Economics movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant economics movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, entertaining, realistic, thought provoking, captivating and clever films and TV shows about / with economics, greed, corruption, betrayal, mentor, money, dialogue, storytelling, society and catastrophe plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in USA, Japan, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as economics: Margin Call (2011), The Big Short (2015), Bear Hunting (2007), The Bank (2001), Too Big to Fail (2011), Default (2018), Unterleuten: The Torn Village (2020), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), The American Ruling Class (2005), The Wheeler Dealers (1963).
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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
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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: Action, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Остросюжетный боевик, где переплетаються большие деньги и большая политика, любовь и предательство, жизнь и смерть. Олег Гринев по ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
revenge, game of death, stock broker, money, risk, finance, escapades, economics, threat to kill, stock exchange, organized crime, gang ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
moscow russia
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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: 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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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: 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: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story:
In the middle of untouched nature, surrounded by forests and grain fields of the Brandenburg province, the fictional village of Unterleuten with only 250 inhabitants is located. Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall it seems a peaceful ...
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, captivating, tense
Plot:
society, village, economics, power plant, conflict, social relations, traditional versus modern, businessman, construction, showdown, villager, generation gap ...
Place:
germany, east germany
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. ...
Style:
feel good, inspirational, touching, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
christmas, holiday, small town, depression, small town life, angel, friendship, self discovery, second chance, life philosophy, life changing experience, alternate history ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1932, year 1945, 1910s ...
Place:
new york, america, new york state, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.
Style:
funny, stylized, humorous, witty, technicolor ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
business, broadway, satire, advertising, greed, marketing, economics, workplace, ambition, workplace romance, book, dance ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This inventive, mildly fictionalized documentary follows noted editor Lewis Lapham as he introduces two Ivy League graduates to America's elite in an effort to examine the role of class and moneyed privilege in American democracy. With stops at ...
Style:
cynical, semi serious, realistic, political, biting ...
Plot:
satire, politics, lifestyle, moral dilemma, rise to the top, idealism, social decay, injustice, society, state affairs, economics, media ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but ...
Style:
retro, romantic, sex comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
farce, economics, opportunist, stock market, businesswoman, scam, businessman, oil, finance, hustler, wall street, misunderstanding ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
new york, texas, usa, manhattan new york city
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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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Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he ...
Style:
psychological, touching, cerebral, dramatic, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
mathematics, mental illness, schizophrenia, genius, paranoia, insanity, imagination, scientist, prodigy, nobel prize, imaginary friend, mathematician ...
Time:
year 2001, 60s, 1940s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
harvard university, boston, new jersey, detroit, persia ...
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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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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
Style:
philosophical, stylized, serious, futuristic, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
libertarian, capitalism, politics, distopia, dystopia, totalitarianism, capitalist, greed, corruption, idealism, society, workplace ...
Time:
future, year 2016, year 2017
Place:
usa, new york, colorado, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A hybrid doc/narrative following Tony winning performer and comedian Sarah Jones. As a mixed-race Black woman in America, Sarah, alongside the multicultural characters she's known for, explores her own personal relationship to one of the most ...
Style:
thought provoking, ironic, satirical, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
feminism, race, sex work, social commentary, social problems, feminist, stand up comedian, social satire, satire, lifestyle, sex worker, social issues ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
Story:
Lewis Black taps into his signature outrage and frustration as he tackles the economy, local government, and the 2016 Presidential election.
Style:
entertaining, satirical, captivating, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
political satire, satire, stand up comedy, donald trump, american politics, frustration, stand up comedian, political unrest, political intrigue, comedian, political activism, politics ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shifting from one pocket to another, from one man's drama to another, a lowly dollar bill, 'one buck' takes us on an odyssey through the heart of a forgotten town in Louisiana.
Style:
indie film, southern gothic, melancholic, anthology, suspense ...
Plot:
ghost hunter, small town, poverty, social commentary, everyday life, community, realism, symbolism, class struggle, character study, humanity, economics ...
Place:
louisiana
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Antonio and Estrella are diving siblings. He works in maritime works, she studies underwater life and assists him. Its precarious economy could improve after finding cocaine hidden in the hull of a ship anchored in Huelva.
Style:
crime drama, tense, suspense, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
cocaine, diving, drug smuggling, temptation, moral dilemma, brothers, underwater, working class, poverty, siblings, blue collar, law enforcement ...
Place:
spain
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
TV show
Story:
Ke Ying is a talented economics lecturer who is forced to help psychopath Feng Xiao Sheng gain real power within his corporation. The street smart Xiao Wu is a police informant, and when he discovers Fu’s company is laundering money with foreign ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, crime thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, power struggle, money laundering, manipulation, deception, corporate corruption, criminal gang, organized crime, fighting crime, forensics, police investigation, teamwork ...
Place:
china
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
One day, Mitsuha falls off a cliff and is transported to a medieval Europe–type world! After a near-death encounter with a pack of wolves, she then realizes that she's able to transport between two worlds—this one and her own. Taking ...
Style:
anime, exciting, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Plot:
medieval, isekai, magic, fantasy world, back in time, time jump, car accident, money, time traveler, time travel, female protagonist, military ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.
Style:
mockumentary, disturbing, satirical, political, independent film ...
Plot:
racism, american civil war, politics, alternate reality, slavery, civil war, african american, alternate history, runaway, satire, interracial relations, journalism ...
Time:
year 1912, 1930s
Place:
canada, south america, kansas city, montreal, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, ...
Style:
controversial, sexy, erotic, art house, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
politics, sex, revolution, anti war, vietnam war, sexploitation, sexuality, photograph, sex scene, self discovery, nudity, controversy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
spain, europe, russia, vietnam, israel ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, ...
Style:
clever, uplifting, inspirational, touching, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
prison, prison escape, freedom, friendship between men, hopes, friendship, corruption, human spirit, justice, prison life, life, stephen king ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 90s, year 1994, 2010s ...
Place:
usa, maine, columbus ohio, persia, iran ...
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613K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.
Style:
realistic, clever, rough, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, casino, rise and fall, gangster, betrayal, money, gambling, greed, criminal heroes, mobster, cosa nostra ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1973 ...
Place:
las vegas, chicago, missouri, israel, usa ...
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223K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, serious, dieselpunk ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, ocean, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, sailing, boat, dystopic future, water, sea, escapades, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, year 1995, distant future, near future
Place:
arizona, canada
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308K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what ...
Style:
inspirational, feel good, motivational, sentimental, rom com ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
american football, career, single mother, love story, football, passion, workplace romance, sex scene, wedding, starting over, selfishness, sports agent ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
usa, cuba
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, philosophical, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
genius, superhuman powers, goodhearted, small town, brain capacity, terminal illness, supernatural ability, psionic power, telekinesis, brain tumor, hopes, friendship ...
Time:
year 1996, future, 20th century
Place:
oklahoma city, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An urban hotel in London is a gathering and flash point for legal and illegal immigrants attempting to cobble together their lives in a new country. The immigrants include Senay, a Turkish woman, and a Nigerian doctor named Okwe who is working as a ...
Style:
bleak, tense, suspenseful, harsh, grim ...
Plot:
immigrant, blackmail, maid, working class, friendship, illegal immigration, murder, black market, character study, prostitute, surgery, social decay ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
london, england, nigeria, britain, europe ...
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