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1. Gone Girl (2014)
R | 149 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry
Votes: 1,067,530 | Gross: $167.77M
2. The Big Short (2015)
R | 130 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 2006-2007 a group of investors bet against the United States mortgage market. In their research, they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is.
Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt
Votes: 484,697 | Gross: $70.26M
3. Molly's Game (2017)
R | 140 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.
Director: Aaron Sorkin | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera
Votes: 187,781 | Gross: $28.78M
4. Nomadland (2020)
R | 107 min | Drama
A woman in her sixties, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Director: Chloé Zhao | Stars: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May, Gay DeForest
Votes: 183,442
5. Indecent Proposal (1993)
R | 117 min | Drama, Romance
A billionaire offers $1,000,000 to a young married couple for one night with the wife.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Seymour Cassel
Votes: 78,138 | Gross: $106.61M
6. Killing Them Softly (2012)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
Director: Andrew Dominik | Stars: Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, Scoot McNairy
Votes: 153,178 | Gross: $15.03M
7. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
PG-13 | 133 min | Drama
Now out of prison but still disgraced by his peers, Gordon Gekko works his future son-in-law, an idealistic stock broker, when he sees an opportunity to take down a Wall Street enemy and rebuild his empire.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin
Votes: 106,637 | Gross: $52.47M
8. Get a Job (2016)
R | 83 min | Comedy
After college, Will is having problems getting a good, lasting job, as are his roomies, his girlfriend, and his just-fired dad.
Director: Dylan Kidd | Stars: Miles Teller, Anna Kendrick, Bryan Cranston, Nicholas Braun
Votes: 25,888
9. Under the Rainbow (1981)
PG | 98 min | Comedy
A visiting dignitary, a CIA agent, a Nazi spy, Japanese tourists, an assassin and a group of "midget" actors from The Wizard of Oz (1939) all check into an elite Los Angeles hotel called Under the Rainbow.
Director: Steve Rash | Stars: Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher, Eve Arden, Joseph Maher
Votes: 3,022 | Gross: $18.83M
10. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009 Video)
PG-13 | 67 min | Animation, Action, Drama
When Lex Luthor gets elected US President, he uses the threat of an oncoming kryptonite meteor striking Earth as a rationale to frame Superman.
Director: Sam Liu | Stars: Clancy Brown, Kevin Conroy, Tim Daly, Xander Berkeley
Votes: 25,496
11. The Exchange (III) (2021)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Hoping to find friendship with a French exchange student, an awkward teenager discovers that the student is not as sophisticated and cultured as he assumed.
Director: Dan Mazer | Stars: Ed Oxenbould, Avan Jogia, Justin Hartley, Jennifer Irwin
Votes: 588
12. Ciske the Rat (1984)
TV-14 | 180 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A poor 11-year-old schoolboy with a heart of gold grows up in 1930s Amsterdam.
Director: Guido Pieters | Stars: Danny de Munk, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Herman van Veen, Willem Nijholt
Votes: 3,013
13. Duffle Bag Boy (2024)
Action, Adventure, Crime
Lost and forgotten, a homeless veteran hitchhikes his way into becoming an outlaw and goes to war with the kingpin of a criminal empire.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, James Anthony Perez, Cheryce Livingston, Don Tempesta
14. Suzaku (1997)
95 min | Drama
Depicts the dissolution of a small family in a remote Japanese timber village.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Jun Kunimura, Machiko Ono, Sachiko Izumi, Kôtarô Shibata
Votes: 1,481
15. Die Rothschilds (1940)
97 min | Biography, Drama
Anti-semitic Nazi propaganda "biography" of the Rothschilds, a German Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
Director: Erich Waschneck | Stars: Erich Ponto, Carl Kuhlmann, Albert Lippert, Ludwig Linkmann
Votes: 1,668
16. The Tree That Saved Christmas (2014 TV Movie)
TV-G | 88 min | Drama, Romance
A woman returns to her Vermont hometown to try and save her family's Christmas tree farm from foreclosure.
Director: David Winning | Stars: Lacey Chabert, Corey Sevier, Matthew Kevin Anderson, Jim Thorburn
Votes: 1,273
17. Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977 TV Movie)
155 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Jane Alexander, Edward Herrmann, Priscilla Pointer, Walter McGinn
Votes: 344
18. Mr. Thank You (1936)
76 min | Comedy, Drama
A friendly bus driver and his passengers over the duration of one journey through the mountains to the nearest train station.
