Bureaucrat
"bureaucrat" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Umberto D.
Synopsis:
When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and aban…
Starring:
Lamberto Maggiorani,
Memmo Carotenuto,
Maria Pia Casilio
#2
The Trial
Synopsis:
An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
Starring:
Akim Tamiroff,
Orson Welles,
Jeanne Moreau
#3
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Synopsis:
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Starring:
John Hurt,
Cyril Cusack,
Richard Burton
#4
Never Say Never Again
Synopsis:
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond has an ally in Largo's girlfriend, the willowy Domino, who falls for Bond and seeks revenge.
Starring:
Kim Basinger,
Sean Connery,
Rowan Atkinson
#5
John Q
Synopsis:
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
Starring:
Denzel Washington,
Kimberly Elise,
Shawn Hatosy
#6
Ikiru
Synopsis:
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Starring:
Takashi Shimura,
Haruo Tanaka,
Nobuo Kaneko
Plot:
meaning of life,
cancer,
death,
bureaucrat,
playground,
park,
old age,
stomach cancer,
existentialism,
terminal illness
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#7
Grand Illusion
Synopsis:
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has f…
Starring:
Marcel Dalio,
Jean Gabin,
Dita Parlo
Plot:
prison guard,
christmas,
burning book,
broken arm,
border crossing,
prison,
world war one,
anti war,
army,
prussian officer
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#8
Die Hard 2
Synopsis:
Off-duty cop John McClane is gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when, on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation’s capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding thousands of holiday travelers hostage. Renegade military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer plot to rescue a drug lord from justice and are prepared for every contingency except one: McClane’s smart-mouthed heroics.
Starring:
Bruce Willis,
William Sadler,
Bonnie Bedelia
Plot:
detective,
courage,
political prisoner,
gun battle,
heroism,
good versus evil,
grenade,
tragic event,
airport,
rescue
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#9
Brazil
Synopsis:
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identiti…
Starring:
Bob Hoskins,
Ian Holm,
Robert De Niro
Plot:
bureaucracy,
wrongful arrest,
dystopia,
dream,
clerical error,
absurdism,
black comedy,
terrorist,
bureaucrat,
technology
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