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The Big Short(2015)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 11min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 4,206 votes)

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

Margin Call(2011)

1h 47min | Thriller, Drama
3.4/5 (with 745 votes)

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.

Assault on Wall Street(2013)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 39min | Drama, Thriller, Action
2.9/5 (with 201 votes)

Jim is an average New Yorker living a peaceful life with a well paying job and a loving family. Suddenly, everything changes when the economy crashes causing Jim to lose everything. Filled with anger and rage, Jim snaps and goes to extreme lengths to seek revenge for the life taken from him.

Inside Job(2010)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 49min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 403 votes)

A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.

Directed by Charles Ferguson - With Matt Damon

99 Homes(2015)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 52min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 325 votes)

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.

42nd Street(1933)

3.4/5 (with 71 votes)

A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room(2005)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 50min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 111 votes)

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

Directed by Alex Gibney - With Andrew Fastow, Jeffrey Skilling, Kenneth Lay, Gray Davis, Peter Coyote, George W. Bush, ...

Too Big to Fail(2011)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 37min | Drama, TV Movie
3.6/5 (with 93 votes)

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 weeks.

Drunk Parents(2019)

1h 37min | Comedy
2.3/5 (with 110 votes)

Two drunk parents attempt to hide their ever increasing financial difficulties from their daughter and social circle through elaborate neighborhood schemes.

Directed by Fred Wolf - With Alec Baldwin

Default(2018)

1h 54min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 24 votes)

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.

Collapse(2009)

1h 22min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 44 votes)

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter Michael Ruppert. He recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out his apocalyptic vision of the future, spanning the crises in economics, energy, environment and more.

Directed by Chris Smith - With Michael Ruppert

The Last Days of Lehman Brothers(2009)

2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

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.

Directed by Michael Samuels - With James Cromwell
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Office(2015)

3.0/5 (with 13 votes)

Two assistants, Lee Xiang and Kat, start new jobs at the financial firm Jones & Sunn. Lee Xiang is an earnest young man who naively enters the world of high finance with noble intentions. Kat on the other hand has a secret.

Directed by Johnnie To - With Chow Yun-fat

Jacob's Kingdom of Heaven(2016)

2h 25min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 12 votes)

Jacob, a successful businessman, is settled in Dubai with his family. He is forced to flee to another country when he ends up with a huge debt as his friend betrays him.

Wasted Youth(2011)

1h 36min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Harris, a 16 year old boy spends his day skateboarding aimlessly around Athens with his friends. Vassilis, a middle aged cop, is frustrated with his dead-end job and crammed in his small apartment with his family.

Directed by Aryiris Papadimitropoulos, Jan Vogel

Dead Angle(1979)

2h 34min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.

Directed by Tōru Murakawa

Out of the Woods(2017)

1h 48min | Comedy, Drama

60 year old woman leaves urban life and goes to live in a village to take care of her grandchildren whose parents now live in America. There she faces lots of financial hardships as the family doesn't send any money, and tries her best to provide all for their happier childhood.

Directed by Marko Kostić

The Flaw(2011)

1h 18min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

The story of the credit bubble that caused the financial crash. Through interviews with some of the world's leading economists, including housing expert Robert Shiller, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, and economic historian Louis Hyman, as well as Wall Street insiders and victims of the crash including Ed Andrews - a former economics correspondent for The New York Times who found himself facing foreclosure - and Andrew Luan, once a bond trader at Deutsche Bank now running his own Wall Street tour guide business, the film presents an original and compelling account of the toxic combination of forces that nearly destroyed the world economy.

Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve(2013)

1h 44min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Nearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the U.S. Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chairman's every word. Yet the average person knows very little about the most powerful - and least understood - financial institution on earth. Narrated by Liev Schreiber, Money For Nothing is the first film to take viewers inside the Fed and reveal the impact of Fed policies - past, present, and future - on our lives. Join current and former Fed officials as they debate the critics, and each other, about the decisions that helped lead the global financial system to the brink of collapse in 2008. And why we might be headed there again.

Directed by Jim Bruce - With Liev Schreiber

Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis(2018)

1h 36min | Documentary, History
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

This documentary looks at the factors that led to the 2008 financial crisis and the efforts made by then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President Timothy Geithner, and Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke to save the United States from an economic collapse.

The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas(2013)

1h 28min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 8 votes)

Antonis arrives at a hotel resort by the sea. It is wintertime, the hotel is closed and Antonis drifts around alone. He has a lot of time to kill. Until television announces the disappearance of the famous TV host Antonis Paraskevas….

