139m; U.S.
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter
Synopsis (IMDB): An office employee and a soap salesman build a global organization to help vent male aggression.
Category Archives: Drama
Flame in the Streets (1961)
93m; Australia
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: John Mills, Sylvia Syms and Brenda De Banzie
Synopsis (IMDB): A union leader in a large company tries to win equal rights for the handful of West Indian workers at the company, but finds it is an uphill battle. After being successful, and rightly proud of his efforts, he finds that he and his wife have a difficult time coming to terms with the fact that his only daughter intends to marry a West Indian.
Flash of Genius (2008)
119m; U.S.
Director: Marc Abraham
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham and Alan Alda
Synopsis: Corporations have time, money, and power on their side. All Bob Kearns had was the truth. Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper.
Fortune Lane (1947)
60m; U.K.
Director: John Baxter
Synopsis (IMDB): Young Peter wants so badly to be an engineer that he starts to work on an invention. To raise money, he and his friend Tim wash windows. However, Tim needs the money they earn to go to Ireland to visit his grandfather who is very ill, so Peter gives him all the money they have made. Everything works out well for Peter in the end when he is praised as a young genius
The Fountainhead (1949)
114m; U.S.
Director: King Vidor
Cast: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey
Synopsis (IMDB): An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards. Based on the Ayn Rand novel.
Freedom Road (1979)
186m; U.S.
Director: Ján Kadár
Cast: Muhammad Ali, Kris Kristofferson and Ron O’Neal
Synopsis: Based on the Howard Fast novel, this miniseries tells the story of ex-slave Gideon Young’s trip from freemen to Senator and in doing so tells the stories of the hopes of Reconstruction and its fall.
Freedom Song (2000)
150m; U.S.
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Cast: Danny Glover, Vicellous Reon Shannon and Vondie Curtis-Hall
Synopsis: HBO film based on the organizing of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in McComb, Mississippi and highlights the role of young people in the work
Everlasting Moments (2009)
131m; Sweden
Director: Jan Troell
Cast: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt and Jesper Christensen
Synopsis: Sweden, early 1900s. In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life. The camera grants Maria new eyes with which to see the world, and brings the charming photographer “Piff Paff Puff” into her life. Trouble ensues when Maria’s alcoholic, womanizing husband, feels threatened by the young man and his wife’s newfound outlook on life.
Cathy Come Home (1966)
75m; U.K.
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Carol White, Ray Brooks and Winifred Dennis
Synopsis: From the BBC’s influential ‘Wednesday Play’ series. This tells the bleak tale of Cathy, who loses her home, husband and eventually her child through the inflexibility of the British welfare system. A grim picture is painted of mid-sixties London, and though realistic the viewer cannot but realise that a political point is being made. One of the consequences of this film was the enormous public support for the housing charity ‘Shelter’, whose public launch came shortly after the programme was first shown.
Boiler Room (1992)
U.S.
Director: John Sjogren
Synopsis: The boiler room is from where telemarketers make their sales pitches. This film depicts an uncaring profession – where getting the almighty dollar is the primary objective – inside or outside of the law, and, no matter who’s.
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