The Measure of a Man (2015), Casa Grande (2014), Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2006), Mattress Men (2016), Mondays in the Sun (2002), Mugabe and the White African (2009), We Are Young. We Are Strong. (2014), Tokyo Sonata (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Economic Crisis movies.
Storyline: Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him, and brightens up his lonely world. Encouraged by Cathal, Fred meets attractive music teacher Jules. Growing closer, these three outsiders are set on a course that will change their lives forever.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, independent film, social issues, homelessness, loneliness, friendship, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary that investigates the pathologies that have created the richest society the world has ever seen.
Plot Keywords: wealth, consumerism, materialism, social inequality, capitalism, greed, documentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Irrestisible charm and talent help Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even the most influential members of the French industrial and political elite during the early '30s. But nothing lasts forever and when his great scam involving hundreds millions of francs gets exposed, the result is an unprecedented scandal that almost caused a civil war.—Dragan Antulov <dragan.antulov@altbbs.fido.hr>
Plot Keywords: historical, biographical, crime, drama, french film, political, fraud ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Manager Dick Harper and his attractive young wife Jane are used to a comfortable lifestyle. They just build a swimming-pool when Dick is fired very unexpectedly - leaving him with $70,000 debt on the house. They try to hide this from the neighbors and just cut down their expenses, but soon it's obvious: living from unemployment bonus drives them crazy, it's uncertain if they can keep the house. Dick doesn't see another way out than robbing drug stores - but this takes more skill than expected! Only as a team Dick and Jane can succeed.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, unemployment, crime, middle class, social issues, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Newly inaugurated President Judson Hammond is content to live out the next four years exercising a hands-off approach and leaving the problems of Depression America to local authorities. But after a miraculous recovery from an auto accident, Hammond is ready to take on every social ill and neither Congress, gangsters nor the nations of the world will stop him.—Erik Gregersen <erik@astro.as.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: political allegory, great depression, dictatorship, american politics, social reform, idealism, corruption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tells the story of a family as they search for a lost fortune around the streets of Dublin.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, indie film, heartwarming, humor, family bond, life struggles ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hunt Stevenson works for a large car manufacturer that has just been bought out by a Japanese firm. Suddenly finding himself having to justify his own job, he's forced to choose between redundancy or the seemingly inhuman Japanese work ethic that the new owners have brought with them.
Plot Keywords: comedy, workplace, culture clash, teamwork, humor, satire, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three amateurs stickup a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse. Brad Pitt plays the hitman hired to track them down and restore order.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, black comedy, violence, gangster, usa, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Oregon, 1980: Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford, as the title states, the high cost of living. Jane cannot afford a babysitter or get married and if she wants privacy with her boyfriend, she has to sleep in the car. Even worse, her war veteran father comes to live with her to turn her life upside down. Louise lives a happy life with her veterinarian husband, Albert. She runs an antique shop on the side, but since it doesn't take in any profit, the IRS considers it a hobby. She needs to come up with the money to keep it going, or she will be trouble with the IRS. Elaine's husband has left her for another woman and without any money. She is in a constant struggle with banks, power companies, and gas stations. She needs money to get by and also catches the eye of police officer Jack. The local mall is having a contest that features a giant money ball that states it will help fight the inflation. Elaine comes up with a plan to steal the money out of it and split it three ways with Jane and Louise. Of course, one catastrophe after another tries to keep them from achieving their goal.—Pat McCurry
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, crime, heist, 1970s, american film, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: And just like that, Globodyne Corporation--the big media institution where the affluent suburbanite and the company's Vice President, Dick Harper, works--collapses in a grand scandal, Enron-style. To make matters worse, in the worst possible time, Dick's stressed-out travel agent wife, Jane, decides to quit her job--and if this isn't enough--their savings are gone, and nothing can stop Dick and Jane's downward spiral. Now, after a series of failed attempts to keep a job, the desperate and impoverished couple has only one method to stay afloat: to summon up the nerve and steal their way out of misery. However, are Dick and Jane cut out for a life of crime?
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, family, satire, middle class, unemployment, social satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Self-made businessman Harry Papadopoulos has got it all; a mansion house; awards and a super rich lifestyle. However, on the eve of a property deal of a lifetime, a financial crisis hits and the banks call in their huge loans. Harry and his family lose everything in an instant. Everything, except the dormant and forgotten Three Brothers Fish & Chip Shop half owned by Harry's larger than life brother Spiros who's been estranged from the family for years. With no alternative, Harry and his family, plant enthusiast James; fashion victim Katie; nerdy Theo and their loyal nanny Mrs. Parrington, are forced to pack their bags, leave their millionaire lifestyle and join 'Uncle Spiros' to live above the neglected Three Brothers chippie. Together they set about bringing the chip shop back to life under the suspicious gaze of the their old rival, Hassan, from the neighbouring Turkish kebab shop whose son has his own eyes on Katie. Each family member must come to terms with their new life in their own way and make the most of their reduced circumstances. Harry struggles with the banks to regain his lost business empire, but as the chip shop comes to life and old memories are stirred Harry and his family gradually discover that only when you lose everything are you free to discover it all.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, drama, cultural clash, father-son relationship, entrepreneurship, tradition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jim is an average New Yorker living a peaceful life with a well paying job and a loving family. Suddenly, everything changes when the economy crashes causing Jim to lose everything. Filled with anger and rage, Jim snaps and goes to extreme lengths to seek revenge for the life taken from him.
Plot Keywords: finance, greed, wall street, corruption, capitalism, documentary, financial crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in the midst of the 2009 housing crisis, this darkly comedic story follows Cassie Fowler, a single mom and struggling realtor whose life goes off the rails when she witnesses a murder.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, crime, thriller, absurd, violence, usa, real estate ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: France, a middle-aged divorcée, has just been laid off after 20 years at the same shipping company. She takes an overdose of pills but is rushed to hospital and makes a complete recovery. Desperate for employment to support her three children, she moves to Paris where she connects with Ahmed, the father of a former co-worker. France pretends to be a low-skilled immigrant to find menial work, but is then offered the chance to be the housekeeper for Stéphane, a wealthy French banker who has returned to Paris after 10 years in London. The relationship between the pair is initially tense, but he eventually warms to her, especially after she proves herself an adept hand at taking care of his son for a month, an extra duty for which she is paid EUR200 a day. The relationship between them turns amorous on a trip to London to meet with partners of Stéphane's firm.—Wiki
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, french film, social class, unemployment, finance, paris ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Disillusioned thieves break into the homes of the wealthiest people in Chicago.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, action, drama, heist, mystery, social issues ...
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