Directed by Elina Psikou - With Christos Stergioglou, Maria Kallimani, Theodora Tzimou

Tsatsiki, Dad and the Olive War(2015)

1h 35min | Comedy, Kids & Family
2.3/5 (with 5 votes)

Tsatsiki longs for the summer holidays when he will go to Greece to live with his dad Yanis. When Tsatsiki arrive at the village, it is not quite as he remembered it. Guesthouses and taverns are empty, there is a crisis in Greece and in his beloved village. When his dad delivers the bad news that he might have to sell both the hotel and the olive grove, Tsatsiki becomes upset. However, Tsatsiki's mother has taught him to never give up. He realizes that it is up to him to save the hotel, otherwise his beloved place in Greece will be lost.

Directed by Lisa James Larsson

Master of the Universe(2013)

1h 28min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 14 votes)

He was one of Germany's leading investment experts with an income of several million Euros per day. Now, he sits on one of the upper floors of an empty bank building in the middle of Frankfurt, overlooking a skyline of glass and steel. And talks. In an extended mix of a monologue and an in-depth interview, which is as frightening as it is fascinating, he shares his inside knowledge from a megalomaniac parallel world where illusions are the market's hardest currency. Marc Bauder's 'Master of the Universe' is based on meticulous research and provides us with geniune insight into the notoriously secretive and self-protective 'universe' of which our nameless protagonist experiences himself a master. Where other films on the financial meltdown have focused on the epic nature of larger-than-life business, Bauder probes the mentality that made it possible in the first place. A tense drama where psychology meets finance - two things that are more closely linked than you would like to believe.

Directed by Marc Bauder - With Rainer Voss

The Ascent of Money(2009)

3.9/5 (with 6 votes)

British historian and author Niall Ferguson explains how big money works today as well as the causes of and solutions to economic catastrophes in this extended version The Ascent of Money documentary. Through interviews with top experts, such as former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and American currency speculator George Soros, the intricate world of finance, including global commerce, banking and lending, is examined thoroughly.

Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam(1986)

2.7/5 (with 10 votes)

Evil baddie Dr. Otto Von-Schnick-ick-ick tries to take over the planet by first destroying all of our financial systems, collapsing the world's economy and sending populations across the globe into mass panic! Only one goody-goody can stop him.. or can he? The oblivious Lance Sterling is on the case! With the aid of his underappreciated assistant Doris, will Lance manage to save the day and defeat Doctor Otto before the mad scientist's megalomaniacal plan is fulfilled? Or will the villain succeed in distracting them to their doom with his many convincing costumes, courtesy of his own convenient Changing Coffin? Tune in to find out!

Directed by John R. Cherry III - With Jim Varney

Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?(2012)

1h 30min | History, Documentary
3.9/5 (with 4 votes)

Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? reveals how American corporations orchestrated the dismantling of middle-class prosperity through rampant deregulation, the outsourcing of jobs, and tax policies favoring businesses and the wealthy. The collapse of the U.S. economy is the result of conscious choices made over thirty five years by a small group: leaders of corporations and their elected allies, and the biggest lobbying interest in Washington, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. To these individuals, the collapse is not a catastrophe, but rather the planned outcome of their long, patient work. For the rest of the country, it is merely the biggest heist in American history.

Directed by Frances Causey, Donald Goldmacher - With Bernie Sanders, Donna Edwards, Robert Crandall, David Brock, Van Jones, David Cay Johnston, ...

Alma de Sant Pere(2016)

1h 36min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Alma is a young ambitious woman working in her own small company in Barcelona. She is happy in life but constantly dreams of a bigger project that she could work on together with her friends. A project that would bring in their first million. The opportunity finally arises and they buy an old building with a plan to renovate it into luxury apartments. But how to get rid of old tenants without hurting their feelings and without losing your own morals? Furthermore, how to survive from a free fall when you lose all you have? Alma de Sant Pere is a film about dreams, friendships and human values.

Directed by Jarmo Lampela - With Laura Birn

Laboratory Greece(2019)

2h 45min | Documentary, History
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories. «If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe» Paul Craig Roberts.

Debtocracy(2011)

1h 15min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Debtocracy seeks the causes of the Greek debt crisis and proposes solutions sidelined by the government and the dominant media. It follows countries like Ecuador that created debt Audit Commissions and tracks this process in Greece.

Directed by Aris Chatzistefanou - With Alain Badiou, Manolis Glezos, David Harvey, Fernando Solanas, Eric Toussaint, Samir Amin, ...

I.O.U.S.A.(2008)

1h 25min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

With the country's debt growing out of control, Americans by and large are unaware of the looming financial crisis. This documentary examines several of the ways America can get its economy back on the right track. In addition to looking at the federal deficit and trade deficit, the film also closely explores the challenges of funding national entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

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