Trading movies and TV shows – page 2

List of trading movies

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
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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Billionaire Boys Club (1987)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story: The Billionaire Boys Club is based on the true story of Joe Hunt (Nelson), a shady investor who built an empire on B.S back in the early 80s. Known as the BBC, the story involves a couple of guys recruited into Hunt's company on the promise of ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious
Plot: murder, trading, corporate crime, life is a bitch, blind ambition, dishonesty, buddies, rise and fall, legal investigation, ambition, criminal heroes, rise to the top ...
Time: 80s
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 6.8
 67K
Working Girl (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Witty, romantic look at life in the corporate jungle. Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her ...
Style: feel good, sweet, rom com, captivating, light ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: business, workplace, women, secretary, career woman, workplace romance, rise to the top, love and romance, female protagonist, hopes, career, sex scene ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
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 5.5
 432
Dealers (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide by putting a slug through his head while seated at his place ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: finance, money, wall street, sex, female warrior, trading, hustler, bank, greed, contests and competitions, opposites attract, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: london, europe, england
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 4.9
 278
Limit Up (1989)
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Casey is the assistant of commodity trader Peter Oak, but wants to get a license herself. When the diabolic Nike appears and promises to make her successful by use of her supernatural abilities, Casey hesitantly accepts. By correctly predicting the ...
Style: demonic, satirical, tension, dark comedy, suspense ...
Plot: deal with the devil, finance, stock market, soul selling, ambition, supernatural, ethical dilemma, satire, female protagonist, corporation, urban, magic realism ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago
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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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 7.3
 168K
Rounders (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
Style: neo noir, clever, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: gambling, poker, mafia, addiction, friendship, casino, voice over narration, underdog, card playing, buddies, destructive relationship, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, atlantic city, usa, atlantic city new jersey, las vegas ...
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 7.6
 825K
American Psycho (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Style: psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, bloody, twist ending ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, insanity, sociopath, satire, violence, dark humor, psycho killer, materialism, yuppie, nihilism, millionaire ...
Time: year 2000, 80s, 2000s, year 1987, y2k ...
Place: new york, yale university, manhattan new york city, america, seattle ...
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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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 7.0
 16K
Owning Mahowny (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was ...
Style: psychological, suspense, melancholic, enigmatic, thought provoking ...
Plot: gambling addiction, casino, gambling, gambler, poker, addiction, embezzlement, greed, relationships, banker, police investigation, compulsive gambler ...
Time: 80s, year 2003, 20th century
Place: las vegas, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, toronto ontario canada, new jersey ...
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 7.0
 453
Freefall (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Freefall is the first drama to tackle the extraordinary financial crisis Britons are living through. Helmed by multiple BAFTA-winning director Dominic Savage, the film takes a startling and provocative look at the events that caused people's ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: debt, stock broker, society, social decay, downfall, life is a bitch, working class, dishonesty, unfulfillment, blind ambition, banker, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
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 7.1
 4K
Overheard (2009)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story revolves around three members of a police surveillance squad conducting an investigation into a financial investment group involved in criminal fraud. The focus of the plot, however, is actually on the three officers themselves who stumble ...
Style: realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, neo noir ...
Plot: police investigation, corporate crime, partner, undercover, dishonesty, rivalry, danger, economics, mafia, big business, big brother, chinese mafia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
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 7.2
 517K
American Hustle (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.
Style: tense, period piece, cerebral, suspense, cynical ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: partners in crime, mafia, scam, fbi, cons and scams, organized crime, fbi investigation, deception, con artists, politics, twists and turns, strip club ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, year 1978, year 2013, 90s ...
Place: new jersey, usa, boston, atlantic city new jersey, new york ...
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 6.7
 2K
Overheard 2 (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Manson Law, a celebrated stockbroker in Hong Kong, is injured in a car accident. The police, led by Inspector Jack Ho, discovers a military surveillance device in the car wreck. Meanwhile, the wiretapper Joe Szema is unveiling his extensive plan ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: insider trading, vendetta, wiretap, criminal, intrigue, conspiracy, criminal syndicate, investigation, cat versus mouse, organized crime, evil plot, stock broker ...
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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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 7.0
 832
Vivant (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Yusuke Nogi of Ryosho's Energy Development Division said that 10 times the official down payment was mistakenly sent to GFL, a local infrastructure company involved in a solar energy plant to be built in the Balkan Republic in Central Asia. ...