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu | Stars: Ken Uehara, Ryuji Ishiyama, Einosuke Naka, Michiko Kuwano
Votes: 1,274
19. F@ck This Job (2021)
104 min | Documentary, News
In 2008, Natasha, a newly rich woman, decides to open an independent TV station in Russia and builds an open-minded team of outcasts. By 2020, Natasha has lost everything to Russia's war between Propaganda and Truth.
Director: Vera Krichevskaya | Stars: Natalia Sindeeva, Aleksandr Vinokurov, Vera Krichevskaya, Anna Forshtreter
Votes: 566
20. Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)
71 min | Drama
During Great Depression, a family is evicted from their apartment and with no other option they move to a tent camp called Kuhle Wampe.
Director: Slatan Dudow | Stars: Hertha Thiele, Ernst Busch, Martha Wolter, Adolf Fischer
Votes: 821
21. Ayn Rand & the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged (2011)
Unrated | 87 min | Documentary
'Ayn Rand & the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged is a feature length documentary film that examines the resurging interest in Ayn Rand's epic and controversial 1957 novel and the validity of its dire prediction for America.
Director: Chris Mortensen | Stars: John Allison, Clifford Asness, Rajia Baroudi, Mike Berliner
Votes: 495
22. Above Everything Else (1991)
122 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A newsreporter is involved in an extramarital affair with a city mayor, and things get worse when he suffers a heart attack. The scandal shatters her career, and her life is at risk when ... See full summary »
Director: Lino Brocka | Stars: Dina Bonnevie, Tonton Gutierrez, Nanette Medved, Ronaldo Valdez
Votes: 19
23. Pölynimurikauppiaat (1993)
58 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
In this Finnish cinema classic, three vacuum cleaner salesmen go door-to-door selling dreams of dust-free homes and personal ambitions in a bleak Finland hit by the worst recession in history.
Director: John Webster | Stars: Kimmo Sädeaho, Sami Ahtola, Kristiina Marin, John Webster
Votes: 360
24. Inflation (1928)
3 min | Short, Documentary
Inflation explores the subject of money through photographs and with with stop motion animation techniques, adding faces of people impoverished and enriched by the unpredictability of finance.
Director: Hans Richter
Votes: 333
25. Pulakapina (1977)
113 min | Drama, History
A group of farmers start to rebel against the authorities after it is announced that their malnourished horse will be killed. Based on the events of Nivala rebellion of 1932.
Director: Mikko Niskanen | Stars: Mikko Niskanen, Erkki Ruokokoski, Aapo Vilhunen, Eeva-Maija Haukinen
Votes: 56
26. Craig Quits His Day Job (2016)
85 min | Comedy
Craig abruptly quits his dead-end day job and embarks on an epic quest to unite quitters the world over - or at least the ones in his neighborhood with nothing better to do.
Director: Eric Paul Chapman | Stars: Garrett Titlebaum, Jordan Streussnig, Cindy Fernandez-Nixon, Chace Beck
Votes: 111
27. Bootstrap Bubble (2022)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Michael, a computer science student, learns about the potential 2023 recession from tech culture and news of Big Tech layoffs and instability. He's presented with an opportunity to change tech for the better--but at a risk.
Director: Andrew Cao | Stars: Benjamin Chipman, Niam Kothari, Michael Crout, Cade Spector
Votes: 16
28. Seven Days That Made the Fuhrer (2013 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, History
We identify the seven key events that shaped Hitler's mind and ultimately culminated in his plans for world domination as he became one of the most powerful and deranged leaders the world has ever known.
Director: Alex Parkinson | Stars: Kerry Daynes, Frank McDonough, Estelle Lovatt, Richard John Evans
Votes: 11
29. Surviving the Good Times (2000 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary
This documentary, filmed over ten years, follows two working families in Milwaukee as they cope with life in the longest economic expansion in American history.
Directors: Tom Casciato, Kathleen Hughes | Stars: Bill Berland, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Bill Moyers
30. The Dogmatic (2012)
9 min | Documentary, Short
An overly-zealous animal rescue group takes the law into their own hands, while risking their own lives, to save jilted dogs by stealing them from abusive owners.
