (individual investor). He eventually reaches the top of the game after a painful diet of instant noodles and sacrificing the cost of three luxury sedans. He vows to quit once and for all when he achieves his goal, a nine-digit savings account that will support his mother and studious younger brother. | |