Capitalist movies and TV shows – page 3

List of capitalist movies

 6.3
 1K
Spider (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile, Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Three friends are part of a fascist opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever.
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing, intellectual ...
Plot: operation condor, murder, husband wife relationship, politics, investigation, fascist, death, society, testimony, betrayal, love triangle, fascism ...
Time: 70s
Place: chile, south america, latin america
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Lulu the Tool (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.
Style: sincere, realistic, emotional, serious, political ...
Plot: working class, labor union, factory worker, factory, rebellion, boss and employee, rebelliousness, power relations, social differences, workplace situations, anarchist, worker ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: italy, europe
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Night Over Chile (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Soviet docudrama chronicling the events surrounding the military coup which toppled the leftists Chilean government of Salvador Allende. This film confines its efforts to the main events themselves and is based on interviews with eyewitnesses, ...
Style: social, intellectual
Plot: military coup, dictatorship, capitalism, operation condor, dictator, coup d'etat, exile, prison, migration, government, convict, boss ...
Time: 70s, year 1973
Place: soviet union, chile, europe, south america, colombia ...
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 7.3
 14K
Norma Rae (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the ...
Style: political, touching, inspirational, aesthetic, sad ...
Plot: labor union, working class, feminist, small town, union, women, labor, business, labor movement, courage, single mother, american politics ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place: north carolina, usa, alabama
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Mondays in the Sun (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and ...
Style: sincere, touching, realistic, political, serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: working class, unemployment, seaport, friendship, society, redemption, small town, working conditions, job seeking, self esteem, life is a bitch, breaking point ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iberian peninsula, europe, galicia, switzerland, spain ...
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Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Wronke Prison, 1916. Social democrat Rosa Luxemburg faces a mock execution. Twenty years earlier, Rosa's political gifts are acknowledged by everyone, as she struggles for democratic government in Germany and revolution in Poland. There she ...
Style: political, political thriller, philosophical, suspense, social ...
Plot: communist, women, revolution, communism, biopic, capitalism, revolutionary, anarchist, world war one, protest, strike, union ...
Time: 20th century, year 1916
Place: germany, berlin germany
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The Black Pimpernel (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Mexico, Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973.
Style: serious, captivating, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: coup d'etat, military coup, ambassador, politics, society, life is a bitch, political unrest, injustice, human spirit, revolution, diplomacy, human rights ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1973
Place: chile, latin america, europe, south america
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Too Big to Fail (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on the bestselling book by Andrew Ross Sorkin, 'Too Big to Fail' offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few ...
Style: factual, tense, political, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot: wall street, financial crisis, politics, finance, economic crisis, stock market, greed, business, stock broker, money, society, bankruptcy ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., new york, usa, california, middle east
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 6.5
 3K
Post Mortem (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Mexico
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
Style: captivating, serious, sincere, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot: morgue, autopsy, latin american history, missing person, obsessive quest, love and romance, political unrest, cabaret, imperialism, coup d'etat, unsettling, coup ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, year 2010, 20th century, year 1973
Place: latin america, chile, south america, bolivia
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Pinochet in Suburbia (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to bring to justice a man they insist is guilty of multiple human rights violations. The newly-elected ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot: politics, society, rebellion, life is a bitch, dishonesty, state affairs, legal, downfall, against humanity, trial, politician, human rights ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: latin america, chile, london, england, south america ...
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The Young Karl Marx (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story: 26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides ...
Style: political, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, social ...
Plot: capitalism, socialism, communism, communist, philosopher, poverty, biopic, factory, writers, industry, money, working class ...
Time: ancient times, 19th century, year 2017
Place: soviet union, paris france, manchester, london, prussia ...
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It's a Free World... (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The film focuses on Angie (Kierston Wareing), a working class woman who, after being fired by the agency that she works for, decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend Rose (Juliet Ellis). Taking ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, serious, social, epic ...
Plot: realism, immigrant, working class, injustice, society, employment agency, politics, fighting the system, workplace, legal, life is a bitch, workplace situations ...
Time: year 2007
Place: britain, england, europe
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 3K
Koblic (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Tomás Kóblic, a former pilot and captain of the Argentinian Navy, disobeys an order and becomes a fugitive in order to survive. He chooses to hide in a small town in the south of the country, where his presence will catch the attention of the ...
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, social, intellectual ...
Plot: military dictatorship, forced incest, haunted by the past, sex scene, military, guilty conscience, murder, colonel, dog, airplane, pilot, uncle ...
Time: year 1977, year 2016, 70s
Place: argentina, italy, south america, europe, spain ...
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Night of the Pencils (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The ...
Style: disturbing, political, mindfuck, manga, intellectual ...
Plot: capitalism, torture, state terrorism, protest, capitalist society, kidnapping, dictatorship, assassination, violence, electric torture, woman, investments ...
Time: 70s
Place: argentina, spain, peru, italy, venezuela ...
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Chronicle of an Escape (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads during the 1970s is brought to the screen in this thriller. In 1977, Claudio Tamburrini (Rodrigo de la Serna) was a goalie for a ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, thrilling, crime drama ...
Plot: dictatorship, politics, false accusation, murder, prison, terrorism, on the run, danger, prison escape, football, operation condor, prison life ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: latin america, south america, argentina, bolivia, europe ...
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 5.5
 417
Savages (1972)
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A tribe of primitive "mudpeople" encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Long Island estate. Entering, they begin to become civilized and assume the stereotypical roles ...
