Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis (2010)

A crise financeira mundial que aconteceu em 2008, causou a perda de milhões de empregos e casas e mergulhou os Estados Unidos em uma profunda recessão econômica. Matt Damon narra um documentário que fornece uma análise detalhada dos elementos que levaram ao colapso e identifica peças-chave do mundo financeiro e político. O diretor Charles Ferguson realiza uma gama de entrevistas e traça a história dos Estados Unidos para a China para a Islândia e para outros mercados financeiros mundiais.

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.

MARTIN ARMSTRONG, once a US based trillion dollar financial adviser, used the number pi to predict economic turning points with precision. When some big New York bankers asked him to join the club to help them to take over Russia, he refused to join the manipulation. A few days later the FBI stormed his offices accusing him of a 3 billion dollar Ponzi Scheme - an attempt to stop him talking about the real Ponzi Scheme of debts that the US has build up over the years and which he thinks starts to collapse after October 1, 2015, a mayor pi turning point he is predicting.

Um estudo sobre um dos maiores escândalos corporativos da história dos Estados Unidos, em que executivos da Enron, a 7ª maior companhia do país, fugiram com bilhões de dólares e deixaram acionistas e investidores sem um único tostão. Através de depoimentos e gravações é mostrada como funcionava a hierarquia interna na Enron.

Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto), Seth Bregman (Penn Badgley) e Will Emerson (Paul Bettany) trabalham no setor de riscos em uma corretora, que está realizando uma série de demissões. Cerca de 80% do setor em que trabalham foi demitido, entre eles o chefe do trio, Eric Dale (Stanley Tucci). Ao pegar o elevador Eric entrega a Peter um pen drive, que contém algo em que estava trabalhando no momento. O alerta para que tomasse cuidado com o conteúdo chama a atenção de Peter, que fica após o horário de trabalho para dar uma olhada no arquivo. Logo ele descobre que trata-se de uma análise da volatilidade da empresa, que indica que há duas semanas ela ultrapassou e muito o limite de risco o qual pode correr. Desta forma a empresa está prestes a falir, o que provoca uma reunião de emergência com diversos setores da empresa, entre eles seu dono, o acionista John Tuld (Jeremy Irons).

Na sequência do colapso da economia mundial, em 2008, a classe média americana enfrenta atualmente a maior taxa de desemprego dos últimos 26 anos, tendo atingido os dois dígitos (Out/2009). Decidido a encontrar respostas que todos anseiam, Michael Moore entra em ação pedindo explicações ao poder político e às instituições financeiras. Apontando o dedo ao capitalismo, no seu estilo tão característico.

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.

Os Mestres do Dinheiro é um documentário de 1996, com três horas e meia de duração, que conta a história e discute os conceitos de dinheiro, débito, impostos, e descreve o seu desenvolvimento desde os tempos bíblicos até agora. Ele também aborda a história do sistema bancário de reservas fracionárias, bancos centrais, política monetária, o mercado de títulos, e o Sistema de Reserva Federal (FED) dos Estados Unidos.

Um jovem agente anti-lavagem de dinheiro é encarregado de investigar uma densa rede de corrupção em Nova York. Uma enorme fraude envolvendo criptomoedas, negociantes e nomes poderosos da cidade.

Jim é um cara que viver um sonho americano, uma vida tranquila, com um emprego bem remunerado e uma família amorosa. De repente, tudo muda quando a economia cai fazendo Jim perder tudo. Cheio de raiva e fúria, Jim vai ao extremo em busca de vingança pela vida que lhe foi tirada...

O colapso de uma fábrica de roupas no Bangladesh, em 24 de abril de 2013, fez capa nos principais meios de comunicação do mundo. Quem nunca se deparou com um “Made in Bangladesh” ou outros países subdesenvolvidos nalguma etiqueta de roupas? Para o cineasta americano Andrew Morgan o impacto foi tão grande que acabou por originar a ideia central para o documentário The True Cost.

Quase 100 anos após a sua criação, o poder do Federal Reserve dos EUA nunca foi tão grande. Os mercados e os governos de todo o mundo seguram a respiração na expectativa de cada palavra do presidente do Fed. No entanto, a maioria das pessoas sabe muito pouco sobre o mais poderoso, e menos compreendida, instituição financeira na terra. Narrado por Liev Schreiber, Money For Nothing é o primeiro filme a levar o espectador para dentro do Fed e revela o impacto das políticas do Fed - passado, presente e futuro - em nossas vidas. Junte-se a funcionários atuais e antigos do Fed ao debater as críticas, e uns aos outros, sobre as decisões que ajudaram a levar o sistema financeiro mundial à beira do colapso em 2008. E por que pode estar indo para lá novamente.

