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The Wizard of Lies (2017)
32K
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, tense, serious, non fiction, novela, cult classic, informative, unpredictable
Plot:
wall street, scam, financier, stock exchange, fraud, money, investor, financial crisis, finance, businessman, success, entrepreneurship, real life, workplace, corporate world, corporate crime, lawyer, millionaire, ambition, economic crisis, distopia, loneliness, hunter, business and finance, rich man ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
new york, usa
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Most similar movies to The Wizard of Lies
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspense, serious and tense films with plots about money, business, greed, entrepreneur, corruption, betrayal and ambition mostly in Drama, Biography and Crime genres. Some movies like The Wizard of Lies: Wall Street (1987), The Founder (2016), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Too Big to Fail (2011), The Big Short (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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%
202K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise ...
Style:
inspirational, motivational, realistic, cerebral, uplifting ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
business, businessman, fast food, capitalism, rags to riches, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, salesman, money, marketing, greed, food ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 2010s, year 2016, year 1954 ...
Place:
usa, america, california, arizona, illinois ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not ...
Style:
clever, exciting, captivating, entertaining, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
con artists, adaptation, master criminal, creativity, deception, fbi, fraud, con man, impostor, prodigy, business, biopic ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1967, 70s, year 2002 ...
Place:
los angeles, new orleans, new york, washington d.c., france ...
Similarity:
100%
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
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100%
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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:
100%
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:
100%
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%
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, 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
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A superintendent of a school district works for the betterment of the student’s education when an embezzlement scheme is discovered, threatening to destroy everything.
Style:
cynical, suspense, controversial, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
gay interest, embezzlement, gay, investigative journalism, gay club, public school, infidelity, deception, money, profanity, lgbt, school ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
usa, long island, north america, manhattan new york city, las vegas ...
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among ...
Style:
intellectual, clever, realistic, motivational, witty ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
entrepreneur, programmer, geek, business, facebook, computer genius, computers and web, hacker, success, inventions and discoveries, rise to the top, entrepreneurship ...
Time:
year 2010, 20th century, year 2003, 2000s, 2010s ...
Place:
harvard university, boston, california, usa, san francisco ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The true story of how Dave Fishwick, a working class man and self-made millionaire, fought to set up a community bank so that he could help the local businesses of Burnley not only survive, but thrive. In his bid to help his beloved community, he ...
Style:
psychological, satirical, captivating, thought provoking, thrilling ...
Plot:
money, bank, business, investment banker, satire, bank clerk, ambition, banker, wall street, finance, thoughtful, biopic ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
100%
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:
40%
74K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle ...
Style:
inspirational, suspense, intellectual, suspenseful, anamorphic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle, business, gold, mining, greed, money, treasure hunt, business and finance, finance, justice, life philosophy, ethnic conflict ...
Time:
year 2016, 90s, 80s, year 1988
Place:
southeast asia, indonesia, new york, reno nevada
Similarity:
40%
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:
39%
152K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.
Style:
inspirational, intense, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
entrepreneur, business, strong female lead, businesswoman, career woman, entrepreneurship, inventor, marketing, divorce, career, women, destiny ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, year 2015, 20th century, 70s ...
Place:
boston, usa, new jersey, california, new york state ...
Similarity:
39%
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:
39%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
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Story:
The rise and fall of Bernie Madoff, who's Ponzi scheme bilked $65 billion from unsuspecting victims.
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, serious, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fraud, finance, money, con artists, cons and scams, true crime, biopic, criminal, economics, business, historical figure, business tycoon ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, UK, China
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
Style:
rough, tense, serious, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
kidnapping, ransom demand, billionaire, rich, mafia, escape attempt, money, wealth, ransom, rich man, cruelty, greed ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 70s, year 1971, year 1973
Place:
rome italy, italy, saudi arabia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter.
Style:
neo noir, cult classic, tense, talky, serious ...
Plot:
boxing, lawyer, law, waitress, power relations, career change, cons and scams, obsession, ambition, criminal heroes, rivalry, unlikely couple ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
38%
186K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Style:
cerebral, realistic, factual, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
entrepreneur, business, entrepreneurship, marketing, computer, biopic, prodigy, internet, father daughter relationship, computers and web, technology, inventions and discoveries ...
Time:
20th century, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, year 1998 ...
Place:
san francisco, north america, usa, california
Similarity:
38%
33K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all ...
Style:
realistic, period piece, stylized, intense, suspense ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, casino, gambling, biopic, organized crime, hollywood, rise and fall, ambition, love affair, elimination, bohemian life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1991, year 1945, 1930s ...
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, usa, new york, california ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A drama centered around Patty Montanari, the widowed mother of two who went to work for her lover Frank Russo, a captain in a Brooklyn crime family.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
criminal heroes, fall in love, dishonesty, gangster, unlikely criminals, parents and children, love affair, mind game, organized crime, italian mafia, italian gangster, mafia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
38%
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322
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Basil Brookes joins "Captain Bob" - press mogul Robert Maxwell - as financial director and witnesses Maxwell's financial shenanigans as he contests status with fellow mogul Rupert Murdoch and descends into marital and monetary chaos.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
businessman, millionaire, business, british, fraud, scandal, biopic, corporate corruption, business tycoon, business and finance, money, historical figure ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
38%
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:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This film is the semi-humorous documentary about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires ...
Style:
inspirational, entertaining, talky, tense, clever ...
Plot:
business, entrepreneur, programmer, computer, marketing, geek, technology, hacking, entrepreneurship, hacker, businessman, internet ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, future
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
38%
107K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.
Style:
inspirational, serious, factual, realistic, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
entrepreneur, business, creativity, computer, rise to the top, entrepreneurship, biopic, inventor, marketing, inventions and discoveries, prodigy, startup ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 2013, 90s ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, india, new jersey
Similarity:
38%
1.4M
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Style:
rough, homoerotic, realistic, epic, inspirational ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, gangster, rise and fall, violence, mentor, mobster, drug traffic, cosa nostra, italian mafia, murder, psychopath ...
Time:
50s, 70s, 90s, year 1990, year 1980 ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, florida, italy, usa ...
Similarity:
37%
613K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.
Style:
realistic, clever, rough, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, casino, rise and fall, gangster, betrayal, money, gambling, greed, criminal heroes, mobster, cosa nostra ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1973 ...
Place:
las vegas, chicago, missouri, israel, usa ...
Similarity:
37%
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:
37%
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