The China Hustle (2018)

Documental no sólo sobre las causas, sino también sobre los responsables de la crisis económica mundial de 2008, que signíficó la ruina de millones de personas que perdieron sus hogares y empleos, y, además, puso en peligro la estabilidad económica de los países desarrollados. A través de una extensa investigación y de entrevistas a financieros, políticos y periodistas, se muestra el auge de empresarios sin escrúpulos y la degradación de la política y la educación.

¿Es posible que un ordenador prediga la economía mundial? Martin Armstrong, un consultor de finanzas que con 15 años ya era millonario, diseñó durante los años 80 un modelo de predicción de alta precisión basado en el número pi. Su reputación a nivel mundial hizo que los banqueros más poderosos de Nueva York le invitaran a formar parte de su grupo para manipular las tendencias de los mercados. Martin siempre rechazó la oferta. A finales de los 90, el FBI entró en su casa para requisarle los ordenadores y acusarlo de haber estafado 3.000 millones de dólares utilizando un esquema piramidal. ¿Se trataba de un intento de amenazarle? ¿Querían evitar que hiciera público el verdadero esquema piramidal en el que se ha basado la deuda mundial durante décadas? Las predicciones de Armstrong hace años que indican que el 1 de octubre de 2015 habrá una crisis de la deuda que sacudirá la economía mundial.

Ambientada en el arriesgado mundo de las altas finanzas, es un thriller dramático que compromete a las figuras clave de un banco de inversión durante las turbulentas 24 horas previas al inicio de la crisis financiera de 2008. Cuando Peter Sullivan, un analista junior, revela información que podría probar la caída de la empresa, origina una toma de decisiones en cadena tanto morales como financieras que producen un terremoto en las vidas de los implicados en el inminente desastre.

Este documental presenta el lado oculto de uno de los mayores escándalos financieros de la historia, en el que varios altos ejecutivos de la séptima empresa más importante de los Estados Unidos se embolsaron más de mil millones de dólares mientras sus accionistas y empleados lo perdían todo. Basada en el best-seller 'The Smartest Guys in the Room' (algo así como 'Los tipos más listos del lugar') de los periodistas de la revista Fortune Bethany McLean y Peter Elkind, la cinta utiliza declaraciones personales y cintas de audio y vídeo de la empresa para mostrar los increíbles excesos cometidos por la cúpula directiva de Enron y el profundo vacío moral que ocultaba la supuesta filosofía corporativa.

Nearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the U.S. Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chairman's every word. Yet the average person knows very little about the most powerful - and least understood - financial institution on earth. Narrated by Liev Schreiber, Money For Nothing is the first film to take viewers inside the Fed and reveal the impact of Fed policies - past, present, and future - on our lives. Join current and former Fed officials as they debate the critics, and each other, about the decisions that helped lead the global financial system to the brink of collapse in 2008. And why we might be headed there again.

British historian and author Niall Ferguson explains how big money works today as well as the causes of and solutions to economic catastrophes in this extended version The Ascent of Money documentary. Through interviews with top experts, such as former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and American currency speculator George Soros, the intricate world of finance, including global commerce, banking and lending, is examined thoroughly.

A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money.

El siempre polémico Michael Moore denuncia el sistema capitalista de Wall Street, adoptando un punto de vista que analiza la crisis finaciera mundial y la economía estadounidense en plena transición entre la administración entrante de Barack Obama y la saliente de George W. Bush.

Un auditor es enviado a un banco en el norte de Nueva York y descubre un flujo de dinero sospechoso de una galería que vende pinturas de un millón de dólares. El agente se verá envuelto en una conspiración en la que los agentes del FBI, la mafia rusa y el blanqueo de dinero son los protagonistas absolutos.

Un neoyorquino medio que lo pierde todo con la crisis financiera del 2008, culpa de su desgracia a los banqueros de Wall Street, que se convierten en el objetivo de su venganza.

Adaptación del best-seller de Andrew Ross Sorkin que cuenta cómo estalló la crisis económica en el 2008 y qué hicieron los poderosos ante la inesperada situación. La historia se centra sobre todo en Henry Paulson (William Hurt), Secretario del Tesoro, y en los conflictos entre Wall Street y el gobierno de Washington.

Bud Fox es un joven y ambicioso corredor de bolsa que logró finalizar sus estudios universitarios gracias a su esfuerzo y al de su padre, mecánico y jefe de sindicato. Su mayor deseo es trabajar con el hombre al que admira, Gordon Gekko, un individuo sin escrúpulos hecho a sí mismo que, en poco tiempo, ha conseguido amasar una gran fortuna en el mundo de la bolsa. Gracias a su insistencia, Bud consigue introducirse en el círculo privado del todopoderoso Gekko y comienza a colaborar con él en sus negocios e inversiones.

Secuela del aclamado documental Zeitgeist. Como aquel, éste se estrenó directamente en Internet y puede verse gratuitamente desde su propia página oficial, y aborda cuatro temas de actualidad con la intención de dar a entender a la gente de que no todo es lo que parece.

The story of the credit bubble that caused the financial crash. Through interviews with some of the world's leading economists, including housing expert Robert Shiller, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, and economic historian Louis Hyman, as well as Wall Street insiders and victims of the crash including Ed Andrews - a former economics correspondent for The New York Times who found himself facing foreclosure - and Andrew Luan, once a bond trader at Deutsche Bank now running his own Wall Street tour guide business, the film presents an original and compelling account of the toxic combination of forces that nearly destroyed the world economy.

