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Plot Summary:
The Bank, a world ripe with avarice and corruption, where O'Reilly and his ilk can thrive and honest Aussie battlers lose everything. Enter Jim Doyle a maverick mathematician who has devised a formula to predict the fluctuations of the stock market. When he joins O'Reilly's fold, he must first prove his loyalty to the "greed is good" ethos. Which way will he go? What does he have to hide?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, captivating, cynical, clever, thought provoking, serious, realistic, biting, tense
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Hitting Home (1988)
Plot Summary:
Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to New York, only to discover that the crime is not covered by the extradition treaty between Canada and the US. She becomes obsessed with bringing the criminal to justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film
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Rollover (1981)
Plot Summary:
An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller, romantic drama, independent film
Similar in 82%
Yella (2007)
Plot Summary:
Drama about a woman who is estranged from the possessive and violent husband who can't bring himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction finally comes to a dramatic conclusion, her life takes an odd shift.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, tense, mysterious, intelligent, atmospheric, serious, realistic, surprise ending
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The Custodian (1993)
Plot Summary:
Det. Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his 'straight' life to partner in crime with his co-worker, Det. Church, in order to get on the inside of the circle of double-agents. He sides privately with a reporter, Reynolds, and an Internal Affairs lawyer, Ferguson, to expose them to the press. Once they have gathered enough information, all the corrupt police, including the newly recruited Quinlan are arrested. Ferguson then works to get Quinlan a reduced sentence for helping them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, detective
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Fair Play (2006)
Plot Summary:
A company, where manipulation and harassment is a problem between colleagues, decides to organize a canyoning trip for its employees. The building tensions between co-workers might actually explode during this trip.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, clever, serious, realistic, controversial, cynical
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Brilliant Lies (1996)
Plot Summary:
Susy Conner accuses former employer, Gary Fitzgerald, of harassment and unfair dismissal for failing to comply with his sexual demands. Relating the incident to conciliation lawyer, Marion Lee, Susy comments that the trauma experienced should entitle her to a compensation payment of $40,000.00.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film
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The Nest (2020)
Plot Summary:
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, suspense, realistic, talky, cynical, cerebral
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The Business of Strangers (2001)
Plot Summary:
Julie Styron thinks she is going to be fired, but instead discovers that she is being promoted. Trapped in an airport hotel, she wants to celebrate but finds only the company of her young assistant, Paula Murphy. As the night progresses, the two women get to know each other. They flirt, they drink, they lie; personal flaws are revealed and exposed. But at the end of the night their relationship turns and becomes a complex battle of power, authority, and wit.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, harsh, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic, biting, crying, rough
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The Dying Gaul (2005)
Plot Summary:
A powerful and seductive Hollywood mogul convinces an impoverished West Hollywood writer, whose lover has recently died of AIDS, to sell his autobiographical screenplay for big bucks. The writer, Robert, knows he'll have to make major changes in the script (like changing the sex of the dying lover). During the rewrite, the producer, Jeffrey, takes Robert under his wing, introducing him to his wife Elaine, herself a closet screenwriter. Jeffrey approaches Robert for sex and Elaine approaches Robert out of curiosity about his sex life in grief. The entangled triangle of relationships threatens more than the completion of a film script. Written by.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, melancholic, clever, talky, emotional, absurd, independent film, serious, realistic, cynical
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Hamlet (2000)
Plot Summary:
Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: meditative, intense, psychological, cynical, serious, atmospheric, clever, fairy tale, spiritual, sweet
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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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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
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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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Quicksilver (1986)
Plot Summary:
Jack Casey ('Kevin Bacon' )used to be a hot-shot stock market whiz kid. After a disastrous professional decision, his life in the fast lane is over. He loses his nerve and joins a speed delivery firm which relies on bicycles to avoid traffic jams of San Francisco, is attracted to a fellow bicycler, Terri, and befriends Hector, a budding entrepreneur. Can Jack regain his nerve and his self-respect, and rebuild his life on a more sound basis?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, weeping, exciting, sexy, feel good
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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
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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
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The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, political, edutainment, talky, biting, suspense
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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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The PyraMMMid (2011)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, realistic
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Rogue Trader (1999)
Plot Summary:
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successful trading run--ends up accumulating $1.4 billion in losses hidden in account #88888.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, intellectual, suspense, edutainment, psychological, independent film
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Underground: The Julian Assange Story (2012)
Plot Summary:
Julian Assange is one of the most significant figures of the twenty first century. But before he was famous, before WikiLeaks, before the internet even existed, he was a teenage computer hacker in Melbourne. This is his story. In 1989, known as ‘Mendax’, Assange and two friends formed a group called the ‘International Subversives’. Using early home computers and defining themselves as ‘white hat hackers’ - those who look but don’t steal – they broke into some of the world’s most powerful and secretive organisations. They were young, brilliant, and in the eyes of the US Government, a major threat to national security.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, deep, inspirational, political, complex
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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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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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Disclosure (1994)
Plot Summary:
A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, sexy, tense, psychosexual thriller, intense, sensual, serious, realistic, stylized, psychological
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The Last Seduction (1994)
Plot Summary:
Looking to escape her unhappy marriage, villainous femme fatale Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) convinces her husband, Clay (Bill Pullman), to sell cocaine, then steals the profits and runs out on him. She stops in a small town en route to Chicago, where she ensnares her next conquest, insurance man Mike Swale (Peter Berg). After getting a job at his insurance company, Bridget convinces Mike to run a scam -- but things take a deadly turn when she recruits him to help get rid of her husband.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexy, neo noir, erotic, sexual, suspense, black comedy, tense, suspenseful, sensual, psychological
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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