Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "financial-ruin"

1. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

R | 180 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey

Votes: 1,585,005 | Gross: $116.90M

2. Trading Places (1983)

R | 116 min | Comedy

A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

Director: John Landis | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche

Votes: 165,941 | Gross: $90.40M

3. Margin Call (2011)

R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller

Follows the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.

Director: J.C. Chandor | Stars: Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany

Votes: 144,524 | Gross: $5.35M

4. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)

R | 110 min | Drama, Thriller

After her sex offender husband gets caught in the act and kills himself, an embittered pregnant widow loses her child, and embarks on a mission of vengeance against one of her husband's victims and the woman's family.

Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca De Mornay, Matt McCoy, Ernie Hudson

Votes: 48,971 | Gross: $88.04M

5. Inside Job (2010)

PG-13 | 109 min | Documentary, Crime

Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.

Director: Charles Ferguson | Stars: Matt Damon, Gylfi Zoega, Andri Snær Magnason, Sigridur Benediktsdottir

Votes: 79,004 | Gross: $4.31M

6. Funny Girl (1968)

G | 151 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis

Votes: 25,185 | Gross: $58.50M

7. Boiler Room (2000)

R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A college dropout, attempting to live up to his father's high standards, 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 first appeared to be.

Director: Ben Younger | Stars: Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Nicky Katt

Votes: 56,475 | Gross: $16.94M

8. On Becoming a God in Central Florida (2019)

TV-MA | 46 min | Comedy

In 1992 Central Florida, a minimum-wage water park employee lies, schemes, and cons her way up the ranks of the cultish, multibillion-dollar pyramid scheme that drove her family to ruin.

Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Théodore Pellerin, Mel Rodriguez, Beth Ditto

Votes: 7,547

9. Too Big to Fail (2011 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 99 min | Biography, Drama, History

Chronicles the financial meltdown of 2008 and centers on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: James Woods, John Heard, William Hurt, Erin Dilly

Votes: 19,112

10. Madame Bovary (2014)

R | 118 min | Drama, Romance

Bored in her marriage to a country doctor and stifled by life in a small town, the restless Emma Bovary pursues her dreams of passion and excitement, whatever they may cost.

Director: Sophie Barthes | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ifans, Ezra Miller, Logan Marshall-Green

Votes: 8,867

11. Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

PG | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-heartedly grasping uncle.

Director: Douglas McGrath | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Christopher Plummer, Jim Broadbent

Votes: 13,678 | Gross: $1.59M

12. Mortdecai (2015)

R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Juggling angry Russians, the British Mi5, and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part-time rogue Charlie Mortdecai races to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain a code that leads to lost gold.

Director: David Koepp | Stars: Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Munn

Votes: 76,882 | Gross: $7.61M

13. Willard (2003)

PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A young man with an unusual connection to rats uses them at his own sociopathic will.

Director: Glen Morgan | Stars: Crispin Glover, R. Lee Ermey, Laura Harring, Jackie Burroughs

Votes: 20,409 | Gross: $6.89M

14. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Romance

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

Directors: Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise | Stars: Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter

Votes: 26,770

15. Quicksilver (1986)

PG | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Jack was doing great trading shares until he wasn't. He gets a job on a bike at Quicksilver speed delivery. There he befriends Hector and the cute Terri. Jack gets an enemy in the criminal Gypsy.

Director: Thomas Michael Donnelly | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos

Votes: 5,300 | Gross: $7.63M

16. The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)

Passed | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer makes a pact with Satan for economic success, then enlists famed orator Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon

Votes: 5,618

17. The Invisible Woman (1940)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

An attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charles Ruggles

Votes: 3,359

18. The Chocolate War (1988)

R | 104 min | Drama

The Vigils are a gang of students at Trinity Catholic School... part of the tradition. They control the other boys by intimidation and the threat of violence.

Director: Keith Gordon | Stars: John Glover, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Wallace Langham, Doug Hutchison

Votes: 2,447 | Gross: $0.30M

19. Up to His Ears (1965)

Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy

The farcical adventures of unhappy suicidal billionaire Arthur Lempereur.

Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Ursula Andress, Maria Pacôme, Valérie Lagrange

Votes: 2,298

20. The Great Sinner (1949)

Approved | 110 min | Drama

In the 1860s, in the casino resort town of Wiesbaden, Germany, a reformed gambling addict, Pauline Ostrovsky, tenderly nurses the talented Russian writer Fedja, who is a physical wreck.

