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NOTE: While searching for movies & DVDs about economics and illustrations of filming inside banks, among the results were a bunch of movies about banks and bankers and bank robberies. Good idea for another Magic Lantern film festival page, so stay tuned at the Online Film Festival Pages Index [8/2022].
Several about running a bank, especially during economic crises, are included here.

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Selected  Films
{ in chronological order }
search DVD catalog on keyword 'economics' {returns 2,000+ titles} at Amazon

selected movies 1920s silents to 2010 {back on Page 1} • year 2011 to present {just below} • NEW movies, coming soon

"The Flaw" documentary [New Video/Docurama 2011]

Inspired by former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s acknowledg-ment in 2008 that he’d found a flaw in his model of how the world market worked. Directed by David Sington; featuring housing expert Robert Frank, Robert Shiller, Nobel-laureate economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, and economic historian Louis Hyman Docurama color DVD [4/2012] for $20.93 credits at IMDb • official movie site watch 9/2010 official trailer [3:46] at YouTube

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"Margin Call" [LionsGate Oct 2011]

Tagline: 'Be first. Be smarter. Or cheat.' The film tracks eight people at a prominent investment bank during a tumultuous 24-hour periods during the 2008 financial collapse. "One of the strongest American films of the year and easily the best Wall Street movie ever made." — David Denby, New Yorker Magazine film critic Written & directed by J.C. Chandor; starring Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Simon Baker, Stanley Tucci, Demi Moore, Zachary Quinto, Jeremy Irons, Penn Badgley, Mary McDonnell, Aasif Mandvi, Ashley Williams, Susan Blackwell & Maria Dizzia Roadside Attractions widescreen color Blu-ray [12/2011] for $15.64 Roadside Attractions widescreen color DVD [12/2011] for $6.27 full credits at IMDb • official movie site • watch 7/2011 official trailer [2:28] online at YouTube

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"Ayn Rand & The Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged"
[limited release Jan 2012]

87-minute color documentary film describing how Ayn Rand's warnings in the 1950s are appearing as world economic events of today • Co-produced & directed by Chris Mortensen; narrated by Gary Anthony Williams; featuring Mike Berliner, Andrew Bernstein, Harry Binswanger, Yaron Brook, Christopher Cerf, Kevin O'Connor, Amy Peikoff, Elliot Persico, Richard E. Ralston, Albert S. Ruddy, Ed Snider, many others Arts Alliance America widescreen color DVD [4/2012] for $19.28 full credits at IMDb • official movie site watch 8/2011 official trailer [2:49] on YouTube

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"Payback" documentary film
[National Film Board of Canada March 2012, USA April 2012]

"Some debts can't be paid with money" 86-minute documentary film on the nature of the phenomenon known as 'debt', based on Margaret Atwood's book • Adapted & directed by Jennifer Baichwal; featuring Margaret Atwood, Conrad Black, Louise Arbour, Lucas Benitez, Raj Patel, William Rees, Eric Schlosser Zeitgeist Films widescreen color DVD [8/2012] for $24.99 full credits at IMDb • watch trailer [1:47] at YouTube

"Payback: Debt and The Shadow Side of Wealth" [2008] by Margaret Atwood originally presented on the Massey Lectures series of Canadian radio Kindle Edition from House of Anansi Press [5/2011] for $8.77 House of Anansi Press 8x5 pb [10/2008] for $10.85 Bloomsbury Publng 7x4¾ hardcover [10/2008] out of print/used author's official website

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union activist Carolyn Federoff explains the federal deficit
watch May 2012 video [13:26] free at YouTube

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"Cosmopolis" [Europe May 2012, Entertainment One USA Aug 2012]

While a 28-year-old billionaire Wall Street golden boy rides around Manhattan in a stretch limousine, his life begins to fall apart and he realizes that he will soon be assassinated. Adapted & directed by David Cronenberg; based on the novel by Don DeLillo; starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric, Jay Baruchel, Kevin Durand, K'Naan, Emily Hampshire, Samantha Morton, Paul Giamatti, Philip Nozuka; nominated for Palme d'Or Award at Cannes Film Festival DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch trailer [1:55] at Vimeo

"Cosmopolis: A Novel" [2003] by Don DeLillo Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [2003 edition] for $11.99 Scribner 8x5¼ pb [3/2004] for $9.36 Scribner 8¾x5¾ hardcover [3/2003] out of print/100+ used book entry at Wikipedia

