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The real story behind the world of sales. This is a realistic portrayal of what it is to try making a life in high pressure sales with all its highs and lows; promises of fortunes and deliveries of dross. Red-leads and dead-leads are to blame for life's outcomes. Living with "Objection, Rebuttal, Cl …ose". (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracycult filmindependent film |
Themes: | police investigationcheatinggreedangerrobberydeceptioninvestigationdrinkingmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | chicago illinoischinese restaurantofficepolice carrestaurantbarnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipthiefdetectivepolice officerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | office managertelephone salescorrupting influence of capitalismwage slavemislaid trustrefunddoor to doorbrochurehustletelephone bookgraftambiguous titlepitchcommissionsales …pessimismcompetitorpulitzer prize sourcepsychological manipulationsignaturewashroompropertyscreenplay adapted by authorpressureemploymentinvestmentconferenceruthlessnessdignitynegotiationillinoisdocumentblackboardreal estatetelephone boothmen's bathroomstrategyschemereal estate agentethicsall male castcon mancontracthustlercapitalismmeetingsuspectone daysalesmanarizonaco workerdespairmoralitybossscamphone boothdesperationfloridawristwatchrepetition in titlebreaking and enteringcloseted homosexualpowermanagercontestspeechbusinessumbrellapay phonefired from the jobliarman with glassessubwaydinergay slurcompetitioncafeliedrinktelephone callbased on playcigarette smokingsexinterview (See All) |
Cat and mouse. Jonathan McQuarry is an auditor in Manhattan, moving from office to office checking their books. While working late, a smooth and well-dressed man named Wyatt Bose chats Jonathan up, offers him a joint, and soon they're pals. When their cell phones are accidentally swapped, Jonathan a …nswers Wyatt's phone to a series of women asking if he's free tonight. Jonathan discovers it's a sex club: busy powerful people meet each other anonymously in hotels. Jonathan falls for one of the club members, whom he knows only as "S," whom he's also seen on a subway. When she goes missing, patterns emerge and Jonathan faces demands involving violence and lots of money. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptioninvestigationdrinkingmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | chinese restaurantofficebarnew york city |
Characters: | thiefdetective |
Story: | schememeetingsuspectscampowerliarsubwayliedrinktelephone callcigarette smokingsex |
On the Wall Street of the 1980s, Bud Fox is a stockbroker full of ambition, doing whatever he can to make his way to the top. Admiring the power of the unsparing corporate raider Gordon Gekko, Fox entices Gekko into mentoring him by providing insider trading. As Fox becomes embroiled in greed and un …derhanded schemes, his decisions eventually threaten the livelihood of his scrupulous father. Faced with this dilemma, Fox questions his loyalties. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | greedmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | officerestaurantbarnew york cityhospital |
Story: | real estate agentethicscapitalismpowermanagerbusinesspay phonefired from the jobsubwayliecigarette smokingsex |
From a cell, a man tells us he has planned the perfect bank robbery; he invites us to watch. An efficient gang enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors, and takes hostages. They work deliberately, without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but half his mind is occupied with the corru …ption charges he is facing. The bank's president has something to protect in a safe deposit box, so he brings in Madeleine White, a high-power broker with a hidden agenda. With an army of police surrounding the bank, the thief, the cop, and the plutocrat's fixer enter high-stakes negotiations. Why are the robbers asking for a plane, if they are so competent and they know they won't get one? Why aren't they in more of a hurry? If the job's perfect, why is the thieves' leader in a cell? (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | police investigationrobberydeceptioninvestigationmoney |
Locations: | officepolice carrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | thiefdetectivepolice officer |
Story: | negotiationdocumentstrategysuspectpowerbusinessman with glasseslietelephone call |
Seth Davis is a college dropout running an illegal casino from his rented apartment. Driven by his domineering fathers disapproval at his illegitimate existence and his desire for serious wealth, Seth suddenly finds himself seduced by the opportunity to interview as a trainee stock broker from recen …t acquaintance Greg ('Nicky Katt' (qv)). Walking into the offices of JT Marlin, a small time brokerage firm on the outskirts of New York - Seth gets an aggressive cameo performance from Jay ('Ben Affleck' (qv)) that sets the tone for a firm clearly placing money above all else. Seth's fractured relationship with his father and flirtatious glances from love interest Abbie ('Nia Long' (qv)) are enough to keep Seth motivated in his new found career. As he begins to excel and develop a love for the hard sale and high commission, a few chance encounters leads Seth to question the legitimacy of the firms operations - placing him once again at odds with his father and what remains of his morality. With homages to Wall Street, and Glengarry Glen Ross, it's a decent debut feature for Ben Younger who's script exposes a truly sinister side of an already immoral business. (Read More)
Themes: | money |
Locations: | officebarnew york city |
Characters: | employer employee relationship |
Story: | telephone salescommissioninvestmentco workermoralityscamdesperationmanagerbusinessliarsubwaydinergay slurlieinterview |
Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he's seen by witnesses. His efforts to provide himself with an alibi fail and more and more he gets driven into a corner.
