Trading Places (1983) Comedy | 116min | June 8, 1983 (United States) 7.5
Director: John LandisWriter: Timothy Harris, Herschel WeingrodStars: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph BellamySummary: Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke. Now they bicker over the most trivial of matters and what they are bickering about is whether it's a person's environment or heredity that determines how well they will do in life. When Winthorpe bumps into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him, he has him arrested. Upon seeing how different the two men are, the brothers decide to make a wager as to what would happen if Winthorpe loses his job, his home and is shunned by everyone he knows and if Valentine was given Winthorpe's job. So they proceed to have Winthorpe arrested and to be placed in a compromising position in front of his girlfriend. So all he has to rely on is the hooker who was hired to ruin him. —rcs0411@yahoo.com

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Buy & Cell (1988) Comedy | 95min | June 16, 1988 (West Germany) 5.1
Director: Robert BorisWriter: Leonard Montana, Louis Peraino, Ken KraussStars: Robert Carradine, Michael Winslow, Malcolm McDowellSummary: Herbie Altman is framed for Stock fraud by his boss when the SEC starts investigating his company. Sent to prison, he helps a fellow inmate successfully invest his money. Soon all the inmates want his help. To manage all the money, he forms CON INC. and runs it from the prison under the noses of the warden and the guards. But when the IRS and SEC begin to investigate this successful company, it looks like he may be in trouble again. —Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>

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Wall Street (1987) Crime, Drama | 126min | December 11, 1987 (United States) 7.4
Director: Oliver StoneWriter: Stanley Weiser, Oliver StoneStars: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara TunieSummary: On the Wall Street of the 1980s, Bud Fox is a stockbroker full of ambition, doing whatever he can to make his way to the top. Admiring the power of the unsparing corporate raider Gordon Gekko, Fox entices Gekko into mentoring him by providing insider trading. As Fox becomes embroiled in greed and underhanded schemes, his decisions eventually threaten the livelihood of his scrupulous father. Faced with this dilemma, Fox questions his loyalties. —Jwelch5742

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Dealers (1989) Drama | 92min | November 3, 1989 (United States) 5.5
Director: Colin BuckseyWriter: Andrew MacLearStars: Paul McGann, Rebecca De Mornay, Derrick O'ConnorSummary: 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 in the board room. Despite the high stakes, many of the firm's staff are eager to step into Tony's now-vacated shoes and get credit for saving the company. Daniel Pascoe, the leading trader at the firm, is convinced that he's first in line for the assignment, but the firm imports a new trader from America, Anna Schuman. Daniel is enraged and makes a point of trying to dig up as much dirt on Anna as he can, but things are going to take another turn. —Ørnås

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Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) Crime, Drama, Mystery | 100min | October 2, 1992 (United States) 7.7
Director: James FoleyWriter: David MametStars: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec BaldwinSummary: The real story behind the world of sales. This is a realistic portrayal of what it is to try making a life in high pressure sales with all its highs and lows; promises of fortunes and deliveries of dross. Red-leads and dead-leads are to blame for life's outcomes. Living with "Objection, Rebuttal, Close". —kgdm-400-333534

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Barbarians at the Gate (1993) Biography, Comedy, Drama | 107min | March 20, 1993 (United States) 7.2
Director: Glenn JordanWriter: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar, Larry GelbartStars: James Garner, Jonathan Pryce, Peter RiegertSummary: F. Ross Johnson, the CEO of RJR Nabisco decides that the time is ripe to take over his own company and enlists American Express. This kicks off a tide of other firms swarming in to tender offers. The outline of the film follows the actual takeover of the RJR Nabisco empire in a tongue in cheek way. —John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

