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Plot Summary:
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 politics and deception.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, captivating, suspense
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Millions (1991)
Plot Summary:
Billy Zane leads a pack of money-grabbing relatives who try to take over his ailing uncle's industrial empire.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
Similar in 84%
Life and Death in the Warehouse (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows Megan, who in a desperate attempt to keep her new job at a Welsh warehouse, presses Alys – who is pregnant – to get her "pick rate" up, putting her and her baby at risk.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 75%
Violet (2021)
Plot Summary:
Violet realizes that her entire life is built on fear-based decisions, and must do everything differently to become her true self.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, art film
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A Family Man (2016)
Plot Summary:
Dane Jensen is a driven, Chicago-based headhunter, working at a cut-throat job placement firm. When Dane's boss announces his retirement, he pits Dane against Lynn Vogel, Dane's equally driven but polar-opposite rival at the firm, in a battle for control over the company.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, disturbing, captivating, semi serious, psychological, sincere, touching, tear jerker, anamorphic
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A Mouthful of Air (2021)
Plot Summary:
Julie is a new mom and children's book author, who escapes into the bright Crayola-colored world of her creation in order to leave behind the darkness caused by her post-partum depression.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, touching
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The Assistant (2019)
Plot Summary:
A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: bleak, depressing, suspense, realistic, psychological, psychological thriller, complex
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Contrainte par corps (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young Frenchwoman Claire, resting with her friend on an island in the Mediterranean Sea, becoms the victim of harassment by the local police commissioner Castes. Accused for disturbing public order, and then in the drug trade, she gets to the women's prison. Vacation turns into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Freefall (2009)
Plot Summary:
Freefall is the first drama to tackle the extraordinary financial crisis Britons are living through. Helmed by multiple BAFTA-winning director Dominic Savage, the film takes a startling and provocative look at the events that caused people's lives to spiral out of control. With pace, edge and real emotional punch, it gives a unique insight into how the country came so perilously close to the edge.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sincere, thought provoking, touching, gloomy
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Upstarts (2019)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to do good while making millions, three college graduates create a startup. But as business begins to flourish, their own bond starts to fray.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Similar in 85%
A Daughter's Revenge (2018)
Plot Summary:
Elle Spencer has devised a terrifying plan. Soon her friend, Anna Bellcroft will be released from jail, where she served time for a DUI. Anna has nothing. No family, no money, no job...BUT Elle is there for her. What Elle does not reveal, is that she blames her step-father for her mother's suicide, and Anne will become the unsuspecting instrument of her revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Mentor (2006)
Plot Summary:
A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, touching, emotional, independent film, sexual, sexy
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Other People's Money (1991)
Plot Summary:
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 enjoys the thrust and parry of legal manoeuvring as he tries to win her heart. Written by Ed Sutton.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, romantic comedy, clever, feel good, captivating, sweet, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Purpose (2002)
Plot Summary:
A software developer becomes a billionaire and is distracted by fame, greed and power, then must save his invention and company from a hostile takeover.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, serious, stylized, independent film
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Dealers (1989)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film
Similar in 82%
The Hummingbird Project (2018)
Plot Summary:
A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Belgium
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, rough, inspirational, suspense, fast
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Default (2018)
Plot Summary:
Only one week left until South Korea will go under sovereign default. Han Shi-Hyun is a leader of the monetary policy team at the Bank of Korea. and is assigned to a crisis team.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, clever, intellectual, suspense, talky, intense
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Capital (2012)
Plot Summary:
The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, serious, social, political, captivating, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
The Company Men (2010)
Plot Summary:
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 fathers.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, depressing, thought provoking, sincere, serious, inspirational, philosophical, feel good, social, educational
Similar in 78%
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers (2009)
Plot Summary:
The heads of Wall Street's biggest investment banks were summoned to an evening meeting by the US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, to discuss the plight of another - Lehman Brothers. After six months' turmoil in the world's financial markets, Lehman Brothers was on life support and the government was about to pull the plug. Lehman CEO, Dick Fuld, recently sidelined in a boardroom coup, spends the weekend desperately trying to resuscitate his beloved company through a merger with Bank of America or UK-based Barclays. But without the financial support of Paulson and Lehman's fiercest competitors, Fuld's empire - and with it, the stability of the world economy - teeters on the verge of extinction.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, edutainment
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Barbarians at the Gate (1993)
Plot Summary:
A television movie based upon the book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: inspirational, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, clever, semi serious, biting, funny, light
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August (2008)
Plot Summary:
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 begins to collapse in August 2001, one month prior to the 9/11 attacks.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, serious, touching, suspense
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Girls Club (2002)
Plot Summary:
Girls Club is an American television series created by David E. Kelley that was shown on Fox in the United States in October 2002. It is often compared to Ally McBeal, another series created by Kelley, which ended in May 2002.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Similar in 81%
Industry (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the cutthroat world of international finance, a group of young graduates compete for a limited set of permanent positions at a top investment bank in London. The boundaries between colleague, friend, lover, and enemy soon blur as they immerse themselves in a company culture defined as much by sex, drugs and ego as it is by deals and dividends.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, contemplative, visually appealing
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Billions (2016)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, thought provoking, suspense, intellectual, political, smart, intelligent, entertaining, queer cinema
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Arbitrage (2012)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, realistic, psychological, intense, serious, captivating, clever, tricky
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Working Girl (1988)
Plot Summary:
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 apartment and even her wardrobe. She creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her to the top, or finish her off for good.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: feel good, inspirational, captivating, light, talky, sweet, romantic comedy, romantic, humorous, clever
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: stylized, captivating, psychological, informative, serious, realistic, entertaining, suspenseful, disturbing, tense
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Margin Call (2011)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 141000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, serious, captivating, political, intellectual, talky, tricky, enigmatic, suspenseful
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Boiler Room (2000)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, clever, tense, talky, intense, rough, serious, suspenseful, cynical
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Wall Street (1987)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: realistic, political, suspense, talky, intense, serious, captivating, entertaining, dramatic, tense