Consumerism Movies

Miss Piggy hosts her own variety show, with special guests John Ritter, George Hamilton and Tony Clifton (Andy Kaufman). Under the direction of...

An anthology film consisting of four stories. (1) A man reads a Dracula novel while in bed, but cannot seem to tell the novel from reality, causing...

Antonio, a filmmaker running out of ideas, has a vision of the city's patron, St. Nicholas, who asks him to make a film about his true story. So...

Shinsuke Kujo is a chair craftsman who lures people into his apartment and murders them to use the body parts for constructing a chair. Kato, a...

Swedish documentary film on consumerism and globalization, created by director Erik Gandini and editor Johan Söderberg. It looks at the...

Record high oil prices, global warming, and an insatiable demand for energy: these issues define our generation. The film exposes shocking...

Programming the Nation? takes an encompassing look at the history of subliminal messaging in America. According to many authorities, since the late...

A Eurovision singer, Iceland's strongest woman, a male model, a plumber who wants to direct movies. They all work in the shopping mall that this...

A look at the modern-day problem of "affluenza," an epidemic of stress, overwork, shopping and debt caused by the pursuit of the American Dream. The...

A humble noodle-maker in a remote Chinese province, Ermo feels that she's being taken for granted by family and friends. She decides the best way to...

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during his spare time when he worked as an editor at the...

The history of arguably the most famous shop in the world, which has been based on Brompton Road in London for more than 175 years, employs more than...

A young woman experiences shopping compulsion in a world where everything is very easy to acquire... until her money runs out!

On an urban island in Shanghai, Yoyo starts secretly following Lan Tian. In a parallel world, Lan Tian is quietly observing Yoyo in the distance....

This funny yet serious short film demonstrates the effectiveness of advertising and the marketing machine. Its comic appeal lies in the characters...

This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight Goliath. From a family...

A chronicle of the lives of a couple and the gradual dissolution of their relationship.

Filmmaker Estela Renner analyzes the effects that mass media and advertising have on children, showing how the industry discovered that they are the...

Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl...

A consumerist family tries to sway one of their members to take part in mass consumption.