This is a story of the violence and coercion that underlies our modern societies. Most of the time, our interactions are peaceful and consensual, but there is a large notable exception. The state maintains its power and ability to create law by the constant threat of force. It prohibits competition to its authority, and in this sense, represents a monopoly.

Concerning Violence

2014

Swedish

7.5

♡ 4

90%

Göran Olsson Director

Lauryn Hill as Narrator in English version

Amilcar Cabral as Self - founder of Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde

William Tubman as Self - president of Liberia

Simão Elias as Self - The Mozambique Liberation Front

Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, this documentary is accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.

Collapse

2009

English

7.7

♡ 23

83%

Chris Smith Director

Michael Ruppert as Himself

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter Michael Ruppert. He recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out his apocalyptic vision of the future, spanning the crises in economics, energy, environment and more.

The Shock Doctrine

2009

English

7.6

♡ 9

55%

Michael Winterbottom Director

Bill Clinton as Self

Henry Kissinger as Self

Nancy Reagan as Self

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self

An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance.

The Gig Is Up

2021

English

6.9

♡ 2

100%

Action

artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence (a.i.)

Shannon Walsh Director

Nick Srnicek as Self

Helgi Schmid as Self - Sprecher

Brigitte Urhausen as Self - Sprecher

Michael Kamp as Self - Sprecher

A very human tech doc, uncovers the real costs of the platform economy through the lives of workers from around the world for companies including Uber, Amazon and Deliveroo. From delivering food and driving ride shares to tagging images for AI, millions of people around the world are finding work task by task online. The gig economy is worth over 5 trillion USD globally, and growing. And yet the stories of the workers behind this tech revolution have gone largely neglected. Who are the people in this shadow workforce? It brings their stories into the light. Lured by the promise of flexible work hours, independence, and control over time and money, workers from around the world have found a very different reality. Work conditions are often dangerous, pay often changes without notice, and workers can effectively be fired through deactivation or a bad rating. Through an engaging global cast of characters, it reveals how the magic of technology we are being sold might not be magic at all.

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

2005

English

7.6

♡ 5

97%

securities, stocks and bonds

wall street

Alex Gibney Director

Peter Coyote as Narrator

Bill Clinton as Self

George W. Bush as Self

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Self

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

Moneyboys

2021

Chinese

6.4

♡ 7

92%

C.B. Yi Director

Daphne Low as Alian Kai Ko

Kai Ko as Fei

Yufan Bai as Long

Yan-Ze Lu as Xiangdong

Fei works illegally to support family, but they reject his lifestyle. Through Long, Fei finds hope, until encountering Xiaolai, his past love, who makes him confront his guilt.

Beer Wars

2009

English

6.8

♡ 1

67%

Anat Baron Director

Anat Baron as Self

Jim Koch as Self - Founder, Boston Beer Company

John Boehner as Self - House Majority Leader, 2006

Peter A. DeFazio as Self - Representative, Oregon

In America, size matters. The bigger you are, the more power you have, especially in the business world. Anat Baron takes you on a no holds barred exploration of the U.S. beer industry that ultimately reveals the truth behind the label of your favorite beer. Told from an insider’s perspective, the film goes behind the scenes of the daily battles and all out wars that dominate the industry.

Die Känguru-Chroniken

2020

German

5.2

♡ 7

Dani Levy Director

Dimitrij Schaad as Marc-Uwe Kling

Rosalie Thomass as Maria

Tim Seyfi as Otto von

David Bredin as Wachmann

A communist kangaroo moves in with an artist in Berlin.

Ares

2016

French

6.2

♡ 12

71%

Jean-Patrick Benes Director

Ola Rapace as Arès

Alexis Michalik as Cadre de la Défense Nationale

Micha Lescot as Myosotis

Patrick Kuban as Présentateur des sportifs

In a near future, the world order has changed. With its 10 millions of unemployed citizens, France has now become a poor country. Its people wavers between rebellion and resignation and find an outlet in the shape of TV broadcast ultra brutal fights in which the players are legally doped and unscrupulous.

Planet of the Humans

2019

English

6.9

♡ 8

63%

environmental destruction

fossil fuel

Jeff Gibbs Director

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Self

Michael Carr as Self

Bill Maher as Self -Host, Real Time with Bill Maher

Jon Stewart as Self - Host, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Forget all you have heard about how “Renewable Energy” is our salvation. It is all a myth that is very lucrative for some. Feel-good stuff like electric cars, etc. Such vehicles are actually powered by coal, natural gas… or dead salmon in the Northwest.

Velaikkaran

2017

Tamil

7.2

♡ 5

95%

Mohan Raja Director

Yogi Babu as

Fahadh Faasil as Aadhi

Prakash Raj as Kasi

Mime Gopi as Kishta

An enterprising youngster in a slum wants his people to lead a life of dignity, but has to take on an ambitious capitalist, who only wants to dominate his field.

97% Owned

2012

English

7.6

♡ 3

Michael Oswald Director

Sargon Nissan as Self

Nick Dearden as Self

Ciaran Mundy as Self

Simon Dixon as Self

97% owned present serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system. This is the first documentary to tackle this issue from a UK-perspective and explains the inner workings of Central Banks and the Money creation process. When money drives almost all activity on the planet, it's essential that we understand it. Yet simple questions often get overlooked, questions like; where does money come from? Who creates it? Who decides how it gets used? And what does this mean for the millions of ordinary people who suffer when the monetary, and financial system, breaks down? Produced by Queuepolitely and featuring Ben Dyson of Positive Money, Josh Ryan-Collins of The New Economics Foundation, Ann Pettifor, the "HBOS Whistleblower" Paul Moore, Simon Dixon of Bank to the Future and Nick Dearden from the Jubliee Debt Campaign.

System Error

2018

German

7.0

♡ 1

Florian Opitz Director

Angela Merkel as Self

George W. Bush as Self

Ronald Reagan as Self

Donald Trump as Self

Melting glaciers, gullied seas, the financial markets are about to collapse. Spectacular images of how growth continues to be blinding. Outside you can hardly see anything because of the smog and the smoke screen.

A Most Violent Year

2014

English

6.9

♡ 66

89%

husband wife relationship

J.C. Chandor Director

Oscar Isaac as Abel Morales

Jessica Chastain as Anna Morales

Jimmy Palumbo as Barber Jimmy O.

Peter Gerety as Bill O'Leary

A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

L'Eclisse

1962

Italian

7.7

♡ 21

87%

Michelangelo Antonioni Director

Cyrus Elias as Intoxicated Man

Alain Delon as Piero

Francisco Rabal as Riccardo

Monica Vitti as Vittoria

This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.

The Corporation

2003

English

8.0

♡ 7

89%

Jennifer Abbott Director

George W. Bush as Self

Kathie Lee Gifford as Self

Nelson Mandela as Self - After Release, with Winnie

Harry S. Truman as Self - Potsdam

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.

The Chinese

1967

French

6.9

♡ 6

95%

73%

Action

based on novel or book

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Guillaume

Michel Semeniako as Henri

Eliane Giovagnoli as Son ami

Anne Wiazemsky as Veronique

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

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