Consumerism Movies

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

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

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...

Two students from the Czech Film Academy commission a leading advertising agency to organize a huge campaign for the opening of a new supermarket...

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

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

After a strange nightmare, a young factory worker's life and home become haunted by bizarre phantoms.

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...

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...

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

Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society, organizes a grand party that is attended, amongst others, by the young Alfredo Germont. He...

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...

Gimme Green is a humorous look at the American obsession with the residential lawn and the effects it has on our environment, our wallets and our...

A serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of Christmas. What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel...

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...

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...

What if you could buy happiness?