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Pretty Woman(1990)

R
| 1h 59min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 3,522 votes)

When a millionaire wheeler-dealer enters a business contract with a Hollywood hooker Vivian Ward, he loses his heart in the bargain.

Idiocracy(2006)

3.2/5 (with 1,208 votes)

To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.

There Will Be Blood(2007)

R
| 2h 38min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 3,036 votes)

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

Margin Call(2011)

R
| 1h 47min | Thriller, Drama
3.4/5 (with 745 votes)

A thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.

A Most Violent Year(2014)

R
| 2h 5min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 629 votes)

A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

Syriana(2005)

R
| 2h 8min | Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 579 votes)

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.

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 Grapes of Wrath(1940)

NR
| 2h 9min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 400 votes)

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

Inside Job(2010)

PG-13
| 1h 49min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 403 votes)

A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.

Directed by Charles Ferguson - With Matt Damon

Ares(2016)

3.0/5 (with 139 votes)

In a near future, the world order has changed. With its 10 millions of unemployed citizens, France has now become a poor country. Its people wavers between rebellion and resignation and find an outlet in the shape of TV broadcast ultra brutal fights in which the players are legally doped and unscrupulous.

Directed by Jean-Patrick Benes - With Ola Rapace

The Iron Lady(2011)

PG-13
| 1h 45min | History, Drama
3.2/5 (with 772 votes)

A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.

Ninotchka(1939)

NR
| 1h 50min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 156 votes)

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room(2005)

R
| 1h 50min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 111 votes)

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

Directed by Alex Gibney - With Andrew Fastow, Jeffrey Skilling, Kenneth Lay, Gray Davis, Peter Coyote, George W. Bush, ...

It's a Free World...(2007)

1h 36min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 42 votes)

Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend, Rose. Taking advantage of the desperation of immigrants, Angie builds a successful business extremely quickly.

Capitalism: A Love Story(2009)

R
| 2h 8min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 230 votes)

Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).

The True Cost(2015)

PG-13
| 1h 32min | Documentary, Drama
3.8/5 (with 101 votes)

Film from Andrew Morgan. The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet.

Directed by Andrew Morgan - With Vandana Shiva, Stella McCartney, Rick Ridgeway, Safia Minney, Mu Sochua

The Promised Land(1975)

2h 50min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one Polish town.

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.

Roger & Me(1989)

R
| 1h 31min | Documentary, History, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 127 votes)

A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.

Isle of Flowers(1989)

13min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 84 votes)

A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.

Directed by Jorge Furtado

Generation Wealth(2018)

1h 50min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 40 votes)

Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence. In this fascinating meld of career retrospective and film essay, Greenfield offers a meditation on her extensive body of work, structuring it through the lens of materialism and its increasing sway on culture and society in America and throughout the world. Underscoring the ever-increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots, her portraits reveal a focus on cultivating image over substance, where subjects unable to attain actual wealth instead settle for its trappings, no matter their ability to pay for it.

The Journey to Melonia(1989)

3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the "all-powerful" wizard Prospero and his strange friends reside.

Directed by Per Åhlin

Master of the Universe(2013)

1h 28min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 14 votes)

He was one of Germany's leading investment experts with an income of several million Euros per day. Now, he sits on one of the upper floors of an empty bank building in the middle of Frankfurt, overlooking a skyline of glass and steel. And talks. In an extended mix of a monologue and an in-depth interview, which is as frightening as it is fascinating, he shares his inside knowledge from a megalomaniac parallel world where illusions are the market's hardest currency. Marc Bauder's 'Master of the Universe' is based on meticulous research and provides us with geniune insight into the notoriously secretive and self-protective 'universe' of which our nameless protagonist experiences himself a master. Where other films on the financial meltdown have focused on the epic nature of larger-than-life business, Bauder probes the mentality that made it possible in the first place. A tense drama where psychology meets finance - two things that are more closely linked than you would like to believe.

Directed by Marc Bauder - With Rainer Voss

More(1998)

3.9/5 (with 67 votes)

A factory worker in a dark, gray world assembles devices that promise happiness. In his spare time he tinkers to create something better, and finally succeeds in perfecting his invention, which allows people to see life through rose-colored glasses, but he has to pay a price for his success.

Directed by Mark Osborne

Collapse(2009)

NR
| 1h 22min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 44 votes)

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter Michael Ruppert. He recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out his apocalyptic vision of the future, spanning the crises in economics, energy, environment and more.

Directed by Chris Smith - With Michael Ruppert

Velaikkaran(2017)

2h 30min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

An enterprising youngster in a slum wants his people to lead a life of dignity, but has to take on an ambitious capitalist, who only wants to dominate his field.

Directed by M. Raja - With Sivakartikeyan

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price(2005)

1h 38min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight Goliath. From a family business owner in the Midwest to a preacher in California, from workers in Florida to a poet in Mexico, dozens of film crews on three continents bring the intensely personal stories of an assault on families and American values.

Directed by Robert Greenwald

Detropia(2012)

NR
| 1h 33min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 17 votes)

Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century – the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now… the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos.

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

The Shock Doctrine(2009)

1h 19min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 25 votes)

An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance.

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