Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "critique-of-capitalism"

1. Alien (1979)

R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright

Votes: 950,074 | Gross: $78.90M

2. Aliens (1986)

R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Paul Reiser

Votes: 762,766 | Gross: $85.16M

3. Blade Runner (1982)

R | 117 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos

Votes: 822,848 | Gross: $32.87M

4. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman

Votes: 330,747 | Gross: $45.51M

5. The Dictator (2012)

R | 83 min | Comedy

The heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, John C. Reilly, Ben Kingsley

Votes: 334,707 | Gross: $59.65M

6. Margin Call (2011)

R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller

Follows the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.

Director: J.C. Chandor | Stars: Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany

Votes: 144,205 | Gross: $5.35M

7. Alien³ (1992)

R | 114 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor.

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann

Votes: 319,316 | Gross: $55.47M

8. Metropolis (1927)

Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Votes: 185,468 | Gross: $1.24M

9. Alien: Resurrection (1997)

R | 109 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Two centuries after her death, a powerful human/alien hybrid clone of Ellen Ripley aids a crew of space pirates in stopping the aliens from reaching Earth.

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman

Votes: 263,324 | Gross: $47.75M

10. Wall Street (1987)

R | 126 min | Crime, Drama

An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover

Votes: 165,121 | Gross: $43.85M

11. Raising Arizona (1987)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Crime

When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson, John Goodman

Votes: 150,302 | Gross: $22.85M

12. Any Given Sunday (1999)

R | 162 min | Drama, Sport

A behind-the-scenes look at the life-and-death struggles of modern-day gladiators and those who lead them.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid, Cameron Diaz, James Woods

Votes: 125,882 | Gross: $75.53M

13. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

PG | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Charles Durning

Votes: 85,065 | Gross: $2.87M

14. Talk Radio (1988)

R | 110 min | Drama, Thriller

A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Eric Bogosian, Ellen Greene, Leslie Hope, John C. McGinley

Votes: 14,611 | Gross: $3.47M

15. Sicko (2007)

PG-13 | 123 min | Documentary, Drama

A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories including shotgun deaths.

Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, Tucker Albrizzi, Tony Benn, George W. Bush

Votes: 76,825 | Gross: $24.54M

16. Made in Dagenham (2010)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, History

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

Director: Nigel Cole | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone

Votes: 16,068 | Gross: $1.09M

17. The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

Ex-marine turned Coca-Cola marketing guru Becker is on a mission to boost sales in Australia when he discovers a dry spot in the Outback, where everyone is guzzling homegrown brew - and not a drop of his company's cola.

Director: Dusan Makavejev | Stars: Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood

Votes: 3,464

18. Titanic (1943)

TV-PG | 85 min | Action, Drama, History

Third Reich's Nazi propaganda epic about a heroic fictional German officer on board of the RMS Titanic. On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable ship hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and starts to go down.

Directors: Herbert Selpin, Werner Klingler | Stars: Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer

Votes: 1,799

19. Next Sohee (2022)

13+ | 134 min | Drama, Thriller

High school student Sohee starts training for a job at a call center but the greed of her company leads to her death. Detective Oh Yu-jin, who has something in common with Sohee, starts to probe her demise and finds an unsettling truth.

Director: July Jung | Stars: Kim Si-Eun, Bae Doona, Choi Hee-jin, Kim Woo-kyum

Votes: 1,402

20. Face (I) (1997)

R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In the face of demise in his values, a socialist in England decides to form a gang and rob banks for a living.

Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Steve Sweeney, Gerry Conlon

Votes: 4,802

21. Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

R | 127 min | Documentary, Crime, History

An examination of the social costs of corporate interests pursuing profits at the expense of the public good.

Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, William Black, Jimmy Carter, Elijah Cummings

Votes: 43,862 | Gross: $14.36M

22. The Time Machine (1978 TV Movie)

99 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.

Director: Henning Schellerup | Stars: John Beck, Priscilla Barnes, Andrew Duggan, Rosemary DeCamp

Votes: 453

23. Tomorrow (2015)

G | 118 min | Documentary

The world's climate is changing. Instead of showing the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions.

