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29 titles, A–Z. Summaries are neutral; links go to IMDb pages matched via Wikidata.

• 99 Homes · 2014 · Ramin Bahrani
  An evicted father goes to work for the real estate broker who evicted him, during the foreclosure crisis.
  foreclosurehousing crisis
• Arbitrage · 2012 · Nicholas Jarecki
  A hedge fund manager tries to sell his company while hiding fraud and a personal crisis.
  hedge fundsfrauddrama
• Barbarians at the Gate · 1993 · Glenn Jordan
  A TV film about the 1988 leveraged buyout battle for RJR Nabisco. Based on the book by Burrough and Helyar.
  buyoutstv film
• Billions · search IMDb (details not checked yet)
• Black Monday · search IMDb (details not checked yet)
• Boiler Room · 2000 · Ben Younger
  A college dropout joins a high-pressure brokerage that sells worthless stocks by phone. He slowly realises the firm runs a pump-and-dump fraud.
  fraudpump and dump
• Cosmopolis · 2012 · David Cronenberg
  A young billionaire asset manager crosses Manhattan in a limousine while his bet against the yuan goes wrong. Based on Don DeLillo's novel.
  currencydrama
• Dumb Money · 2023 · Craig Gillespie
  The story of the 2021 GameStop short squeeze, driven by retail investors on Reddit and Keith Gill. It also shows hedge funds and trading apps involved.
  gamestopshort squeezeretail traders
• Equity · 2016 · Meera Menon
  A senior investment banker handles a tech IPO while facing pressure, rivalry and an insider-trading investigation.
  IPOinvestment banking
• Industry · search IMDb (details not checked yet)
• Inventing Anna · 2022 · Shonda Rhimes
  A miniseries based on Anna Sorokin, who posed as a wealthy heiress to defraud banks and hotels.
  fraudtv series
• Margin Call · 2011 · J. C. Chandor
  Over about 24 hours, staff at a fictional investment bank discover that their mortgage-related positions could ruin the firm. Executives decide how to react at the start of the 2008 crisis.
  2008 crisisrisk management
• Money Monster · 2016 · Jodie Foster
  A financial TV host is taken hostage live on air by an investor who lost his money on a stock tip.
  financial mediathriller
• Other People's Money · 1991 · Norman Jewison
  A corporate raider tries to take over a family-owned cable company. The film contrasts takeover logic with loyalty to workers.
  takeovers
• Rogue Trader · 1999 · James Dearden
  Ewan McGregor plays Nick Leeson, whose hidden trading losses in Singapore brought down Barings Bank in 1995. Based on Leeson's book.
  baringsrogue trading
• The Bank · 2001 · Robert Connolly
  An Australian thriller about a mathematician who builds a market-prediction program for a ruthless bank.
  bankingthriller
• The Big Short · 2015 · Adam McKay
  Based on Michael Lewis's book, the film follows several investors who bet against the US housing market before 2008. It uses humour and direct explanations of financial products.
  2008 crisisshort selling
• The Bonfire of the Vanities · 1990 · Brian De Palma
  A wealthy bond trader's life collapses after a car accident in the Bronx. Based on Tom Wolfe's novel.
  bond tradingsatire
• The Company Men · 2010 · John Wells
  Corporate employees lose their jobs during the 2008 downturn and try to rebuild their lives.
  2008 crisislayoffs
• The Dropout · search IMDb (details not checked yet)
• The Hummingbird Project · 2018 · Kim Nguyen
  Two cousins try to build a straight fibre-optic line between Kansas and New Jersey to gain milliseconds for high-frequency trading.
  high-frequency trading
• The Laundromat · 2019 · Steven Soderbergh
  A comedy-drama about offshore shell companies linked to the Panama Papers.
  offshorepanama papers
• The Pursuit of Happyness · 2006 · Gabriele Muccino
  Based on Chris Gardner's life, a struggling salesman takes an unpaid stockbroker internship while homeless with his son.
  brokeragebiography
• The Wizard of Lies · 2017 · Barry Levinson
  Robert De Niro plays Bernie Madoff in this TV film about the discovery of his Ponzi scheme and its effect on his family.
  madoffponzitv film
• The Wolf of Wall Street · 2013 · Martin Scorsese
  Based on Jordan Belfort's memoir, the film shows the rise and fall of his brokerage Stratton Oakmont amid fraud and excess.
  fraudbrokerage
• Too Big to Fail · 2011 · Curtis Hanson
  A television film about US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and bank leaders during the 2008 crisis. Based on Andrew Ross Sorkin's book.
  2008 crisistv film
• Trading Places · 1983 · John Landis
  Two rich commodity brokers swap the lives of a privileged executive and a street hustler as a bet. The story ends with a frozen orange juice futures trade.
  commoditiesfuturescomedy
• Wall Street · 1987 · Oliver Stone
  A young stockbroker, Bud Fox, becomes the protégé of corporate raider Gordon Gekko and gets drawn into insider trading. The film is known for Gekko's 'greed is good' speech.
  insider trading1980s wall street
• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps · 2010 · Oliver Stone
  A sequel set around the 2008 financial crisis. Gordon Gekko, released from prison, connects with a young trader engaged to his daughter.
  2008 crisissequel

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