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3) The Firm
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Now that Kaan & Associates is back on top, their biggest mission is staying there. In the fifth and final season of House of Lies, the tight-knit, profit-seeking pod launches life-changing moves with some gamechanging tactics.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In season four of this viciously funny take on high-stakes business, failure is not an option. Fresh from a stint in prison, brilliantly manipulative management consultant Marty Kaan is driven to rebuild his faltering firm. Nothing's going to distract him, even if that means booting his extremely pregnant off-and-on partner Jeannie.
6) Equity
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A female investment banker, fighting to rise to the top of the corporate ladder at a competitive Wall Street firm, navigates a controversial tech IPO in the post-financial crisis world, where loyalties are suspect, regulations are tight, but pressure to bring in "big money" remains high.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
One day in the life of Jane, a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. As Jane follows her daily routine, she, and viewers, grow increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her workday, an accumulation of degradations against which Jane decides to take a stand, only to discover the true depth of the system into which...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Leverage follows a team of expert thieves that take down corrupt corporations in elaborate high-tech schemes. Insurance investigator Nate Ford exposed scams and recovered stolen items worth millions. But his life hit the skids when his insurance company allowed his ailing 8-year-old son to die. Years later, Nate gets even as the leader of a specialized team of thieves, computer experts and con artists that right corporate and governmental injustices...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Untamed youth: Two beautiful and talented sisters on their way to tinseltown are arrested on trumped-up charges by a corrupt judge and conveniently sentenced to work on the farm of her boyfriend, the local agriculture magnate. There they join similarly exploited teens working off their own sentences.
Series
Criterion collection volume 319
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
日本語
Description
A young executive hunts down his father's killer. A tale about corruption in the boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan as seen through the rising executive eyes.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious 'wellness center' at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1064
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Perhaps no director tapped into the sense of dread and mistrust that pervaded the 1970s more effectively than Alan J. Pakula, who, in the second installment of his celebrated Paranoia Trilogy, offers a chilling vision of America in the wake of the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, Jr., with the shock of Watergate near at hand. Three years after the murder of a leading senator atop Seattle's Space Needle, reporter Joseph Frady...
14) Get hard
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A millionaire is pegged for fraud and sentanced to time in prison. He turns to a criminal friend to help prepare him to go.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Set in the seemingly golden world of college basketball, this intriguing film tells the true story behind the 1990 Martin Scorsese classic, Goodfellas, and how mobster Henry Hill helped orchestrate fixing of Boston College basketball games during the 1978-79 season.
17) The best offer
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious heiress asks famed but unscrupulous art appraiser and auctioneer Virgil Oldman to evaluate her late parents' collection yet remains forever unseen behind closed doors, it ignites a spark of curiosity in the normally austere Virgil that soon grows into an all-out obsession. Before long everything in Virgil's carefully constructed life threatens to come apart as he delves ever further into the world of intrigue surrounding his enigmatic...
19) Crisis
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a drug company with deep government influence bringing a new non-addictive painkiller to market....
20) Accepted
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
T.M. Landry, an unconventional prep school in Louisiana, receives national attention for consistently sending its graduates to elite universities. When an explosive New York Times expos ̌questions the school's legitimacy, students face uncertain futures and must decide for themselves what they are willing to accept.
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