MGT 4323: List of Movies for Cross Cultural Management
Water (2005)
Genre: Drama
This movie features: Lisa Ray, John Abraham and Seema Biswas
It involves Indian culture.
The film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. It focuses on a relationship between one of the widows, who wants to escape the social restrictions imposed on widows, and a man who is from the highest caste and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
Genre: Comedy
This movie features Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Archie Panjabi, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Ameet Chana.
It involves Sikh and American cultures.
The daughter of orthodox Sikh rebels against her parents’ traditionalism by playing on a soccer team.
The Namesake (2006)
Genre: Drama
This movie features Irfan Khan, Kal Penn, Jagannath Guha, Tabu, Jacinda Barrett and Zuleikha Robinson.
It involves Indian and American cultures.
“The Namesake” is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Jhumpa Lahir. The film shows the clash of Indian and American cultures, which becomes more visible as a result of a generation gap between the main characters. The featured locales are Calcutta and New York.
Not Without My Daughter (1990)
Genre: Drama
This movie features Sheila Rosenthal, Alfred Molina and Sally Field.
It involves Iranian and American cultures.
Betty and Sayyed Bozorg “Moody” Mahmoody have been married for seven years and have got a four-year-old daughter called Mahtab. Moody is an Iranian and has been living in the United States of America for twenty years. When their holidays in Iran are over Moody tells Betty that he has lost his job in America and that they will stay with his family in Iran and will never return to America.
Outsourced (2006)
Genre: comedy
This movie features Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker, Asif Basra and Matt Smith.
It involves Indian and American cultures.
Todd Anderson (Josh Hamilton) works in a customer call center in Seattle until his job, along with those of the entire office, is outsourced to India. It is bitterly ironic that Todd is asked to travel to India to train his own replacement. Todd realizes that he has to learn a lot about India, America and (especially) about himself.
Syriana (2005)
Genre: Drama / Thriller
This movie features George Clooney, Matt Damon, Kayvan Novak, Amr Waked, Christopher Plummer, Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Siddig and Chris Cooper.
It involves Arab, American and Pakistani cultures.
“Syriana” is a political thriller that unfolds against the backdrop of intrigue in the global oil industry. The movie tells the stories of people entangled in this web of corruption.
Fools Rush In (1997)
Genre: Romantic comedy
This movie features Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek.
It involves Mexican-American and American cultures.
Sparks fly and cultures collide in this romantic comedy about a casual night of passion that turns into the love of a lifetime. Alex Whitman is a New Yorker sent to Las Vegas to oversee a construction project. There he meets Isabel Fuentes, and some serious chemistry brings them together for one night. But Alex doesn’t see Isabel again until three months later, when he learns she is pregnant. On a whim and prayer, he proposes. However, there’s more to marriage than a Vegas chapel and an Elvis impersonator, as Alex and Isabel soon learn.
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Genre: Drama / Biography
This movie features Don Cheadle, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Nick Nolte, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix and Jean Reno.
It involves African, Belgian and Canadian cultures.
The film is about what happened in 1994 in the East African country of Rwanda. It tells the true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu man, married to a Tutsi woman, who is the manager of a luxury hotel in the capital city of Rwanda, Kigali. When the genocide begins, he becomes the host of a huge number of Tutsi refugees, protecting them from the murderous Hutu militia.
Lost In Translation (2003)
Genre: Drama / Comedy
This movie features Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Fumihiro Hayashi, Anna Faris, Diamond Yukai, Takashi Fujii and Nao Asuka.
It involves Japanese and American cultures.
Bob Harris is an American actor who is doing some commercial shootings and TV-shows in Japan. Charlotte accompanies her husband, a photographer, who is constantly away working during their stay in Tokyo. Both are looking for the meaning of their lives, both of them have difficulties adjusting to the surroundings and, additionally, they both have trouble getting to sleep. They begin to explore the city together and to talk about their lives back home, their encounters and their feelings as strangers to Japanese culture.
Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
Genre: Drama / Biography
This movie features Bruce Greenwood, Chi Cao, Kyle MacLachlan and Joan Chen.
It involves Chinese and American cultures.