Controvertido documental que relaciona el Cristianismo, el 11-S y la Reserva Federal Americana. De distribución exclusiva por Internet pero disponible en algunos países ya en DVD, obtuvo excelentes críticas por parte de los internautas y otras muy negativas que ponían en liza la poca fiabilidad de algunas de las cosas que se contaban. No confundir con "American Zeitgeist", documental de Rob McGann del año 2006, estrenado en cines y que aborda un tema parecido.

Un padre se esfuerza por recuperar la casa donde vivía con su familia, tras ser desahuciado. Para ello se pone a trabajar para el avaricioso hombre de negocios que fue el causante de su frustración.

El best-seller de Ronald Wright, Breve historia del progreso, inspiró este réquiem cinematográfico al "progreso de siempre". A lo largo de la historia de la humanidad, aquello que parecía "progreso" siempre ha resultado un tiro por la culata. Algunos de los más reconocidos pensadores, activistas, banqueros y científicos nos desafían a superar las trampas del progreso, las cuales destruyeron las antiguas civilizaciones, pero se encuentran traicioneramente integradas en la nuestra.

For three weeks in September 2008, one person was charged with preventing the collapse of the global economy. No one understood the financial markets better than Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs. In Hank: Five Years from the Brink, Paulson tells the complete story of how he persuaded banks, Congress and presidential candidates to sign off on nearly $1 trillion in bailouts - even as he found the behavior that led to the crisis, and the bailouts themselves, morally reprehensible. Directed by Academy Award nominee Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost Trilogy, Some Kind of Monster), the film features Paulson, and his wife of 40 years, Wendy. it's a riveting portrait of leadership under unimaginable pressure - and a marriage under unfathomable circumstances.

A blue-collar family man breaks the promise he'd made to never fight again. Now forty years old, with a wife and four children who need him, Joe Carman risks everything to go back into the fighting cage and come to terms with his past.

Jirokichi the Rat is wanted in Edo for robbing the mansions of the rich. While on the run, he falls for Osen, a girl who has been sold to a brothel by her criminal brother, Nikichi. When he goes to find Nikichi, Jirokichi immediately falls for Okino, a poor girl who is also under threat from Nikichi.

A behind-the-scenes look at the prolific label's legacy and offer an in-depth look at the two-night anniversary extravaganza that took place last May at Brooklyn's Barclays Center in honor of the late rap great, The Notorious B.I.G.

Graffiti removal: the act of removing tags and graffiti by painting over them. Subconscious art: a product of artistic merit that was created without conscious artistic intentions. It is no coincidence that funding for "anti-graffiti" campaigns often outweighs funding for the arts. Graffiti removal has subverted the common obstacles blocking creative expression and become one of the more intriguing and important art movements of our time.

Ocho prestigiosos directores de todo el mundo dieron su visión de las Olimpiadas en este film de episodios repleto de hallazgos visuales: Milos Forman, Claude Lelouch, Arthur Penn, John Schlesinger, Kon Ichikawa, Mai Zetterling, Yuri Ozerov y Michel Pfleghar.

A broken-hearted guy meets a girl who turns his life around - he'd be crazy not to fall in love with her.

Six young lives collide in the most horrific and twisted of ways. Based on true events.

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

Escapes blazes a path through mid-20th-century Hollywood via the experiences of Hampton Fancher – flamenco dancer, actor, and the unlikely producer and screenwriter of the landmark sci-fi classic Blade Runner. Fancher recounts episodes from his life — romantic misadventures with silver-screen stars, wayward acts of chivalry, jealousy, and friendship — matched with a parallel world of film and TV footage wherein Fancher plays cowboys, killers, fops, cads, and the occasional hero. Escapes shows how one man’s personal journey can unexpectedly shape a medium’s future.

A sociological portrait of the United Kingdom after the historic Brexit vote of 2016. A funny, sometimes terrifying and non-judgemental look at the new populist politics sweeping western democracies.

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

A unique documentary about troops' experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, based on writings by soldiers, Marines, and air men.

Boys Life 5 is the fifth installment of the Boys Life series, which collects LGBT-related short films. Distributed by Strand Releasing. This gay anthology of short films about unrequited love should strike a universal chord with audiences of all persuasions. 4 Shorts: Dare (2005); Fishbelly White (1998); Late Summer (2001); Time Off (1990).

An illegal immigrant from Albania infiltrates the lives of a group of Londoners with devastating consequences.

Unable to have kids, Nick an ex-con and Maryann a hard core christian, resort to the extreme to become parents. They kidnap a woman going in for an abortion and force her to have her baby for them.

Comedy about a dancing pandas cabaret act.

In his early twenties, Sam Cagnina, oldest son of a Mafia hit man, meets Steven, a handsome 19-year old college student and they fall in love. Then, after a few years Sam offers Steven a "visionary" idea. What if they could find a woman who would fall in love with both of them and agree to live in a "trio" relationship? They spend the next 7 years dating and looking for that special woman. Finally, they meet Samantha, a young, struggling actress. THREE OF HEARTS explores this very unique trio union as they negotiate their living arangements, fall in love and open one of the hottest wellness centres in New York City. Everyone who comes in contact with them is never quite sure how the relationship works. But the one thing which seems certain is their love for each other.

The unexpected victory over Uruguay in the World Cup Brazil 1950 continues to have social and political ramifications for both countries.

A hapless man seeking treatment for his crippling back pain discovers a very unusual talent and unexpected love.

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged lover, and his best friend, who is struggling to provide for himself and his senile grandmother — whose intersecting lives yield both sorrow and a fragile, yet enduring, hope for a brighter future. (TIFF)