Posts Tagged ‘business’

Antitrust (2001)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan Phillippe | Rachael Leigh Cook | Claire Forlani | Tim Robbins | Douglas McFerran | Richard Roundtree | Tygh Runyan | Yee Jee Tso | Nate Dushku | Ned Bellamy | Tyler Labine | Scott Bellis | David Lovgren | Zahf Paroo | Jonathon Young
Directors: Peter Howitt
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This movie is the fictional story of computer programming genius Milo Hoffman after graduating from Stanford and getting out into the competitive world of computer software. In his contemplation of where to begin his career, he is contacted by Gary Winston whose character is loosely based on Bill Gates. Winston is the CEO of a company called NURV, and they are on the brink of completing the global communication’s system, Synapse. They need Hoffman to help them meet their launch date, so after much thought and with the full support of his girlfriend Alice, he accepts the job. Tragedy soon after strikes and Milo becomes suspicious of the company he has been wrapped up in. He learns that trusting anyone could be a mistake, and that nothing is as it seems.

Wall Street (1987)

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Charlie Sheen | Tamara Tunie | Franklin Cover | Chuck Pfeiffer | John C. McGinley | Hal Holbrook | James Karen | Leslie Lyles | Michael Douglas | Faith Geer | Frank Adonis | John Capodice | Martin Sheen | Suzen Murakoshi | Dani Klein
Directors: Oliver Stone
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Bud Fox is an ambitious stock trader who will do just about anything to get into the big leagues. He has been actively courting Gordon Gekko, one of the biggest stock speculators on Wall Street. Gekko manipulates the market using inside information and his motto best describes his approach: greed is good. Nothing will stop him from pursuing a good deal and he takes advantage of Bud’s burning to desire to succeed. Soon, Bud finds himself getting information from any source and using to gain an advantage. It all comes to a head however when Gekko targets Blue Star airlines, the company where Bud’s father has worked for 24 years, secretly planning to break it up and plunder the employees’ retirement fund.

Citizen Kane (1941)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Joseph Cotten | Dorothy Comingore | Agnes Moorehead | Ruth Warrick | Ray Collins | Erskine Sanford | Everett Sloane | William Alland | Paul Stewart | George Coulouris | Fortunio Bonanova | Gus Schilling | Philip Van Zandt | Georgia Backus | Harry Shannon
Directors: Orson Welles
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Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world’s richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - “Rosebud…” What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end.

Working Girl (1988)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Sigourney Weaver | Melanie Griffith | Alec Baldwin | Joan Cusack | Philip Bosco | Nora Dunn | Oliver Platt | James Lally | Kevin Spacey | Robert Easton | Olympia Dukakis | Amy Aquino | Jeffrey Nordling | Elizabeth Whitcraft
Directors: Mike Nichols
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A witty, romantic look at life in the corporate jungle: Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess simply takes over her office, her apartment, even her wardrobe. She then creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her straight to the top - or finish her off for good.

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Christina Applegate | Joanna Cassidy | John Getz | Josh Charles | Keith Coogan | Concetta Tomei | David Duchovny | Kimmy Robertson | Jayne Brook | Eda Reiss Merin | Robert Hy Gorman | Danielle Harris | Christopher Pettiet | Chris Claridge | Jeff Bollow
Directors: Stephen Herek
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The misadventures of five siblings, whose mother goes off on a two month vacation, leaving them under the care of a geriatric babysitter. The babysitter dies, and the fun begins. The oldest sibling, Sue Ellen, is left to fend for her younger siblings, who fight her every step of the way.

Night Shift (1982)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Henry Winkler | Michael Keaton | Shelley Long | Gina Hecht | Pat Corley | Bobby Di Cicco | Nita Talbot | Basil Hoffman | Tim Rossovich | Clint Howard | Joe Spinell | Cheryl Carter | Becky Gonzalez | Corki Corman | Jaid Barrymore
Directors: Ron Howard
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A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the “one great idea” for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbour complains about the loss of her pimp. His partner, upon hearing the situation, suggests that they fill that opening themselves using the morgue at night as their brothel. Against his better judgement, he gets talked into the idea, only to find that it’s more than his boss that has objections to this bit of entrepreneurship.

The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Bruce Willis | Melanie Griffith | Kim Cattrall | Saul Rubinek | Morgan Freeman | John Hancock | Kevin Dunn | Clifton James | Louis Giambalvo | Barton Heyman | Norman Parker | Donald Moffat | Kurt Fuller | Adam LeFevre | Alan King | Richard Libertini | Beth Broderick
Directors: Brian De Palma
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Financial “Master of the Universe” Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.

The Last Seduction (1994)

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Linda Fiorentino | Bill Pullman | Michael Raysses | Zack Phifer | Peter Berg | Brien Varady | Dean Norris | Donna Wilson | Mik Scriba | J.T. Walsh | Erik-Anders Nilsson | Patricia R. Caprio | Herb Mitchell | Bill Nunn | Renee Rogers
Directors: John Dahl
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Bridget Gregory has a lot going for her: she’s beautiful, she’s intelligent, she’s married to a doctor. But all of this isn’t enough, as her husband Clay finds out. After she persuaded him to sell medicinal cocaine to some drugdealers, she takes off with the money, almost a million dollars, and goes undercover in a mid-American smalltown. Because Clay has to pay off a loan shark who’ll otherwise damage him severely, he keeps sending detectives after her, trying to retrieve the money. When Bridget meets Mike Swale, a naive local who is blinded by her beauty and directness, she devises an elaborate, almost diabolical scheme to get rid of Clay once and for all.

Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

Friday, April 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Benjamin Bratt | Gina Bernard Forbes | Giovanna Mezzogiorno | Javier Bardem | Marcela Mar | Juan Ángel | Liliana Gonzalez | Catalina Botero | Miguel Angel Pazos Galindo | Maria Cecilia Herrera | Luis Fernando Hoyos | Carlos Duplat | Francisco Raul Linero | Unax Ugalde | Liev Schreiber
Directors: Mike Newell
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In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader. Ariza is persistent, writing her constantly, serenading, speaking poetically of love. Her father tries to keep them apart, and then, one day, she sees this love as an illusion. She’s soon married to Urbino, a cultured physician, and for years, Ariza carries a torch, finding solace in the arms of women, loving none. After Urbino’s fall, are Ariza’s hopes delusional?

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Robert Duvall | Diane Keaton | Robert De Niro | John Cazale | Talia Shire | Lee Strasberg | Michael V. Gazzo | G.D. Spradlin | Richard Bright | Gastone Moschin | Tom Rosqui | Bruno Kirby | Frank Sivero | Francesca De Sapio
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.