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Rogue Trader (1999) Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 101min | June 25, 1999 (United Kingdom) 6.4
Director: James DeardenWriter: James Dearden, Nick Leeson, Edward WhitleyStars: Ewan McGregor, Anna Friel, Cristian SolimenoSummary: Ambitious, wide-eyed boy Nick Leeson (Ewan McGregor) is determined to rise in the world and be more than a simple bank clerk. When his employers, Barings Bank, offer him the opportunity to go to Jakarta, Indonesia to sort out a problem that nobody else wants, he seizes the opportunity with both hands. In Jakarta, he meets and marries Lisa (Anna Friel), and together they go to Singapore when the bank offers him the job of setting up their future options trading operation. To save money, the bank allows Nick to operate the floor trading and the back office facilities, and force him to employ cheap, unskilled staff. His first year of trading is a big success, and he makes large profits for the bank, even though he has illegally broken trading rules and secretly covered up losses. Given more freedom, even more money, and continuing unchecked, Nick starts to make losses, and again attempts to trade out of them, but this time he comes unstuck as his illegal trading generates even bigger losses. After the death of his unborn child, Nick completely loses control and gambles without restraint with other people's money leading inevitably to a complete financial meltdown, and the bankruptcy of the bank. —Mark Smith <msmith@osi.co.uk>

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Boiler Room (2000) Crime, Drama, Thriller | 120min | February 18, 2000 (United States) 7.0
Director: Ben YoungerWriter: Ben YoungerStars: Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia LongSummary: Seth Davis is a college dropout running an illegal casino from his rented apartment. Driven by his domineering father's disapproval at his illegitimate existence and his desire for serious wealth, Seth suddenly finds himself seduced by the opportunity to interview as a trainee stock broker from recent acquaintance Greg (Nicky Katt). Walking into the offices of JT Marlin, a small time brokerage firm on the outskirts of New York - Seth gets an aggressive cameo performance from Jim (Ben Affleck) that sets the tone for a firm clearly placing money above all else. Seth's fractured relationship with his father and flirtatious glances from love interest Abbie (Nia Long) are enough to keep Seth motivated in his newfound career. As he begins to excel and develop a love for the hard sale and high commission, a few chance encounters lead Seth to question the legitimacy of the firm's operations - placing him once again at odds with his father and what remains of his morality. With homages to Wall Street, and Glengarry Glen Ross, it's a decent debut feature for Ben Younger whose script exposes a truly sinister side of an already immoral business. —anonymous

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The Bank (2001) Drama, Romance, Thriller | 104min | September 6, 2001 (Australia) 6.6
Director: Robert ConnollyWriter: Brian Price, Mike Betar, Robert ConnollyStars: David Wenham, Anthony LaPaglia, Sibylla BuddSummary: The Bank is a thriller about banking, corruption and alchemy.

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A Beautiful Mind (2001) Biography, Drama | 135min | January 4, 2002 (United States) 8.2
Director: Ron HowardWriter: Akiva Goldsman, Sylvia NasarStars: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer ConnellySummary: From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally - late in life - received the Nobel Prize. —Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures

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Tycoon: A New Russian (2002) Crime, Drama | 123min | August 2, 2002 (Russia) 6.7
Director: Pavel LunginWriter: Yuliy Dubov, Aleksandr Borodyanskiy, Pavel LunginStars: Vladimir Mashkov, Mariya Mironova, Andrey KraskoSummary: During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall. —Sujit R. Varma

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The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003) Drama | 100min | January 5, 2003 (United States) 6.1
Director: Penelope SpheerisWriter: Brian Cruver, Stephen MazurStars: Christian Kane, Shannon Elizabeth, Cameron BancroftSummary: Brian Cruver, an ambitious 26-year-old lands a job at Enron. As he assimilates to the company's get-rich-quick mantra, spending sprees and wild corporate "gatherings" become the norm. But when Enron files for bankruptcy, Cruver discovers he's just a pawn in a failing game of corporate greed--one that made the rich richer...while the rest lost everything. —Echo Bridge Home Entertainment

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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) Documentary, Biography, History | 110min | May 20, 2005 (United States) 7.6
Director: Alex GibneyWriter: Alex Gibney, Bethany McLean, Peter ElkindStars: John Beard, Tim Belden, Barbara BoxerSummary: Enron dives from the seventh largest US company to bankruptcy in less than a year in this tale told chronologically. The emphasis is on human drama, from suicide to 20,000 people sacked: the personalities of Ken Lay (with Falwellesque rectitude), Jeff Skilling (he of big ideas), Lou Pai (gone with $250 M), and Andy Fastow (the dark prince) dominate. Along the way, we watch Enron game California's deregulated electricity market, get a free pass from Arthur Andersen (which okays the dubious mark-to-market accounting), use greed to manipulate banks and brokerages (Merrill Lynch fires the analyst who questions Enron's rise), and hear from both Presidents Bush what great guys these are. —<jhailey@hotmail.com>