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | police investigationrobberyinvestigationmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police carbar |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipthiefdetectivefather daughter relationship |
Story: | psychological manipulationcontractsuspectphone boothbreaking and enteringliarman with glassessubwaylietelephone callcigarette smoking |
Pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson finds the young, promising pool player Vincent in a local bar and he sees in him a younger version of himself. To try and make it as in the old days, Eddie offers to teach Vincent how to be a hustler. After some hesitations Vincent accepts and Eddie takes him and Vince …nt's girlfriend Carmen on a tour through the country to work the pool halls. However, Vincent's tendency to show off his talent and by doing so warning off the players and losing money, soon leads to a confrontation with Eddie. (Read More)
Themes: | angerdrinkingmoney |
Locations: | restaurantbar |
Story: | hustlersalesmanscamwristwatchbreaking and enteringcompetitioncafedrinktelephone callcigarette smokingsex |
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark …question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (Read More)
Themes: | police investigationangerrobberydeceptioninvestigationdrinkingmoney |
Locations: | police carbarnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | thiefdetectivepolice officerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | psychological manipulationscreenplay adapted by authorpressuresuspectman with glassesliedrinktelephone callcigarette smokinginterview |
A frustrated and clumsy bank clerk overhears the conversation of three coworkers in the toilet about a fix in a horse race, and bets a large amount. He loses the bet and owes the money to the dangerous and powerful mobster Fingers. A gangster who works for Fingers has the ability of foreseeing piece …s of the future; he is assigned to collect money for the boss, with his troublemaker nephew Tony, and is beaten up by a gang. The manager of pop-star Trista loses her contract to Fingers without her agreement and she is threatened by the gangster. A dedicated doctor seeks a blood donor that might have a rare blood type to save the life of his secret and unrequited passion, a beautiful epidemiologist who's married to a friend. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | drinkingmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | officepolice carrestaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | thieffather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | men's bathroomcontractco workerbossdesperationmanagerumbrellaman with glassescafedrinkcigarette smokinginterviewsex |
Balls-out "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honor a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, h …e goes on camera for a Mike Wallace interview and risks arrest for contempt of court. Westinghouse is negotiating to buy CBS, so CBS attorneys advise CBS News to shelve the interview and avoid a lawsuit. "60 Minutes" and CBS News bosses cave, Wigand is hung out to dry, Bergman is compromised, and the CEOs of Big Tobacco may get away with perjury. Will the truth come out? (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | angerinvestigationdrinkingmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | officebarnew york city |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipthieffather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | ethicscapitalismpowermanagerbusinesspay phonefired from the jobliarliedrinktelephone callcigarette smokinginterview |
Follow a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- some of them of his own making.
