Topic: Great Recession

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Normal People (TV Miniseries)

2020 · Series · 25 min. · Ireland

Direction Lenny Abrahamson · Hettie Macdonald

Cast Daisy Edgar-Jones · Paul Mescal · Sarah Greene · Olga Wehrly

Plot TV Miniseries (2020). 12 Episodes. Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal) are two young people navigating adulthood in post-financial crash Ireland. An adaptation of Sally Rooney’s award-winning novel, she...

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

Españistán, de la Burbuja Inmobiliaria a la Crisis (S)

2011 · Documentary · 7 min. · Spain

Direction Aleix Saló

Plot "Españistan" explains the troubles of the Spanish economy.

7.6

19K votes

7.6

19K votes

Inside Job

2010 · Documentary · 105 min. · United States

Direction Charles Ferguson

Cast Gylfi Zoega · Andri Snær Magnasson · Sigridur Benediktsdottir · Paul Volcker

Plot From Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (“No End In Sight”), comes INSIDE JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global...

7.6

19K votes

7.6

19K votes

Requiem for the American Dream

2015 · Documentary · 73 min. · United States

Direction Peter D. Hutchison · Kelly Nyks · Jared P. Scott

Cast Noam Chomsky

Plot Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, speaks about the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few, the death of the...

7.5

1K votes

7.5

1K votes

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

2011 · Documentary · 162 min. · United States

Direction Peter Joseph

Plot Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, by director Peter Joseph, is a feature length documentary work which presents a case for a transition out of the current socio-economic monetary paradigm which governs the...

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

ReMine, The Last Working-Class Movement

2014 · Documentary · 101 min. · Spain

Direction Marcos M. Merino

Plot More than 4,000 miners in Asturias go on strike indefinitely in protest at government cuts and organise daily actions: they mount roadblocks, hold sit-ins at 700 m beneath the surface...

7.4

215 votes

7.4

215 votes

Debtocracy

2011 · Documentary · 75 min. · Greece

Direction Aris Chatzistefanou · Katerina Kitidi

Plot Seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions.

7.4

893 votes

7.4

893 votes

Catastroika

2012 · Documentary · 88 min. · Greece

Direction Aris Chatzistefanou · Katerina Kitidi

Cast Naomi Klein · Ken Loach · Slavoj Žižek

Plot The creators of Debtocracy, analyze the shifting of state assets to private hands. They travel round the world gathering data on privatization and search for clues on the day after...

7.3

457 votes

7.3

457 votes

Hell or High Water

2016 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction David Mackenzie

Cast Jeff Bridges · Chris Pine · Ben Foster · Gil Birmingham

Plot A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas. In a story where the Old West meets...

7.2

28K votes

7.2

28K votes

Leviathan

2014 · Movie · 141 min. · Russia

Direction Andrey Zvyagintsev

Cast Aleksey Serebryakov · Vladimir Vdovichenkov · Elena Lyadova · Anna Ukolova

Plot A present day social drama spanning multiple characters about the human insecurity in a "new country" which gradually unwinds to a mythological scale concerning the human condition on earth entirely.

7.2

7K votes

7.2

7K votes

A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash

2006 · Documentary · 85 min. · Switzerland

Direction Basil Gelpke · Reto Caduff · Raymond McCormack

Plot Enlighten yourself to the wonders of oil, Earth's swiftly diminishing non-renewable resource. Produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, this documentary explores the...

7.2

132 votes

7.2

132 votes

7.2

7K votes

Medical Research: Houston, we have a problem…

2015 · Documentary · 52 min. · Spain

Direction Álvaro Toepke

Plot Documentary which collects a series of interviews with health and research experts and opinion leaders from all over the world, critically debating about the current obsolete model to obtain pharmaceutical...

7.2

27 votes

7.2

27 votes

The Florida Project

2017 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Sean Baker

Cast Brooklynn Prince · Willem Dafoe · Bria Vinaite · Caleb Landry Jones

Plot Revolves around a 6-year-old girl and her friends whose summer break is filled with adventure while their parents and the adults around them struggle with hard times.

Max

7.1

15K votes

7.1

15K votes

Overdose

2010 · Documentary · 47 min. · Sweden

Direction Martin Borgs

Cast Johan Norberg

Plot In times of crisis people seek strong leaders and simple solutions. But what happens when their solutions are identical to the mistakes that caused the very crisis? 'Overdose' is the...

7.1

241 votes

7.1

241 votes

L'abri

2014 · Documentary · 102 min. · Switzerland

Direction Fernand Melgar

Cast David Gueja · Rebecca Gueja · Calin Camara · Veta Camara

Plot One winter in an emergency shelter for the homeless in Lausanne. Every night, the same ritual plays out at the door to this unassuming basement: a dramatic dash for the...

7.1

44 votes

7.1

44 votes

A Farm of Passage

2015 · Documentary · 80 min. · Spain

Direction Sílvia Munt

Plot The instability generated by the current economic recession affects us on a daily basis. Yet the stark figures actually say very little of the actual suffering of the people under...

7.1

65 votes

7.1

65 votes

Inequality for All

2012 · Documentary · 88 min. · United States

Direction Jacob Kornbluth

Plot In this timely and entertaining documentary, noted economic-policy expert Robert Reich distills the topic of widening income inequality, and addresses the question of what effects this increasing gap has on...

7.1

420 votes

7.1

420 votes

Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One

2015 · Movie · 131 min. · Portugal

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Crista Alfaiate · João Pedro Bénard · Isabel Muñoz Cardoso · Margarida Carpinteiro

Plot A murderer on the run from authorities becomes a folk hero in the second instalment of this surreal epic about the lives of ordinary people in austerity-stricken, contemporary Portugal. Elsewhere,...

7.0

465 votes

7.0

465 votes

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2009 · Documentary · 82 min. · United States

Direction Chris Smith

Cast Michael Ruppert

Plot A documentary on Michael Ruppert, a police officer turned independent reporter who predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness.

7.0

439 votes

7.0

439 votes