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A Good Year (2006) Comedy, Drama, Romance | 117min | November 10, 2006 (United States) 7.0
Director: Ridley ScottWriter: Marc Klein, Peter MayleStars: Russell Crowe, Abbie Cornish, Albert FinneySummary: After years of no contact with his Uncle Henry, London banker and bond trader Max Skinner learns that Henry has died intestate, so Max inherits a château and vineyard in Provence. Max spent part of his childhood there, learning maxims and how to win and lose, and honing his killer instinct (at chess, which serves him well in finance). Max goes to France intent on selling the property. He spends a few days there, getting the property ready to show. Memories, a beautiful woman, and a young American who says she's Henry's illegitimate daughter interrupt his plans. Did Max the boy know things that Max the man has forgotten? —<jhailey@hotmail.com>

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Wall Street Warriors (2006) Documentary | 650min | October 22, 2006 (United States) 7.2
Writer: Scott J. Gill, Sean SkeltonStars: Nathalie Emmanuel, Brett Hickey, Mark JawdoszynSummary: An HD documentary series examining the extreme power and intense competition that defines Wall Street, seen through the eyes of those who thrive there.

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There Will Be Blood (2007) Drama | 158min | January 25, 2008 (United States) 8.2
Director: Paul Thomas AndersonWriter: Paul Thomas Anderson, Upton SinclairStars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán HindsSummary: The intersecting life stories of Daniel Plainview and Eli Sunday in early twentieth century California is presented. Miner turn oilman Daniel Plainview is a driven man who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals. He works hard but he also takes advantage of those around him at their expense if need be. His business partner is his son H.W., who in reality he "acquired" when H.W.'s biological single father, who worked on one of Daniel's rigs, got killed in a workplace accident. Daniel is deeply protective of H.W. if only for what H.W. brings to the partnership. Eli Sunday is one in a pair of twins, whose family farm Daniel purchases for the major oil deposit located on it. Eli, the local preacher and a self-proclaimed faith healer, wants the money from the sale of the property to finance his own church. The lives of the two competitive men often clash as Daniel pumps oil off the property and tries to acquire all the surrounding land at bargain prices to be able to build a pipeline to the coast, and as Eli tries to build his own religious empire. —Huggo

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21 (2008) Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 123min | March 28, 2008 (United States) 6.8
Director: Robert LuketicWriter: Peter Steinfeld, Allan Loeb, Ben MezrichStars: Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin SpaceySummary: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of schooling as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five. Students Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intrigued by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned. —matt-282

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Erreur de la banque en votre faveur (2009) Comedy | 105min | April 8, 2009 (France) 6.2
Director: Gérard Bitton, Michel MunzWriter: Gérard Bitton, Michel MunzStars: Gérard Lanvin, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Barbara SchulzSummary: The cook at an international bank stumbles upon insider trading secrets. With his best friend, he starts turning his life around. But soon, the whole neighborhood is counting on him.
Floored (2009) Documentary | 77min | September 1, 2009 (United States) 6.7
Director: James Allen SmithWriter: Andrew McAllister, James Allen SmithStars: Bobby Ansani, Jeff Ansani, Ron BeebeSummary: Enter a world where pandemonium reigns and reckless ambition rules: the trading floors in the financial canyons of downtown Chicago. Here, men use strange hand signals to buy and sell everything from pork belly to soybeans while wearing the weight of our complex economy on their shoulders - along with their neon jackets. It's a physical, bruising place, one where a slight gain creates heroes, rich beyond what their high school educations should ever afford. But the wrong move on the wrong day can ruin lives. At a time when millions have lost fortunes in the fickle stock market and fear abounds about the faltering financial system, FLOORED is a gripping, honest look behind the curtain of the trading floor that few have ever seen. —James Allen Smith