A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin, a remarkable ballet dancer. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao’s cultural delegates and taken to the Beijing Dance Academy to study ballet. After harsh training hours and incredible determination, Li was discovered by Ben Stevenson, one of the worlds most respected ballet teachers, a choreographer and the Artistic Director of the Houston Ballet, and invited to come to the Houston Ballet as an exchange student.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
Genre: Comedy / Romance
This movie features Nia Vardalos, John Corbett and Michael Constantine.
It involves American, Greek and Greek-American cultures.
Toula Portokalos is 30, Greek, and works in her family’s restaurant, “Dancing Zorba’s”, in Chicago. Everyone in the Portokalos family worries about her because she is still unmarried. After taking some computer classes at college, she lands a job at her aunt’s travel agency where she meets Ian. Ian is a high school teacher, who is tall and handsome, but one problem remains – he isn’t Greek.
Babel (2006)
Genre: Drama
This movie features Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Mohamed Akhzam, Said Tarchani, Boubker Ait El Caid, Mustapha Rachidi, Adriana Barraza, Elle Fanning, Nathan Gamble, Gael García Bernal, Koji Yakusho, Rinko Kichuchi and Satoshi Nikaido.
It involves Mexican, American, Moroccan and Japanese cultures.
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
Under the Same Moon (La misma luna) (2007)
Genre: Drama
This movie features: Eugenio Derbez, Kate del Castillo and Adrian Alonso
It involves Mexican and American cultures.
A young Mexican boy travels to the U.S. to find his mother after his grandmother passes away. The movie tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. Along the way, mother and son face challenges and obstacles but never lose hope that they will one day be together again.
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Genre: Drama/Romance/Thriller
This movie features: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto and Saurabh Shukla
It involves Indian culture.
A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
Genre: comedy | drama
This movie features: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith
It involves Indian and American cultures.
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways.
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
Stars: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy – posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals – Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
A Separation (2011)
Genre: Drama
This movie features: Peyman Moadi, Leila Hatami and Sareh Bayat
It involves Iranian culture
A married couple is faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer’s disease.
Gung Ho (1986)
Genre: Comedy
This movie features: Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe, George Wendt
It involves Japanese and American cultures.
When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liaison must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.
Monsoon Wedding (2001)
Genre: comedy
This movie features: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty
A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India. The groom is an Indian living in Texas, and all relatives from both families, some from distant places like Australia, come to New Delhi during the monsoon season to attend the wedding.
Persepolis (2007)
Genre: Animation
This movie features: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands
It involves Iranian culture
Coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution.
Million Dollar Arm (2014)
Genre: Biography
This Movie Features: Stars: Jon Hamm, Aasif Mandvi, Alan Arkin
It Involves Indian and American Cultures (inspired by a true story)
In 2008, J. B. Bernstein is a sports agent who finds his business being seriously outplayed by his deep-pocketed competitors. Inspired by reality shows and Indian cricket games on TV, Bernstein gets the bold idea of finding cricket players in India and training them to become pro baseball players in America. After a long search, Bernstein finds two talented, but non-cricket playing, youths, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel. Together, Berthstein takes his prospects to Los Angeles where they find mastering a new sport in a foreign land a daunting challenge. As these boys struggle amid an alien culture, Bernstein must find a way to make their dream come true.
What Will People Say (2017)
Stars: Maria Mozhdah, Adil Hussain, Ekavali Khanna, Rohit Saraf
Sixteen year-old Nisha lives a double life. At home with her family she is the perfect Pakistani daughter, but when out with her friends, she is a normal Norwegian teenager. Nisha’s parents decide to kidnap her and place her with relatives in Pakistan. Here, in a country she has never been to before, Nisha is forced to adapt to her parents’ culture.
Big Sick (2017)
Stars: Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter
Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family’s expectations, and his true feelings.
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
This Movie Features: Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh |
This contemporary romantic comedy, based on a global bestseller, follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend’s family.
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MGT 4323 _ List of Movies for Cross Cultural Management
Water (2005)
Genre: Drama
This movie features: Lisa Ray, John Abraham and Seema Biswas
It involves Indian culture.