Directors: Robert Siodmak, Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston

Votes: 1,624

21. Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard (2022)

TV-14 | 92 min | Documentary, Crime

Upstart payment firm Wirecard wowed the financial industry with its runaway success — until a tenacious team of journalists exposed massive fraud.

Director: James Erskine | Stars: Florian Toncar, Lena Kampf, Martin Osterloh, Cansel Kiziltepe

Votes: 2,338

22. Guilty Conscience (1985 TV Movie)

Approved | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While an unfaithful criminal lawyer considers killing his wife, his spouse develops some schemes of her own.

Director: David Greene | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Blythe Danner, Swoosie Kurtz, Donegan Smith

Votes: 1,014

23. Deep Water (2006)

PG | 92 min | Documentary, History, Sport

A documentary about the disastrous 1968 round-the-world yacht race.

Directors: Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Donald Crowhurst, Ted Hynds, Robin Knox-Johnston

Votes: 3,303 | Gross: $0.27M

24. Team Spirit (2016)

117 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

The rise and fall of anonymous trader turned superstar turned scapegoat Jérôme Kerviel, just as the 2008 financial crisis was unfolding

Director: Christophe Barratier | Stars: Arthur Dupont, François-Xavier Demaison, Sabrina Ouazani, Tewfik Jallab

Votes: 1,494

25. Default (2018)

Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, History

A dramatization of the behind-the-scenes story of the IMF negotiations that took place during the financial crisis in 1997, through three parallel stories.

Director: Kook-Hee Choi | Stars: Kim Hye-su, Yoo Ah-in, Huh Joon-ho, Jo Woo-jin

Votes: 1,499 | Gross: $0.20M

26. The Bank (2001)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

The Bank is a thriller about banking, corruption and alchemy.

Director: Robert Connolly | Stars: David Wenham, Anthony LaPaglia, Sibylla Budd, Steve Rodgers

Votes: 2,991

27. A Fool There Was (1915)

Not Rated | 67 min | Drama

A married diplomat falls hopelessly under the spell of a predatory woman.

Director: Frank Powell | Stars: Theda Bara, Edward José, Mabel Frenyear, May Allison

Votes: 1,042

28. The Wind in the Willows (III) (1983 TV Movie)

TV-G | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Badger, Rat and Mole are trying to save Toad Hall and its owner, their rich irresponsible airhead playboy friend Toad, from himself, as well as financial ruin, the court and a gang of conspiratorial weasels who have their eye on the place.

Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | Stars: Charles Nelson Reilly, Roddy McDowall, José Ferrer, Eddie Bracken

Votes: 545

29. Life Without Principle (2011)

Not Rated | 107 min | Crime, Drama

Three people - a criminal, a bank officer and a cop - end up in a catastrophic situation in the midst of a global economical crisis and are forced to betray any morals and principles to solve their financial problems.

Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Richie Jen, Denise Ho, Myolie Wu

Votes: 2,742

30. The Conquering Power (1921)

TV-G | 89 min | Drama, Romance

After losing his father, a playboy moves in with his miserly uncle, who seeks to cheat him out of his inheritance.

Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Alice Terry, Rudolph Valentino, Eric Mayne, Ralph Lewis

Votes: 539

31. Eugénie Grandet (2021)

103 min | Drama

Felix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favorable view of ... See full summary »

Director: Marc Dugain | Stars: Joséphine Japy, Olivier Gourmet, Valérie Bonneton, César Domboy

Votes: 355

32. Bouquet of Barbed Wire (2010– )

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Thriller

Summoned by the police to the scene of a car crash,wealthy architect Peter Manson recalls events from months earlier.

Stars: Trevor Eve, Hermione Norris, Imogen Poots, Tom Riley

Votes: 348

33. Downshiftaajat (2015– )

40 min | Comedy, Drama

A successful thirtysomething couple find themselves at a financial dead end; they are faced with an extreme lifestyle change to pay for their debts.

Stars: Jussi Vatanen, Mikko Leppilampi, Niina Lahtinen, Anna-Leena Härkönen

Votes: 403

34. No More Orchids (1932)

Passed | 78 min | Drama, Romance

An heiress forced to marry into royalty in order to save her banker father falls in love with another man while on a cruise.

