Topic: Great Recession
Explore the top movies, series, and documentaries on Great Recession. Enjoy the must-watch titles that define this topic.
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
Simiocracia (Crónica de la gran resaca económica) (S)
2012 · Documentary · 6 min. · Spain
Direction Aleix Saló
7.2
7K 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.
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