Movies like Capital 2012
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Capital (2012)
6K
Original name: Le Capital
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, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
top executive, critique of capitalism, stock broker, greed, rivalry, office, workplace, boss and employee, trading, wealth, banking, business, entrepreneurship, corporation, ceo, capitalism, banker, investment banking, politics, entrepreneur, stock market, quantum physics, intrigue, manipulation, big business ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, europe, france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and tense films with plots about workplace, workplace situations, power relations, boss and employee, business, finance and greed mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Capital: Margin Call (2011), Dealers (1989), Default (2018), Wall Street (1987), The Bank (2001). 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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
london, europe, england
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100%
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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:
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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:
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Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, california, canada
Similarity:
100%
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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:
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Time:
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Place:
australia, new zealand
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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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:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
wall street, stock broker, finance, stock market crash, stock market, corporate greed, marketing, rivalry, insider trading, vengeance, corporate world, speculation ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, london, manhattan new york city ...
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39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, realistic, cynical, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe, mediterranean sea, provence
Similarity:
39%
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:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
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Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
38%
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:
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Place:
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Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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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:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, realistic, emotional, serious, political ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, sincere, non-linear ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe
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37%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
36%
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Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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35%
434
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
workplace, revolt, friendship, parents and children, fighting the system, boss and employee, workplace situations, power relations, suffering, employee, middle aged man, suicide ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
34%
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Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
34%
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Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, rough
Plot:
factory, vengeance, workplace intrigue, misled, parents and children, rivalry, righting the wronged, workplace, dishonesty, workplace situations, family relations, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
france, normandy, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
33%
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s, future, 2000s
Place:
new york, bolivia, long island, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
33%
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Plot:
cons and scams, couples, workplace situations, twists and turns, dishonesty, rivalry, boss and employee, greed, fall in love, gambling, marketing, corporation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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The $treet is an American television drama series that aired on Fox in 2000. 11 episodes were produced and 6 aired in the U.S.
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Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating
Plot:
finance, wall street, stock broker, ambition, rise to the top, corporate crime, workplace, thirtysomething life, power relations, uninhibited rivalry, blind ambition, boss and employee ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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33%
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Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Paul Reynolds is a Gatsby-like figure: owner of a magnificent house, the host of great parties, and a collector of interesting people. He persuades Lizzie Thomas, a secretary at a local estate agent's, to come and work for him as his assistant, ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, tense, sexual ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, suspense, touching
Plot:
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Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Two corporate giants compete in order to recklessly maximize their respective profits.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, workplace, society, politics, ambition, corporate world, business ethics, corporate executive, erotica, entrepreneurship, business ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
32%
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Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
stock market, greed, finance, business, wall street, trading, money, dishonesty, corporate crime, ambition, rise and fall, workplace ...
Time:
future
Place:
asia, england, europe, singapore, bahamas
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32%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, emotional, suspense, captivating, culinary ...
Plot:
wine, family business, favoritism, rivalry, workplace, intrigue, countryside, family problems, introspection, father son relationship, favoritism among siblings, vineyard ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
32%
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 ...
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Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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31%
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