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Default (2018)
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Default (2018)
Original name: 국가부도의 날
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, tense, clever, intellectual, suspense, talky, intense
Plot: finance, economic crisis, stock market, business, money, economics, deception, risk, greed, expose, analysis, real estate, mind game, creativity, financial crisis, business and finance, entrepreneurship, big business, international relations, bank, government official, politics, suicide, crisis, financial ruin ...
Time: 90s, 1990s
Place: south korea, seoul

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, realistic, captivating and serious films with plots about finance, money, wall street, business, economics, greed and stock market mostly in Drama, History and Thriller genres. Some movies like Default: Money (2019), Margin Call (2011), The Big Short (2015), Capital (2012), Too Big to Fail (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Money (2019)
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: psychological, disturbing, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: money, stock broker, stock market, money laundering, scam, finance, hotshot hero, wealth, obsession, friends, rags to riches, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
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Margin Call (2011)
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: suspense, realistic, serious, captivating, political ...
Plot: stock market, financial crisis, wall street, greed, economics, businessman, stock market crash, corporation, finance, corporate america, investments, bankruptcy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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The Big Short (2015)
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, intelligent, inspirational ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick, family friendly, teen drama ...
Plot: finance, wall street, business, economics, stock market, money, financial crisis, greed, economic crisis, fraud, loan, analysis ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, year 2007, year 2015, future ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, las vegas
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Capital (2012)
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, serious, tense, social, political ...
Plot: top executive, critique of capitalism, stock broker, greed, rivalry, workplace, boss and employee, office, trading, wealth, banking, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Too Big to Fail (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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: financial crisis, wall street, finance, politics, greed, economic crisis, economics, business, stock broker, stock market, bankruptcy, moral dilemma ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., new york, usa
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Money Game (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
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Story: When Jeongin Bank faces bankruptcy, the Financial Services Commission aims to preempt Korea from another economic meltdown as it did in the 1997 financial crisis. With the Korean government having a substantial stake in the bank, things get serious. ...
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: banking, corruption, finance, financier, bank, money problems, financial problem, financial crisis, financial ruin, relationship problems, bank clerk, workplace situations ...
Place: south korea
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Wall Street (1987)
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: realistic, intense, political, suspense, talky ...
Audience: manly
Plot: wall street, stock broker, stock market, stock exchange, capitalism, businessman, yuppie, entrepreneur, business, greed, success, workplace ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Rogue Trader (1999)
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, economics, dishonesty, corporate crime, ambition, rise and fall, blind ambition ...
Time: future
Place: asia, singapore, england, europe, bahamas
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The Last Days of Lehman Brothers (2009)
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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, economics, entrepreneurship, wall street, trading, money, greed, corporation, company ...
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47%
Adults in the Room (2019)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic ...
Style: political, tense, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing ...
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Time: year 2015, 2010s
Place: greece, paris france, frankfurt germany, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Banker (2019)
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Story: It’s tell the story of a bank auditor pursues justice and policy changes at a time when an economic bubble is collapsing. No Dae Ho is an honest and sincere man. He works as a branch manager of Daehan Bank which is located in a small city. The ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating
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Duration: 107 min.
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Style: inspirational, realistic, talky, humorous, witty ...
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Time: 80s
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Boiler Room (2000)
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: suspense, psychological, clever, intense, tense ...
Plot: wall street, entrepreneur, stock broker, business, stock market, finance, entrepreneurship, caper, crime gone awry, greed, trading, marketing ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s, future, 2000s
Place: new york, bolivia, long island, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
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Style: stylized, captivating, psychological, informative, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, manly
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The Company Men (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
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The Guarantee (2014)
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41%
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Dealers (1989)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 87 min.
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Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
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Duration: 95 min.
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Duration: 125 min.
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