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Velvet Buzzsaw(2019)

1h 53min | Thriller, Mystery, Horror
2.7/5 (with 860 votes)

Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce.After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.

10 Items or Less(2006)

1h 21min | Comedy, Drama
3.1/5 (with 98 votes)

An actor who is considering the role of a supermarket manager arrives at a grocery store on the outskirts of Los Angeles to do some field research. He subsequently becomes stranded, without a car or cell phone, and accepts a ride home with Scarlet, a cashier who is about to interview for a new job. The actor rediscovers the essence of his craft while helping Scarlet gain the confidence she needs to change her life.

Handsome Antonio(1960)

1h 39min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 40 votes)

Problems arise for Antonio Magnano when he is unable to consummate his marriage to the beautiful Barbara Puglisi and his virility is called into question. Despite the fact that he loves his beautiful wife and they have otherwise been happily married for a year, his problem becomes a source of contention for all concerned.

The Phantom Carriage(1921)

1h 47min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
4.0/5 (with 136 votes)

It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, that picks up the souls of the dead.

The True Cost(2015)

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

Generation Wealth(2018)

FSK: 16+ years
| 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 Vagrant(1992)

1h 31min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 20 votes)

A business man buys a house, but he has a hard time trying to get rid of its previous tenant, a dirty bum.

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

Man(2012)

3.1/5 (with 17 votes)

An animation short film looking at mans relationship with the natural world.

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

Fuel(2008)

1h 30min | Documentary, Drama
3.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Record high oil prices, global warming, and an insatiable demand for energy: these issues define our generation. The film exposes shocking connections between the auto industry, the oil industry, and the government, while exploring alternative energies such as solar, wind, electricity, and non-food-based biofuels.

Directed by Josh Tickell, John Tickell - With Josh Tickell

Czech Dream(2004)

1h 30min | Crime, Documentary
3.7/5 (with 15 votes)

Two students from the Czech Film Academy commission a leading advertising agency to organize a huge campaign for the opening of a new supermarket named Czech Dream. The supermarket however does not exist and is not meant to. The advertising campaign includes radio and television ads, posters, flyers with photos of fake Czech Dream products, a promotional song, an internet site, and ads in newspapers and magazines. Will people believe in it and show up for the grand opening?

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Programming the Nation?(2011)

1h 44min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Programming the Nation? takes an encompassing look at the history of subliminal messaging in America. According to many authorities, since the late 1950s subliminal content has been tested and delivered through all forms of mass-media including Hollywood filmmakers Alfred Hitchcock and William Friedkin. Even our modern military has been accused of these practices in the "war on terror" against soldiers and civilians both abroad and at home. With eye-opening footage, revealing interviews, humorous anecdotes, and an array of visual effects, the film categorically explores the alleged usage of subliminals in advertising, music, film, television, anti-theft devices, political propaganda, military psychological operations, and advanced weapons development. Director Jeff Warrick makes it his personal mission to determine if these manipulative tactics have succeeded in "programming the nation?" Or, if subliminal messaging belongs in the category of what many consider urban legend.

Directed by Jeff Warrick - With Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, Dennis Kucinich, Wilson Bryan Key

Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers(2003)

54min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

Swedish documentary film on consumerism and globalization, created by director Erik Gandini and editor Johan Söderberg. It looks at the arguments for capitalism and technology, such as greater efficiency, more time and less work, and argues that these are not being fulfilled, and they never will be. The film leans towards anarcho-primitivist ideology and argues for "a simple and fulfilling life".

Directed by Erik Gandini

La traviata(2005)

2h 12min | Drama, Music
4.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society, organizes a grand party that is attended, amongst others, by the young Alfredo Germont. He confesses his feelings to Violetta, who is already suffering from consumption. She vacillates between genuine affection and a realistic assessment of her situation as a "fallen woman", which precludes any lasting relationship with a man. The Willy Decker production of La Traviata, recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele in August, 2005. Anna Netrebko stars as Violetta Valéry, with Rolando Villazón as Alfredo Germont and Thomas Hampson as Giorgio Germont. Carlo Rizzi conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker.

Beautiful Things(2019)

1h 35min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A symphonic journey into our obsessive consumption. The many objects we accumulate begin their production journey in silent secluded industrial site where borderline men work in isolation without any interference. These men trigger, unconsciously, the long chain of creation, transport, commercialization and destruction of the objects feeding our bulimic lifestyle.

What Would Jesus Buy?(2007)

1h 31min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

A serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of Christmas. What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt!

