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North by Northwest(1959)

NR
| 2h 16min | Mystery, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 1,745 votes)

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby(2006)

PG-13
| 1h 47min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 721 votes)

The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. A big, hairy American winning machine, Ricky has everything a dimwitted daredevil could want, a luxurious mansion, a smokin' hot wife and all the fast food he can eat. But Ricky's turbo-charged lifestyle hits an unexpected speed bump when he's bested by flamboyant Euro-idiot Jean Girard and reduced to a fear-ridden wreck.

Passion(2012)

R
| 1h 40min | Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
2.7/5 (with 179 votes)

The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to murder.

Thank You for Smoking(2005)

1h 32min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 926 votes)

Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.

The Beauty Inside(2015)

3.8/5 (with 110 votes)

Woo-Jin changes into a different person when he wakes up. He falls in love with Yi-Soo.

Directed by Baik Jong-yul - With Han Hyo-joo, Lee Dong-hwi, Park Shin-hye, Lee Jin-uk, Kim Dae-myung

The Stuff(1985)

R
| 1h 33min | Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 179 votes)

Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!

The Good Night(2007)

2.7/5 (with 49 votes)

Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When Gary sees his mystery woman's face on a bus billboard, he discovers she is real, and fate brings him an opportunity to meet her.

The Corporation(2003)

2h 25min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 112 votes)

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 Wasp Woman(1959)

2.2/5 (with 39 votes)

The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.

12 Dates of Christmas(2011)

3.0/5 (with 126 votes)

In an attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend Jack on Christmas Eve, Kate ends up ruining her blind date with Miles, a handsome guy she's been set up with. In a strange twist of fate, Kate is magically given the chance to re-live Christmas Eve twelve times!

Helvetica(2007)

NR
| 1h 20min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 73 votes)

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.

Directed by Gary Hustwit

It Should Happen to You(1954)

NR
| 1h 26min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 22 votes)

Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.

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How to Get Ahead in Advertising(1989)

R
| 1h 35min | Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 39 votes)

Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.

Crazy People(1990)

R
| 1h 30min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 35 votes)

A bitter ad executive who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.

Distracted(1970)

1h 25min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 48 votes)

A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.

Putney Swope(1969)

R
| 1h 24min | Comedy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 25 votes)

Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.

Snapshot(1979)

R
| 1h 32min | Thriller
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

A young hairdresser enters into the modeling world while fearing retaliation from her puritanical mother and stalker ex-boyfriend.

Housewife(1934)

1h 9min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 4 votes)

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.

The Light Bulb Conspiracy(2010)

1h 15min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 34 votes)

Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen realized that the longer their product lasted, the less money they made, thus Planned Obsolescence was born, and manufacturers have been engineering products to fail ever since. Combining investigative research and rare archive footage with analysis by those working on ways to save both the economy and the environment, this documentary charts the creation of ‘engineering to fail’, its rise to prominence and its recent fall from grace.

Directed by Cosima Dannoritzer

Every Home Should Have One(1970)

R
| 1h 34min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 7 votes)

Teddy works for a large advertising company. Given the seemingly impossible task of selling frozen porridge, he decides to produce commercials that make the product seem sexy. This leads him to confrontation with the "Keep Television Clean" movement, of which his wife is a senior member.

The Merchants of Cool(2001)

G
| 55min | Documentary, History, Music
3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.

With Love, Christmas(2017)

3.6/5 (with 25 votes)

Advertising execs Melanie Welsh and Donovan Goodwin disagree on a cellphone Christmas commercial they’re pitching. He says his sleek design will win over the client but she knows it lacks holiday spirit.

The Hucksters(1947)

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

I'll Never Forget What's'isname(1967)

NR
| 1h 37min | Comedy, Drama
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.

The Wolf: True Alpha(2018)

20min | Crime
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

HP's latest entrant in "The Wolf" series once again pits Slater's character against The Fixer.

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money(1996)

2h 50min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

An examination of the evolution of commercials as an artistic medium, featuring interviews with media luminaries who relate how the in-your-face stylistic conventions of commercials have influenced feature films and the visual arts. A documentary film talking about art and advertising divided in three parts: 1. Crossing Over - from cinema to ads from ads to cinema 2. Humour - How humour affects us in advertising 3. Shock - The way shock is used to sell.

Schwechater(1958)

1min
2.3/5 (with 22 votes)

In 1957, Peter Kubelka was hired to make a short commercial for Schwechater beer. The beer company undoubtedly thought they were commissioning a film that would help them sell their beers; Kubelka had other ideas. He shot his film with a camera that did not even have a viewer, simply pointing it in the general direction of the action. He then took many months to edit his footage, while the company fumed and demanded a finished product. Finally he submitted a film, 90 seconds long, that featured extremely rapid cutting (cutting at the limits of most viewers' perception) between images washed out almost to the point of abstraction — in black-and-white positive and negative and with red tint — of dimly visible people drinking beer and of the froth of beer seen in a fully abstract pattern.

Directed by Peter Kubelka

Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future(1985)

3.3/5 (with 17 votes)

While trying to expose corruption and greed, television reporter Edison Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed "blip-verts") that can be fatal to certain viewers.

The Great Madcap(1949)

1h 32min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 15 votes)

Buñuel's first "comeback" film since "L'Age d'Or" in 1930 (he made only a few musicals in the interim), "El Gran Calavera" concerns a family's attempts to change the patriarch's somewhat indulgent and hedonistic ways by fooling him into thinking his large fortune is gone. They assume a life of poverty in Mexico in an attempt to teach him a lesson. However, he discovers it's a ruse, but continues to perpetuate the facade of ignorance while sneaking off during the day to conduct his thriving business. Why? To teach his family a lesson - they are all lazy, worthless leeches!

Born Guilty(2017)

1.9/5 (with 2 votes)

What happens when you secretly pay someone to romance your Mom?

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