Financial ruin movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant financial ruin movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, realistic and dark comedy films and TV shows about / with financial ruin, financial problem, moral ambiguity, debt, money, corruption, urban, satire, money problems and revenge plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, South Korea and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as financial ruin: Trading Places (1983), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Life Without Principle (2011), Margin Call (2011), Team Spirit (2016), Captive (1998), The Slingshot (2009), The Believers (2024), Honor Thy Father (2015), Setback (2011).
Best films
New films
| Dark Paradise (2023) | 5.8 | |
| Default (2018) | 6.7 | |
| The Delights of the Garden (2025) | 5.7 | |
| Alice (2019) | 6.5 | |
| Money Game (2020) | 7.8 |
List of financial ruin movies
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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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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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A recently widowed, impoverished Orlando water park employee schemes and cons her way up the ranks of the multi-billion dollar pyramid scheme which ruined her financially in the first place.
Style:
absurd, social, satirical, funny, feel good ...
Plot:
widow, financial ruin, business, rise to the top, investigation, neighbor neighbor relationship, deception, motivational speaker, single mother, poverty, debt, lesbian ...
Time:
90s, 2010s
Place:
florida, orlando florida
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A criminal, a bank clerk and a police officer find their destinies entwined when a loan shark gets assaulted after having withdrawn $10 million from the bank in the midst of the world financial crisis.
Style:
tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
stock exchange, hitman, bank clerk, crime investigation, human nature, disorder, danger, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, honest law enforcer, financial ruin, financial problem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
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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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Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An engaging drama about the less known aspects of the trading activity inside one of the biggest banks in the world - Société Générale. The movie tracks the rise and fall of anonymous trader turned superstar turned escape goat - Jérôme Kerviel ...
Style:
exciting, touching, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
financial crisis, bank, financial problem, finance, fired from the job, risk, suicide, death of father, loss of job, lie, financial ruin, wall street ...
Time:
2000s, year 2016
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Joe Goodies has just entered an advertising agency after recovering from the death of his girlfriend in a car accident. Ruined by the compensation he has to pay for the accident, he decides, with his new girlfriend, to kidnap the son of the ...
Style:
tense, crime drama, dark, suspense, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kidnapping, child kidnapping, desperation, financial ruin, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, guilt, ransom, greed, plan gone wrong, death of loved one, claustrophobia ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
The Slingshot is a 2009 South Korean television series starring Park Yong-ha, Park Si-yeon, Kim Kang-woo, Han Yeo-woon, Lee Phillip, and Park Ki-woong. It aired on KBS2 from April 6 to June 9, 2009 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
suicide, revenge, vengeance, financial ruin, family tragedy, corporate corruption, bankruptcy, battles, fight, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, family problems ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When their startup goes deep into debt, three entrepreneurs stage a risky scam using a Buddhist temple to pay back a massive loan before time runs out.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, dark comedy, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
debt, business, money, exploitation, startup, temple, buddhism, scam, financial ruin, religion, criminal, problem ...
Place:
southeast asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A pair of married white-collar swindlers run afoul of their latest victims.
Style:
suspense, captivating, dark, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
victim, criminal, corruption, financial ruin, fraud, family problems, bandit, society, financial problem, relationship problems, money problems, family drama ...
Place:
the philippines
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Genre: Action
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A race against time between a man whose son requires urgent treatment and a stockbroker who suddenly lost his investors' money and ruined his own family.
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
money, financial ruin, race against time, money problems, family relations, sick child, needing money, financial problem, stock broker, parent child relationship, desperation, family crisis ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A seaside resort in the middle of winter, with its abandoned beach bars and rain-battered alleys, can easily flank the drone. Refugees on the top floor of a building in La Grande Motte, Carole and Richard Lazure have zero morale: swindled by their ...
Style:
satirical, psychological, captivating, thrilling, bleak ...
Plot:
relationships, midlife crisis, financial ruin, couple relations, marital crisis, married couple, family relations, marriage crisis, marital problem, husband wife relationship, marriage, male female relationship ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Australia, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Alice, a perfect wife and mother, lives happily with her husband and child until the day she discovers he is living a double life that has ruined her financially and left her a single mother. Alice fights back and dives into a world beyond anything ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, intense, dark, crime drama
Plot:
escort, betrayal, infidelity, financial ruin, motherhood, domestic drama, prostitution, desperation, survival, single mother, loss, female empowerment ...
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A man who poured his life savings into a new apartment discovers its walls are full of disturbing noises, hostile neighbors and unsettling secrets.
Style:
psychological thriller, tension, crying, freeze frame
Plot:
neighbor, paranoia, debt, financial ruin, mistrust, isolation, obsession, investigation, claustrophobia, character study, urban, slow burn ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
seoul, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The adventure of a plane crash with passengers who have different secrets; the secrets that are not supposed to remain hidden forever...
Style:
light, funny, captivating, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot:
airplane, airline, bankrupt, coping, plan, business, businesswoman, business and finance, financial ruin, escapades, financial problem, plane crash ...
