Insider trading movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant insider trading movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, realistic, tense, suspenseful, clever and independent film films and TV shows about / with insider trading, betrayal, greed, money, dishonesty, stock broker, murder, wall street, deception and corruption plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as insider trading: Cleaning Up (2019), Trading Places (1983), Equity (2016), Side Effects (2013), That Touch of Mink (1962), The Crash (2017), Good Advice (2001), Follow the Money (2016), The Spanish Prisoner (1997), Wall Street (1987).

List of insider trading movies

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
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 ...
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 6.3
 3K
Cleaning Up (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: This characterful drama focuses on an ordinary working class woman, Sam, who is caught between two worlds - the everyday life of a devoted and loving Mum and the darker, dangerous world of insider trading. While struggling with an online gambling ...
Style: tense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful
Plot: insider trading, gambling, debt collector, working class, mother daughter relationship, addiction, female protagonist, cleaning lady, money problems, gambler, information leak, money ...
Time: 2010s
Place: london
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 7.5
 181K
Trading Places (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Style: funny, cult classic, black comedy, dark comedy, laugh out loud ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prostitute, stock market, revenge, fish out of water, rags to riches, social satire, manipulation, wrongful arrest, beggar, wager, poverty, christmas ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city, arizona ...
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Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story (2020)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in 1980's & 90's Bombay, Scam 1992 follows the life of Harshad Mehta - a stockbroker who single-handedly took the stock market to dizzying heights & his catastrophic downfall. Being directed by National Award-winning filmmaker ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, tense
Plot: finance, insider trading, financial crisis, stock exchange, stock broker, criminal, newspaper office, cons and scams, caper, financier, fraud, deception ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: mumbai india, bombay india, india
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 5.6
 4K
Equity (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Senior investment banker Naomi Bishop’s world of high-power big money is brutal and fierce, and one she thrives in. When a controversial IPO threatens the fragile balance of power and confidentiality, Naomi finds herself entangled in a web of ...
Style: psychological, captivating, touching, suspense
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: stock market, female executive, finance, wall street, corruption, career woman, female protagonist, female empowerment, ambition, trading, coworker, banker ...
Time: 2010s
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 7.0
 204K
Side Effects (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, captivating, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: mental illness, depression, psychiatrist, manipulation, murder, patient, sleepwalking, twists and turns, doctor, mental patient, mental institution, deception ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, future, year 2004, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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That Touch of Mink (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save her virginity for marriage.
Style: witty, romantic comedy, retro, sex comedy, humorous ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: new york yankees, unemployment office, insider trading, screwball, love, idealism, fall in love, farce, hotel, psychiatrist, mistaken identity, marriage ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 60s, 80s, 70s
Place: new york, usa, baltimore, philadelphia, manhattan new york city ...
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 4.2
 2K
The Crash (2017)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In the not so distant future, a team of white collar criminals are enlisted by the Federal government to thwart a cyber-attack that threatens to bankrupt the United States of America.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, exciting, independent film ...
Plot: financial crisis, hacking, computers and web, hacker, insider trading, criminal, dishonesty, government agency, conspiracy theory, government, bankrupt, misfit partners ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, big ben london, london, hong kong, paris france
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 6.2
 8K
Good Advice (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An investment banker loses everything and must discover what's important in life.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Plot: stock broker, couples, journalism, selfishness, secret, empathy, greed, riches to rags, fired from the job, yuppie, advice, deception ...
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
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Follow the Money (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 'Deceived' is about economic crime. About what happens to people when greed and ambition corrupts. The series exposeses viewers into economic crimes complex world. In the banks, the stock exchange and in boardrooms.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: corporate crime, lawyer, greed, dishonesty, hopes, legal, legal investigation, investigation, uncover truth, price of justice, cons and scams, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, scandinavia
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The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An employee of a corporation with a lucrative secret process is tempted to betray it. But there's more to it than that.
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychological, suspenseful, witty ...
Plot: con game, twists and turns, heist, secrets, invention, investigation, intrigue, conspiracy, manipulation, police investigation, stranger, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: venezuela, caribbean, usa, manhattan new york city, boston ...
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 7.3
 174K
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: 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
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Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart is a 2003 NBC TV movie starring Cybill Shepherd as Martha Stewart in which the life of Martha Stewart is outlined starting from her life in New Jersey to the scandal behind her arrest.
Style: witty, humorous, realistic, edutainment, semi serious ...
Plot: relationship vs career, rise to the top, rise and fall, rising to stardom, lifestyle, workplace situations, celebrity culture, boss and employee, obnoxious boss, media satire, insider trading, stock broker ...
Time: 21st century
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In Your Wildest Dreams (1991)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: High school senior Mark's wildest dreams come true when he makes a simulated stock purchase that accidentally turns him into a millionaire overnight. But when he discovers that the money belongs to his girlfriend's dad, who needs the funds ...
Style: teen, romantic drama, tension, comedy drama, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, insider trading, ethical dilemma, stock market, coming of age, teen romance, young adult, guilt, family conflict, father daughter relationship, families, betrayal ...
Time: 90s
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A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Australian television film based on alleged events surrounding the death of Caroline Byrne in June 1995. Byrne was found in the early morning of 8 June at the base of a cliff at The Gap, a notorious suicide spot in Sydney.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, crime drama
Plot: gay relationship, murder, police, millionaire, therapy, trial, father daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, insider trading, real life, model, suicide ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
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Bare Essentials (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A couple leaves for a vacation on a tropical island and finds happiness and love... just not with each-other.