Directors: Cyril Dion, Mélanie Laurent | Stars: Anthony Barnosky, Olivier De Schutter, Cyril Dion, Emmanuel Druon

Votes: 3,597 | Gross: $0.04M

24. Capital (2012)

R | 114 min | Drama

The newly appointed CEO of a giant European investment bank works to hold on to his power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy out his company.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Gad Elmaleh, Gabriel Byrne, Liya Kebede, Natacha Régnier

Votes: 5,581 | Gross: $0.10M

25. The Bank (2001)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

The Bank is a thriller about banking, corruption and alchemy.

Director: Robert Connolly | Stars: David Wenham, Anthony LaPaglia, Sibylla Budd, Steve Rodgers

Votes: 2,990

26. Wind from the East (1970)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama

A filmic essay on class struggle which draws on images from westerns but has no plot and is both an experiment in making a revolutionary film and an interrogation of how successfully such a film can be revolutionary.

Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Gérard Martin | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Anne Wiazemsky, Cristiana Tullio-Altan, Allen Midgette

Votes: 703

27. En Mutlu Oldugum Yer (2010)

95 min | Adventure, Romance

Elif and Kemal's paths cross at an office party held on a hot summer night in Istanbul. When Elif tells that she saw the open sea for the first time in the coastal town where she spent her ... See full summary »

Director: Kagan Erturan | Stars: Ezgi Asaroglu, Nihat Altinkaya, Sivga Gerez, Hakan Vardar

Votes: 252

28. Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005)

Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary

This examination of cultural and economic globalization follows the life-cycle of Mardi Gras beads from a small factory in Fuzhou, China, to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and to art galleries in New York City.

Director: David Redmon | Star: Roger Wong

Votes: 278

29. Dust Up (2012)

Unrated | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A former vigilante who has embraced his peaceful nature comes to the aid of a young mother in trouble with a cannibalistic drug lord.

Director: Ward Roberts | Stars: Amber Benson, Jeremiah Birkett, Aaron Gaffey, Devin Barry

Votes: 343

30. Climate of Change (2010)

TV-G | 86 min | Documentary

A documentary focused on the efforts of everyday people all over the world who are making a difference in the fight against global warming.

Director: Brian Hill | Star: Tilda Swinton

Votes: 63

31. Robinson in Space (1997)

82 min | Documentary

Robinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified "problem of England." The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, around the country. They mainly ... See full summary »

Director: Patrick Keiller | Star: Paul Scofield

Votes: 390

32. Merci patron! (2016)

84 min | Documentary

A family fired by a company owned by LVMH (Group owned by French billionaire, Bernard Arnault) seeks reparation from their previous employer with the help of the movie director.

Director: François Ruffin | Stars: François Ruffin, Bernard Arnault, Marie-Hélène Bourlard, François Chérèque

Votes: 1,102

33. Laboratory Greece (2019)

165 min | Documentary

A journey through Greece and Europe's past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories.

Director: Jacopo Brogi | Stars: Filippo Abbate, Konrad Adenauer, Salvador Allende, Rania Antonopoulos

Votes: 32

34. Break Free: Two People. Two Years. One Dream (2019)

120 min | Documentary, Adventure

When Lena and Ulli start the engine of their old Land Rover, Lady Terés, they have a plan: to drive from Hamburg to South Africa in six months. What they don't know yet is that they won't ... See full summary »

Director: Lena Wendt | Stars: Ulrich Stirnat, Lena Wendt, Fufu, Ziza

Votes: 254

35. Power Trip (2003)

Unrated | 86 min | Documentary

Corruption, assassination and street rioting surround the story of the award-winning film, Power Trip, which follows an American multi-national trying to solve the electricity crisis in ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Devlin | Stars: Dennis Bakke, Piers Lewis, Butch Mederos, Bill O'Reilly

Votes: 230 | Gross: $0.04M

36. Laissez-faire (2015)

80 min | Documentary, History, War

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments and our lives.

Director: Ruggero Arenella | Stars: Stefano Accomo, Giovanni Agnelli, Jaime Roldós Aguilera, Salvador Allende

Votes: 14

37. Cheap 'n' Easy Meditative Efficiency (2022)

16 min | Short, Mystery, Sci-Fi

In a world where people are kept updated with biological implants that make going to work pleasurable. One man is fined for being late to work, and begins to question the perfect nature of his existence.

