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Succession 2018
Series
Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
The sides of Succession
- Four siblings fighting over their father's empire
- Logan Roy refusing to step down
- Tom and Greg at the edges of the family
Good for you if
- you like insults sharp enough to cut, from Roman most of all.
- you like boardroom coups, takeover bids and family votes.
- you like laughing at very rich people being awful to each other.
Bad for you if
- you need at least one Roy to root for.
- you need action, and here the battles are fought in boardrooms and over the phone.
About: inheritance · fathers and sons · money · loyalty
La gran apuesta 2015
Película
Cuando cuatro tipos fuera del sistema descubren que los grandes bancos, los medios de comunicación y el gobierno se niegan a reconocer el colapso de la economía, tienen una idea: 'La Gran Apuesta'… pero sus inversiones de riesgo les conducen al lado oscuro de la banca moderna, donde deben poner en duda todo y a todos...
Las caras de La gran apuesta
- Marginados que vieron venir la crisis de 2008
- Famosos que explican las finanzas
- Apostar contra la economía
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una comedia rápida y furiosa sobre un desastre real.
- te gustan los personajes afilados y cínicos.
- te gusta entender cómo pasó algo de verdad.
Mala para ti si
- te aburren los bancos y las hipotecas. Toda la película trata de dinero.
- necesitas algo de esperanza. Los banqueros salen impunes y millones de personas pierden su casa.
Temas: la codicia · la verdad · los sistemas
Generation Wealth 2018
Documentary
Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence. Underscoring the ever-increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots, portraits reveal a focus on cultivating image over substance, where subjects unable to attain actual wealth instead settle for its trappings, no matter their ability to pay for it.
The sides of Generation Wealth
- Twenty-five years of Lauren Greenfield's photos
- People chasing the look of wealth
- The photographer's own family
Good for you if
- you want real people telling how money took over their lives.
- you like questioning what money and status do to us.
- you like a filmmaker who also looks at money in her own family.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch debt, addiction and broken families on screen.
- you lose track when a film jumps between dozens of people over 25 years.
About: money · image · excess
The House of Flowers 2018
Series
A wealthy matriarch tries to maintain her family's facade of perfection after her husband's mistress exposes their dirty secrets.
The sides of The House of Flowers
- A wealthy Mexico City family and its flower shop
- A matriarch keeping up appearances
- A husband's mistress who exposes everything
Good for you if
- you like laughing at a family scandal that should be a tragedy.
- you like siblings, parents and secrets all tangled under one roof.
- you like Paulina de la Mora and her slow, unforgettable way of talking.
Bad for you if
- you want every twist to be believable.
About: appearances · secrets · family · identity
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room 2005
Documentary
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
The sides of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
- Enron's executives and their fake profits
- Traders and the California blackouts
- Employees who lost their savings
Good for you if
- you like watching executives build a giant on numbers that weren't real.
- you want to understand how Enron fell in 2001.
- you can laugh grimly at traders joking on tape about California's blackouts.
Bad for you if
- you need more than charts, tapes and interviews.
- you need some hope, and thousands of employees lose everything here.
About: greed · deception · money
Inequality for All 2013
Documentary
Based on Reich's 2010 book Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, the film examines widening income inequality in the United States. U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich tries to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap. He publicly argued about the issue for decades, and producing a film of his viewpoints was a "final frontier" for him. In addition to being a social issue documentary, Inequality for All is also partially a biopic regarding Reich's early life and his time as Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton's presidency. Warren Buffett and Nick Hanauer, two entrepreneurs and investors in the top 1%, are interviewed in the film, supporting Reich's belief in an economy that benefits all citizens, including those of the middle and lower classes.
The sides of Inequality for All
- Robert Reich explaining the income gap
- A former Labor Secretary's own story
- Investors from the top 1% who agree with him
Good for you if
- you want the American wealth gap explained in plain terms.
- you like asking who the economy really works for.
- you enjoy Robert Reich himself, funny and warm in front of his students.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at a lecture with a mission.
- you need a story that moves, not charts and a classroom.
About: inequality · the middle class · work
El lobo de Wall Street 2013
Película
Película basada en hechos reales del corredor de bolsa neoyorquino Jordan Belfort. A mediados de los años 80, Belfort era un joven honrado que perseguía el sueño americano, pero pronto en la agencia de valores aprendió que lo más importante no era hacer ganar a sus clientes, sino ser ambicioso y ganar una buena comisión. Su enorme éxito y fortuna le valió el mote de "El lobo de Wall Street". Dinero. Poder. Mujeres. Drogas. Las tentaciones abundaban y el temor a la ley era irrelevante. Jordan y su manada de lobos consideraban que la discreción era una cualidad anticuada; nunca se conformaban con lo que tenían.
