22 movies

September 13, 2019

Des stripteaseuses se lient d’amitié et décident de conjuguer leurs talents pour arnaquer et prendre leur revanche sur leurs riches clients de Wall Street. Leur plan fonctionne à merveille, mais argent et vie facile les poussent à prendre de plus en plus de risques…

October 21, 2011

Automne 2008. Expert en gestion de risque dans une banque d'investissement de Wall Street, Eric Dale est brutalement congédié, à l'instar de 80% des employés de son service. Avant de quitter l'immeuble, il remet à son protégé, le jeune Peter Sullivan, une clé USB contenant le dossier sur lequel il travaillait ce matin-là. Le soir venu, Peter examine ledit dossier et, à la suite de différents calculs, en déduit que la firme détient une quantité inquiétante de produits financiers toxiques, liés à la spéculation sur le marché immobilier. Peter fait alors venir d'urgence son superviseur, le fantasque Will Emerson. En voyant les conclusions obtenues par son jeune employé, le cadre s'empresse de contacter son directeur, Sam Rogers, qui a passé la soirée chez le vétérinaire auprès de son chien mourant. Ébranlé à son tour par les découvertes de Peter, Sam convoque une réunion exceptionnelle des cadres supérieurs de la firme.

En 1929, dans une petite ville du Kansas, Bud, fils d'un riche propriétaire, et Deanie, fille d'un petit actionnaire, s'aiment passionnément et songent à se marier. Mais les préjugés sont trop forts, et leurs parents s'opposent à cette union...

September 26, 1947

Marié et père d’un jeune garçon, Henri Verdoux, qui est employé de banque, se trouve soudain sans travail. Son expérience lui permet de se lancer dans des opérations boursières dont le financement lui est assuré par des femmes mûres qu’il épouse avant de les faire disparaître…

February 19, 1965

Sur un fond de film muet, un riche jeune homme s'ennuie, seul et entouré de ses domestiques, dans sa demeure gigantesque. Un jour passe un cirque. Il reconnaît dans l'écuyère la jeune fille qu'il aime en secret et qui a disparu depuis plusieurs années. Il apprend de la jeune femme qu'il est le père de ce jeune garçon qui joue déjà au clown. Le film devient alors parlant, quand la crise de 1929 éclate. Le jeune homme rejoint sa petite famille et tous les trois partent sur les routes comme cirque ambulant. Le petit garçon devient le clown Yoyo, puis la Seconde Guerre mondiale éclate. À son tour, il gravit les échelons. De clown, il termine producteur de spectacles et se met à rénover la belle demeure de son père dont il a toujours rêvé. Mais il n'y trouvera finalement pas son bonheur et repartira sur les routes.

September 1, 1950

Nanette Carter est une riche héritière qui veut monter un spectacle dont elle sera la vedette. Son oncle lui fait un pari contre lequel il financerait lui-même le show. Il est certain qu'elle ne pourra le tenir et veut lui cacher qu'elle vient d'être ruinée par le fameux krach financier. Malgré la difficulté, elle le gagne, puis apprend la vérité de la bouche de son avocat qui se laisse convaincre de produire la revue "No No Nanette" .....

October 9, 1932

Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.

Nearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the U.S. Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chairman's every word. Yet the average person knows very little about the most powerful - and least understood - financial institution on earth. Narrated by Liev Schreiber, Money For Nothing is the first film to take viewers inside the Fed and reveal the impact of Fed policies - past, present, and future - on our lives. Join current and former Fed officials as they debate the critics, and each other, about the decisions that helped lead the global financial system to the brink of collapse in 2008. And why we might be headed there again.

Winston Churchill et Adolf Hitler : le « vieux lion » contre l'aigle allemand. Choc des titans dont l'affrontement au sommet domine le siècle. Et nous rend sensible la vertigineuse contingence de notre Histoire : que serait-il advenu de l'Europe si ces deux hommes avaient été autres ? De 1940 à 1945, ces deux personnalités aux antipodes l'une de l'autre ont consacré chaque minute de leur existence à vouloir s'anéantir mutuellement.

May 1, 1931

Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity ever since her father's death. Although she loves writer DeWitt Taylor, who is indifferent to amassing a fortune, her mother urges her to marry stockbroker Norman Cravath instead. Nancy acquiesces to her mother's wishes but, despite the fact her new husband does everything he can to please her, she is miserable in her marriage.

April 13, 1930

A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there; he decides to find out who killed him.

January 31, 1945

In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.

March 28, 1998

A late 90s action vehicle with several Girls with Guns ambitions seen in its casting, most obviously Yukari Oshima.

February 7, 1982

A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.

September 5, 1931

Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.

April 4, 1946

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.

February 6, 2015

Short film drama starring Hartley Sawyer and Wilson Cleveland that takes place over the course of a contentious live television interview between a Wall Street executive and a financial journalist.

July 31, 1931

A woman loses all her money in the 1929 stock market crash, and in order to support her family, goes back to her previous occupation--owner of a gambling house--which her son is dead set against.

May 20, 1938

An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth through insurance fraud with the added consequence of potentially killing hundreds of people. His scheme is to place his art collection aboard a ship, insure the collection far beyond its value, and place a barrel of dynamite with a clock-piece timed to go off when the ship is at sea.

January 1, 2009

Thursday, October 24 : the Wall Street Stock Exchange crashes, the greatest economic crisis of the 20th century suddenly breaks out. Fueled by the idea that everyone can get rich without limits, it puts a final stop to the euphoria of the 1920s. America is then caught in a devastating cycle which spreads around the world a few months later like a malign infection. Calling on renowned historians and economists, William Karel conducts an incredibly detailed analysis of the economic and financial mechanisms that lead to the crash of Wall Street and then to the Great Depression of the 1930's.

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