Style: sexy
Plot: stranded on an island, wife swapping, mate swapping, island, insider trading, masseuse, getting home, sexuality, husband wife relationship, vacation gone wrong, sex, vacation ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
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Breaking the Bank (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: With ruthless US and Japanese investment banks circling Tuftons, a struggling two-hundred-year-old, family-run British bank, can its bumbling, incompetent chairman, Sir Charles Bunbury, fend off the onslaught and save the bank?
Style: satirical, lighthearted, absurd, period piece, whimsical
Plot: banking, finance, satire, british, office politics, social commentary, power struggle, family business, culture clash, corporate greed, farce, class conflict ...
Place: london
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 4.6
 289
Insiders (1989)
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An afternoon newspaper reporter's tape recorder picks up sensitive information while he is working on a story about so-called yuppie culture. The picture shows the symbols of yuppie life, from muscle boats and convertibles to Mobira Cityman 900 ...
Plot: insider trading, drug, nudity, arrest, extortion, suicide, business, cell phone, yuppie, sauna, businessman, computer ...
Time: 80s
Place: helsinki finland, finland
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 3.0
 250
The Contract (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two worlds collide when a wealthy hedge fund trader returns home to find squatters have occupied his country house.
Style: absurd, surprise ending, psychotronic, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: on the run, exploitation, organized crime, murder, gangster, crime boss, criminal, conspiracy, urban setting, violence, money, chase ...
Place: london, big ben london, tower bridge london
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Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always seems to be at the right place at the right time.
Style: offbeat, semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: children, interracial marriage, food industry, insider trading, household, working conditions, interracial, poverty, homeless, black, interracial relations, working class ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: lyon, france, europe
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 6.4
 5K
Hiding Out (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A very successful stock broker is called to court to testify against a mob boss who was into some inside trading. Andrew Morenski must become Max Hauser and go back to high school for protection from the mob.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, independent film, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: high school, teenager, gangster, murder, mafia, small town, geek, insider trading, in love, stoned, bike, education ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: delaware, new jersey, san francisco
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The Burden of Proof (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 184 min.
TV show
Story: A lawyer who's still recuperating after the untimely death of his wife, must defend his probably dirty brother-in-law, a stockbroker under investigation. He discovers that everyone has dark secrets, including himself.
Style: tense, dark, suspense, crime thriller
Plot: courtroom drama, defense attorney, deception, corruption, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, complex characters, family conflict, investigation, secrets, lawyer, betrayal ...
Time: 90s
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The Lady Banker (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 131 min.
Story: The scene is the restless Paris of the interwar years where an attractive and ambitious woman successfully makes her way in a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. Originating from a humble background, she quickly becomes popular ...
Style: emotional
Plot: lesbian, money, lgbt, lesbian relationship, businesswoman, insider trading, finance, execution, banker, bisexuality, anti semitism, speculation ...
Time: 1920s
Place: paris france, monte carlo
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Dante's Inferno (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary cast of reprobates, including famous - and ...
Style: witty, humorous, atmospheric, semi serious, adult animation ...
Audience: adult
Plot: satire, good versus evil, puppetry, supernatural, puppet, escapades, social misfits, imaginary, ghost, society, hypocrite, limbo ...
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Rumpole of the Bailey (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious, clever, witty
Plot: lawyer, legal, insider trading, law, courtroom, dentist, jury, drowning, criminal lawyer, power relations, couples, courtroom drama ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 90s, 80s, 60s ...
Place: europe, london, england, united kingdom
Is relevant?
 5.1
 311
The Price (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Seyi, a 24-year-old Nigerian-American, works on Wall Street. Desperate to succeed because of his outsider status-due to class and race-he commits a crime, insider trading, which brings his entire world crashing down on him. Seyi's troubled ...
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing
Plot: interracial relations, nypd, insider trading, uncover truth, crime investigation, love affair, family problems, family relations, investigation, police investigation, marital problem, crime solving ...
Place: new york
Is relevant?
 4.9
 407
Working Tra$h (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two janitors (George Carlin, Ben Stiller) working as janitors at a brokerage firm become rich by making investments based on insider information they gather from the brokers' garbage.
Style: buddy comedy, satirical, dark comedy, cynical, fast paced
Plot: stock market, insider trading, satire, greed, corporate corruption, office, social commentary, urban, irreverent, class differences, moral ambiguity, eavesdropping ...
Time: 90s
Is relevant?
 5.5
 142
Flatbush Luck (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two hunky phone repair guys from Flatbush, former Wall Street hotshot Jimmy and his buttoned-up cousin Max, stumble across insider trading tips and start tapping a phone line to get even more. But when stock tips turn to murder plots, the hapless ...
Style: tension, suspense, romantic comedy, cute, black comedy
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, murder, insider trading, eavesdropping, overheard conversation, escalation, moral dilemma, odd couple, working class, urban ...
Place: brooklyn new york city
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 4.9
 193
Wrong Number (2001)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Greed results in murder in the tumultuous world of Internet stocks.
Style: tense, suspenseful, fast paced, dark, noir ...
Plot: murder, stock market, greed, corporate greed, insider trading, deception, corruption, betrayal, conspiracy, office politics, moral ambiguity, ambition ...
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The Scale of Desire (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Xiao Jian, director of economic investigation, cracked a mysterious financial case with the financial tycoon Xu Feng as the mastermind, but later became involved in a larger transnational money laundering group. Xiao Jian accidentally obtained Xu ...
Style: crime drama, dramatic, captivating, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: money laundering, investigation, finance, corporate corruption, entrepreneurship, economics, economist, entrepreneur, money, stock market, manipulation, deception ...
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