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: At the age of 51, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma.
Plot Keywords: drama, social issues, unemployment, family, moral dilemma, french film, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A teenager struggles to transcend the limitations of his upper middle-class life.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, social class, coming of age, teenager, class conflict, identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker James D. Scurlock examines the outrageous practices that consumer-lending and credit-card companies use to rack up huge profits while bleeding customers dry. Interviews include a woman declared dead by the credit bureaus and two Minneapolis entrepreneurs who use debtors' personal information to humiliate them into paying up.
Plot Keywords: documentary, finance, consumerism, financial crisis, capitalism, american dream, money ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Trying to save his struggling mattress business, Michael Flynn reinvents himself as the eccentric online persona 'Mattress Mick', under the guidance of his friend Paul Kelly. As business begins to grow, their friendship starts to implode.
Plot Keywords: documentary, ireland, entrepreneurship, social media, biography, true story, resilience ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Vigo, a port town in Spain, has fallen on hard times. The shipbuilding industry, which was a primary source of jobs, has laid off many workers. Several of these erstwhile shipbuilders spend their newfound free time at a local bar owned by their friend Rico (Joaquín Climent). The group is headed by Santa (Javier Bardem), a steadfast pragmatist who tries to keep the spirits of the men high. Troubles are many, however, including the marital problems of Amador (Celso Bugallo) and José (Luis Tosar).
Plot Keywords: unemployment, working class, social injustice, male friendship, resistance, spanish cinema, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 2008 Mike Campbell - one of the few remaining white farmers in Zimbabwe to have held fast in the face of the violent 'Land Reform' programme - took the unprecedented step of challenging President Robert Mugabe before the SADC International Court (SADC - South African Development Community) to defend his farm, which is also home to 500 black workers and their families, and to charge Mugabe and his government with racial discrimination and with violations of Human Rights.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, politics, human rights, social justice, legal battle, agriculture, colonialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: People from different walks of life in the German city of Rostock intersect when a rampaging mob besieges a residential building occupied by Vietnamese immigrants.
Plot Keywords: youth, violence, immigration, racism, protest, germany, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The wind of change is blowing as a family grapples with unemployment, alienation, mistrust and a lack of communication. When a Japanese salaryman loses his job to outsourcing to China, it is just the beginning of a series of family shattering incidents leading to the implosion of the family unit.—aghaemi
Plot Keywords: family, society, unemployment, father-son relationship, midlife crisis, pressure, deception ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film tells the story prior to the accident LAPA Boeing 737 on 31 August 1999 after hitting an embankment in central Buenos Aires, killing 67 people. Directed and performed by a former pilot of the same company, this film reveals a complex web of complicity between the Air Force and the company to circumvent security controls in order to obtain greater economic benefit in operations.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, black comedy, workplace, social satire, independent film, low budget ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a stooge. They choose an old one in a jail : Spiro. But the youngest italian, Gino, once alone with Spiro, encounter a few problems. Far from his roots, loosing his identity in deep Albania, he begins to change...—Yepok
Plot Keywords: war, immigration, poverty, italy, refugees, 1990s, europe ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A modern-day Shakespearean tale about a famous Tajik musical family, controlled by the charismatic, funny yet overbearing patriarch, Papa Alaev, who at the age of 80 is starting to lose his grip on the 'family business', sending them on a rigid and unsure transition from Monarchy to Democracy.
Plot Keywords: biography, crime, drama, finance, fraud, wall street, family relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's the 1930s, the Depression era, and the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson's bank want Dickson to merge with New York Trust and resign. He refuses. One night, Dickson's bank is robbed of $100,000. The suspect is Matt Brown, an ex-convict whom Dickson hired and appointed Chief Teller. Brown, who's very loyal to Dickson, refuses to say where he was that night. He actually has two witnesses for his alibi, Mrs. Dickson and fellow worker Cyril Cluett, but Brown is protecting Dickson from finding out that Mrs. Dickson was with Cluett having a romantic evening. Cluett, who has a $50,000 gambling debt, is actually responsible for the robbery, but lets Brown take the rap. Will Brown's loyalty to Mr. Dickson pay off, or send him back to prison?—Kelly
Plot Keywords: trust, capitalism, social unrest, morality, corruption, heroism, great depression ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bruno Davert, a chemist working for a paper company, is fired. After three years he's still unemployed, too much competition for the few job position he could fit in his sector. He sent tons of resumes, he attended many qualifying courses, he tried everything but there is nothing to do: no job for him in the industry. The only healthy company in the sector is "Arcadia", but joining it is just an impossible dream. At this point Bruno is desperate. What he could do: to kill all the competitors? Could he?—1felco
Plot Keywords: revenge, unemployment, psychological thriller, crime, black comedy, social critique, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a small town, the state-owned car factory, which employs almost all the local men, is about to be privatized. What the workers do not know is that their manager plans to make money from the deal and approaches two French businessmen, father and son, who are interested in buying the factory but intend to convert it into a snail cannery. There is not much space in their plan for the thousands of workers, but the only one who struggles to save the factory is the union leader. His crazy solution scares his fellow workers somewhat, as it involves them selling their sperm to an American sperm bank.
Plot Keywords: comedy, social satire, working class, unemployment, black comedy, independent film, human nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Around the world everyone knows that honest hard work gets you nowhere. In sunny Orlando, Florida, construction worker Dennis Nash learns this the hard way when he is evicted from his home by a charismatic, gun-toting real-estate broker, Rick Carver. Humiliated and homeless, Nash has no choice but to move his mom and nine-year old son into a shabby, dangerous motel. All is lost. Until an unexpected opportunity arises for Nash to strike a deal with the devil - he begins working for Carver in a desperate attempt to get his home back. Carver seduces Nash into a risky world of scamming and stealing from the banks and the government; he teaches Nash how the rich get richer. Living a double life, Nash hides his new boss and job from his family. He rises fast and makes real money; he dreams bigger. But there is a cost. On Carver's orders, Nash must evict honest families from their homes - just as it happened to him. Nash's conscience starts tearing him apart... but his son needs a home. In a...
Plot Keywords: drama, thriller, real estate, moral dilemma, working class, corruption, survival ...
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