Posts Tagged ‘business’

RoboCop 2 (1990)

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Glover, John | Bauer, Belinda | Machado, Mario | Gibbons, Leeza | Ingle, John | Noonan, Tom | Brown, Roger Aaron | Damon, Gabriel | Rolston, Mark | Finn, Lila | Hateley, John | Tarrant, Gage | Rosales Jr., Thomas | Smith, Brandon | Merck, Wallace
Directors: Kershner, Irvin
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After a successful deployment of the Robocop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification closer and closer. But as this develops, a new narcotic known as “Nuke” invades the streets, leaded by God-delirious leader Kane. As this whole menace grows, it may even prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up in failed prototypes with suicidal issues… until Dr. Faxx, scientist straying away from OCP´s path uses Kane as the new subject for the Robocop 2 project, a living God.

Wall Street (1987)

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sheen, Charlie | Tunie, Tamara | Cover, Franklin | Pfeiffer, Chuck | McGinley, John C. | Holbrook, Hal | Karen, James | Lyles, Leslie | Douglas, Michael | Geer, Faith | Adonis, Frank | Capodice, John | Sheen, Martin | Murakoshi, Suzen | Klein, Dani
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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Bud Fox is an ambitious stock trader who will do just about anything to get into the big leagues. He has been actively courting Gordon Gekko, one of the biggest stock speculators on Wall Street. Gekko manipulates the market using inside information and his motto best describes his approach: greed is good. Nothing will stop him from pursuing a good deal and he takes advantage of Bud’s burning to desire to succeed. Soon, Bud finds himself getting information from any source and using to gain an advantage. It all comes to a head however when Gekko targets Blue Star airlines, the company where Bud’s father has worked for 24 years, secretly planning to break it up and plunder the employees’ retirement fund.

Citizen Kane (1941)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Cotten, Joseph | Comingore, Dorothy | Moorehead, Agnes | Warrick, Ruth | Collins, Ray | Sanford, Erskine | Sloane, Everett | Alland, William | Stewart, Paul | Coulouris, George | Bonanova, Fortunio | Schilling, Gus | Van Zandt, Philip | Backus, Georgia | Shannon, Harry
Directors: Welles, Orson
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Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world’s richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - “Rosebud…” What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end.

Working Girl (1988)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Weaver, Sigourney | Griffith, Melanie | Baldwin, Alec | Cusack, Joan | Bosco, Philip | Dunn, Nora | Platt, Oliver | Lally, James | Spacey, Kevin | Easton, Robert | Dukakis, Olympia | Aquino, Amy | Nordling, Jeffrey | Whitcraft, Elizabeth
Directors: Nichols, Mike
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A witty, romantic look at life in the corporate jungle: Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess simply takes over her office, her apartment, even her wardrobe. She then creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her straight to the top - or finish her off for good.

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Applegate, Christina | Cassidy, Joanna | Getz, John | Charles, Josh | Coogan, Keith | Tomei, Concetta | Duchovny, David | Robertson, Kimmy | Brook, Jayne | Merin, Eda Reiss | Gorman, Robert Hy | Harris, Danielle | Pettiet, Christopher | Claridge, Chris | Bollow, Jeff
Directors: Herek, Stephen
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The misadventures of five siblings, whose mother goes off on a two month vacation, leaving them under the care of a geriatric babysitter. The babysitter dies, and the fun begins. The oldest sibling, Sue Ellen, is left to fend for her younger siblings, who fight her every step of the way.

Night Shift (1982)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Winkler, Henry | Keaton, Michael | Long, Shelley | Hecht, Gina | Corley, Pat | Bobby Di Cicco | Talbot, Nita | Hoffman, Basil | Rossovich, Tim | Howard, Clint | Spinell, Joe | Carter, Cheryl | Gonzalez, Becky | Corman, Corki | Barrymore, Jaid
Directors: Howard, Ron
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A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the “one great idea” for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbour complains about the loss of her pimp. His partner, upon hearing the situation, suggests that they fill that opening themselves using the morgue at night as their brothel. Against his better judgement, he gets talked into the idea, only to find that it’s more than his boss that has objections to this bit of entrepreneurship.

Bonfire of the Vanities, The (1990)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Willis, Bruce | Griffith, Melanie | Cattrall, Kim | Rubinek, Saul | Freeman, Morgan | Hancock, John | Dunn, Kevin | James, Clifton | Giambalvo, Louis | Heyman, Barton | Parker, Norman | Moffat, Donald | King, Alan | Broderick, Beth
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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Financial “Master of the Universe” Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.

Antitrust (2001)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Phillippe, Ryan | Cook, Rachael Leigh | Forlani, Claire | Robbins, Tim | McFerran, Douglas | Roundtree, Richard | Runyan, Tygh | Tso, Yee Jee | Dushku, Nate | Bellamy, Ned | Labine, Tyler | Bellis, Scott | Lovgren, David | Paroo, Zahf | Young, Jonathon
Directors: Howitt, Peter
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This movie is the fictional story of computer programming genius Milo Hoffman after graduating from Stanford and getting out into the competitive world of computer software. In his contemplation of where to begin his career, he is contacted by Gary Winston whose character is loosely based on Bill Gates. Winston is the CEO of a company called NURV, and they are on the brink of completing the global communication’s system, Synapse. They need Hoffman to help them meet their launch date, so after much thought and with the full support of his girlfriend Alice, he accepts the job. Tragedy soon after strikes and Milo becomes suspicious of the company he has been wrapped up in. He learns that trusting anyone could be a mistake, and that nothing is as it seems.

Last Seduction, The (1994)

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Fiorentino, Linda | Pullman, Bill | Raysses, Michael | Phifer, Zack | Berg, Peter | Varady, Brien | Norris, Dean | Wilson, Donna | Scriba, Mik | Walsh, J.T. | Nilsson, Erik-Anders | Caprio, Patricia R. | Mitchell, Herb | Nunn, Bill | Rogers, Renee
Directors: Dahl, John
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Bridget Gregory has a lot going for her: she’s beautiful, she’s intelligent, she’s married to a doctor. But all of this isn’t enough, as her husband Clay finds out. After she persuaded him to sell medicinal cocaine to some drugdealers, she takes off with the money, almost a million dollars, and goes undercover in a mid-American smalltown. Because Clay has to pay off a loan shark who’ll otherwise damage him severely, he keeps sending detectives after her, trying to retrieve the money. When Bridget meets Mike Swale, a naive local who is blinded by her beauty and directness, she devises an elaborate, almost diabolical scheme to get rid of Clay once and for all.

Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

Friday, April 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bratt, Benjamin | Forbes, Gina Bernard | Mezzogiorno, Giovanna | Bardem, Javier | Mar, Marcela | Ángel, Juan | Gonzalez, Liliana | Botero, Catalina | Galindo, Miguel Angel Pazos | Herrera, Maria Cecilia | Hoyos, Luis Fernando | Duplat, Carlos | Linero, Francisco Raul | Ugalde, Unax | Schreiber, Liev
Directors: Newell, Mike
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In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader. Ariza is persistent, writing her constantly, serenading, speaking poetically of love. Her father tries to keep them apart, and then, one day, she sees this love as an illusion. She’s soon married to Urbino, a cultured physician, and for years, Ariza carries a torch, finding solace in the arms of women, loving none. After Urbino’s fall, are Ariza’s hopes delusional?