Themes: | drinkingmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | chicago illinoispolice carrestaurantbarnew york city |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | men's bathroomcontractpay phoneliarsubwaydinercafeliedrinktelephone callcigarette smoking |
Early one morning, Marcos observes Juan successfully pulling off a bill-changing scam on a cashier, and then getting caught as he attempts to pull the same trick on the next shift. Marcos steps in, claiming to be a policeman, and drags Juan out of the store. Once they are back on the street, Marcos …reveals himself to be a fellow swindler with a game of much higher stakes in mind, and he invites Juan to be his partner in crime. A once-in-a-lifetime scheme seemingly falls into their laps - an old-time con man enlists them to sell a forged set of extremely valuable rare stamps, The Nine Queens. The tricky negotiations that ensue bring into the picture a cast of suspicious characters, including Marcos' sister Valeria, their younger brother Federico and a slew of thieves, conmen and pickpockets. As the deceptions mount, it becomes more and more difficult to figure out who is conning whom. (Read More)
Themes: | robberydrinkingmoney |
Locations: | restaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | thiefhusband wife relationship |
Story: | men's bathroomschemecon manone dayscampay phonesubwaycafedrinktelephone callcigarette smokingsex |
Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull … it off? (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | greedangerdeceptioninvestigationmoney |
Locations: | police carrestaurantbar |
Characters: | detectivepolice officerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | washroomreal estatestrategysuspectfloridawristwatchgay slurliecigarette smoking |
Charles is worn down by his home life where he and his wife struggle to cope with the demands of their daughter's illness and his job. When he meets Lucinda on the train to work in Chicago, there is an immediate spark between them. Soon they are doing lunch; dinner and drinks follow. This leads to a …n adulterous rendezvous in a hotel. However, no sooner have they torn each other's clothes off than their room is invaded by a thief who beats Charles and rapes Lucinda. Because of the illicit nature of their relationship, Charles agrees with Lucinda who is reluctant to go to the police and soon finds he is powerless to resist the demands of the thief. (Read More)
Themes: | robberydeceptioninvestigationdrinkingmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | chicago illinoispolice carrestaurantbar |
Characters: | thieffather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | scamliarcafeliedrinktelephone callcigarette smoking |
A meek word processor impulsively travels to Manhattan's Soho District to date an attractive but apparently disturbed young woman and finds himself trapped there in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances.
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | angermoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | officerestaurantbarnew york city |
Characters: | thiefpolice officer |
Story: | washroomco workerumbrellasubwaydinercafesex |
Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken … behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | chicago illinoisofficerestaurantbar |
Characters: | thieffather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | co workerphone boothfloridaumbrellapay phoneliardinercafeliedrinktelephone callcigarette smokingsex |
Corporate salesman Steve Butler (Matt Damon) arrives in a rural town with his sales partner, Sue Thomason (McDormand). With the town having been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, the two outsiders see the local citizens as likely to accept their company's offer, for drilling rights t …o their properties, as much-needed relief. What seems like an easy job for the duo becomes complicated by the objection of a respected schoolteacher (Holbrook) with support from a grassroots campaign led by another man (Krasinski) who counters Steve both personally and professionally. (Read More)
Themes: | greedanger |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | restaurantbar |
Story: | salespsychological manipulationdocumentblackboardcontractsalesmanspeechdinerlie |
Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit, Australia dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to Abba music and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. Then she steals some money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, an …d turns her world upside down. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | robberydrinkingmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | chinese restaurantpolice carrestaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | thieffather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone bookdignityliarcafeliedrinktelephone callcigarette smokingsex |
Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.
Themes: | police investigationangerdeceptioninvestigation |
Locations: | chicago illinoischinese restaurantpolice carbar |
Characters: | detectivepolice officer |
Story: | powerspeechcigarette smokinginterview |
Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milk's career from his 40th birthday to his death. He leaves the closet and New York, opens a camera shop that becomes the salon for San Francisco's growing gay community, and organiz …es gays' purchasing power to build political alliances. He runs for office with lover Scott Smith as his campaign manager. Victory finally comes on the same day Dan White wins in the city's conservative district. The rest of the film sketches Milk's relationship with White and the 1978 fight against a statewide initiative to bar gays and their supporters from public school jobs. (Read More)
Themes: | angerdrinking |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | officerestaurantbar |
Story: | men's bathroommoralityfloridacloseted homosexualpowermanagerspeechumbrellapay phonefired from the jobsubwaygay slurcafedrinktelephone call …interview (See All) |
A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.
Themes: | police investigationinvestigationdrinkingmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | restaurantbar |
Characters: | detectivepolice officerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | documentsuspectone daydesperationbreaking and enteringumbrellacafedrinkcigarette smokingsex |
While undergoing open heart surgery, a man's failed anesthetic leaves him completely alert, but paralyzed and unable to tell his doctors
Subgenre: | conspiracyindependent film |
Themes: | investigationdrinkingmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | new york cityhospital |
Characters: | employer employee relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | umbrellaliarman with glassessubwayliedrinkcigarette smokingsex |
New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the FBI tra …cks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | deceptioninvestigationmoney |
Locations: | police carrestaurantbarnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | thiefpolice officerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | mislaid trustcon manscamphone boothfloridaspeechumbrellapay phonedinerliecigarette smoking |
In San Francisco in the 1950s, Margaret was a woman trying to make it on her own after leaving her husband with only her daughter and her paintings. She meets gregarious ladies' man and fellow painter Walter Keane in a park while she was struggling to make an impact with her drawings of children wit …h big eyes. The two quickly become a pair with outgoing Walter selling their paintings and quiet Margaret holed up at home painting even more children with big eyes. But Walter's actually selling her paintings as his own. A clash of financial success and critical failure soon sends Margaret reeling in her life of lies. With Walter still living the high life, Margaret's going to have to try making it on her own again and re-claiming her name and her paintings. (Read More)
Themes: | greeddeceptiondrinkingmoney |
Locations: | restaurantbarnew york city |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | signaturereal estatemen's bathroomschemeethicscon mansalesmanscampay phoneliargay slurcafeliedrinktelephone call …cigarette smoking (See All) |
Aspiring emcee DJay works the angles to get his first record made with help from assorted people in his Memphis 'hood. And when he hears that hip-hop superstar Skinny Black is heading to his area, he throws together a supreme hustle to grab Skinny's attention.
Themes: | drinkingmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police carrestaurantbar |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | hustlemen's bathroomhustlercafedrinktelephone callcigarette smokingsex |
Wendell Rohr is a torts lawyer taking on the gun lobby. Rankin Fitch is the jury consultant for the Defendants and between them the battle is for the hearts and minds of the jury. But there is someone on the inside. Nicholas Easter is a juror with a girlfriend, Marlee, on the outside. they have a pa …st ..... and their own agenda. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | robberydeceptiondrinkingmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | restaurantbar |
Characters: | thiefhusband wife relationship |
Story: | co workerbreaking and enteringmanagerumbrellapay phonedinercafedrinktelephone callcigarette smokingsex |
Jordan Belfort is a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 22 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden.
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | greedinvestigationdrinkingmoney |
Locations: | police carrestaurantbarnew york city |
Characters: | thiefpolice officerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | commissionmen's bathroomsalesmanscamwristwatchmanagerbusinesspay phonefired from the jobsubwaygay slurcafeliedrinktelephone call …cigarette smokinginterview (See All) |
A Kansas City waitress with dreams of becoming a nurse becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband murdered. Becoming delusional from shock, she becomes convinced that she is the former fiancee of her soap opera idol. What she also believes is that the soap opera is real and goe …s to LA to find the hospital where he works as a cardiologist. Meanwhile, her husband's murderers are searching for the drugs stolen by her husband and, as luck would have it, they are stored in the trunk of the car she drove off in. Freeman, an aging hit man planning his retirement after this job, also becomes delusional about the woman he is tracking. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | robberyinvestigationdrinking |
Locations: | police carrestaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | thieffather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | salesmanarizonaco workerdinergay slurcafedrinktelephone callsex |
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. Lola has 20 min to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along …Lola's run. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | cheatingrobberymoney |
Locations: | office |
Characters: | thiefpolice officerfather daughter relationship |
Story: | telephone boothphone boothdesperationpay phonesubwaytelephone call |
A chance encounter between a travelling salesman and a lonely hitman triggers a strangely profound relationship which provokes each to act in ways neither would have imagined possible. Fate steps in to form a friendship between two men from irreconcilable worlds that will alter the lives of both for …ever. (Read More)
Themes: | drinkingmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | restaurantbar |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | men's bathroomsalesmanarizonabossbusinessliarman with glassescafeliedrinktelephone callcigarette smokingsex |
Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real 'hustler', he finds that he is the one getting 'hustled' until he teams up with a down-and-out but resilient outcast named Ratso Rizzo. The initial 'country cousin meets city cousin' relationship deepens. In …their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Each has found his first real friend. (Read More)
Themes: | robberydrinkingmoney |
Locations: | barnew york city |
Characters: | thief |
Story: | telephone boothcon manhustlerdespairfloridawristwatchbusinesssubwaygay slurdrinktelephone callcigarette smokingsexinterview |
Sexual harassment is the theme, but here it is the man who is harassed by his new female boss. A high-flying executive, Meredith, is out to ruin her former lover, who she's just beaten to the top job in an electronics company, using every trick in the book.
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | deception |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | officerestaurant |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | bosswristwatchmanagerbusinessfired from the jobliesex |
A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss.