Las caras de El lobo de Wall Street
- Exceso a todos los niveles
- Cómo funciona la estafa
- Una comedia muy negra
Buena para ti si
- quieres reírte de excesos llevados a niveles absurdos.
- te gusta seguir a un estafador que se lo pasa como nunca.
- te gusta un actor que se entrega por completo, como en la escena en que se arrastra hasta el coche.
Mala para ti si
- mucho desnudo, sexo y drogas no es lo que quieres esta noche.
- tres horas son demasiado para una sola noche.
Temas: la codicia · el exceso · el dinero
Pozos de ambición 2007
Película
Texas, principios del siglo XX. Una historia sobre la familia, la avaricia y la religión. Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) se traslada a una miserable ciudad con el propósito de hacer fortuna, pero, a medida que se va enriqueciendo, sus principios y valores desaparecen y acaba dominado por la ambición. Tras encontrar un rico yacimiento de petróleo en 1902, se convierte en un acaudalado magnate. Cuando, años después, intenta apoderarse de un nuevo yacimiento, tiene que enfrentarse al predicador Eli Sunday (Paul Dano). Adaptación de la novela de Upton Sinclair "Petróleo", escrita en 1927.
Las caras de Pozos de ambición
- Un petrolero que lo quiere todo
- Un joven predicador al que odia
- I drink your milkshake
Buena para ti si
- te gusta ver a Daniel Day-Lewis desaparecer dentro de un petrolero despiadado.
- te gusta una historia de ambición lenta y pesada.
- te gusta una banda sonora extraña e inquietante.
Mala para ti si
- más de dos horas y media a este ritmo es demasiado.
- necesitas a alguien por quien apostar. Plainview estafa y aplasta a todo el que se cruza en su camino.
Temas: la codicia · la fe · la soledad
Steve Jobs 2015
Película
Biopic del mítico empresario y programador informático Steve Jobs (1955-2011), centrado en la época en la que lanzó los tres productos icónicos de Apple.
Las caras de Steve Jobs
- Entre bastidores antes de tres lanzamientos de productos
- Steve Jobs y la hija que negó
- Discusiones con Wozniak y Sculley
Buena para ti si
- adoras las discusiones rápidas y habladas de Aaron Sorkin en los pasillos.
- no puedes apartar la vista de Michael Fassbender como Jobs.
- quieres el retrato de un hombre más que la historia de una empresa.
Mala para ti si
- vienes por las keynotes en el escenario. La película se queda entre bastidores antes de que suba el telón.
- no puedes pasar dos horas con un hombre que niega a su propia hija.
Temas: la ambición · la paternidad · el control
House of Gucci 2021
Film
When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately… murder.
The sides of House of Gucci
- An outsider marrying into the Gucci family
- A fashion empire torn apart
- A murder ordered by a wife
Good for you if
- you like true stories about a famous family and a real crime.
- you like Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani.
- you like a family fighting over who owns a fashion house.
Bad for you if
- two hours and forty minutes is too much for you.
- you'd rather not watch sex scenes with others in the room.
About: ambition · betrayal · money
The White Lotus 2021
Series
Follow the exploits of various guests and employees at an exclusive tropical resort over the span of a week as with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel’s cheerful employees and the idyllic locale itself.
The sides of The White Lotus
- A body found as a holiday ends
- Rich guests at a luxury resort
- Staff smiling through other people's money
Good for you if
- you like laughing at people who would never laugh at themselves.
- you like following a dozen guests over one week.
- you watch for the people, not for what happens.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum. This is a week of lunches and small cruelties.
- you'd rather not have sex scenes with the family in the room.
About: class · money · self-deception
Weiner 2016
Documentary
Documentary featuring a jaw-dropping, behind-the-scenes look at the attempted comeback of Anthony Weiner in 2013 as he mounts a campaign for New York City mayor in the wake of his sexting scandal. Featuring unfettered access to the candidate and his campaign.
The sides of Weiner
- Anthony Weiner running for New York mayor in 2013
- A new sexting scandal breaking mid-campaign
- Huma Abedin watching from the campaign office
Good for you if
- you like a camera that keeps rolling while a campaign falls apart.
- you want to see a New York mayoral race from the inside.
- you can laugh at a candidate digging himself deeper on live television.
Bad for you if
- you can't root for a candidate who keeps hiding the truth from his own team.
- you need something light, and watching a marriage strain in public isn't.
About: ambition · shame · the media
Cuba and the Cameraman 2017
Documentary
This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades.
The sides of Cuba and the Cameraman
- An American filmmaker returning to Cuba for decades
- Three Cuban families growing old
- Fidel Castro seen up close
Good for you if
- you want ordinary Cuban lives filmed over more than forty years.
- you like history seen from a farm and a city street.
