Wall street movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant wall street movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, suspense, serious, tense, entertaining and clever films and TV shows about / with wall street, finance, money, greed, economics, corruption, business, dialogue, mentor and trading plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as wall street: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Big Short (2015), Margin Call (2011), Wall Street (1987), Too Big to Fail (2011), Billions (2016), Other People's Money (1991), The Wizard of Lies (2017), The Deal (2005), Boiler Room (2000).

List of wall street movies

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Style: clever, cynical, captivating, motivational, cerebral ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: money, corruption, wall street, business, rise and fall, addiction, stock market, stock broker, success, wealth, greed, rags to riches ...
Time: 80s, year 2013, 90s, 20th century, year 1987 ...
Place: new york, usa, geneva switzerland, big ben london, italy ...
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 7.8
 533K
The Big Short (2015)
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
Is relevant?
 7.1
 160K
Margin Call (2011)
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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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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 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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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
Is relevant?
 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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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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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
Is relevant?
 5.0
 2K
The Deal (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: wall street, evil corporation, oil industry, politics, rivalry, fighting the system, uncover truth, legal investigation, political corruption, society, betrayal, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2005, future
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
 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 ...
Is relevant?
 7.4
 7K
Black Monday (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Taking viewers back to October 19, 1987 – aka Black Monday, the worst stock market crash in Wall Street history – this is the story of how a group of outsiders took on the blue-blood, old-boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the ...
Style: inspirational, cynical, disturbing, sitcom, dark comedy ...
Plot: wall street, financial crisis, stock market crash, direction and purpose, money, lack of money, finance, party, against the odds, stock exchange, black girl, gambling ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york
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Barbarians at the Gate (1993)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A television movie based upon the book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco.
Style: inspirational, realistic, talky, witty, humorous ...
Plot: stock market, wall street, business, satire, finance, money, ceo, corporation, greed, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, business and finance ...
Time: 80s
Place: atlanta georgia, manhattan new york city, new york, california
Is relevant?
 5.3
 5K
Crypto (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young agent is tasked with investigating a tangled web of corruption and fraud in New York.
Style: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense
Audience: adult
Plot: wall street, banking, hacker, mafia, finance, money, cryptocurrency, criminal underworld, corruption, computer, geek, conspiracy ...
Place: new york
Is relevant?
 6.6
 57K
Arbitrage (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
Style: suspenseful, intense, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Plot: twists and turns, infidelity, money, business, adultery, wall street, moral dilemma, finance, morality, character study, moral ambiguity, manipulation ...
Time: year 2012, 70s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, california
Is relevant?
 5.7
 6K
Quicksilver (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Jack Casey ('Kevin Bacon' )used to be a hot-shot stock market whiz kid. After a disastrous professional decision, his life in the fast lane is over. He loses his nerve and joins a speed delivery firm which relies on bicycles to avoid ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: kids
Plot: bicycle, cycling, murder, wall street, car crash, riches to rags, attempted murder, drug dealer, father son relationship, guilt, bicycle race, stock market ...
Time: 80s
Place: san francisco, new york, usa, new jersey, california
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 5.1
 52K
Cosmopolis (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, Portugal, Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo during a riot in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's life begins to crumble.
Style: sexy, philosophical, bleak, cerebral, art house ...
Plot: wall street, billionaire, on the road, losing-it hero, bare butt, murder, social decay, downfall, city life, lifestyle, capitalism, dialogue ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, seattle
Is relevant?
 6.2
 10K
The Associate (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, witty, clever, retro ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: gender disguise, wall street, sexism, workplace, comedy of errors, hidden identity, business, strong female lead, women, farce, racism, fake identity ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, new jersey
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The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight, and attracting the interest of a down and out reporter.
Style: cynical, stylized, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: politics, wall street, dark humor, satire, redemption, interracial relations, society, courtroom, justice, media, finance, legal action ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: new york, bronx new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
 4.7
 493
Trader Games (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A hot young Wall Street trader finds a formula based on climatology to play the market and win big... but at what cost?
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot: wall street, ambition, office, trading, dishonesty, rivalry, rise to the top, workplace, stock broker, workplace intrigue, workplace situations, boss and employee ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
Is relevant?
 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
Is relevant?
 7.4
 642K
Limitless (2011)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract ...
Style: clever, thought provoking, intellectual, philosophical, captivating ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: intelligence, success, drug, creativity, drug abuse, superhuman powers, ambition, rise to the top, rags to riches, brain capacity, experimental drug, prodigy ...
Time: year 2011, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
Is relevant?
 5.9
 8K
Empire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has ...
Style: intense, stylized, suspense, melancholic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: organized crime, twists and turns, gangster, greed, lone hero, ghetto, drug dealing, wall street, criminal heroes, going straight, cons and scams, mafia ...
Time: year 2002, 80s
Place: usa, new york, south america, miami, bronx new york city ...
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 7.3
 439
The $treet (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The $treet is an American television drama series that aired on Fox in 2000. 11 episodes were produced and 6 aired in the U.S. The series was about a small brokerage house called Belmont Stevens located in New York and the lives of its employees. ...
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating
Plot: finance, wall street, stock broker, ambition, rise to the top, corporate crime, workplace, thirtysomething life, power relations, uninhibited rivalry, blind ambition, boss and employee ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
 5.3
 4K
August (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: August is a 2008 drama film directed by Austin Chick and produced by 57th & Irving. The screenplay by Howard A. Rodman focuses on two brothers, ambitious dot-com entrepreneurs attempting to keep their company afloat as the stock market ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, suspense, touching
Plot: brother brother relationship, wall street, family relations, siblings relations, rise and fall, workplace, down on your luck, parents and children, life is a bitch, interracial couple, finance, father son relationship ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
 6.5
 112K
Money Monster (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.
Style: suspense, clever, entertaining, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: hostage, stock market, police, wall street, finance, corruption, revenge, conspiracy, money, capitalism, hostage negotiator, sniper ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place: south africa, new york, russia, reykjavik iceland, south korea ...
Is relevant?
 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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Assault on Wall Street (2013)
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
Is relevant?
 5.9
 942
Rick (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: "Rigoletto" retold at Christmas time in Manhattan's corporate world. Rick, an executive at Image, is a jerk to a woman applying for a job. That evening, he's out for drinks with his much younger boss, Duke, and the same women is ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, clever, suspenseful ...
Plot: forbidden love, curse, hitman, office, wall street, teenage life, dysfunctional family, parents and children, workplace intrigue, workplace, couple relations, boss and employee ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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My Name Is Bill W. (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's and how he comes to grips with his alcoholism. Along with a fellow alcoholic (James Garner) he forms a support ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot: addiction, recovery, rehabilitation, coping, alcoholics anonymous, support group, family problems, self discovery, human spirit, hopes, against the odds, friendship ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, year 1929
Place: usa
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