Os Rivais (1997)
In business, size matters
Gênero : Comédia, Drama
Runtime : 1H 40M
Director : Stephen Surjik
Escritor : Larry Gelbart
Sinopse
As two warring media moguls grapple for ownership of a coveted professional football team, they use the newspapers, magazines and television stations they own to destroy each other's reputations.
Um gângster (John Travolta) se vê em situação delicada quando seu chefe morre de um ataque cardíaco. Ele se vê obrigado a trabalhar para pessoas que não gosta e seu primeiro trabalho é cobrar em Los Angeles uma dívida de um produtor de filmes classe "B" (Gene Hackman). Mas ao chegar em Los Angeles sua paixão pelo cinema e a oportunidade de ter outro tipo de vida o fazem apostar todas as fichas em seu sonho.
Nova York. Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba) é uma sexy dançarina de hip-hop que sonha se tornar uma coreógrafa de videoclips. Ela ensina hip-hop para jovens da sua localidade e os encoraja a ficarem longe das ruas, para evitarem problemas. Um diretor de clipes, Michael Ellis (David Moscow), a vê dançando numa discoteca e a convida para participar de um clip. Ela é encorajada a deixar de ser dançarina e se tornar coreógrafa, mas o sucesso repentino de Honey tem um preço quando Michael se recusa a aceitar um não como resposta para sua tentativa de tentar seduzi-la. Assim ele tenta sabotar a carreira de Honey, para tirá-la do ramo definitivamente.
The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
Crocodile in the Yangtze follows China's first Internet entrepreneur and former English teacher, Jack Ma, as he battles US giant eBay on the way to building China's first global Internet company, Alibaba Group. An independent memoir written, directed and produced by an American who worked in Ma's company for eight years, Crocodile in the Yangtze captures the emotional ups and downs of life in a Chinese Internet startup at a time when the Internet brought China face-to-face with the West. Crocodile in the Yangtze draws on 200 hours of archival footage filmed by over 35 sources between 1995 and 2009. The film presents a strikingly candid portrait of Ma and his company, told from the point of view of an “American fly on a Chinese wall” who witnessed the successes and the mistakes Alibaba encountered as it grew from a small apartment into a global company employing 16,000 staff.
Tess McGill tem tudo para subir na vida. Charme, beleza e ambição. Menos as roupas certas, o penteado certo, a atitude certa e o mais importante: o emprego certo. Mas ela não desiste facilmente. Mesmo que tenha que fazer o jogo do sistema e da sedução. Aliada ao belo Jack Trainer, essa simples secretária vai provar que vale tudo para se chegar ao topo.
A partir da polêmica decisão da Suprema Corte de Justiça americana concluindo que uma corporação, aos olhos da lei, é uma "pessoa", são analisados os poderes das grandes corporações no mundo atual. A exploração da mão-de-obra barata no Terceiro Mundo e a devastação do meio ambiente são alguns dos fatos explorados, que entrevistam presidentes de corporações como a Nike, Shell e IBM, além de Noam Chomsky, Milton Friedman e Michael Moore.
Hunt Stevenson trabalha para uma grande fabrican de automóveis que acaba de ser comprada por uma empresa japonesa. De repente, tendo que justificar seu próprio trabalho, ele é forçado a escolher entre a redundância ou a ética de trabalho japonesa aparentemente desumana que os novos proprietários trouxeram com eles.
o mesmo diretor de Corra Que a Polícia vem Ai, esta é uma hilariante paródia do mundo dos esportes profissionais estrelado por Tery Parker & Matt Stone (South Park), sobre dois caras que inventam um jogo de rua, que logo se torna uma obsessão nacional e os coloca em evidência. Uma comédia hilariante sobre gatinhas, bebuns e de como se tornar o número um. A crítica considerou o filme " uma comédia tão inteligente quanto engraçada", " absoluta, estérica, de rolar de rir". com um elenco de conhecidos talentos, que incluem Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy, Robert Vaughn e Ernest Borgnine, e participação especial de Reggie Jackson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dale Earnhardt, Al Michaels, Bob Costas e kenny Mayne, esse é um filme campeão!
A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix with people of high society to improve their business. All seems well until the owner of the farm shows full authority over James, who is the real organizer of the meeting. The celebration is diverse characters who live next to absurd situations.
The daughter of a wealthy industrialist wants to take over the company when her father retires, but the father--an old-fashioned sort who doesn't believe that "girls" belong in business--is planning on leaving the company to her wastrel playboy brother. In order to prove to her dad that she can handle the job, she disguises herself as an ordinary "working girl" and gets a job in her dad's plant. There she meets and falls in love with a clerk. She brings the young man home to meet her folks, but during the evening the family safe is robbed, and all signs point to her new boyfriend.
The film is set in the Tricity in 2003, ten years after the end of communism in Poland. The plot, apparently based on the real-life experiences of Kraków businessmen Lech Jerzorny and Paweł Rey, is about three young, talented businessmen who open a high-tech factory. This comes to the attention of the local state ‘mafia’, the local Prosecutor, played by Janusz Gajos, and tax office boss, played by Kasimierz Kaczor, who are both jealous and would like to make money for themselves. We are in Poland, so success must be punished.
Punyalan Agarbattis is the story of Joy Thakkolkaran, a young entrepreuner from Thrissur. His new business venture 'Punyalan Agarbattis' involves manufacturing agarbattis from elephant dung. Fragrance and quality of his incense sticks aside, its mosquito repellant capabilities too have pleased those who tried the samples. However, Joy suddenly has a new set of people and problems as 'Punyalan Agarbattis' comes to a halt.
Prominent cinematographer Christopher Doyle continues to hone his talents as a director with this thriller set in Eastern Europe and inspired by the as-yet-unsolved murder of a Polish politician in 2001. A young prostitute is spending the evening with a prominent Polish official when he's suddenly assassinated in Warsaw. In the aftermath of the hit, the triggerman takes the prostitute to an apartment and subjects her to a complex personality replacement program designed to wipe out any memories she may have retained about the evening's events.
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.
Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.
Michael e Joanna são um casal jovem e bem-sucedido que parece ter tudo na vida. Mas quando Michael se vê sozinho em uma viagem de negócios com uma nova colega atraente e Joana encontra o outro grande amor de sua vida, eles vivem uma noite de tentação.
A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.
The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddons née Hubbard has her daughter under her thumb. Mrs. Giddons is estranged from her husband, who is convalescing in Baltimore and suffers from a terminal illness. But she needs him home, and will manipulate her daughter to help bring him back. She has a sneaky business deal that she's cooking up with her two elder brothers, Oscar and Ben. Oscar has a flighty, unhappy wife and a dishonest worm of a son. Will the daughter have to marry this contemptible cousin? Who will she grow up to be - her mother or her aunt? Or can she escape the fate of both?