Desesperado para pagar uma dívida com sua ex-esposa, um ex-trapaceiro invade a casa de campo de seu novo chefe para roubar uma valiosa jóia, mas é surpreendido por um outro bandido no local fazendo a família como refém de um jogo mortal.

Um suspense que se passa em Nova York durante o inverno de 1981, estatisticamente o ano mais violento na história da cidade. A história é centrada na vida dos imigrantes e de suas famílias que tentam expandir os seus negócios enquanto tentam lhe dar com o aumento da violência e da corrupção que aos poucos destrói tudo que eles construiram.

Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler) é um joalheiro carismático de Nova York que está sempre tentando ganhar mais dinheiro. Depois que faz uma série de apostas arriscadas, parece que o futuro vai sorrir para ele. Mas, em sua busca pela bolada final, Howard precisará de uma atuação perfeita para equilibrar negócios, família e os inimigos que estão cada vez mais próximos.

Um magnata perdido em Los Angeles acaba por contratar os serviços de uma prostituta de rua durante uma semana. Neste período ela transforma-se numa elegante jovem para acompanhá-lo em compromissos sociais, mas os dois começam a se envolver e apaixonar.

O jovem Billy ganhou um novo bichinho de estimação e com ele três conselhos que nunca... nunca poderia esquecer. 1) não deixe que ele se molhe 2) mantenha-o afastado da luz forte 3) não importa o quanto ele chore, o quanto ele suplique, nunca lhe dê comida após a meia-noite. Prepare-se para muita confusão pois alguma coisa vai dar muito errado.

O apresentador de um programa de televisão sobre finanças, Lee Gates, e sua produtora Patty vivem uma situação extrema ao vivo. Um desconhecido armado invade o show e os obriga a continuar a transmissão, caso contrário todos no estúdio morrerão.

In this remarkable documentary, Noam Chomsky offers a riveting but devastating critique of America's current war on terror arguing, in fact, that it is a logistical impossibility for such a war to be taking place. Professor Chomsky presents his reasoning with astonishing and refreshing clarity, drawing from a wealth of historical knowledge and analysis. "Only those who are entirely ignorant of modern history will be surprised by the course of events, or by the justifications that are provided..."

Emma is a teenager when she is the victim of a terrible road accident in London, and needs psychiatric care after she suffers from resulting brain injury. Her mother, Silvia, confines her in the house, and Emma's personality becomes aggressive, leading to a regrettable series of violent deaths.

Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.

Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.

On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.

A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking secretary. Eventually, as cracks form in their passionate relationship, they resort to robbing an aging actress for money.

A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, her daughter cautiously approaches the man she considers to be the blame for the state of her mother in order to gain her revenge.

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.

KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS follows uber myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi.

The same day of their marriage, Jean's wife dies of a strange ailment in the middle of surgery. Afflicted by the loss, the young man abandons his medical studies and takes refuge in the memories of his time of courtship. At the same time that this happens, a wave of murders shakes the city with the same pattern of behavior: the victims are surgery students whose bodies have had both hands amputated.

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.

A colorful and provocative survey of anarchism in America, the film attempts to dispel popular misconceptions and trace the historical development of the movement. The film explores the movement both as a native American philosophy stemming from 19th century American traditions of individualism, and as a foreign ideology brought to America by immigrants. The film features rare archival footage and interviews with significant personalities in anarchist history including Murray Boochkin and Karl Hess, and also live performance footage of the Dead Kennedys.

The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, King Boy D and Rockman Rock, try to find and gain access to the mystical White Room. They leave a party at their house and drive in their 1968 US Cop Car through night-time London and the dusty plains of the Sierra Nevada region of Spain. There they face judgement: will they be allowed to enter the White Room? Meanwhile their lawyer David Franks tries to find a loophole to free them from their contract with Eternity.

The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped start the German gay liberation movement. Documentary with some dramatized scenes. Two actors play the young and middle aged Charlotte and she plays herself in the later years.

This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.

Pep Munné is an aging plastic surgeon who falls for a young female assistant (Mariana Anghileri) while attending a medical conference. Soon he begins inventing new reasons to spend more time with her. His wife Cristina (María Barranco) begins meeting with a psychiatrist (Jean Pierre Noher) in order to figure out what is going on in her marriage.

It is a love story between a prostitute and an artist. It was one of the first German films to break several taboos: nudity, suicide and euthanasia. In the Germany of the '50s, this caused a lot of negative reactions by the politicians and the Roman Catholic Church. The opposition reached the degree of banning the film and scandalizing it which paradoxically made it one of the landmarks in the history of film.

David Asmmann's Football Under Cover documents the hard work involved in setting up an exhibition soccer match, known as a "friendly," between a German girls squad and Iranian women's team. In addition to showing how the two groups come from very different cultures, the documentary showcases what playing the game means to the members of both teams, and displays how passionate the fans of these two squads are.