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Louise Closser Hale, Lyle Talbot

Votes: 510

35. A Corner in Wheat (1909)

G | 14 min | Short, Crime, Drama

An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, Grace Henderson, James Kirkwood, Linda Arvidson

Votes: 2,748

36. Tarnished Lady (1931)

Passed | 83 min | Drama, Romance

Tarnished Lady is a 1931 Pre-Code American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart is based on his short story, A Story of a New York Lady.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, Clive Brook, Phoebe Foster, Alexander Kirkland

Votes: 251

37. O Coronel e o Lobisomem (2005)

106 min | Comedy, Horror

In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Coronel Ponciano de Azeredo Furtado inherits the farm Sobradinho in the country, many possessions and the title of "colonel" of his grandfather. ... See full summary »

Director: Maurício Farias | Stars: Diogo Vilela, Selton Mello, Ana Paula Arósio, Tonico Pereira

Votes: 752

38. The Golden Bed (1925)

Passed | 90 min | Drama

Femme fatale Flora marries a titled European to save the family plantation. Her husband and a rival fall to their deaths in a glacier. Next Flora weds her sister Margaret's love Admah and ... See full summary »

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Lillian Rich, Vera Reynolds, Henry B. Walthall, Rod La Rocque

Votes: 44 | Gross: $0.20M

39. Death's Marathon (1913)

Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama, Romance

Two business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the irresponsible partner, much to her later regret. He squanders money on gambling, as his interest in her... See full summary »

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Walter Miller, Lionel Barrymore

Votes: 610

40. Bitter Apples (1927)

Passed | 60 min | Drama, Romance

John Wyncote's father dies, leaving him a bankrupt business. He instructs the family attorney, Thorden, to sell the business and all of his father's other interests. One of the now bankrupt... See full summary »

Director: Harry O. Hoyt | Stars: Monte Blue, Myrna Loy, Paul Ellis, Charles Hill Mailes

Votes: 32

41. The Wicked Darling (1919)

59 min | Drama, Crime

A slum girl is forced to steal for a living. After she swipes a rich society's matron's necklace, she hides out at the home of a man who turns out to be the socialite's former fiance.

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Priscilla Dean, Wellington A. Playter, Lon Chaney, Spottiswoode Aitken

Votes: 481

42. Döntö pillanat (1938)

79 min | Drama

Gyula Kabos is the manager of a Hungarian theater, and is a staunch supporter of Antal Pager, who is struggling for a stage career with the help of his wife, Lrari Tolney. Kabos loses his ... See full summary »

Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Andor Ajtay, Gyula Kabos, Zoltán Makláry, Béla Mihályffi

Votes: 46

43. The Rosary (1915)

Passed | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Bruce Wilton has amassed a fortune which he lavishes on his wife Vera. But a note of menace creeps into their happy home. No one hears it at first, except Father Kelly, a priest and Bruce's... See full summary »

Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Kathlyn Williams, Charles Clary, Wheeler Oakman, Gertrude Ryan

Votes: 19

44. Guitar Man (I) (2015)

95 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

A modern day Icarus fable.

Director: Eric Paul Fournier | Stars: Michael Indelicato, Neal Schon, Joe Satriani, Ryan Adams

45. Of Gods and Pens (2024)

32 min | Short, Horror, Thriller

Facing a canceled book deal and financial despair, Ethan discovers his most prized possession, the pen of legendary author, Chester Stone, can mysteriously write on its own.

Directors: Mark Foscolo, Pete Sussi | Stars: Joseph Masi, Leyla A, CK Fernandez

46. Das verrückteste Ende der Welt (2019)

109 min | Comedy

In the closed department of a psychiatric institution, the former financial advisor, Peter, who is now working as a pizza delivery guy, tells the psychiatrist, Walter, how he allegedly delivered fifty pizzas together with God the Almighty.

Director: Andreas Auinger | Stars: Andreas Auinger, Gerhard Breit, Ursula Bruck, Eugen Fasching

47. Brand of the Outlaws (1936)

60 min | Western

Gary Gray arrives only to be caught up in the rustling activities of Ben Holt and his gang. First Holt brands him for rustling and then frames him for murder. Proven innocent, Gary foils ... See full summary »

Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Bob Steele, Margaret Marquis, Jack Rockwell, Charles King

Votes: 63

48. Meet Edward! (2017)

Animation, Short, Adventure

After losing his job with a Fortune 500 company, hyperventilating Edward tries to cool down and think of a master plan while visiting his lake house for the night.

Director: Aeneas Middleton | Star: Aeneas Middleton

49. Flor de fango (1941)

90 min | Drama

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Director: Juan José Ortega | Stars: Sofía Álvarez, Margarita Mora, Miguel Ángel Ferriz, Víctor Urruchúa

50. The Scales of Justice (1962–1967)
Episode: Company of Fools (1966)

32 min | Crime, Drama

Five strangers band together to exact revenge on a man who ruined them financially.

Director: Peter Duffell | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Barrie Ingham, Jacqueline Jones, Maurice Kaufmann

Votes: 37