Economic crisis movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant economic crisis movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, tense, realistic, serious, thought provoking and suspense films and TV shows about / with economic crisis, crisis, financial crisis, poverty, female nudity, society, unemployment, social realism, capitalism and nude plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and History genres shot in France, USA, Spain and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as economic crisis: Default (2018), The Big Short (2015), Too Big to Fail (2011), Heroic Losers (2019), The Measure of a Man (2015), Assault on Wall Street (2013), The Suicide Shop (2012), The Good Girls (2018), Argentina 2001 (2023), At Your Doorstep (2016).
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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, 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, 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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Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Suddenly summoned to a fantasy world and betrothed to the princess, Kazuya Souma is crowned the new king. Unlike the royalty before him, he won’t be using swords and magic to rule; will administrative reform really get this kingdom back on track?
Style:
anime, captivating, adult animation, ecchi, entertaining ...
Plot:
economic crisis, heroes, isekai, reform, political unrest, king, dream world, military, save the kingdom, parallel world, world politics, reformation ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In a town in the Northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, a group of neighbors is organized to recover the economy of the area, but when the Corralito is implemented in the country and they suffer a fraud, their hopes disappear. Now, they will ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, light, semi serious, action comedy ...
Plot:
economic crisis, businesswoman, greed, bank clerk, greedy man, crisis, whistleblower, deception, lawyer, mishap, escapades, business ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, year 2001
Place:
argentina
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, political ...
Plot:
unemployment, economic crisis, working class, supermarket, society, petty theft, coworker relationship, layoff, job interview, social realism, life is a bitch, rivalry ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015
Place:
france
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Jim is an average New Yorker living a peaceful life with a well paying job and a loving family. Suddenly, everything changes when the economy crashes causing Jim to lose everything. Filled with anger and rage, Jim snaps and goes to extreme lengths ...
Style:
serious, exciting, intense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
revenge, wall street, vigilante, corruption, vigilantism, cancer, fighting the system, money, breaking point, depression, nothing to lose, investment banker ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Musical
Country: France, Canada, Belgium
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A city where suicide is the only growing business. A shop where you can get everything to cater this urge. In the hand of one family for centuries.. till they get a happy baby. And he has to power to make all around him happy as well.
Style:
adult animation, humorous, realistic, semi serious, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suicide attempt, family business, dark humor, family problems, suicidal thoughts, hopes, depression, family relations, dysfunctional family, workplace, economic crisis, society ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.
Style:
social, thought provoking, psychological, disturbing, art house ...
Plot:
economic crisis, husband wife relationship, husband, social satire, social commentary, socialite, glamour, high society, lifestyle change, family in crisis, marital argument, drastic change of life ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
mexico, mexico city
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
This Spanish-language series chronicles the politics and events leading up to the most severe economic and social crisis in Argentina’s history since its return to democracy. At the center of a government in crisis, a political appointee works as ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, exciting, political thriller ...
Plot:
economic crisis, political intrigue, economist, crisis, politics, politician, political candidate, political activism, political conflict, financial crisis, political leader, political unrest ...
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three stories intertwine as different people deal with the challenges of living through times of crisis. An evicted mother, a banker with a conscience and a police officer who has to do his job no matter what, sing and dance in this Brechtian ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense, dramatic ...
Plot:
eviction, economic crisis, family problems, injustice, crisis, foreclosure, social problems, financial problem, married couple, parents and children, family relations, money problems ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
madrid
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Amidst the devastation of post-crisis Spain, mother and daughter bluff and grift to keep up the lifestyle they think they deserve, bonding over common tragedy and an impending eviction.
Style:
entertaining, dark comedy, captivating, humorous, funny ...
Plot:
poverty, economic crisis, woman, mother daughter relationship, daughter, poor family, poor, crisis, mother and daughter, desire, single mother, satire ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Netherlands, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Five friends from 'Maaskantje' are getting fired because of the economic crisis. They decide that they won't pay for anything anymore.
Style:
humorous, stylized, not serious, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friends, goofy hero, fighting the system, buddies, society, rebellion, economic crisis, partner, disorder, gangster, partners in crime, gang member ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, holland, netherlands
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will ...
Style:
art house, masterpiece
Plot:
misery, economic crisis, dog, killer, running from police, female nudity, police arrest, sign language, female judge, genie, female pubic hair, lawyer ...
Time:
year 2014
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells king Shahryar her ...
Style:
semi documentary, psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, art house ...
Plot:
unemployment, economic crisis, financial crisis, sorcerer, virgin, poverty, erection, debt, banker, prime minister, wasp, demonstration ...
Time:
year 2013, 90s, 2010s
Place:
portugal, persia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Set during the 1950s, the six-part series tells the story of a young woman’s search for love and identity in a newly independent, post-Partition India defining its own future.
