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Rogue Trader (1999)
11K
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successful trading run--ends up accumulating $1.4 billion in losses hidden in account #88888.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, intellectual, suspense, edutainment, psychological, independent film
Plot:
stock market, greed, finance, business, wall street, trading, money, dishonesty, ambition, rise and fall, workplace, corporate crime, criminal heroes, blind ambition, cons and scams, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, economist, financial crisis, husband wife relationship, business and finance, corporation, marketing, professional, accountant ...
Time:
future
Place:
asia, england, europe, singapore, bahamas
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Most similar movies to Rogue Trader
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, tense, serious and suspense films with plots about money, greed, business, finance, dishonesty, economics and bus mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Rogue Trader: Margin Call (2011), Wall Street (1987), The Wizard of Lies (2017), The Big Short (2015), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
160K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.
Style:
clever, realistic, captivating, serious, political ...
Plot:
stock market, financial crisis, wall street, businessman, finance, greed, stock market crash, corporation, corporate america, investments, bankruptcy, marketing ...
Time:
year 2011, 2000s, year 2008, 2010s, 70s ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
174K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
Style:
political, talky, intense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
wall street, stock market, stock broker, stock exchange, business, businessman, capitalism, yuppie, entrepreneur, greed, top executive, workplace ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, california, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wake, both for the victims and Madoff's family.
Style:
realistic, captivating, political, serious, tense ...
Plot:
wall street, scam, financier, stock exchange, fraud, money, investor, financial crisis, finance, businessman, corporate world, workplace ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
533K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
Style:
intellectual, realistic, tense, inspirational, intelligent ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, date night, teen drama ...
Plot:
finance, wall street, business, stock market, financial crisis, money, greed, banking, economic crisis, bank, loan, analysis ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, year 2015, future, year 2016 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, las vegas, california
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Style:
clever, cynical, captivating, motivational, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
money, corruption, wall street, business, rise and fall, addiction, stock market, stock broker, success, wealth, greed, rags to riches ...
Time:
80s, year 2013, 90s, 20th century, year 1987 ...
Place:
new york, usa, geneva switzerland, big ben london, italy ...
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13%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Only one week left until South Korea will go under sovereign default. Han Shi-Hyun is a leader of the monetary policy team at the Bank of Korea. and is assigned to a crisis team.
Style:
realistic, suspense, intense, talky, tense ...
Plot:
finance, economic crisis, stock market, financial crisis, money, deception, greed, expose, risk, analysis, real estate, mind game ...
Time:
90s
Place:
south korea, seoul
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, melancholic, enigmatic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
gambling addiction, casino, gambling, gambler, poker, addiction, embezzlement, greed, relationships, banker, police investigation, compulsive gambler ...
Time:
80s, year 2003, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, toronto ontario canada, new jersey ...
Similarity:
23%
57K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
Style:
suspenseful, intense, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
twists and turns, infidelity, money, business, adultery, wall street, moral dilemma, finance, morality, character study, moral ambiguity, manipulation ...
Time:
year 2012, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, california
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
The heads of Wall Street's biggest investment banks were summoned to an evening meeting by the US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, to discuss the plight of another - Lehman Brothers. After six months' turmoil in the world's financial ...
Style:
captivating, edutainment
Plot:
business, financial crisis, finance, ceo, businessman, trading, wall street, entrepreneurship, money, corporation, greed, company ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Bank, a world ripe with avarice and corruption, where O'Reilly and his ilk can thrive and honest Aussie battlers lose everything. Enter Jim Doyle a maverick mathematician who has devised a formula to predict the fluctuations of the stock ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, cynical, clever ...
Plot:
stock exchange, business, mathematics, greed, finance, computer genius, fighting the system, workplace, rise to the top, ambition, money, workplace situations ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 70s
Place:
australia, new zealand
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Russia, early 90s. A fictional story inspired by financier Sergey Mavrodi, his securities company "MMM", and the pyramid scheme he ran that left upwards of fifteen million investors with nothing when it crashed.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
rise to the top, ambition, corporate crime, downfall, rise and fall, cons and scams, political corruption, society, rivalry, dishonesty, money, big business ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
russia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A hot young Wall Street trader finds a formula based on climatology to play the market and win big... but at what cost?
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
wall street, ambition, office, trading, dishonesty, rivalry, rise to the top, workplace, stock broker, workplace intrigue, workplace situations, boss and employee ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared ...
Style:
tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rise and fall, gang, rivalry, partner, gangster, dishonesty, betrayal, drug dealing, ambition, vengeance, criminal heroes, violence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, social, political ...
Plot:
top executive, critique of capitalism, stock broker, greed, rivalry, boss and employee, workplace, office, trading, wealth, banking, entrepreneurship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, europe, france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Three friends discover their new flatmate dead but loaded with cash.