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Win/Win (2010) Drama | 81min | May 20, 2010 (Netherlands) 6.7
Director: Jaap van HeusdenWriter: Jaap van HeusdenStars: Oscar Van Rompay, Halina Reijn, Leon VoorbergSummary: Ivan is a true number cruncher and 'surfs the waves of the stock market' like a natural trader. He rakes in big profits for the bank. But all is not well. The new job gives Ivan sleepless nights. As Ivan rapidly becomes the most successful trader in town, he feels increasingly alienated from himself and the world around him. In spite of his unprecedented success Ivan has to get out. Before it's too late... —Holland Film

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Inside Job (2010) Documentary, Crime | 109min | November 12, 2010 (United States) 8.2
Director: Charles FergusonWriter: Charles Ferguson, Chad Beck, Adam BoltStars: Matt Damon, Gylfi Zoega, Andri Snær MagnasonSummary: 'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China. —Anonymous

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Krach (2010) Action, Drama, Thriller | 85min | September 2010 (United States) 4.7
Director: Fabrice GenestalWriter: Paul Besson, Fabrice GenestalStars: Gilles Lellouche, Vahina Giocante, Qamar KhokharSummary: A hot young Wall Street trader finds a formula based on climatology to play the market and win big... but at what cost?

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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) Drama | 133min | September 24, 2010 (United States) 6.2
Director: Oliver StoneWriter: Allan Loeb, Stephen Schiff, Stanley WeiserStars: Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey MulliganSummary: 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 who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor. —Anonymous

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Il gioiellino (2011) Drama | 110min | March 2013 (United States) 6.8
Director: Andrea MolaioliWriter: Ludovica Rampoldi, Gabriele Romagnoli, Andrea MolaioliStars: Toni Servillo, Remo Girone, Sarah FelberbaumSummary: Ernesto Bolta is the accountant of LEDA, a big agribusiness. Its founder, Amanzio Rastelli, appointed several of his relations to managerial positions and the firm decided quite lightly to think internationally and now it is heavily in debt. Luckily for the Rastellis, Bolta is on the watch. He uses all the tricks of his art to cook the books. But rushing headlong will not avoid the coming catastrophe... —Guy Bellinger

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Too Big to Fail (2011) Biography, Drama, History | 99min | May 23, 2011 (United States) 7.3
Director: Curtis HansonWriter: Peter Gould, Andrew Ross SorkinStars: James Woods, John Heard, William HurtSummary: A close look behind the scenes, between late March and mid-October, 2008: we follow Richard Fuld's benighted attempt to save Lehman Brothers; conversations among Hank Paulson (the Secretary of the Treasury), Ben Bernanke (chair of the Federal Reserve), and Tim Geithner (president of the New York Fed) as they seek a private solution for Lehman's; and, back-channel negotiations among Paulson, Warren Buffet, investment bankers, a British regulator, and members of Congress as almost all work to save the U.S. economy. By the end, with the no-strings bailout arranged, modest confidence restored on Wall Street, and a meltdown averted, Paulson wonders if banks will lend. —<jhailey@hotmail.com>

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PiraMMMida (2011) Crime, Drama | 105min | April 7, 2011 (Russia) 6.5
Director: Eldar SalavatovWriter: Sergey Livnev, Maksim Vasilenko, Sergey KraynevStars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr FyodorovSummary: Russia, early 90s. A fictional story inspired by financier Sergey Mavrodi, his securities company "MMM", and the pyramid scheme he ran that left upwards of fifteen million investors with nothing when it crashed.

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Margin Call (2011) Drama, Thriller | 107min | September 29, 2011 (Germany) 7.1
Director: J.C. ChandorWriter: J.C. ChandorStars: Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci, Kevin SpaceySummary: A respected financial company is downsizing and one of the victims is the risk management division head, who was working on a major analysis just when he was let go. His protégé completes the study late into the night and then frantically calls his colleagues in about the company's financial disaster he has discovered. What follows is a long night of panicked double checking and double dealing as the senior management prepare to do whatever it takes to mitigate the debacle to come even as the handful of conscientious comrades find themselves dragged along into the unethical abyss. —Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)