Style: tense, captivating, thrilling, twisted, intense ...
Plot: money laundering, conspiracy, corruption, espionage, investigation, money, crime investigation, diamonds, betrayal, danger, man on a mission, moral ambiguity ...
Place: japan, mongolia
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 6.1
 12K
Hacker (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Alex, an immigrant from Ukraine comes to Canada and becomes involved with an online criminal organization called Darkweb. What starts off as a way to help his parents financially, soon becomes a personal vendetta against the entire banking system, ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, realistic, entertaining, f word
Audience: teens
Plot: hacker, cybercrime, cybersecurity, black market, dark web, computer hacker, fighting the system, computer, hacking, identity theft, con artists, ambush ...
Place: hong kong, new york, taiwan, bangkok thailand, canada ...
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 6.7
 145
Toad's Oil (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story: The story of Takuro Yazawa, a day trader who claims he can earn hundreds of millions of yen in one day, and those around him as they attempt to cope with the death of his son and somehow find a way to benefit spiritually from the experience.
Style: spiritual
Plot: car accident, family relations, bear attack, trailer home, money, camping, police station, rocket, singing, street performer, buddha, schoolgirl ...
Place: mount fuji
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Animal Farm (2025)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A group of animals rebel against their human owners and take over the farm. Their uprising over, they are presented with a fresh set of challenges under the rule of a cunning pig named Napoleon. It’s a situation that forces them to find the ...
Style: fable
Plot: horse, pig, corruption, oppression, raven, poker, domination, goat, totalitarian state, cow, wolf, power struggle ...
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To End All Wars (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are ...
Style: harsh, suspenseful, tense, serious, rough ...
Plot: world war two, pow, war, military, prisoner of war camp, escape, hopes, jungle, christian, soldier, war crime, human spirit ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1942, post world war two
Place: japan, asia, scotland, hawaii, india ...
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Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline ...
Style: feel good, light, clever, humorous, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: mistaken identity, amnesia, fish out of water, farce, obsession, female protagonist, magician's assistant, adultery, locker, intrigue, feminist, magic show ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, atlantic city new jersey, manhattan new york city ...
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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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The Hummingbird Project (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
Style: psychological, sentimental, rough, inspirational, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stock market, finance, merchant, hacking, game, anti hero, danger, trial, violence, trafficking, hopes, death ...
Place: usa
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Billy Two Hats (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An aging outlaw helps a young half-breed learn the ropes.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: native, desert, mail order bride, apache, kidnapped, on the run, friendship, partner, renegade, hostage, tough heroes, friends ...
Time: 70s
Place: new mexico, arizona
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 6.5
 3K
Carbon (2017)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot: heist, betrayal, bank, money, gangster, company, rich, escapades, murder, danger, corruption, business ...
Time: year 2017, 21st century
Place: paris france
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 6.6
 474
Silence (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A drama between people under unconventional circumstances. In the Second World War Finland was the only nation who brought casualties killed-in-action back to be buried at home. These actions were carried out by men and women working in assembly ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, sad ...
Plot: world war two, military, wartime life, heroes, life is a bitch, heroism, idealism, death of son, eastern front, russo finnish war, soldier, suicide attempt ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: finland, europe
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None But the Brave (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations. Told through the eyes of the American and Japanese unit commanders, who must deal with ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, rough, tense, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, island, war, military, survival, escapades, danger, soldier, anti war, world war, stranded, u.s. army ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: pacific ocean
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 6.3
 223K
Waterworld (1995)
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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 6.7
 93K
The New World (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
Style: emotional, epic, period piece, visually stunning, cerebral ...
Plot: power of love, historical character, culture clash, american history, new world, native american, american indian, tudors, adventurer, indians, communication problem, fort ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times, middle ages, year 2005, 16th century ...
Place: virginia, north america, america, usa, england
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 6.7
 5K
Lord Jim (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman (Peter O'Toole) lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Based on Joseph Conrad's novel written in 1900.
Style: tense, art house, sad, epic, serious ...
Plot: guilt, ocean, literary, arson, fortress, court martial, honor, cowardice, shame, religious, american civil war, revolution ...
Time: 19th century, turn of the century, victorian era, year 1900, 80s
Place: southeast asia, cambodia, indonesia, oceania, pacific ocean
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