Style:
neo noir, black comedy, suspense, dark comedy, action thriller ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, dark humor, manipulation, betrayal, greed, cop, paranoia, crime gone awry, deception, caper, robbery, death ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place:
scotland, britain, edinburgh scotland, rio de janeiro
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Glengarry Glen Ross, follows the lives of four unethical Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to go to any lengths (legal or illegal) to unload undesirable real estate on unwilling prospective buyers.
Style:
cult classic, suspense, neo noir, dark comedy, intense ...
Plot:
office, manipulation, business, closeted homosexual, greed, workplace, career, real estate agent, dialogue, entrepreneurship, rain, entrepreneur ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place:
chicago, brooklyn new york city, new york, illinois, arizona ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A television movie based upon the book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco.
Style:
inspirational, realistic, talky, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
stock market, wall street, business, satire, finance, money, ceo, corporation, greed, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, business and finance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
atlanta georgia, manhattan new york city, new york, california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the bestselling book by Andrew Ross Sorkin, 'Too Big to Fail' offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few ...
Style:
factual, tense, political, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot:
wall street, financial crisis, politics, finance, economic crisis, stock market, greed, business, stock broker, money, society, bankruptcy ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., new york, usa, california, middle east
Similarity:
19%
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559
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three people discover jealousy and larceny are a dangerous combination in this tense drama. John (Bryan Brown) is a veteran insurance investigator who succumbs to temptation and veers towards the wrong side of the law. With the help of novice con ...
Style:
serious, realistic, stylized, suspense, neo noir
Plot:
greed, seduction, gambling, power relations, insurance, money, femme fatale, love triangle, dishonesty, life is a bitch, betrayal, addiction ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, sydney australia
Similarity:
19%
1K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Aspiring stockbroker Il-hyun dreams of making big money, but being a rookie without the right connections makes it difficult for him to survive in the cut-throat world of stock exchange market. So when he is approached by the ‘ticket man’, an ...
Style:
suspense, cynical, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
money, stock broker, stock market, money laundering, scam, finance, hotshot hero, business, legal, blind ambition, training, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Brian Cruver, an ambitious 26-year-old lands a job at Enron. As he assimilates to the company's get-rich-quick mantra, spending sprees and wild corporate "gatherings" become the norm. But when Enron files for bankruptcy, Cruver ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, political, edutainment ...
Plot:
evil corporation, greed, corporate crime, rise and fall, fighting the system, ambition, rise to the top, uncover truth, power relations, whistleblower, love and romance, couple relations ...
Place:
austin texas
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, realistic, serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
manly, family friendly
Plot:
wall street, stock broker, finance, stock market crash, stock market, corporate greed, marketing, rivalry, insider trading, vengeance, corporate world, speculation ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 2000s, year 2001, year 2008 ...
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, london, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.
Style:
inspirational, intense, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gambling, football, american football, greed, father son relationship, cons and scams, addiction, money, rags to riches, manipulation, workplace, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, puerto rico, las vegas, boston, new jersey ...
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film is set in the Tricity in 2003, ten years after the end of communism in Poland. The plot, apparently based on the real-life experiences of Kraków businessmen Lech Jerzorny and Paweł Rey, is about three young, talented businessmen who open ...
Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot:
false accusation, corporate crime, dishonesty, rise and fall, cons and scams, political corruption, justice, injustice, uncover truth, legal investigation, law enforcement, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm, which puts him on the fast track to success, but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.
Style:
clever, suspense, psychological, tense, intense ...
Plot:
wall street, entrepreneur, stock broker, marketing, entrepreneurship, business, stock market, finance, financial crisis, crime gone awry, greed, poker ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s, future, 2000s
Place:
new york, bolivia, long island, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
9%
207K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
Style:
neo noir, intense, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, violence, sex, drug dealing, twists and turns, gangster, chase, murder, drug, british gangster, drug lord, caper ...
Time:
year 2004, 70s, 90s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, britain, amsterdam, netherlands ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
Style:
psychological, sentimental, rough, inspirational, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
stock market, finance, merchant, hacking, game, anti hero, danger, trial, violence, trafficking, hopes, death ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
17%
42K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's introduction to The ...
Style:
sexy, suspense, sensual, sexual, neo noir ...
Plot:
sex, betrayal, twists and turns, hotel, lawyer, escapades, murder, manipulation, police investigation, frame up, life turned upside down, conspiracy ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
new york, europe, spain, usa, madrid ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and two co-workers jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands and ...
Style:
depressing, serious, sincere, social, cult classic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
unemployment, corporate world, business, corporation, workplace, money, finance, greed, family problems, starting over, society, life is a bitch ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts, new jersey, california
Similarity:
17%
25K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, France, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose. Inevitably, he gets sucked into the world of the casino ...
Style:
neo noir, clever, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
gambling, casino, croupier, writers, terrorist, cons and scams, caper, addiction, greed, relationships, career change, bet ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1998
Place:
england, london, ireland, europe, south africa ...
Similarity:
17%
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