The film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. It focuses on a relationship between one of the widows, who wants to escape the social restrictions imposed on widows, and a man who is from the highest caste and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
Genre: Comedy
This movie features Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Archie Panjabi, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Ameet Chana.
It involves Sikh and American cultures.
The daughter of orthodox Sikh rebels against her parents’ traditionalism by playing on a soccer team.
The Namesake (2006)
Genre: Drama
This movie features Irfan Khan, Kal Penn, Jagannath Guha, Tabu, Jacinda Barrett and Zuleikha Robinson.
It involves Indian and American cultures.
“The Namesake” is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Jhumpa Lahir. The film shows the clash of Indian and American cultures, which becomes more visible as a result of a generation gap between the main characters. The featured locales are Calcutta and New York.
Not Without My Daughter (1990)
Genre: Drama
This movie features Sheila Rosenthal, Alfred Molina and Sally Field.
It involves Iranian and American cultures.
Betty and Sayyed Bozorg “Moody” Mahmoody have been married for seven years and have got a four-year-old daughter called Mahtab. Moody is an Iranian and has been living in the United States of America for twenty years. When their holidays in Iran are over Moody tells Betty that he has lost his job in America and that they will stay with his family in Iran and will never return to America.
Outsourced (2006)
Genre: comedy
This movie features Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker, Asif Basra and Matt Smith.
It involves Indian and American cultures.
Todd Anderson (Josh Hamilton) works in a customer call center in Seattle until his job, along with those of the entire office, is outsourced to India. It is bitterly ironic that Todd is asked to travel to India to train his own replacement. Todd realizes that he has to learn a lot about India, America and (especially) about himself.
Syriana (2005)
Genre: Drama / Thriller
This movie features George Clooney, Matt Damon, Kayvan Novak, Amr Waked, Christopher Plummer, Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Siddig and Chris Cooper.
It involves Arab, American and Pakistani cultures.
“Syriana” is a political thriller that unfolds against the backdrop of intrigue in the global oil industry. The movie tells the stories of people entangled in this web of corruption.
Fools Rush In (1997)
Genre: Romantic comedy
This movie features Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek.
It involves Mexican-American and American cultures.
Sparks fly and cultures collide in this romantic comedy about a casual night of passion that turns into the love of a lifetime. Alex Whitman is a New Yorker sent to Las Vegas to oversee a construction project. There he meets Isabel Fuentes, and some serious chemistry brings them together for one night. But Alex doesn’t see Isabel again until three months later, when he learns she is pregnant. On a whim and prayer, he proposes. However, there’s more to marriage than a Vegas chapel and an Elvis impersonator, as Alex and Isabel soon learn.
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Genre: Drama / Biography
This movie features Don Cheadle, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Nick Nolte, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix and Jean Reno.
It involves African, Belgian and Canadian cultures.
The film is about what happened in 1994 in the East African country of Rwanda. It tells the true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu man, married to a Tutsi woman, who is the manager of a luxury hotel in the capital city of Rwanda, Kigali. When the genocide begins, he becomes the host of a huge number of Tutsi refugees, protecting them from the murderous Hutu militia.
Lost In Translation (2003)
Genre: Drama / Comedy
This movie features Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Fumihiro Hayashi, Anna Faris, Diamond Yukai, Takashi Fujii and Nao Asuka.
It involves Japanese and American cultures.
Bob Harris is an American actor who is doing some commercial shootings and TV-shows in Japan. Charlotte accompanies her husband, a photographer, who is constantly away working during their stay in Tokyo. Both are looking for the meaning of their lives, both of them have difficulties adjusting to the surroundings and, additionally, they both have trouble getting to sleep. They begin to explore the city together and to talk about their lives back home, their encounters and their feelings as strangers to Japanese culture.
Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
Genre: Drama / Biography
This movie features Bruce Greenwood, Chi Cao, Kyle MacLachlan and Joan Chen.
It involves Chinese and American cultures.