Place:
persia, iran
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When his father flees from debt, carefree college student Osamu sees his life turn upside-down. Expelled from school and evicted from his apartment, he becomes one of Japan’s many ‘net cafe refugees’, barely scraping by each day with temporary ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
homelessness, poverty, alienation, homeless, life is a bitch, father son estrangement, manhunt, social problems, estrangement, refugee, swashbuckler, social misfits ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
Inspired by actual events — and the love story at the center of it all. WeWork grew from a single coworking space into a global brand worth $47 billion in under a decade. Then, in less than a year, its valuation dropped $40 billion. What happened?
Style:
exciting, captivating, disturbing, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot:
greed, biopic, entrepreneur, rise and fall, ambition, arrogance, couple relations, escapades, couples, love, love affair, relationships ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
This is a story about the biggest financial fraud attempted in Hong Kong, directed at the Government of Hong Kong and involved all 7 million Hong Kong citizens... no one is free from the scheme. Within the four decades of guarding Hong Kong's ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot:
fraud, uncover truth, organized crime, conspiracy, political corruption, stolen money, political intrigue, financial ruin, sleuth, corrupt politician, money, political conspiracy ...
Place:
hong kong, china
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Paul, part-time laborer and amateur artist, leads an unremarkable life like any other, until his world is disrupted by vivid revelations of the afterlife. At first a welcome respite from reality, his waking visions soon reveal a demonic conspiracy ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, independent film
Plot:
politics, religion, political intrigue, political unrest, killing, high society, political conspiracy, attempted murder, assassination plot, evil plot, murder mystery, financial ruin ...
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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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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
It’s tell the story of a bank auditor pursues justice and policy changes at a time when an economic bubble is collapsing. No Dae Ho is an honest and sincere man. He works as a branch manager of Daehan Bank which is located in a small city. The ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot:
finance, banker, banking, bank, financial crisis, money, economic crisis, financial ruin, crisis, justice, financial problem, business and finance ...
Place:
seoul
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
When Jeongin Bank faces bankruptcy, the Financial Services Commission aims to preempt Korea from another economic meltdown as it did in the 1997 financial crisis. With the Korean government having a substantial stake in the bank, things get serious. ...
Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, political, suspenseful ...
Plot:
financial crisis, financier, finance, corruption, banking, bank, money problems, financial problem, relationship problems, bank clerk, financial ruin, workplace situations ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
south korea, seoul
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Determined not to turn into her parents, or be drawn into any relationship longer than a one night stand, Zoe constantly struggles with her failing business and love life. Then she falls in love for the first time with Paul. But there's one ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, funny, light, independent film
Plot:
husband wife relationship, love and romance, fall in love, mistress, rivalry, young girl, financial ruin, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, escapades, family relations, youth, marijuana ...
Place:
austin texas
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Emma Bovary is bored by her country doctor husband and gives in to the affections of several rich suitors as well as the temptation of living beyond her husband's means.
Style:
sexy, period drama, sexploitation film
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, debt, provincial life, financial ruin, social climbing, forbidden love, scandal, escapism, gender roles, class conflict, greed ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The biggest toy trader in Gujarat, suddenly finds himself in huge debt during the pandemic. Their house gets raided by the income tax. What they find turns the lives of the family in a new way.
Style:
gujarati
Audience:
adult
Plot:
pandemic, family drama, survival, financial ruin, sacrifice, moral dilemma, bureaucracy, adaptation, small town life, moral ambiguity, families, crime investigation ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story follows several couples who return to the hotel where they celebrated their wedding years ago at the invitation of the owner of the accommodation. Some live happily married, others on the contrary are on the verge of divorce. They all have ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic comedy, realistic ...
Plot:
satire, hotel, troubled marriage, relationships, couple relations, family relations, problem, couples, love affair, murder investigation, relationship problems, multiple storylines ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
TV show
Story:
A successful real estate agent wakes up one day to find out that her husband is gone, leaving her with millions in debt. In order to survive and maintain her lifestyle, Linda must become the queen of the criminal world.
Style:
crime drama, tense, suspenseful, dark, dark comedy ...
Plot:
moral ambiguity, financial ruin, betrayal, ambition, power struggle, corruption, manipulation, femme fatale, organized crime, revenge, high society, urban ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
Ajayachandran immigrates to the Gulf and he makes his fortune and returns to Kerala for a holiday. Ajayachandran flaunts his wealth to gain social acceptance. Rashmi, Ajayachandrans wife, a grounded young woman who is not too comfortable with her ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, semi serious, psychological, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
materialism, family relations, male female relationship, relationships, lifestyle, family problems, satire, changing lives, lifestyle change, marital problem, husband wife relationship, arrogance ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A wealthy businessman and a businesswoman face financial ruin during an economic crisis. As they try to recover, a comedic romance develops between them.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, satirical, romantic comedy, situational comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
widow, satire, businesswoman, money, financial problem, business, money problems, businessman, male female relationship, problem, relationships, financial ruin ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
With the innocent dropping of a few coins into a video poker machine, Laura Bancroft's world is about to change forever. Inspired by true events, Going for Broke is the compelling, hard-hitting story of one woman's overwhelming addiction ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, captivating, intense, crime drama ...
Plot:
gambling, female protagonist, deception, gambling addiction, casino, stolen money, compulsive gambler, gambler, financial problem, money problems, needing money, relationship problems ...
Place:
las vegas, reno nevada
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