En flok strippere besluttede sig for at vende bøtten og sørge for, at det var dem, der blev rige i stedet for deres Wall Street-kunder. Enten er du hustler, eller også bliver du hustlet. Kvinderne er trætte af, at systemet er imod dem, så de aldrig kan få succes. Derfor opfinder de en særlig cocktail af stoffer, som gør kunderne hjælpeløse overfor deres… charme. Stripperne stjæler mændenes penge med god samvittighed, for de ansvarsløse Wall Street-typer har rigeligt med ufortjent rigdom, tænker de. Men så begynder det hele at løbe løbsk.
Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the most hated leaders in contemporary history. Between 1940 and 1945, these two enormously contradictory personalities faced each other in both politics and war. A clash of giants whose story begins in the trenches of the World War I and ends with the debacle of the World War II.
Short film drama starring Hartley Sawyer and Wilson Cleveland that takes place over the course of a contentious live television interview between a Wall Street executive and a financial journalist.
Nearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the U.S. Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chairman's every word. Yet the average person knows very little about the most powerful - and least understood - financial institution on earth. Narrated by Liev Schreiber, Money For Nothing is the first film to take viewers inside the Fed and reveal the impact of Fed policies - past, present, and future - on our lives. Join current and former Fed officials as they debate the critics, and each other, about the decisions that helped lead the global financial system to the brink of collapse in 2008. And why we might be headed there again.
"Der er tre måder at tjene penge på i den her branche. Vær først, vær klogest - eller snyd!". Året er 2008, og en gigantisk finanskrise er under opsejling. I en stor investeringsbank er Peter Sullivan en af de første, der indser, at der er noget i gære. Den unge finansmand opdager, at firmaet risikerer et tab, der er større end dets værdi. Nu starter en desperat kamp for at begrænse skaderne - koste, hvad det koste vil.
Thursday, October 24 : the Wall Street Stock Exchange crashes, the greatest economic crisis of the 20th century suddenly breaks out. Fueled by the idea that everyone can get rich without limits, it puts a final stop to the euphoria of the 1920s. America is then caught in a devastating cycle which spreads around the world a few months later like a malign infection. Calling on renowned historians and economists, William Karel conducts an incredibly detailed analysis of the economic and financial mechanisms that lead to the crash of Wall Street and then to the Great Depression of the 1930's.
A documentary exploring the causes of the 1929 Wall Street Crash.Over six terrifying, desperate days in October 1929, shares crashed by a third on the New York Stock Exchange. More than $25 billion in individual wealth was lost. Later, three thousand banks failed, taking people's savings with them. Surviving eyewitnesses describe the biggest financial catastrophe in history.
A late 90s action vehicle with several Girls with Guns ambitions seen in its casting, most obviously Yukari Oshima.
A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.
The story follows the son of a millionaire from the 1920s to the 1960s. After losing his fortune in the stock-exchange crash, he teams up with an equestrienne and becomes a circus clown.
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she can invest the money in a Broadway show featuring songs written by her beau, and of course, in which she will star. Trouble is, she doesn't realize her uncle's been wiped out by the Stock Market crash.
Da bankkassereren Henri Verdoux fyres efter 30 års tro tjeneste må han ty til kriminalitet for at forsøge sit barn og invalide kone. Under falsk navn indynder han sig hos en række rige enker og gifter sig med dem, for siden at arve deres formue, når de kommer af dage på mystisk vis. Først da han ægter Annabella, giver hans fidus bagslag, idet hun viser sig særdeles vanskelig at slå ihjel ...
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth through insurance fraud with the added consequence of potentially killing hundreds of people. His scheme is to place his art collection aboard a ship, insure the collection far beyond its value, and place a barrel of dynamite with a clock-piece timed to go off when the ship is at sea.
Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.
A woman loses all her money in the 1929 stock market crash, and in order to support her family, goes back to her previous occupation--owner of a gambling house--which her son is dead set against.