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Limitless (2011) Sci-Fi, Thriller | 105min | March 18, 2011 (United States) 7.4
Director: Neil BurgerWriter: Leslie Dixon, Alan GlynnStars: Bradley Cooper, Anna Friel, Abbie CornishSummary: An action-thriller about a writer who takes an experimental drug that allows him to use 100% of his mind. As one man evolves into the perfect version of himself, forces more corrupt than he can imagine mark him for assassination. Out-of-work writer Eddie Morra's (Cooper) rejection by girlfriend Lindy (Abbie Cornish) confirms his belief that he has zero future. That all vanishes the day an old friend introduces Eddie to NZT, a designer pharmaceutical that makes him laser-focused and more confident than any man alive. Now on an NZT-fueled odyssey, everything Eddie's read, heard or seen is instantly organized and available to him. As the former nobody rises to the top of the financial world, he draws the attention of business mogul Carl Van Loon (De Niro), who sees this enhanced version of Eddie as the tool to make billions, but brutal side effects jeopardize his meteoric ascent. With a dwindling stash and hit men who will eliminate him to get the NZT, Eddie must stay wired long enough to elude capture and fulfill his destiny. If he can't, he will become just another victim who thought he'd found invincibility in a bottle. —Relativity Media

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Capital (2012) Drama | 114min | November 14, 2012 (France) 6.5
Director: Costa-GavrasWriter: Karim Boukercha, Costa-Gavras, Jean-Claude GrumbergStars: Gad Elmaleh, Gabriel Byrne, Liya KebedeSummary: When the CEO of France's Phenix Bank collapses on the golf course, Machiavellian young executive Marc Tourneuil is crowned as his replacement. A whirlwind of ruthless ambition, power struggles, greed and deception ensues as Tourneuil's brutal ascent is jeopardized by a hostile takeover attempt from a large American hedge fund led by Dittmar Rigule, erotic distractions from international supermodel Nassim, and adversaries with an agenda for destruction. —Cohen Media Group

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Arbitrage (2012) Drama, Thriller | 107min | September 14, 2012 (United States) 6.6
Director: Nicholas JareckiWriter: Nicholas JareckiStars: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit MarlingSummary: Robert Miller is a successful financial businessman with a loving wife and a smart daughter ready to take over the family business. Professional secrets involving illegal fraudulent activities start coming out at the same time that Robert's personal secrets take a turn for the worse and threaten to derail everything he has achieved. —napierslogs

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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Biography, Crime, Drama | 180min | December 25, 2013 (United States) 8.2
Director: Martin ScorseseWriter: Terence Winter, Jordan BelfortStars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot RobbieSummary: In the early 1990s, Jordan Belfort teamed with his partner Donny Azoff and started brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont. Their company quickly grows from a staff of 20 to a staff of more than 250 and their status in the trading community and Wall Street grows exponentially. So much that companies file their initial public offerings through them. As their status grows, so do the amount of substances they abuse, and so do their lies. They draw attention like no other, throwing lavish parties for their staff when they hit the jackpot on high trades. That ultimately leads to Belfort featured on the cover of Forbes Magazine, being called "The Wolf Of Wall St.". With the FBI onto Belfort's trading schemes, he devises new ways to cover his tracks and watch his fortune grow. Belfort ultimately comes up with a scheme to stash their cash in a European bank. But with the FBI watching him like a hawk, how long will Belfort and Azoff be able to maintain their elaborate wealth and luxurious lifestyles? —halo1k