Style: independent film, cynical, biting, offbeat, clever ...
Plot: nudity, satire, forest, time travel, human sacrifice, party, tribe, swing, hostess, maid, face mask, croquet ...
Time: 1930s, stone age
Place: new york
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 7.3
 19K
Trade (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A Texas cop (Kevin Kline), whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth (Cesar Ramos) to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who ...
Style: sexy, rough, detective, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: human trafficking, kidnapping, missing child, sexual abuse, child molestation, sex slavery, slavery, child rape, rescue, child molester, forced prostitution, humiliation ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, mexico city, poland, texas, el paso texas ...
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Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds ...
Style: thought provoking, psychological, light, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: alternative medicine, class differences, food, party, husband wife relationship, name calling, nurse, money, dinner, car breakdown, marijuana, manners ...
Time: year 2017
Place: california
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Of Unknown Origin (1983)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Bart Hughes has a pretty good life, a beautiful wife, a young son, a good job with promotion prospects, and a renovated brownstone in New York. When wife and kid leave for a vacation, Bart stays behind to work on a project that will earn him that ...
Style: retro, semi serious, suspenseful, scary, splatter ...
Plot: house, poison, terror, obsession, animal attack, danger, mind game, killer animal, creature feature, creature, home invasion, alone ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: new york, usa, vermont
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Schoolgirl Report Part 6: What Parents Would Gladly Hush Up (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After two students are caught doing “extra-curricular” activities in an abandoned school classroom, they plead their case to the student council. To the headmaster’s surprise, the teen lovers expose what’s really going on in their school ...
Style: erotic, psychotronic, fake documentary
Audience: adult
Plot: erotica, sexploitation, lust, coming of age, older man younger woman sex, female pubic hair, skinny dipping, schoolgirl, caught having sex, adultery, prostitution, sex scene ...
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 7.3
 121K
Clue (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss ...
Style: parody, funny, black comedy, humorous, witty ...
Audience: kids, chick flick
Plot: whodunit, twists and turns, butler, murder, murder mystery, multiple suspects, mansion, old dark house, investigation, mystery killer, blackmail, murder investigation ...
Time: year 1954, 90s, 50s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place: new england
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 8.4
 70K
High and Low (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Style: suspense, black and white, intense, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: police, ransom, samurai, child kidnapping, class differences, tragedy, secrets, visceral, character study, mistaken identity, police investigation, rescue ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s, post world war two
Place: japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
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 7.2
 162K
They Live (1988)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No ...
Style: cult classic, homoerotic, suspenseful, serious, black comedy ...
Plot: conspiracy, alien invasion, dystopia, alien, distopia, mind control, social commentary, anti conformity, violence, resistance, evil alien, capitalism ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: los angeles
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New Rose Hotel (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A corporate raider and his henchman use a chanteuse to lure a scientific genius away from his employer and family.
Style: sexy, erotic, cyber, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: nudity, skinny dipping, female nudity, hotel, swimming pool, woman on top, cyberpunk, brothel, prostitution, betrayal, gangster, crime gone awry ...
Time: year 1998, future, 90s, near future
Place: usa, japan, asia, new york, tokyo
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Carry On, Munna Bhai (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A hilarious underworld gangster known as Munna Bhai falls comically in love with a radio host by the name of Jahnvi, who runs an elders' home, which is taken over by an unscrupulous builder, who gets the residents kicked out ironically with the ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, buddy comedy, inspirational ...
Plot: friendship, friends, contests and competitions, love and romance, best friend, professor, disorder, fall in love, medicine, psychiatrist, father son relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2006
Place: india, middle east, asia, bombay india, mumbai india ...
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 5.9
 24K
Game of Death (1978)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Billy Lo is a Hong Kong-based movie actor, who is a box office draw. His girlfriend, Ann Morris, is a singer who is also climbing to the top. Now it seems the syndicate wants Billy and Ann to join their "management firm". But Billy knows ...
Style: suspenseful, cult classic, psychotronic, stylized, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, gangster, tough heroes, martial artist, one against many, betrayal, motorcycle, revenge, fight scenes, exploitation, karate ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: hong kong, east asia, china, macau
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 8.2
 1.0M
Die Hard (1988)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: NYPD cop, John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking ...
Style: intense, christmas special, clever, action packed, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, date night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot: hostage, one man army, gunfight, heist, tough guy, christmas, police, terrorism, terrorist, skyscraper, robbery, police officer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 2016, year 1988
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 5.7
 347
Akko's Secret (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Young Atsuko Kagami comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets her transform into anything she wishes. Atsuko Kagami then attempts to save a company which is about to be sold by using her transformation abilities. She also falls in love as ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: thigh high boots, body swapping, boobs, sexy woman, wish come true, hopes, fish out of water, supernatural, disorder, fall in love, workplace situations, youth ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
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The Unacceptable (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Oi Aparadektoi is a comedy television series broadcast by Mega Channel during 1990-1992. The series is considered one of the most successful on Greek television, representative of the daily life of Athenians in the early '90s.
Style: neurotic, sitcom
Plot: gay, effeminate man, unfaithful boyfriend, landlord, friend, single, capitalist, neighbor, man with glasses, businessman, housewife, model ...
Time: 90s
Place: athens greece, greece
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 7.4
 33K
The Edukators (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Style: sexy, philosophical, political, psychological, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: rebelliousness, politics, rebel, debt, twists and turns, businessman, anarchist, boyfriend, friends, revolution, kidnapping, vandalism ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, year 1968, 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, barcelona
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