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List of business and finance movies

 7.9
 114K
Patton (1970)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: "Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side ...
Style: dramatic, realistic, epic, historical drama, aesthetic ...
Audience: manly
Plot: world war two, world war, u.s. army, biopic, business, wartime, tank, military, u.s. military, allies, battle of the bulge, ego ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1970, year 1942 ...
Place: london, italy, africa, north africa, america ...
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 9.2
 2.2M
The Godfather (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story: Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the ...
Style: serious, captivating, atmospheric, epic, dramatic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, chick flick, adult
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, revenge, crime family, betrayal, mob boss, wedding, greed, pride and honor, cosa nostra, violence ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1972 ...
Place: italy, new york, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city, sicily ...
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 6.8
 107K
Risky Business (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has ...
Style: sexy, sex comedy, teen, erotic, funny ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, kids, teen drama ...
Plot: coming of age, sex scene, teenager, high school, pimp, sex, prostitution, sex in a chair, sexual fantasy, sexual attraction, premarital sex, suburbs ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, future
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, new jersey, california
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 8.3
 1.0M
Scarface (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the ...
Style: exciting, serious, cult classic, breathtaking, rough ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: gangster, mafia, organized crime, drug lord, gunfight, mob boss, drug cartel, drug dealing, cocaine, drug abuse, violence, badass ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1980
Place: miami, miami beach, bolivia, cuba, florida ...
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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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Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Based on a true story. Shortly after World War II, Preston Tucker is a dynamic engineer and an enthusiastic showman who envisions the car of the future. Against mighty odds he manages to build a fleet of them - only to have his factory shut down by ...
Style: talky, intense, sentimental, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: entrepreneur, business, marketing, underdog, car, corruption, dalmatian, police investigation, biopic, twists and turns, justice, entrepreneurship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, future, year 1948, year 1988 ...
Place: chicago, michigan, washington d.c., detroit, usa ...
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
Style: satirical, dark comedy, ironic, talky, enigmatic ...
Plot: advertising, workplace, business, satire, creativity, advertising agency, obsession, introspection, mental illness, body horror, advertising executive, psychiatrist ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: paris france, russia, jerusalem
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 8.7
 1.4M
Goodfellas (1990)
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 ...
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Other People's Money (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a "mom and pop" company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the company. The raider is enamoured of her, and ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, romantic comedy, clever, captivating ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: wall street, stock market, money, finance, family business, workplace intrigue, unlikely couple, lawyer, manipulation, workplace, disorder, parents and children ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 80s
Place: new york, usa, rhode island, new england, manhattan new york city ...
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Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
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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The Usual Suspects (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an ...
Style: neo noir, surprise ending, twist ending, clever, confusing ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, heist, master criminal, whodunit, manipulation, organized crime, murder mystery, criminal, bank robber, killer, dialogue ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1995, year 1981
Place: los angeles, new york, hungary, turkey, north america ...
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Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
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
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 7.0
 60K
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: 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 ...
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 7.5
 243K
Erin Brockovich (2000)
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
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The Merchant of Venice (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story: In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
Style: sexy, period piece, costume drama, visually stunning, talky ...
Plot: shakespeare, renaissance, love and romance, religious intolerance, tudors, women, gay subtext, friends, judaism, culture clash, trial, prejudice ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, ancient times, year 2004, medieval times ...
Place: venice, italy, israel, middle east, europe ...
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Thank You for Smoking (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on ...
Style: satirical, black comedy, entertaining, dark comedy, witty ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: marketing, advertising, business, lobbyist, satire, social satire, tobacco, reporter, lung cancer, politics, journalism, political satire ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., vermont, usa, los angeles, japan ...
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American Gangster (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he ...
Style: tense, realistic, clever, serious, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, drug lord, mob boss, drug traffic, heroin, violence, smuggling, crime boss, ghetto, police ...
Time: 60s, 70s, year 1968, year 1970, year 2007 ...
Place: new jersey, new york, vietnam, brooklyn new york city, cuba ...
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, bad ending, stylized, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot: high society, obsession, love, social differences, loneliness, love triangle, millionaire, couples, love and romance, love story, destructive relationship, infidelity ...
Time: 1920s, year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 1900s ...
Place: usa, new york, los angeles, long island, midwest
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 7.1
 41K
99 Homes (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tries to win his home back by striking a deal with the devil and working for Rick Carver, the corrupt real estate broker who evicted him.
Style: emotional, sincere, captivating, sexy, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: moral dilemma, real estate agent, eviction, single father, motel, financial crisis, dysfunctional family, human nature, workplace, parent child relationship, workplace situations, finance ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa, florida, orlando florida, california, boston ...
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 7.2
 202K
The Founder (2016)
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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 6.5
 3K
The Bank (2001)
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: stock exchange, business, mathematics, greed, finance, computer genius, fighting the system, workplace, rise to the top, ambition, money, workplace situations ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 70s
Place: australia, new zealand
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Too Big to Fail (2011)
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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The Wizard of Lies (2017)
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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 7.4
 3K
Madoff (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
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
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 6.7
 2K
Default (2018)
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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 7.5
 24K
Industry (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: In the cutthroat world of international finance, a group of young graduates compete for a limited set of permanent positions at a top investment bank in London. The boundaries between colleague, friend, lover, and enemy soon blur as they immerse ...
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: finance, banking, rivalry, sex scene, drug, competition, dealer, friendship, colleague, twenty something, merchant, employer employee relationship ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london
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Protect the Boss (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: No Eun Seol finally gets a job as a secretary at a law firm after struggling with unemployment, only to fall in love with her boss, Cha Ji Heon, the immature youngest son of a chaebol family.
Style: dorama, entertaining, romantic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: office romance, business and finance, secretary, couple relations, opposites attract, employer employee relationship, love affair, workaholic, love and romance, couples, narcissist, friendship ...
Place: korea
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 8.3
 403
Capital City (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Capital City was a television show produced by Euston Films which focused on the lives of investment bankers in London living and working on the corporate trading floor for the fictional international bank Shane-Longman. Despite its short run in ...
Style: fast paced, period drama
Plot: stock market, investment banking, finance, office politics, corporation, ambition, money, professional rivalry, city life, elite, realism, nostalgia ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: london, england
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Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Romania, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A reenactment of the final days of the 2001 G8 Summit.
Style: thought provoking, tense, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: police brutality, bullying, political protest, rebelliousness, fighting the system, globalization, political unrest, violence spree, anarchist, violence, demonstration, police ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, italy
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 8.3
 117K
Billions (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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
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