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The Big Short (2015) Biography, Comedy, Drama, History | 130min | December 23, 2015 (United States) 7.8
Director: Adam McKayWriter: Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, Michael LewisStars: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan GoslingSummary: Three separate but parallel stories of the U.S mortgage housing crisis of 2005 are told. Michael Burry, an eccentric ex-physician turned one-eyed Scion Capital hedge fund manager, has traded traditional office attire for shorts, bare feet and a Supercuts haircut. He believes that the US housing market is built on a bubble that will burst within the next few years. Autonomy within the company allows Burry to do largely as he pleases, so Burry proceeds to bet against the housing market with the banks, who are more than happy to accept his proposal for something that has never happened in American history. The banks believe that Burry is a crackpot and therefore are confident in that they will win the deal. Jared Vennett with Deutschebank gets wind of what Burry is doing and, as an investor believes he too can cash in on Burry's beliefs. An errant telephone call to FrontPoint Partners gets this information into the hands of Mark Baum, an idealist who is fed up with the corruption in the financial industry. Baum and his associates, who work at an arms length under Morgan Stanley, decide to join forces with Vennett despite not totally trusting him. In addition to Burry's information, they further believe that most of the mortgages are overrated by the bond agencies, with the banks collating all the sub-prime mortgages under AAA packages. Charlie Geller and Jamie Shipley, who are minor players in a $30 million start-up garage company called Brownfield, get a hold of Vennett's prospectus on the matter. Wanting in on the action but not having the official clout to play, they decide to call an old "friend", retired investment banker Ben Rickert, to help out. All three of these groups work on the premise that the banks are stupid and don't know what's going on, while for them to win, the general economy has to lose, which means the suffering of the general investor who trusts the financial institutions. That latter aspect may not sit well with Baum. Some of these assumptions may be incorrect and may be far more manipulative than they could have ever imagined, which in turn may throw curves into the process. —Huggo

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L'outsider (2016) Biography, Drama, Thriller | 117min | June 22, 2016 (France) 6.7
Director: Christophe BarratierWriter: Christophe Barratier, Laurent Turner, Jérôme KervielStars: Arthur Dupont, François-Xavier Demaison, Sabrina OuazaniSummary: 2008. The world economy is hit by the worst crisis since 1929. And only one man, a young trader, is the alleged responsible for the first and most extravagant in a series of scandals that will shake the financial markets worldwide: Jérôme Kerviel. Indeed, the biggest banking loss of its kind in history (almost 5 billion euros!) is discovered at the French bank Société Générale and soon attributed to this quiet, low-profile, 31 years old employee - Hired as a simple clerk at the same bank, 8 years before, no one could have predicted that Jérôme Kerviel would go so far, so fast. He became the star of the trading floor, nicknamed "the cash machine" by his colleagues. But how could he gamble supposedly alone - and in secret - 50 billion euros? —Happy_Evil_Dude

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The Founder (2016) Biography, Drama | 115min | January 20, 2017 (United States) 7.2
Director: John Lee HancockWriter: Robert SiegelStars: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll LynchSummary: 1954. Having worked as a salesman most of his adult life, Ray Kroc has been a hustler in most senses of the word. That hustling has made him the target of derision among certain circles for peddling what have ended up being more novelty or faddish than useful products, but it has also placed more than a comfortable roof in Arlington Heights, Illinois over his and his wife Ethel's heads. Ethel, however, wishes that he placed as much effort into being at home with her than he is in selling, his current job of peddling five-spindle milkshake makers for Prince Castle which has him constantly on the road going from one drive-in restaurant to another. It is because of the beefs he has with the whole drive-in experience (bad food, bad service) in constantly eating at such establishments while on the road that he becomes enthralled with the concept of McDonald's Restaurant in San Bernardino, California, it owned and operated by brothers Richard McDonald and Maurice McDonald - Dick and Mac. Unlike most of Ray's customers who will only require one five-spindle milkshake maker at any given time, the McDonald brothers end up purchasing eight machines for their single restaurant. Primarily on Dick's initiative, the brothers have redesigned the whole concept of the drive-in restaurant to focus on quality food through a smaller menu of only the most popular items (hamburgers, fries, sodas), consistency in product so that customers know what to expect from time to time, change in the target market from lounging teenagers to families, and perhaps most importantly speed in having any order ready within seconds, many of these goals achievable through assembly line styled production. They had tried franchising previously, but failed in that they lost control over many of those aspects which made their San Bernardino restaurant successful. Despite believing Ray a bit off kilter (in other words, crazy), the McDonald brothers somewhat hesitantly enter into a contract with him to be their head of franchising. Ray's experience in the job is not without its problems, especially as his franchisees seem to be making more money than he is, he who is only breaking even. He is not averse to advancing ideas provided to him to get ahead - original ideas which are not his forte - he seeing the brothers as his biggest problem in they thinking small. These differences lead to a standoff between Ray and the brothers, the former who has a different goal for "his" business in profit and stoking his own ego seemingly his main priorities. —Huggo