Plot:
economic crisis, married woman, traditional versus modern, research, destiny, character study, hindu, family relations, tradition, family tradition, tradition versus modernity, indigenous people ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Álex and Virginia, a couple planning to get married, buy an apartment located in a building under construction. When there are only a few months left before the apartments are to be delivered, the works are stopped indefinitely. Álex wants a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, social ...
Plot:
couples, fighting the system, real estate, society, corporate crime, couple relations, injustice, economic crisis, social issues, dishonesty, life is a bitch, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A maverick New York hedge fund trader with uncanny analytic abilities moves to Hong Kong and orchestrates a mega-deal that swiftly escalates beyond his control.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
Plot:
fish out of water, ambition, dishonesty, misfit, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, culture clash, rivalry, society, stock broker, workplace, workplace situations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.
Style:
sexy, unusual plot structure, erotic, social, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
stripper, strip club, seduction, shopping, money, pole dancing, exploitation, dancer, male nudity, sex worker, female protagonist, hypocritical woman ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2007, year 2019, year 2014 ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Chelsea is an in-demand call girl whose $2,000 an hour price tag allows her to live in New York's lap of luxury. Besides her beauty and sexual skill, Chelsea offers her clients companionship and conversation, or, as she dubs it, "the ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, independent film, meditative, melancholic ...
Plot:
prostitute, call girl, sex, escort, presidential election, workplace, porn actress, businessman, mentor, sex scene, sexual relations, social relations ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, las vegas, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Buenos Aires, November 2001. Argentina is embroiled in crisis, with the Peso plunging deeper and deeper. Julio Färber, the charismatic bandoneon player of the "Vecinos de Pompeya," a five-piece working-class tango band, is trying to keep ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, psychological, comedy drama
Plot:
love story, economic crisis, car crash, tango, financial crisis, social problems, relationships, romantic relationship, male female relationship, couple relations, crisis, love affair ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s
Place:
buenos aires argentina, argentina
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A daycare teacher's dreams of a home and family of her own are threatened by the loss of her husband's newspaper job and his subsequent disappearance.
Style:
neo noir, neorealism, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
economic crisis, job seeking, police detective, american dream, unemployment, marriage, husband wife relationship, tragedy, troubled marriage, mother daughter relationship, money, deep south ...
Place:
florida, orlando florida
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tonnes. She therefore escapes from the palace and travels the Kingdom in search of pleasure and ...
Style:
art house, masterpiece
Plot:
arabian nights, queen, economic crisis, countdown, singing competition, tyrant, contest, demonstration, fistfight, male full rear nudity, killing an animal, octopus ...
Time:
year 2014
Place:
lisbon portugal, portugal
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Dreams and reality collide as a young woman navigates a tumultuous relationship amid rising social tensions, protests and tragedies in Paris.
Style:
suspenseful, unusual plot structure, contemplative, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
fear, teenager, couples, terrorist attack, economic crisis, struggle, youth, police, terrorism, conflict, riot, danger ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
At the Mêle sur Sarthe, a small Norman village, farmers are affected by a crisis. Georges Balbuzard, the mayor of the city, is not one to let them down and decides to try everything to save his village ...
Style:
humorous, funny, melancholic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
female nudity, farmer, wedding ceremony, mayor, countryside, economic crisis, roadblock, debt, small town life, protestor, american abroad, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, normandy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
TV show
Story:
Céline, Selma, Nathalie and Agathe live in a suburban town and all try to survive while the crisis spares no one. The closure of the women's lingerie factory is jeopardizing the city's economy. The joy of living gives way to unemployment ...
Style:
captivating, funny, entertaining, light, tense ...
Plot:
unemployment, women's wrestling, gender roles, social realism, working class, female friendship, working woman, economic crisis, wrestler, humour, changing lives, lifestyle change ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Poland in the 80’s was a country ruled by crisis and a sense of hopelessness. Only few knew how to turn crisis into a business. It was a golden time for them. How did they know what would bring them money? How did they operate in a country where ...
Style:
bleak, historical drama, tense, period piece, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
economic crisis, social commentary, moral ambiguity, black market, communism, ambition, corruption, greed, smuggling, scheming, police surveillance, nostalgia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Strangled by debt and the banks, the owner of a factory that is on the brink of closing will go to any lengths to solve his financial and marital problems.
Style:
tense, melancholic, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
entrepreneurship, debt, industrialist, economic crisis, bankruptcy, troubled marriage, family business, desperation, character study, small business owner, inheritance, working class ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Unable to fly the nest due to the economic crisis that grips Spain, a penniless, young couple have trouble consummating their fledgling relationship in their parents' homes.
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, satirical
Plot:
economic crisis, social realism, slice of life, intimate, sexual frustration, coming of age, social commentary, young couple, embarrassment, awkwardness, male female relationship, bittersweet ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
spain
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Genre: Drama
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, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
biopic, financial crisis, politics, politician, debt, political unrest, economic crisis, bankruptcy, money problems, political conspiracy, financial problem, international crisis ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s
Place:
greece, london, paris france, frankfurt germany, europe
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