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Too Big to Fail (2011)
21K
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 weeks.
Style:
factual, tense, political, suspenseful, sincere, witty, realistic, talky, intellectual, cult classic ...
Plot:
wall street, financial crisis, politics, finance, economic crisis, stock market, greed, business, stock broker, money, society, bankruptcy, moral dilemma, crisis, capitalism, social problems, senator, race against time, corporate world, state affairs, loan, economist, dialogue, trading, entrepreneur ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
washington d.c., new york, usa, middle east, california
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Most similar movies to Too Big to Fail
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, political, serious and suspense films with plots about business, greed, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, economics, corporation and finance mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like Too Big to Fail: Margin Call (2011), The Big Short (2015), The Wizard of Lies (2017), The Founder (2016), Default (2018). 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%
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
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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
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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 ...
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67%
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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
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s.
Style:
intellectual, period piece, game show, talky, intense ...
Plot:
greed, investigation, moral dilemma, fame, ethics, television, corruption, advertising, idealism, lawyer, fraud, professor ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957, year 1994 ...
Place:
new york, usa, washington d.c., boston
Similarity:
100%
117K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A complex drama about power politics in the world of New York high finance.
Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, intellectual, political, smart ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
finance, money, corruption, investor, stock exchange, wall street, twists and turns, wealth, stock market, rivalry, life philosophy, obsession ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.
Style:
sincere, realistic, emotional, serious, political ...
Plot:
working class, labor union, factory worker, factory, rebellion, boss and employee, rebelliousness, power relations, social differences, workplace situations, anarchist, worker ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Cuba
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The story of the Santa María School massacre of miners in 1907.
Style:
allegory
Plot:
post colonialism, employer, capital, collapse, capitalist society, innovation, damage, capitalism, materialism, historian, job, union ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
south america, chile
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The film focuses on Angie (Kierston Wareing), a working class woman who, after being fired by the agency that she works for, decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend Rose (Juliet Ellis). Taking ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, social, epic ...
Plot:
realism, immigrant, working class, injustice, society, employment agency, politics, fighting the system, workplace, legal, life is a bitch, workplace situations ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
britain, england, europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides ...
Style:
political, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, social ...
Plot:
capitalism, socialism, communism, communist, philosopher, poverty, biopic, factory, writers, industry, money, working class ...
Time:
ancient times, 19th century, year 2017
Place:
soviet union, paris france, manchester, london, prussia ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1920, workmen of Patagonia (Argentina), grouped into anarchist and socialist societies, decide to strike demanding better working conditions. Among the workers there are numerous European immigrants acting as ideological ferment of their peers. ...
Style:
political
Plot:
anarchism, anarchist, anarchy, capitalist society, gaucho, radical, state terrorism, labor union, political repression, labor strike, massacre, train ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
patagonia, argentina
Similarity:
37%
14K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the ...
Style:
political, touching, inspirational, aesthetic, sad ...
Plot:
labor union, working class, feminist, small town, union, women, labor, business, labor movement, courage, single mother, american politics ...
Time:
20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place:
north carolina, usa, alabama
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A story about slave hunting, colonialism, revenge and love.
Plot:
slave trade, colonialism, black slave, blaxploitation, civil war, human exploitation, nude black woman, female nudity, drowning, waterfall, nudity, profit ...
Time:
year 1978, 1800s, 19th century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Wronke Prison, 1916. Social democrat Rosa Luxemburg faces a mock execution. Twenty years earlier, Rosa's political gifts are acknowledged by everyone, as she struggles for democratic government in Germany and revolution in Poland. There she ...
Style:
political, political thriller, philosophical, suspense, social ...
Plot:
communist, women, revolution, communism, biopic, capitalism, revolutionary, anarchist, world war one, protest, strike, union ...
Time:
20th century, year 1916
Place:
germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 345 min.
Story:
We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives of the Paris rebels. On a stage-like set, more than 200 actors ...
Style:
political, black and white, informative, powerful, inspirational ...
Plot:
army vs civilians, socialism, anarchism, found footage, anarchist, revolution, worker, union, strike, struggle, labor, civil unrest ...
Time:
victorian era, 20th century, 2000s, turn of the century, 1870s ...
Place:
paris france, france, versailles
Similarity:
34%
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:
33%
13K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) ...
Style:
political, touching, sincere, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, sexual initiation, politics, friendship, poverty, youth, dictatorship, boy, communism, trauma, demonstration ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
chile, latin america, south america, santiago chile, spain ...
Similarity:
33%
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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:
33%
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:
33%
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:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and ...
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, political, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
working class, unemployment, seaport, friendship, society, redemption, small town, working conditions, job seeking, self esteem, life is a bitch, breaking point ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, galicia, switzerland, spain ...
Similarity:
32%
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:
50%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, uplifting, factual ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
environmental, justice, court, lawyer, contamination, small town, single mother, investigation, corporate crime, business, lawsuit, legal ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, y2k, year 2000, 2000s ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
31%
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:
30%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Biographic movie of the witty, overachieving, hot-tempered Rudy Giuliani, spanning from his rising days as a New York district attorney in the early 1980s to his marriage to part-time actress Donna Hanover, to his candidacy for mayor of New York ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, uplifting
Plot:
politician, politics, infidelity, relationship vs career, rise to the top, ambition, couples, crumbling marriage, society, state affairs, city life, 9/11 ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
30%
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:
30%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to "get rid of" a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obsession, to the extent that he is willing to give up everything - including his career and ...
Style:
suspense, thought provoking, suspenseful, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, lawyer, court, trial, lawsuit, legal, law firm, courtroom, investigation, toxic waste, attorney, judge ...
Time:
90s, year 1988, year 1983, year 1982, year 1987 ...
Place:
massachusetts, boston, washington d.c., new york, new jersey
Similarity:
29%
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:
29%
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:
29%
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