Documentaries:
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e-Dreams : An in-depth look at the highs and lows of a dot com. The movie follows the founders of Kozmo.com as they raise money and file for IPO. But no one has predicted the market crash in April 2000.
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Startup.com : Traces the birth and failure of new media company govWorks.com
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Triump of the Nerds : It happened more or less by accident; the people who made it happen were amateurs; and for the most part they still are. participants include: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak
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The Corporation : 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. |
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room : Enron dives from the seventh largest US company to bankruptcy in less than a year in this tale told chronologically. |
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I.O.U.S.A. : Few are aware that America may be on the brink of a financial meltdown. I.O.U.S.A. explores the country's shocking current fiscal condition and ways to avoid a national economic disaster.
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Capitalism: A Love Story : Capitalism: A Love Story examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans. |
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DocuDrama,Documentary meets Drama:
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Flash of Genius : Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper.
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Pirates of Silicon Valley : This film is the semi-humorous documentary about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took.
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The Social Network : Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking website that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business. |
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Middle Men : Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars. |
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Movies with Entrepreneur spirit:
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August : Tom and Josh Sterling have a start-up dot-com. It's gone public to initial success. Josh is the technical genius. Tom is the fast-talking and abrasive CEO, in charge of the business side. |
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Baby Boom : The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
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Tucker : The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.
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The Hudsucker Proxy : A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
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Jerry Maguire : When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent with the only athlete who stays with him.
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Forrest Gump : Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him.
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The Coca-Cola Kid : An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration.
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Big Night : A failing Italian restaurant run by two brothers gambles on one special night to try to save the business.
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WallStreet : A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
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Barbarians at the Gate : F. Ross Johnson, the CEO of RJR Nabisco decides that the time is ripe to take over his own company and enlists American Express. The outline of the film follows the actual takeover of the RJR Nabisco empire in a tongue in cheek way.
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The Secret of My Succe$s : A talented young man can't get an executive position without rising through the ranks, so he comes up with a shortcut, which also benefits his love life.
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Big : When a boy wishes to be big at a magic wish machine, he wakes up the next morning and finds himself in an adult body literally overnight.
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Boiler Room : A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm, which puts him on the fast track to success, but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.
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Trading Places : A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires
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The Lonely Guy : A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man. |
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Envy : When one of them becomes mindblowingly quite literally stinking rich by selling an invention a pair of life-long best friends & neighbors finds their bond breaking as the other guy start to go crazy. |
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The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest : hilarious dot-comedy of errors about five social misfits who set out to make history - and wind up making millions! When burn-out marketing exec Andy Casper (Garcia) decides to "create something", he recruits an oddball trio dysfunctional geniuses to design the world's first $99 computer... |
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The Pursuit of Happyness : A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional endeavor from begin homeless to successful entrepreneur. |
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Legally Blonde : When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined. |
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Working Girl : Tess McGill is a frustrated secretary, struggling to forge ahead in the world of big business in New York. She gets her chance when her boss breaks her leg on a skiing holiday. McGill takes advantage of her absence to push ahead with her career. She teams up with investment broker Jack Trainer to work on a big deal. The situation is complicated after the return of her boss |
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Cocktail : A talented New York bartender takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and falls in love |
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Grandma's Boy : When his roommate spends the rent money on Filipino hookers. Alex, a 35 year video game tester has to find a new place to live. After a "encounter" with his friends mom, Alex is forced to move in with his grandmother. Trying to save face with his younger co-workers, Alex says that he is living "with three hot babes" |
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Sunshine Cleaning : In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school, a mom starts an unusual business -- a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service -- with her unreliable sister. |
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps : As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor. |
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Ghost Busters : Three unemployed parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service. |