De maneira totalmente inesperada e bizarra, Waring Hudsucker, presidente das super lucrativas Indústrias Hudsucker, comete suicídio se atirando do alto de seu próprio edifício. Ainda atordoada pelo acontecimento, a junta de diretores da empresa, comandada pelo inescrupuloso Sidney Mussberger, tem uma idéia brilhante: colocar um idiota qualquer na presidência da Companhia e fazer o preço das ações despencar, para depois comprar tudo de volta a preço de banana. O ingênuo e idealista Norville Barnes seria o perfeito testa de ferro para o plano, mas ninguém contava com a desconfiança da repórter Amy Archer, que começa a perceber que há algo de podre no reino da Hudsucker. Magnífica comédia satírica dos irmãos Ethan e Joel Coen premiada pela Associaçao dos Críticos de Londres, e selecioanda para concorrer à Palma de Ouro no Festival de Cannes.
Morgan Sullivan (Jeremy Northam)é um contador desempregado que está paralisado com sua vida infeliz no subúrbio ao lado de sua esposa dominadora. Sullivan é um homem pacato, que sonha em navegar livremento pelo mundo. Buscando uma saída para sua vida sem sentido, ele decide juntar-se à multinacional Digicorp para trabalhar como espião. Com uma nova identidade, ele espiona empresas, gravando grava suas atividades e transmitindo as informações para Ed Finster (Nigel Bennet), seu chefe inescrupuloso. Logo ele percebe que é apenas uma peça de um enorme plano e quer livrar-se da enrascada em que se meteu. A única pessoa que pode ajudá-lo é a misteriosa Rita (Lucy Liu).
Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of their garage and straight to the top, while remaining true to their look, style and sound. They get a record deal which brings fame and fortune but soon realize they are pawns of two people who want to control the youth of America. They must clear their names, even if it means losing fame and fortune.
Since the death of their father, the Riley siblings have kept their heads above water by illegally dealing in painkillers. Josie is managing the business with an iron fist, when her brother, War veteran Kip, is concerned that the risky business is increasingly turning them into outsiders in their small community. While Kip wants to keep his younger brother out of their illegal endeavors, his younger brother is already making plans of his own.
A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the factories of Tiexi are closing. Director Wang Bing introduces us to some of the workers affected by the closures, and to their families.
A story about a young man who doesn't believe in sincerity meets Don Quixote, the president of an underwear company, and his right-hand man, Sancho, and becomes sincere both in underwear and in life.
An engineering feat: Second city civil engineers complete a new bridge to carry traffic over New Street's tangled railway intersections.
Documentary examining the steel industry in Youngstown, Ohio during World War II. Focuses on steel production, including the smelting process, slagging and the blast furnace. Workers reflect upon their lives and the importance of their jobs. Emphasizes the importance of teamwork in the mills and on the plant's labor relations committee to help win the war. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Carly passou seus 10 anos vendendo drogas...legalmente. Apesar dos conflitos sobre os valores entre a indústria farmacêutica visando lucro ás custas dos pacientes, ela foi seduzindo pela lucrativa América corporativa. Zach convence Karly a ser leal e seus valores e sair desse emprego lucrativo e vazio. Enquanto o relacionamento deles se desenvolve, karly cria um plano para sair dessa. Mas nunca é tão facil quanto parece.
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris.
As a family of siblings and their spouses gathers at their father's deathbed, old jealousies and new angers and liaisons lead to an inevitable climax.
Manoel de Oliveira's final work revisits one of his earliest films and celebrates a century of industrialization in Portugal.
On the Kainai (Blood) First Nations Reserve, near Cardston, Alberta, a hopeful new development in Indigenous enterprise. Once rulers of the western plains, the Bloods live on a 1 300-square-kilometer reserve. Many have lacked gainful employment and now pin their hopes on a pre-fab factory they have built. Will the production line and work and wages fit into their cultural pattern of life? The film shows how it is working and what the owners themselves say about their venture.
The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.
An overview of the lobster fishing industry in Nova Scotia.
A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town.
When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few interests and not many friends outside of his day job. But while gathering material for a segment on the show, Steve stumbled onto a few vintage record albums that would change his life forever.