Consumerism Movies

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

A critique of liquid love through sarcasm and crude humor. With the desire that the viewer empathize with the protagonists and reflect on the...

Exploring America’s consumption of computers and the hazardous waste we create in pursuit of the latest technology, Terra Blight traces the...

Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence....

Lou and Noodles are consumers. Adrift and empty, they are separate from each other and from the world. Ruled by desire and uncontrollable drives to...

OK/NOTOK is a genre-bending love story set in the very near future with a darkly comic edge. Loretta, a working-class British Asian woman, attempts...

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...

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...

Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen realized that the longer their product...

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

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

St James's in London is renowned for being Britain's poshest high street. We meet the characters who run the stores, and the customers who buy their...

After intercepting a mysterious tv ad, two twenty-something friends, Mac and Walter, hit the road in search of the mythic Hamburger Heaven. Their...

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...

Produced by Harvested Records, iShoot, iEdit is a fan-created DVD documenting Roger Waters' 2010 Wall Live tour. Released on Veteran's Day (November...

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

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

What if you could buy happiness?