- you like watching the same people age on camera.
Bad for you if
- you can't take poverty and loss up close.
- you need a story that moves faster than decades of slow change.
About: time · poverty · revolution · family
El fundador 2016
Película
Biopic del creador de McDonald's. En los años 50, un vendedor de Illinois llamado Ray Kroc conoció a los hermanos Richard y Maurice McDonald que llevaban una hamburguesería al sur de California. Impresionado por la velocidad del sistema de cocina de su hamburguesería de San Bernardino, Kroc visualizó el potencial de la franquicia y hábilmente se fue posicionando para arrebatárselo a los hermanos y crear el hoy imperio de un billón de dólares. Así nació McDonald’s.
Las caras de El fundador
- Un vendedor de batidoras para batidos en los años 50
- Los hermanos McDonald y su cocina rápida
- Una franquicia arrebatada a sus fundadores
Buena para ti si
- te gusta seguir a Ray Kroc mientras aparta a los hermanos.
- quieres la historia real detrás de los arcos dorados.
- te gusta Michael Keaton como un vendedor que nunca se rinde.
Mala para ti si
- necesitas que la gente decente gane al final.
- quieres que pase más que contratos y llamadas.
Temas: la ambición · la codicia · la perseverancia
Capitalism: A Love Story 2009
Documentary
Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).
The sides of Capitalism: A Love Story
- Families evicted from their homes
- Wall Street after the 2008 crash
- Michael Moore walking into bank lobbies with a camera
Good for you if
- you want to hear from the families who lost their houses.
- you like a film about who owns what and who decides.
- you like the nerve of crime-scene tape strung across a bank.
Bad for you if
- two hours of archive and interviews is too much for one evening.
- you can't watch families carried out of their homes.
About: money · inequality · power
Roger & Me 1989
Documentary
A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.
The sides of Roger & Me
- Michael Moore chasing the head of General Motors
- Flint, Michigan after the plant closures
- Evictions at Christmas
Good for you if
- you like laughing at a town's collapse to keep from crying.
- you like seeing who pays when a giant company leaves.
- you want the real people of Flint telling their own story.
Bad for you if
- you need some hope, and Flint keeps losing.
- you can't watch families being evicted from their homes on camera.
About: unemployment · corporate power · a hometown
Grey Gardens 1976
Documentary
Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.
The sides of Grey Gardens
- A mother and daughter in a decaying mansion
- Little Edie's improvised outfits and songs
- Cats and raccoons in the house
Good for you if
- you like spending time with Big Edie and Little Edie as they are.
- you like a mother and daughter who bicker and can't leave each other.
- you like a strange, closed world on a Long Island estate.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that goes somewhere.
- you find 1970s handheld footage dated.
About: mother and daughter · solitude · the past
The Crown 2016
Series
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
The sides of The Crown
- Elizabeth II from her young reign to old age
- Weekly meetings with her Prime Ministers
- A royal family torn between duty and love
Good for you if
- you like the second half of the 20th century seen from inside Buckingham Palace.
- you like a family drama where a sister, a husband and children all come second to the Crown.
- you like who really decides things between the palace and Downing Street.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, and many episodes are quiet conversations in palace rooms.
- six seasons of royal life is too much for you.
About: duty · family · the monarchy
Thanks Boss! 2016
Documentary
A family fired by a company owned by LVMH (Group owned by French billionaire, Bernard Arnault) seeks reparation from their previous employer with the help of the movie director.
The sides of Thanks Boss!
- A laid-off couple in northern France
- A prank on the LVMH group
- A director playing the go-between
Good for you if
- you like a documentary run like a prank, with fake names and hidden cameras.
- you enjoy watching a small family take on Bernard Arnault's empire.
- you want real people from a closed factory telling their own story.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a film in French.
- you want a documentary with composed, polished images. This one is shot like a hidden camera prank.
About: work · money · revenge
Salesman 1969
Documentary
This documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working for the Mid-American Bible Company: Paul "The Badger" Brennan, Charles "The Gipper" McDevitt, James "The Rabbit" Baker and Raymond "The Bull" Martos. Times are tough for this hard-living quartet, who spend their days traveling through small-town America, trying their best to peddle gold-leaf Bibles to an apathetic crowd of lower-middle-class housewives and elderly couples.
The sides of Salesman
- Four Bible salesmen on the road
- Sales pitches in working-class living rooms
- Motel rooms between visits
Good for you if
- you like watching real door-to-door salesmen at work in 1960s America.
- you like following Paul Brennan as his pitch stops working.
- you enjoy black and white documentaries from the sixties.
Bad for you if
- you need more happening than sales pitches in living rooms.
- you need music to carry a film. There's no score and no narrator, just the salesmen talking.
About: work · failure · the American dream