The Time, the Place and the Girl (1929)

2008年9月、米国の大手証券会社リーマン・ブラザーズが倒産したのをきっかけに、世界金融危機が起きる。だが、その原因になった同国のサブプライムローン問題は、もう前年に発覚していた。なのに、誰もリーマン・ショックを阻止できなかったのはどうしてか。金融関係者のインサイダー情報や専門家の分析によれば、金融バブルをあえて大きくすることで荒稼ぎした面々がいるという。中には後のオバマ政権に加わる者もいて…。

Plunder: The Crime of Our Time is a hard-hitting investigative film by Danny Schechter. The "News Dissector" explores how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity uncovering the connection between the collapse of the housing market and the economic catastrophe that followed.

ティルダ・スウィントンの“艶技”が話題を呼んだ荘厳な人間ドラマ。ミラノの富豪に嫁ぎ、家族に尽くしてきたエンマ。子供たちも成人し心に孤独を感じはじめた頃、息子の友人と偶然再会して……。ファッションやインテリアを駆使した映像美にも注目。

フランスの巨匠ジャック・リヴェット監督が、「美しき諍い女」に続き再び文豪バルザックに挑んだ文芸ロマンス。19世紀初頭のパリ貴族社会を舞台に、気高き公爵夫人が無骨な将軍に恋愛ゲームを仕掛けたばかりに、それぞれに思いもよらぬ運命を辿るさまを格調高く描き出す。主演は「恋ごころ」のジャンヌ・バリバールと「ポーラＸ」のギョーム・ドパルデュー。 　19世紀初頭のパリ。社交界の華、ランジェ公爵夫人は、舞踏会でナポレオン軍の英雄モンリヴォー将軍と出会う。いまや時の人となったモンリヴォー将軍に興味を抱いたランジェ公爵夫人は、彼を自宅に招き冒険譚を語らせる。あっという間にランジェ公爵夫人の魅力に心奪われてしまったモンリヴォー将軍だったが、ランジェ公爵夫人の思わせぶりな振る舞いに翻弄され続けることに。業を煮やしたモンリヴォー将軍は、彼女を誘拐するという強引な手段に打って出る。思いがけずこれがランジェ公爵夫人の心に火をつける。一転して立場は入れ替わり、モンリヴォー将軍を熱烈に求め始めるランジェ公爵夫人だったが…。

A man and a woman at an art exhibition share a fleeting moment of attraction, which neither can act upon. Days later, a chance second meeting leads to an innocent coffee and the two strangers – both married - toy with their unexplainable fascination for each other. Svenja is curious and finds herself in a hotel room with Roland, but she does not consummate an affair. A powerful executive at the large bank where Svenja's husband works, Roland is used to getting what he wants. He manipulates the transfer of her husband to Indonesia to replace a recently murdered bank manager. Unaware of Roland’s actions, Svenja now ceases to resist...

A wealthy young woman struggles to find love while surrounded by possible suitors.

A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.

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.

A 2003 documentary film about women on Wall Street following the lives of four Wall Street women - a research analyst, a currency trader, an NYSE floor broker and a rookie investment banker.

Lord Windermere appears to all - including his young wife Margaret - to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at risk when he starts paying visits to a mysterious beautiful newcomer, Mrs. Erylnne, who is determined to make her entry into London's high society. Worse, the secret gets back to Margaret that Windermere has been giving Mrs. Erylnne large sums of money.

Exposes the down and dirty schemes and calculated market manipulation behind the glitter of Wall Street. It is a must see for anyone who has ever lost money in stocks...or fears they're about to.

On 11th January 2008, hired by the City of Cleveland, lawyer Josh Cohen and his team filed a lawsuit against 21 banks, which they held accountable for the wave of foreclosures that had left their city in ruins. Since then, the bankers on Wall Street have been fighting by with all available means to avoid going to court. This film is the story of that trial. A film about a trial that may never be held but in which the facts, the participants and their testimonies are all real: the judge, lawyers, witnesses, even the members of the jury - asked to give their verdict - play their own roles. Step by step, one witness after another, the film takes apart, from a plain, human perspective, the mechanisms of subprime mortgage loans, a system that sent the world economy reeling. A trial for the sake of example, a universal fable about capitalism

Thursday, October 24 : the Wall Street Stock Exchange crashes, the greatest economic crisis of the 20th century suddenly breaks out. Fueled by the idea that everyone can get rich without limits, it puts a final stop to the euphoria of the 1920s. America is then caught in a devastating cycle which spreads around the world a few months later like a malign infection. Calling on renowned historians and economists, William Karel conducts an incredibly detailed analysis of the economic and financial mechanisms that lead to the crash of Wall Street and then to the Great Depression of the 1930's.

Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back into the dating world in middle age and in search of a new life.

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.

Wealthy but arrogant writer Jean Hervey comes home one day to find that his wife, Gabrielle, has left him for another man. Realizing her mistake, Gabrielle returns, and the pair begin a merciless analysis of their marriage as the relationship comes undone.

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.

Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.

Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly

Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much a part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples -- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help: Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count's son wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite.