Dennis Nash bliver sat på gaden af ejendomsspekulanten Rick Carver. Nash forlader sit barndomshjem og flytter sin mor og 9-årige søn til et tarveligt motel. I et desperat forsøg på at få sit hus tilbage slår Nash en handel af med Carver og begynder at arbejde for ham. Men kan hans samvittighed bære denne pagt med djævelen, eller skal Nash gøre oprør mod Carver og det korrupte ejendomsmarked?

Det går ufattelig godt for bankerne i 2000'erne, takket være uigennemskuelige lånepakker, der udnytter de jævne borgere. En lille gruppe klarsynede outsidere spår, at boligboblen nødvendigvis må briste - så de beslutter at satse imod markedet! Deres uhørte manøvre bringer flere rystende realiteter om storfinansens svinestreger for en dag.

"Der er tre måder at tjene penge på i den her branche. Vær først, vær klogest - eller snyd!". Året er 2008, og en gigantisk finanskrise er under opsejling. I en stor investeringsbank er Peter Sullivan en af de første, der indser, at der er noget i gære. Den unge finansmand opdager, at firmaet risikerer et tab, der er større end dets værdi. Nu starter en desperat kamp for at begrænse skaderne - koste, hvad det koste vil.

Frank og Nancy er gift og bor sammen i et stort hus i klassisk, britisk stil. De kunne ikke være mere stolte den dag, de sender deres datter på college. Men kort efter de har vinket hende afsted, dukker en mand op for at inddrive en gæld. Nu må parret indse, at deres økonomi ikke så ud, som de troede. For at deres elskede datter skal kunne fortsætte på college, kræver det, at Frank og Nancy tænker ud af boksen. Og der kommer alkohollen ind i billedet.

'Inside Job' er den første film der giver et gennemgribende analyse af den globale finanskrise der ramte i 2008, og som menes at have kostet samfundet over $20 trilliarder. Finanskrisen forårsagede at millioner mistede deres arbejde og hjem. Det er den værste depression siden 1920'erne, og resulterede næsten i et globalt kollaps. Igennem grundig research og interviews med ledende finansielle specialister og højtstående politikere, journalister og andre med insider-viden gennemgår filmen råddenskaben i de højeste kredse, med korrupte politikere og CEOs. 'Inside Job' er et skræmmende portræt af vores finansielle situation og af de magthavere der styrer det til egen fordel, lavet af den Oscar-vindende dokumentarist Charles Ferguson (No End In Sight). Filmen modtog en Oscar for Bedste dokumentar.

Warner Brothers' opfindsomme, livsbekræftende musicals fra 30'erne, ofte med Busby Berkeleys koreografi og med sange af Harry Warren og Al Dubin, er blandt de bedste inden for genren, og 42nd Street fra 1933 er måske den allerbedste, de lavede. Det er en såkaldt backstage musical – en musical om det at lave en musical – og den blev i sin tid så stor en succes, at den reddede filmselskabet fra at gå fallit. Filmen er en evigt ung og frisk fest for øjet og øret.

Dette TV-drama handler om den periode i august 2008, der startede den internationale finanskrise. Det er ikke nødvendigt at have kendskab til bankverdenen for at få glæde af filmen, da den præsenteres som en regulær thriller.

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

Uwe Boll, den vanvittige tysker, der laver den ene mere forfærdelige computerspil-filmatisering efter den anden, har her kastet sig ud i et anderledes seriøst ærinde. Dominic Purcell spiller Jim Baxford, en succesfuld mand med godt job og god familie. Da økonomien styrter i grus mister han alt! Og så bliver han vred. Meget vred. Og hans løsning er både voldelige og ekstrem. En række kendte navne dukker op på rollelisten: Edward Furlong, John Heard, Keith David og Eric Roberts.

During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.

Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."

A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories.

«If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe»

Paul Craig Roberts

Only one week left until South Korea will go under sovereign default. Han Shi-Hyun is a leader of the monetary policy team at the Bank of Korea. and is assigned to a crisis team.

The heads of Wall Street's biggest investment banks were summoned to an evening meeting by the US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, to discuss the plight of another - Lehman Brothers. After six months' turmoil in the world's financial markets, Lehman Brothers was on life support and the government was about to pull the plug. Lehman CEO, Dick Fuld, recently sidelined in a boardroom coup, spends the weekend desperately trying to resuscitate his beloved company through a merger with Bank of America or UK-based Barclays. But without the financial support of Paulson and Lehman's fiercest competitors, Fuld's empire - and with it, the stability of the world economy - teeters on the verge of extinction.

Close to bankruptcy, Irena, the owner of a struggling pig farm in a tiny post-Communist town, finds a surprising benefactor in a handsome American man who appears to be the answer to all her prayers.

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter Michael Ruppert. He recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out his apocalyptic vision of the future, spanning the crises in economics, energy, environment and more.

This documentary looks at the factors that led to the 2008 financial crisis and the efforts made by then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President Timothy Geithner, and Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke to save the United States from an economic collapse.

Two assistants, Lee Xiang and Kat, start new jobs at the financial firm Jones & Sunn. Lee Xiang is an earnest young man who naively enters the world of high finance with noble intentions. Kat on the other hand has a secret.

Karolina (Katarzyna Zawadzka) works in a bank, she is energetic, self-confident, go-getting. When the latest currency product comes into her hands - a loan in Swiss francs, the woman gets a great chance to prove herself. Having the full consent of his boss - Adam (Tomasz Karolak), he unscrupulously starts persuading clients to take the most risky and unfavorable investments. Jan (Jan Frycz) is the gray eminence of the Polish financiers. In his phone, he has contacts to the presidents of the largest banks in Poland. His cynical ideas and decisions affect the economy and the fate of hundreds of thousands of people overnight. Such as Artur (Rafał Zawierucha) - an ambitious head of an IT company who decides to use currency options to develop his business. His partner is Mateusz (Antoni Królikowski), who dreams of independence, his own place and the longed-for move away from his in-laws.

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.