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List of finance movies

 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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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
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 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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 5.8
 116
The Guarantee (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 76 min.
Story: On the night of September 29, 2008, the Irish government decided to guarantee the entire domestic banking system.'The Guarantee' tells the story of that night, and what led to it.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, talky, thought provoking ...
Plot: finance, politics, corporate crime, state affairs, rivalry, uncover truth, legal, political intrigue, dishonesty, wall street, economics, manipulation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
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 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
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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
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The Company Men (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and two co-workers jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands and ...
Style: depressing, serious, sincere, social, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: unemployment, corporate world, business, corporation, workplace, money, finance, greed, family problems, starting over, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: 70s, 21st century
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts, new jersey, california
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 5.1
 3K
Shylock (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A ruthless moneylender must tackle a wicked man's plan to outsmart his way out of the debt to achieve what's rightfully his.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot: finance, life, business and finance, financial problem, money, brutality, financial difficulty, debt, financier, violent man, retribution, revenge ...
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 6.7
 74K
Gold (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle ...
Style: inspirational, suspense, intellectual, suspenseful, anamorphic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: jungle, business, gold, mining, greed, money, treasure hunt, business and finance, finance, justice, life philosophy, ethnic conflict ...
Time: year 2016, 90s, 80s, year 1988
Place: southeast asia, indonesia, new york, reno nevada
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Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not ...
Style: clever, exciting, captivating, entertaining, inspirational ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: con artists, adaptation, master criminal, creativity, deception, fbi, fraud, con man, impostor, prodigy, business, biopic ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1967, 70s, year 2002 ...
Place: los angeles, new orleans, new york, washington d.c., france ...
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 7.1
 41K
99 Homes (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tries to win his home back by striking a deal with the devil and working for Rick Carver, the corrupt real estate broker who evicted him.
Style: emotional, sincere, captivating, sexy, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: moral dilemma, real estate agent, eviction, single father, motel, financial crisis, dysfunctional family, human nature, workplace, parent child relationship, workplace situations, finance ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa, florida, orlando florida, california, boston ...
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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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 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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The Fear Index (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Alex Hoffman, an American ex-pat physicist, creates an AI-driven system that exploits fear in the financial markets and operates at lightning speed to make big returns. But on the day of launch, Alex’s sanity is shaken after he is viciously ...
Style: tense, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: conspiracy, artificial intelligence, finance, wall street, scientist, frame up, technology, financier, assassination plot, financial problem, doubt, murder ...
Place: london
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Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Glengarry Glen Ross, follows the lives of four unethical Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to go to any lengths (legal or illegal) to unload undesirable real estate on unwilling prospective buyers.
Style: cult classic, suspense, neo noir, dark comedy, intense ...
Plot: office, manipulation, business, closeted homosexual, greed, workplace, career, real estate agent, dialogue, entrepreneurship, rain, entrepreneur ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place: chicago, brooklyn new york city, new york, illinois, arizona ...
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Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story (2020)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in 1980's & 90's Bombay, Scam 1992 follows the life of Harshad Mehta - a stockbroker who single-handedly took the stock market to dizzying heights & his catastrophic downfall. Being directed by National Award-winning filmmaker ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, tense
Plot: finance, insider trading, financial crisis, stock exchange, stock broker, criminal, newspaper office, cons and scams, caper, financier, fraud, deception ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: mumbai india, bombay india, india
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 7.3
 192K
Pi (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, mind bending, cerebral, cult classic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mathematics, insanity, obsession, paranoia, computer, conspiracy, surrealism, alienation, psychology, eye, cyberpunk, mental illness ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998, future
Place: new york, america, middle east, usa, coney island brooklyn 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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 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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A Beautiful Mind (2001)
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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 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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 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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The Scale of Desire (2022)
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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What Happened to Our Nest Egg!? (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Atsuko and Akira are a husband and wife duo with a daughter and a son. Atsuko is in charge of the retirement finances. She saves from money given to her by her husband and also earns money herself by working part-time. She stretches every yen by ...
Style: light, funny, witty, humorous, melancholic ...
Plot: marriage, sarcasm, loss of job, finance, in-laws, pension, japanese woman, financial crisis, family drama, family life, comedy of errors, family relations ...
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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
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 6.9
 106K
A Good Year (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, sexy, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: wine, vineyard, countryside, fall in love, love story, character change, inheritance, love and romance, workaholic, stock broker, starting over, doubts and hesitations ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place: provence, france, europe, england, london ...
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 6.3
 58K
The Laundromat (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in ...
Style: political thriller, captivating, realistic, disturbing, tense ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: money, politics, corruption, insurance fraud, law enforcement, finance, cons and scams, investigation, wall street, police investigation, storytelling, justice ...
Time: 90s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: panama
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 6.0
 2K
Silver Bears (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher (Michael Caine) is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore (Martin Balsam) to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, Fletcher finds that the bank, acquired by his ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous
Plot: finance, bank, silver, hotel, dishonesty, criminal heroes, betrayal, femme fatale, hidden identity, nothing goes right, crime gone awry, forgery ...
Time: 70s
Place: switzerland, europe
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The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, political corruption, politics, mafia, bank, uncover truth, manipulation, clergy, legal, gangster, cons and scams, bankruptcy ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy, london, palermo italy, switzerland ...
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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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