A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin, a remarkable ballet dancer. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao’s cultural delegates and taken to the Beijing Dance Academy to study ballet. After harsh training hours and incredible determination, Li was discovered by Ben Stevenson, one of the worlds most respected ballet teachers, a choreographer and the Artistic Director of the Houston Ballet, and invited to come to the Houston Ballet as an exchange student.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
Genre: Comedy / Romance
This movie features Nia Vardalos, John Corbett and Michael Constantine.
It involves American, Greek and Greek-American cultures.
Toula Portokalos is 30, Greek, and works in her family’s restaurant, “Dancing Zorba’s”, in Chicago. Everyone in the Portokalos family worries about her because she is still unmarried. After taking some computer classes at college, she lands a job at her aunt’s travel agency where she meets Ian. Ian is a high school teacher, who is tall and handsome, but one problem remains – he isn’t Greek.
Babel (2006)
Genre: Drama
This movie features Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Mohamed Akhzam, Said Tarchani, Boubker Ait El Caid, Mustapha Rachidi, Adriana Barraza, Elle Fanning, Nathan Gamble, Gael García Bernal, Koji Yakusho, Rinko Kichuchi and Satoshi Nikaido.
It involves Mexican, American, Moroccan and Japanese cultures.
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
Under the Same Moon (La misma luna) (2007)
Genre: Drama
This movie features: Eugenio Derbez, Kate del Castillo and Adrian Alonso
It involves Mexican and American cultures.
A young Mexican boy travels to the U.S. to find his mother after his grandmother passes away. The movie tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. Along the way, mother and son face challenges and obstacles but never lose hope that they will one day be together again.
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Genre: Drama/Romance/Thriller
This movie features: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto and Saurabh Shukla
It involves Indian culture.
A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
Genre: comedy | drama
This movie features: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith
It involves Indian and American cultures.
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways.
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
Stars: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy – posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals – Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
A Separation (2011)
Genre: Drama
This movie features: Peyman Moadi, Leila Hatami and Sareh Bayat
It involves Iranian culture
A married couple is faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer’s disease.
Gung Ho (1986)
Genre: Comedy
This movie features: Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe, George Wendt
It involves Japanese and American cultures.
When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liaison must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.
Monsoon Wedding (2001)
Genre: comedy
This movie features: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty
A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India. The groom is an Indian living in Texas, and all relatives from both families, some from distant places like Australia, come to New Delhi during the monsoon season to attend the wedding.
Persepolis (2007)
Genre: Animation
This movie features: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands
It involves Iranian culture
Coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution.
Million Dollar Arm (2014)
Genre: Biography
This Movie Features: Stars: Jon Hamm, Aasif Mandvi, Alan Arkin
It Involves Indian and American Cultures (inspired by a true story)
In 2008, J. B. Bernstein is a sports agent who finds his business being seriously outplayed by his deep-pocketed competitors. Inspired by reality shows and Indian cricket games on TV, Bernstein gets the bold idea of finding cricket players in India and training them to become pro baseball players in America. After a long search, Bernstein finds two talented, but non-cricket playing, youths, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel. Together, Berthstein takes his prospects to Los Angeles where they find mastering a new sport in a foreign land a daunting challenge. As these boys struggle amid an alien culture, Bernstein must find a way to make their dream come true.
What Will People Say (2017)
Stars: Maria Mozhdah, Adil Hussain, Ekavali Khanna, Rohit Saraf
Sixteen year-old Nisha lives a double life. At home with her family she is the perfect Pakistani daughter, but when out with her friends, she is a normal Norwegian teenager. Nisha’s parents decide to kidnap her and place her with relatives in Pakistan. Here, in a country she has never been to before, Nisha is forced to adapt to her parents’ culture.
Big Sick (2017)
Stars: Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter
Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family’s expectations, and his true feelings.
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
This Movie Features: Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh |
This contemporary romantic comedy, based on a global bestseller, follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend’s family.
_____________
https://www.imdb.com/?ref_=nv_home
Disclaimer: Descriptions of movies were taken from The Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
The IMDb site allows you to search for movies based on a specific theme (e.g., you can look for all movies that illustrate cross cultural relationships)
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Business & Finance
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Computer Science
Geography
Geology
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English
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