Themes: | drinkingmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | chinese restaurantrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | real estatemen's bathroomphone boothfloridaumbrellapay phonesubwaycafedrinktelephone callcigarette smoking |
Follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski through a covert scheme of funneling cash to local gangsters - "money drops" - in the underworld of Brooklyn bars. Under the heavy hand of his employer and cousin Marv, Bob finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation tha …t digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost. (Read More)
Themes: | robberyinvestigationmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | barnew york city |
Story: | screenplay adapted by authorschemewristwatchbreaking and enteringumbrelladiner |
Themes: | cheatingangerdrinking |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police carrestaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | real estatecontractumbrellasubwaycafeliedrinktelephone callcigarette smokingsex |
In the real-time, high stakes thriller Money Monster, George Clooney and Julia Roberts star as financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, who are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything (Jack O'Connell) forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense st …andoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | angerdeceptionmoney |
Locations: | officepolice carbarnew york cityhospital |
Story: | investmentcapitalismone daydesperationinterview |
The high stakes thriller Paranoia takes us deep behind the scenes of global success to a deadly world of greed and deception. The two most powerful tech billionaires in the world ('Harrison Ford (I)' (qv) and 'Gary Oldman (I)' (qv)) are bitter rivals with a complicated past who will stop at nothing …to destroy each other. A young superstar ('Liam Hemsworth' (qv)), seduced by unlimited wealth and power falls between them, and becomes trapped in the middle of the twists and turns of their life-and-death game of corporate espionage. By the time he realizes his life is in danger, he is in far too deep and knows far too much for them to let him walk away. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracyindependent film |
Themes: | greedangerdeception |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | officerestaurantbarnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | employer employee relationship |
Story: | powerbusinessumbrellafired from the jobsubwaycigarette smoking |
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | robberyinvestigationdrinkingmoney |
Locations: | police carbarnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipthiefdetectivefather daughter relationship |
Story: | repetition in titlebreaking and enteringgay slurliedrinkcigarette smoking |
Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying t …o get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | angerrobberydeceptiondrinking |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police carbar |
Characters: | thiefpolice officerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | liargay slurliedrinkcigarette smoking |
The chief spokesperson and lobbyist Nick Naylor is the Vice-President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. He is talented in speaking and spins argument to defend the cigarette industry in the most difficult situations. His best friends are Polly Bailey that works in the Moderation Council in alcohol …business, and Bobby Jay Bliss of the gun business own advisory group SAFETY. They frequently meet each other in a bar and they self-entitle the Mod Squad a.k.a. Merchants of Death, disputing which industry has killed more people. Nick's greatest enemy is Vermont's Senator Ortolan Finistirre, who defends in the Senate the use a skull and crossed bones in the cigarette packs. Nick's son Joey Naylor lives with his mother, and has the chance to know his father in a business trip. When the ambitious reporter Heather Holloway betrays Nick disclosing confidences he had in bed with her, his life turns upside-down. But Nick is good in what he does for the mortgage. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | drinkingmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | restaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | capitalismmoralitybossmanagerbusinessumbrellafired from the jobliarcafeliedrinktelephone callcigarette smokinginterviewsex |
After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit "The Penguin", the last of the nuns who raised them in a boarding school. They learn the Archdiocese will stop supporting the school and will sell the place to the Education Authority. The only way to keep the place open …is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The Blues Brothers want to help, and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their "mission from God" they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | deceptionmoney |
Locations: | chicago illinoisofficepolice carrestaurantbar |
Characters: | police officerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | propertyillinoisphone boothwristwatchpay phoneman with glassesdinercafecigarette smoking |
A successful cocaine dealer, who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite, plans an early retirement from the business. However, big boss Jimmy Price hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy's old pal Edward, a powerful construc …tion business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds' worth of Grade A ecstasy, a brutal Serbian gang and a whole series of double crossings. The title "LAYER CAKE" refers to the layers or levels anyone in business goes through in rising to the top. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no 'codes', or 'families' and respect lasts as long as a line. Not knowing who he can trust, he has to use all his 'savvy', 'telling' and skills which make him one of the best, to escape his own. The ultimate last job, a love interest called Tammy, and an international drug ring threaten to draw him back into the 'cake mix'. But, time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime.. (Read More)
Themes: | greedrobberydeceptiondrinkingmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police carrestaurantbar |
Characters: | thieffather daughter relationship |
Story: | telephone boothbossscambusinessliardinercafeliedrinktelephone callcigarette smokingsex |
Stu Shepard is a fast talking and wise cracking New York City publicist who gets out of trouble and lies with his clever charm, connections, and charisma. Stu's greatest lie is to his wife Kelly, who he is cheating on with his girlfriend, Pam. Upon answering a call in a phone booth in belief it is P …am, Stu is on the line with a dangerous yet intelligent psychopath with a sniper rifle. When realizing it is not a joke, Stu is placed in a powerful mind game of wits and corruption. The New York City Police eventually arrive thereafter and demand Stu comes out of the phone booth- but how can he when if he hangs up or leaves the booth he will die? (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | cheating |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | police officerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | psychological manipulationtelephone boothphone boothpay phoneliarlietelephone call |
When a man (Robbins) believes he has discovered that his wife is having an affair with his boss, it sets off a chain reaction of events. First he wanders into a ghetto where a robber (Lawrence) tries to take his money at gunpoint, but instead sets a wild ride from California to Arizona. The two even …tually become reluctant friends. Discussing robbery techniques, they decide to get back at the boss by robbing an office safe containing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Life is further complicated by another pair of robbers who chase the first two for infringing on their territory. (Read More)
Themes: | robberydeceptionmoney |
Locations: | officerestaurantbar |
Characters: | thieffather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | arizonabosspay phonedinercigarette smoking |
Jenna is unhappily married, squirreling away money, and hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant, which throws her plans awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tole …rates her sour boss Cal, is friends with Dawn and Becky (her fellow waitresses), and finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town. As the pregnancy advances, life with Earl seems less tolerable, a way out less clear, and the affair with the doctor complicated by his marriage. What options does a waitress have? (Read More)
Themes: | cheatingmoney |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | bosscontestpay phonedinercafelietelephone callcigarette smokingsex |
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld ('Christian Bale' (qv)), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser ('Amy Adams (III)' (qv)) …is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso ('Bradley Cooper (I)' (qv)). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. 'Jeremy Renner' (qv) is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn ('Jennifer Lawrence (III)' (qv)) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. (Read More)
Themes: | police investigationangerdeceptioninvestigationmoney |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | restaurantbarnew york city |
Characters: | employer employee relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | hustleschemecon manscamdesperationumbrellaman with glassesdinercigarette smoking |
Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life. Steven becomes open about his homosexuality and decides to live life to the fullest - even if it means breaking the law. Steven's new, extravagant lif …estyle involves cons and fraud and, eventually, a stay in the State Penitentiary where he meets sensitive, soft-spoken Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts Steven to attempt and often succeed at one impossible con after another. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionmoney |
Locations: | restauranthospital |
Characters: | thiefpolice officerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | men's bathroomcon manscamfloridawristwatchcloseted homosexualliargay slurcafelietelephone callsex |
An ex-con, fresh out of prison, goes to L.A. to try to learn who murdered his daughter. However, he quickly finds that he is completely out of place with no understanding of the culture he finds. His investigations are helped by another ex-con. Together they learn that his daughter had been having a …n affair with a record producer, who is presently having an affair with another young woman. An aging actress, who also knew his daughter, forces him to look at his own failures as a father. The movie does focus on the drama of the situation and the inter-relationships of the characters and seldom slips into an action piece. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | police investigationrobberyinvestigationdrinkingmoney |
Locations: | restaurantbar |
Characters: | thiefpolice officerfather daughter relationship |
Story: | contractsuspectbreaking and enteringgay slurcafedrinkcigarette smokingsex |
The pediatrician Alexandre Beck misses his beloved wife Margot Beck, who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Al …ex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive. (Read More)
Themes: | investigationdrinking |
Locations: | police carrestaurantbarhospital |
Characters: | detectivepolice officerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | documentsuspectdesperationman with glassesgay slurcafeliedrinktelephone callcigarette smoking |
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In … the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story. (Read More)
Themes: | robberydrinking |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | restaurantbarnew york cityhospital |
Characters: | thieffather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | pulitzer prize sourcedignitybreaking and enteringpowerpay phoneman with glassessubwaycafedrinktelephone callcigarette smoking |