Director: Joshua Morrison | Stars: John Henry Westhead, Marquez Gonzalo Dellamore, Malin Frank, Gezim Gojnovci

Votes: 350

38. Cry of the Forgotten Land (1995 Video)

25 min | Documentary, Short

New Guinea, second largest island on earth, is home to over 100,000 species found nowhere else on earth, and to ancient human cultures, including the Moi people. The future of the Moi's ... See full summary »

Director: Ian Mackenzie

Votes: 6

39. Corey White's Roadmap to Paradise (2018)

Documentary, Comedy, News

Comedian Corey White tries to solve the biggest problems facing everyday Australians by thinking outside of the box.

Stars: Corey White, Jason Agius, Davey Thompson, John Klotz

Votes: 16

40. Capitalism Hits the Fan (2009)

57 min | Documentary

Renowned economics professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of the 2008 economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself.

Director: Sut Jhally | Star: Richard D. Wolff

Votes: 26

41. Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy (2002– )
Episode: The Battle of Ideas (2002)

Documentary, History

Add a Plot

Director: William Cran | Stars: David Ogden Stiers, Kenneth Baker, Gary Becker, Tony Benn

Votes: 32

42. Artifact (2013)
Episode: CruxEnigma (2017)

Action, Adventure, Drama

In a Stroy by Allan Linder, a fallen Astronaut searches the unknown for a way home. What he finds will change the future of humanity forever.

Votes: 22

43. Moyers & Company (2012–2015)
Episode: Taming Capitalism Run Wild (2013)

TV-G | 57 min | News, Talk-Show

Even as President Obama's talking points champion the middle class and condemn how our economy caters to the very rich, the truth behind modern American capitalism is a story of continued ... See full summary »

Stars: Rosa DeLauro, Saru Jayaraman, Bill Moyers, Richard D. Wolff

44. Moyers & Company (2012–2015)
Episode: What Has Capitalism Done for Us Lately? (2013)

TV-G | 57 min | News, Talk-Show

Avarice, Banks, and Capitalism: The ABCs of Economic Inequality.

Stars: Sheila Bair, Bill Moyers, Richard D. Wolff

45. El club lento (2022– )
El ambiente corporativo como inspiración artística (2023 Podcast Episode)

60 min | Music

What does the music in this episode have to do with depersonalized work environments, motivational talks, spreadsheets, or the stock market? More than you imagine. At the beginning of the ... See full summary »

Director: Álvaro Tarik | Star: Álvaro Tarik

46. Moyers & Company (2012–2015)
Episode: The Pope, Poverty and Poetry (2013)

TV-G | 59 min | News, Talk-Show

In just a few months, Pope Francis, the first in history to take the name of the patron saint of the poor, has proven to be one of the most outspoken pontiffs in recent history, especially ... See full summary »

Stars: Thomas Cahill, Philip Levine, Bill Moyers

47. Artifact (2013)
Episode: Dissimulation (2015)

Action, Adventure, Drama

A Captain searching for an Artifact on a desolate planet, exposes the truths of his mission.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel

Votes: 27

48. Gary and His Demons (2018–2023)
Episode: Guy on the Tiger (2018)

TV-MA | Animation, Action, Comedy

Gary forms a bond with a tiger after it saves him from a demon but when the tiger starts exhibiting demonic behavior, Gary is faced with a difficult choice.

Directors: Mark Little, Lou Solis | Stars: Mark Little, Kyle Dooley, David Berni, Julie Lemieux

Votes: 56

49. Adam Ruins Everything (2015–2019)
Episode: Adam Ruins Games (2019)

TV-14 | 24 min | Documentary, Animation, Comedy

Adam faces a demonic storekeeper while also explaining why video games aren't causing more violence, the anti-capitalist origin of the board game Monopoly, how Olympic athletes are being exploited, and how the Olympics bring mass poverty.

Director: Tim Wilkime | Stars: Adam Conover, Kam Alyse, Kimberly Brooks, Hayden Crawford

Votes: 81