På sit dødsleje udtaler rigmanden og mediemogulen Charles Foster Kane ordene 'Rosebud'. Journalisten Jerry Thompson bliver sendt ud for at finde ud af, hvad de sidste ord fra den store mand betyder. Thompson interviewer venner, familie og forretningsforbindelser og et fantastisk og tragisk liv rulles op.
Den nyuddannede britiske MI6-agent James Bond demonstrerer sin effektivitet og får licens til at dræbe - og snart er han som Agent 007 på sin første mission. Her bliver han sendt af sted for at efterforske den hensynsløse finansmand Le Chiffre, som MI6 frygter står bag flere terrororganisationer. Le Chiffre planlægger at rejse penge til terrorisme via et poker-arrangement med tårnhøje indsatser i Montenegros berømte spillepalads 'Casino Royale', og det får James Bond besked på at deltage i. For at han kan have noget at spille for, sender finansministeriet den kønne Vesper Lynd afsted med en mindre formue til ham. Nu kan et farligt spil begynde!
The Banker er baseret på virkelige begivenheder. Bernard Garrett og Joe Morris går ind i bankverdenen for at hjælpe andre afroamerikanere med at få boliglån og banklån i 1960’ernes USA.
'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.
Filmen foregår i Frankrig få dage før Første Verdenskrig slutter, og de to soldaterkammerater, Albert Maillard og Édouard Péricourt, kæmper for deres liv på slagmarken. Begge overlever krigens rædsler, men ikke uden ar på sjælen og snart må de hutle sig gennem dagligdagen i et Paris, som slikker sårene efter den grusomme krig.
Mahowny arbejder i en bank, hvor han en dag er så heldig at få adgang til en kundes millionkonto. Så ryger alle hæmninger. Under et besøg i Las Vegas glemmer han helt sin kønne forlovede. I Atlantic City fører kasinomanden Victor Foss’ forsøg på at friste Mahowny med en prostitueret blot til konstateringen af, at den eneste kvinde, der frister Mahowny er fru Fortuna.
Over 10 millioner dollars får Mahowny spillet væk på ingen tid og før banken aner uråd. Det er det største bankbedrageri, det er lykkedes en enkelt person at udføre i Canada nogensinde. Den utrolige historie er nemlig sand.
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.
Benito González is a flamboyant engineer in Melilla, with a brash and pushy personality. His dream is to build the tallest building ever in the region. After his girlfriend leaves him, he devotes himself entirely to his ambitions, deciding to let nothing get in his way. He marries the daughter of a billionaire, intending to use her father's money to realise his project. Benito waltzes his way through a career of excess, fetishes and deceptions, but the personal conflicts he unleashes ultimately send his life spiraling down to disaster.
Chris Rock har både skrevet og instrueret denne komedie, og spiller selv hovedrollen som en mand, Richard, der er fanget imellem sin pæne kone (Gina Torres) og en laber larve (Kerry Washington), der pludselig er dukket op. Richard har orden i job og familieliv, bortset fra at han ikke har fået sex med konen Brenda i syv år. Men Nikki er villig...
John Gray, a mild-mannered banker, gets hit by a car and loses most of his memory. When he gets out of the hospital, he has flashbacks which do not fit with his current life. After a strange telephone call and a murder attempt on his wife, Gray's wife is murdered which he is forced to go to L.A. in order to solve the crime and piece together his mysterious past.
Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, is going to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumors, who disappeared overnight. Between hushed lounges, swimming pools, and gardens under surveillance, a remote duel takes place between two bankers who, despite different methods, are the accomplices of a discreet and merciless form of colonization.
High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at the scene. The cop investigating is out to solve the crime before his ex wife, a reporter, becomes the next victim.
The scene is the restless Paris of the interwar years where an attractive and ambitious woman successfully makes her way in a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. Originating from a humble background, she quickly becomes popular with small savers by offering them outstanding interest rates. Extremely popular, she makes no secret of her taste for the good things in life and her homosexual affairs. They will cost her dearly...
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.
Carl Beldon has disappeared and the Trail Blazers have been sent to investigate. Arriving in town, they find that 'Honest John' controls everything. He even prints his own money. He also has a gang and they set out to finish off the heroes.
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.
Nicolas Mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites Marie-Paul, a young woman he hadn’t known before, in the streets of Paris to a café and sleeps with her the next day. When he tells his surprised friend Claude about the incident, the disillusioned and handicapped writer starts to guide him, leading Nicolas on a dazzling social ascent.