Leopard Hunting (1998)
장르 : 액션, 스릴러
상영시간 : 0분
연출 : Ishii Hisatoshi, Lin Chan-Wai
각본 : Jameson Lam Wa-Fan, Lin Chan-Wai
시놉시스
A late 90s action vehicle with several Girls with Guns ambitions seen in its casting, most obviously Yukari Oshima.
2008년 월스트리트, 전세계 금융위기 하루 전. 갑작스런 인원 감축으로 퇴직 통보를 받는 리스크 관리 팀장 에릭은 자신의 부하직원 피터에게 곧 닥칠 위기상황을 정리한 USB를 전하며 회사를 떠난다. 그날 밤 에릭에게 전달 받은 자료를 분석하던 MIT박사 출신의 엘리트사원 피터는 자신들이 관리하고 있는 파생상품의 심각한 문제를 발견하고 상사에게 보고한다. 그리고 이른 새벽 긴급 이사회가 소집되고, 그들만이 살아남기 위한 작전에 돌입하는데…
가진 자들만이 돈을 불리며 판을 치는 세상, 권력과 돈이면 모든 것을 살 수 있다는 그들에게 필요한 건 화끈한 한.방! 외모, 두뇌플레이 모두 갖춘 그녀들이 은밀히 움직이기 시작하는데... 세상을 향한 그녀들의 통쾌한 한방! 지금부터가 진짜 시작이다!
30년이나 은행원으로 성실하게 살아온 베르두는 불황으로 하루 아침에 실업자가 되자 새로운 사업을 시작한다. 그는 부유한 마담들이 놀고 먹는 것을 보고 그런 사회 기생충을 말살하는 것은 죄가 아니라고 생각하게 된다. 그 결과 돈있는 과부들을 설득해서 결혼한 뒤 신부를 죽임으로써 여자들의 재산을 빼앗는 것이다. 베르두는 사람을 죽여도 독이 검출되지 않는 동물 안락사용 독약의 처방을 알아낸다. 약을 실험하기 위해 거리에서 방황하는 젊은 여자를 집으로 데려오지만 그녀에게 감동해서 차마 독약을 먹이지 못하고 오히려 돈을 줘서 보낸다. 대신 그 약은 베르두를 수상히 여기고 추적하던 형사가 마시고 죽는데, 그는 심장마비로 판명된다. 베르두의 다음 계획은 그로스니 부인과의 결혼이었다. 끈질긴 구애작전 끝에 결혼식을 치루는 날, 리용에 있어야 할 몇 번째인가의 아내 보뇌 부인이 나타나서 베르두는 허둥지둥 달아나고 결혼식은 무산된다. 그로니스 부인은 그를 찾아달라고 신고하고, 경찰은 다시 수사에 착수한다. 마침내 배르두는 체포되어 길로틴의 이슬로 사라지는데, 그는 끝내 사회가 자신을 그렇게 만들었다고 믿는다.
1920년대 캔자스의 작은 마을, 잘 생긴 부잣집 청년 버드는 여학생들에게 열광적인 인기를 얻고 있지만 그가 좋아하는 소녀는 윌마다. 윌마의 집은 가난했지만 윌마는 아름답고 착한 모법적인 소녀였다. 한창 혈기 왕성한 버드는 윌마와 육체적 관계를 맺고 싶어하지만 윌마는 이를 거절한다. 독실한 기독교인이고 성에 대해 무지했던 윌마에겐 버드와의 육체적 관계가 두려웠던 것이다. 이에 불만을 갖고 있던 버드는 성적 활기를 참지 못하고 다른 여학생과 어울리고, 연약한 윌마는 신경 쇠약 증세를 보여 자살을 시도하고 만다. 윌마의 부모가 딸의 상처를 감싸려고 그들의 교제를 금지하자 두 사람은 괴로워 하고 윌마의 정신 쇠약은 극에 달해 정신병원에 입원하기에 이르고, 버드의 집도 파산하게 되어 그는 다른 지방으로 이사가게 되는데...
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.
In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she can invest the money in a Broadway show featuring songs written by her beau, and of course, in which she will star. Trouble is, she doesn't realize her uncle's been wiped out by the Stock Market crash.
A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there; he decides to find out who killed him.
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.
Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.
Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity ever since her father's death. Although she loves writer DeWitt Taylor, who is indifferent to amassing a fortune, her mother urges her to marry stockbroker Norman Cravath instead. Nancy acquiesces to her mother's wishes but, despite the fact her new husband does everything he can to please her, she is miserable in her marriage.
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.
Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the most hated leaders in contemporary history. Between 1940 and 1945, these two enormously contradictory personalities faced each other in both politics and war. A clash of giants whose story begins in the trenches of the World War I and ends with the debacle of the World War II.
An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth through insurance fraud with the added consequence of potentially killing hundreds of people. His scheme is to place his art collection aboard a ship, insure the collection far beyond its value, and place a barrel of dynamite with a clock-piece timed to go off when the ship is at sea.
A documentary exploring the causes of the 1929 Wall Street Crash.Over six terrifying, desperate days in October 1929, shares crashed by a third on the New York Stock Exchange. More than $25 billion in individual wealth was lost. Later, three thousand banks failed, taking people's savings with them. Surviving eyewitnesses describe the biggest financial catastrophe in history.
Short film drama starring Hartley Sawyer and Wilson Cleveland that takes place over the course of a contentious live television interview between a Wall Street executive and a financial journalist.
A late 90s action vehicle with several Girls with Guns ambitions seen in its casting, most obviously Yukari Oshima.
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.