Director: Lance Oppenheim | Star: Amy Restucci
Votes: 14
31. The Jane Austen Marriage Manual
Comedy, Romance | Announced
Kate Shaw, an acting beauty editor for a fashion magazine who is about to turn forty, has just been told that, due to cutbacks, her services are no longer required. Through no fault of her ... See full summary »
32. Komissaari (2012)
53 min | Documentary
Director: Pekka Lehto | Stars: Olli Rehn, Slavoj Zizek, Margrit Kennedy, Markku Manninen
Votes: 8
33. Tujuh Hari Di Bawah Matahari (2022)
21 min | Short, Drama, Sport
The prodigal son, Emil, is determined to cycle 500 KM with a cat, back to his hometown to celebrate Aidilfitri.
Director: Razaisyam Rashid | Stars: Nadhir Nasar, Sherie Merlis, Sean Jia-Ern Lee, Pekin Ibrahim
Votes: 8
34. Talousennustajat (2015)
23 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Reetta Huhtanen | Stars: Voitto Aaltonen, Seppo Tanhua, Reijo Karhinen, Jyrki Katainen
Votes: 13
35. La república perdida II (1986)
140 min | Documentary, History, War
A history of Argentina's last military dictatorship (1976-1983).
Director: Miguel Pérez | Stars: Aldo Barbero, Rita Cortese
Votes: 93
36. Wakagibo: Mushaburi kuu (2009)
Not Rated | Drama, Romance
Haruki, the father of the Konno family, ran a city factory with his eldest son Kiyoshi, but it went bankrupt due to the recession. Haruki collapsed and became bedridden. His former employee and future wife Kiyomi is his devoted caregiver.
Director: Tetsuya Takehora | Stars: Aya, Kaho Kasumi, Miho Wakabayashi, Haruki Sato
37. Mandakranto (2010)
Short, Drama
Plight of a young man and woman in recession hit times.
Director: Sumantra Chattopadhyay | Stars: Sumit Barua, Subhra Chatterjee, Kaushani Ray
38. Recession (II) (2014)
78 min | Drama
In Greece of economic crisis, austerity and collapse, three people with different concerns, two men and a woman, suffer for different reasons each. During their course, after emotional ... See full summary »
Director: Michalis Yiarimoustas
39. Karpon Maamme-televisio (1993 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary
Director: Hannu Karpo | Star: Hannu Karpo
41. Conditions Apply (2010)
12 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Looking for unconditional love?
Director: Lijin Jose | Stars: Pranami Bora, Omkar, Srikanth Rai
42. Isännät ja isäntien varjot (1976–1977)
170 min | Drama
Stars: Harri Tirkkonen, Paavo Pentikäinen, Eira Soriola, Marko Riikonen
Votes: 17
43. Suomen itsenäisyys - Osa 2 (1967)
15 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Olavi Puusaari, Kari Uusitalo | Stars: Olavi Puusaari, Adolf Hitler, Matti Järvinen, Kyösti Kallio
44. Lama ja oikeus (2008 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary
Director: Timo-Erkki Heino | Stars: Timo-Erkki Heino, Riikka Uosukainen, Eero Lapinleimu, Jyrki Nurmi
45. Das asiatische Beben - Eine Finanzkrise und ihre Folgen (2022 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History
Since the end of the twentieth century, the volume of capital has mushroomed, and the rate at which it circulates has reached lightning speed. However, the financial markets are also a ... See full summary »
Directors: Thomas Ammann, Amos Why | Stars: Robert Levin, Tomas Spencer
Votes: 10
47. Neljäs tie (2013 TV Movie)
119 min | Comedy, Drama
Directors: Esa Leskinen, Atro Lahtela | Stars: Kristiina Halttu, Katariina Kaitue, Aarni Kivinen, Antti Litja
Votes: 10
48. Mouth to Mouth: Interview with Actor Ian Gilmour (2012 Video)
8 min | Short, Biography, History
Stars: Ian Gilmour, John Duigan
49. Colin the Ninja (2010)
9 min | Short, Comedy
A short film that documents the effects of the recession on a London based ninja.
Director: Matt McCooey | Stars: Henry Everett, Stuart Kershaw, Kenji Watanabe
50.
ABC Close-Up! (1960– )
Episode:
Adventures on the New Frontier
(1961)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary
A look at the daily business of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, with a focus on some of the political issues he faces six weeks into his term.
Directors: Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker, Kenneth Stilson | Stars: McGeorge Bundy, Paul B. Fay Jr., John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Goldberg
Votes: 171