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Gold (2016) Crime, Drama | 120min | January 27, 2017 (United States) 6.7
Director: Stephen GaghanWriter: Patrick Massett, John ZinmanStars: Matthew McConaughey, Edgar Ramírez, Bryce Dallas HowardSummary: With the sudden death of his father, fourth-generation prospector Kenny Wells sees the family business, Washoe Mining, rapidly decline and him out of business. But ambitious Kenny has a dream, a vivid vision that promises mountains of brilliant and pure gold in the lush jungles of remote Indonesia; an aspiration which the well-known, yet still unlucky geologist Michael Acosta shares. Before long, down-on-his-luck Kenny will convince the eager geologist to become his partner and set off on an adventure deep into uncharted territory, while in the meantime, he would hunt for investors. Unfortunately though, as the risky expedition begins without a single speck of gold or the promise of it on the horizon, disease and failure will begin to threaten the short-lived dream. However, is it indeed an intriguingly bold and reckless fantasy? —Nick Riganas

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Billions (2016) Drama | 60min | January 1, 2016 (United States) 8.4
Writer: Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Andrew Ross SorkinStars: Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Maggie SiffSummary: Billions is 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 all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmaneuver the other. The stakes are in the billions in this timely, provocative series. —ahmetkozan

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The Wizard of Lies (2017) Biography, Crime, Drama | 133min | May 20, 2017 (United States) 6.8
Director: Barry LevinsonWriter: Sam Levinson, John Burnham Schwartz, Samuel BaumStars: Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Alessandro NivolaSummary: The fall of Bernie Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme robbed $65 billion from unsuspecting victims; the largest fraud in U.S. history.

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Default (2018) Drama, History | 114min | November 28, 2018 (South Korea) 6.6
Director: Kook-Hee ChoiWriter: Seong-min EomStars: Kim Hye-su, Yoo Ah-in, Joon-ho HuhSummary: Si-hyun (Kim Hye-su), the monetary policy manager at the Bank of Korea, predicts a massive national financial crisis and reports it to the Director. The Director doesn't schedule an emergency summit until 10 days later and does it without notifying the public of the situation. Si-hyun urges for the crisis to be announced in order to warn people of the looming disaster, but her plea is ignored. The summit is held behind closed doors. Jung-hak (Yoo Ah-in), a financial consultant, notices Korea is suddenly hemorrhaging foreign funds, and he learns the reason is that international finance firms have ordered an all-out investment withdrawal from the country, which has caused its credit rating to plummet. He hands in his resignation and decides to play the odds on what he's sure is a coming crisis. He secretly starts gathering investors willing to do the same. Gap-su (Joon-ho Huh), a family man who runs a small tableware factory, has a big break and wins a contract with a department store. The fact that the price settlement terms equal to little more than a promissory note concerns him only briefly, and oblivious to the looming financial upheaval, Gap-su signs the contract. The Managing Director of the IMF (Vincent Cassel) comes to Korea just one week before the country goes bust, and that is when those who try to prevent the crisis, those who seek to take advantage of it, and those only trying to protect their livelihood are caught in the wake of a national bankruptcy. —anonymous

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The Hummingbird Project (2018) Drama, Thriller | 111min | March 22, 2019 (Canada) 6.2
Director: Kim NguyenWriter: Kim NguyenStars: Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander SkarsgÃ¥rd, Salma HayekSummary: In this modern epic, Kim Nguyen exposes the ruthless edge of our increasingly digital world. Cousins from New York, Vincent (Eisenberg) and Anton (Skarsgård) are players in the high-stakes game of High Frequency Trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream? To build a fiber-optic cable straight between Kansas and New Jersey, making them millions. But nothing is straightforward for this flawed pair. Anton is the brains, Vincent is the hustler, and together they push each other and everyone around them to breaking point on their quixotic adventure. Constantly breathing down their necks is their old boss Eva Torres (Hayek) a powerful, intoxicating and manipulative trader who will stop at nothing to come between them and beat them at their own game. No matter what the cost, Vincent and Anton are determined to cut through America, only to find redemption at the end of their line, not through money, but through family and reconnecting to the land.

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