Directed by Rob VanAlkemade - With Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping

Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End(2017)

1h 10min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In this documentary we discover the dangerously funny cartoonist Mr. Fish, struggling to make a living in an industry that is dying out.

The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show(1982)

4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Taped in Toronto between August 9-24, 1982, Miss Piggy hosts her own variety show, with special guests John Ritter, George Hamilton and Tony Clifton (Andy Kaufman). Under the direction of Kermit the Frog, the Muppets work in the control room and, amidst chaos, manage to keep the show on the air. Throughout the show, a romantic triangle develops among Piggy, Ritter (who is smitten with the pig) and Hamilton (who is deeply uncomfortable with the star's romantic inclinations).

Directed by Jim Henson - With Frank Oz

Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas(2018)

1h 5min
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The holidays take a hit as Kaz juggles the Secret Santa competition, his Aunt Angelique's visit and his nemesis Arcangelo's Christmas plotting.

Small Mall(2004)

1h 7min | Documentary, Comedy
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A Eurovision singer, Iceland's strongest woman, a male model, a plumber who wants to direct movies. They all work in the shopping mall that this documentary focuses on ... most of them want to get out, even just to the bigger mall down the road.

FINAL STAGE [The Time for All but Sunset – BGYOR](2017)

32min | Drama

Enjoy the Party, Enjoy your Night, Enjoy the Sun, Enjoy your Freedom, Enjoy the Love, Enjoy your Life, Enjoy the Colors, Enjoy your Style The world is on colors. Times are hard, modern and bitter. A teenage boy in 'Europes Largest Shopping Mall'. He sheds lonely tears over someone. He senses that something is wrong. Brutalism, Sadness, Consumerism - Enjoy a Contemporary Love Story 'The world is on colors, we only could save us with grey. It's strange how oppression will make people working to pay. No, I don't wanna fall in love. This world is only gonna break your heart. This wicked game to play, to make us live this way.'.

So This Is God's Country?(1966)

2h 6min | Documentary

A Mondo documentary focused on the 1960's American lifestyle, consumerism, religion, adversity, and oddity. An outsider's look at a country afflicted by episodes of racism and neo -Nazism. Scenes of a Ghost Town, LSD in NYC, Sunset Strip Los Angeles California, Amish, Klu Klux Klan, African-American Fashion Show, etc.

Directed by Luigi Vanzi

Consumers(2015)

1h 24min | Documentary

Sammy is a 14 year old girl who makes YouTube videos. Robby just moved to New York City after college. Jerry is a single 34 year old network administrator living in the suburbs. Through their fragmented experiences, Consumers explores the dialectical problematics of the contemporary experience.

Summer Rebellion(1970)

1h 21min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern consumer society, advertising, fancy boats and summer cottages, country dances, barbecues, and any other phenomena that were supposed to bother angry young intellectuals in those days. The plot and the political agenda are delivered with a cheerful, tongue-in-cheek mixture of documentary observations, fake TV commercials, fake interviews, philosophical voiceovers and titles, and a jazzy soundtrack by the progressive rock group Wigwam.

The Great Society(1967)

2min
2.7/5 (with 9 votes)

A parade of popular consumer items cut to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". A great example of Pop Art in film.

Directed by Fred Mogubgub

Out of Fashion(2015)

59min | Documentary

A documentary following an Estonian fashion designer Reet Aus on a global tour to explore the origin process and the environmental footprints of today's fast paced fashion industry. On the road the mission takes an unexpected turn towards trying to introduce her "upcycling" inspired product line to some of the major fashion retailers to increase awareness of the massive resource waste built into the current product lifecycle.

Gimme Green(2007)

27min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Gimme Green is a humorous look at the American obsession with the residential lawn and the effects it has on our environment, our wallets and our outlook on life. From the limitless subdivisions of Florida to sod farms in the arid southwest, Gimme Green peers behind the curtain of the $40-billion industry that fuels our nation's largest irrigated crop-the lawn.

Branded(2016)

8min | Drama

A young man named Brandon finds himself being overwhelmed and blinded by the monotonous routine of his life, which is leaded by brands. He has a consumerist nightmare.

Bananaland: Blood, Bullets & Poison(2016)

1h 11min | Documentary, Crime
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

For consumers, bananas are a delicious and nutritious start to the day, a healthy snack and a fixture in our fruit bowls. For millions of residents in the banana lands, the production of bananas means social upheaval, violence and pesticide poisoning. Banana Land explores the origins of these disparate realities, and opens the conversation on how workers, producers and consumers can address this disconnect.

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