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"Death By China: One Lost Job At A Time"
documentary [indep Aug 2012]

64-minute color feature documentary about the United States’ trade relationship with China, and the harm that has been done to our country, especially to manufacturing jobs and the towns where the factories have been closed. As a result of the biggest shell game in American history, China has stolen millions of our jobs, corporate profits are soaring, and the United States now owes more than $3 trillion to the world's largest totalitarian nation. This film is about how that happened . . . and why the best jobs program for America is trade reform with China. Co-produced, written & directed by Peter Navarro credits at IMDb • official movie site

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"Arbitrage" [LionsGate/Roadside Sept 2012]

"Power is the best alibi"; a hedge fund magnate approaching his 60th birthday is in over his head financially and on the brink of collapse; his marriage is a lie and a car accident while he is driving kills his mistress . . . Written & directed by Nicholas Jarecki; starring Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth, Brit Marling, Monica Raymund, Laetitia Casta, Nate Parker, Stuart Margolin, Chris Eigeman, Graydon Carter, Bruce Altman & Larry Pine DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch trailer [2:29] at IMDb

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"Set For Life" [indep Sept 2012]

This film grew out of a two-year online multimedia project, and focuses on three over-50 American workers and their struggles to survive in the post- G.O.P. Economic Meltdown economy • Co-produced by Susan Sipprelle; co-produced & directed by Sam D. Newman DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • bare credits at IMDb • official movie site

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"Le Capital" [France Nov 2012, Cohen Media USA Oct 2013]

A politically-tinged suspense thriller set in the world of international finance: An American hedge fund tries to buy out a giant European investment bank, forcing the bank's officers to desperate measures • Co-written & directed by Costa-Gavras, based on the novel by Stιphane Osmont; starring Gad Elmaleh, Gabriel Byrne, Natacha Rιgnier, Cιline Sallette, Liya Kebede, Hippolyte Girardot, Daniel Mesguich, Olga Grumberg, Bernard Le Coq & Jordana DePaula DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb novel by Stιphane Osmont Livre de Poche French-language mass pb [3/2006] for $18.68

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"American Winter" [H.B.O. March 2013]

Several families in one American city provide an intimate snapshot of the nation's economy and the human consequences of the decline of the middle class and the fracturing of the American Dream • Co-produced & co-directed by Harry & Joe Gantz DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • watch 2/2013 preview [4:52] on YouTube

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"Frontline: The Economic Meltdown" on DVD [P.B.S. June 2013]

Tagline: "How America's fiscal fallout triggered a world crisis" • Five hour-long TV news programs about the 2008 G.O.P. Economic Meltdown: "Breaking The Bank" [10/2008] {IMDb}; "Inside The Meltdown" [2/2009] written & directed by Michael Kirk {IMDb}; "Ten Trillion and Counting" [3/2009] co-produced & written by Mark Obenhaus {IMDb}; "The Warning" [10/2009] written & directed by Michael Kirk {IMDb}; and "Cliffhanger" [2/2013] co-written & directed by Michael Kirk {IMDb} P.B.S. Home Video color DVD [6/2013] 2 disks for $20.48

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"Inequality For All" [Radius-TWC Sept 2013]

"A Passionate Argument On Behalf of The Middle Class" Partly funded at KickStarter; former U.S. Labor Secretary {1993-97) and now Berkley University professor Robert B. Reich is committed to raising awareness of the sorry economic state in America, where the huge disparity in incomes and a tax system that rewards 'job creators' who create jobs overseas has decimated the Middle Class • Directed by Jacob Kornbluth; starring Robert Reich; director won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site watch 8/2013 official trailer [1:48] at YouTube

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"Master of The Universe" documentary
[Germany Nov 2013, USA June 2014]

leading German investment banker Rainer Voss gives a disturbing confessional insider's account of a frightening and merciless world • co-produced, written & directed by Marc Bauder KimStim color DVD with English subtitles [11/2014] for $16.00 full credits at IMDb • official movie website watch full German-language movie [8/2016 upload; 1:27:02] online at YouTube

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banned TED Talk by Prof. Dr. Franz Hφrmann of Vienna, Austria [Feb 2014]
banned TED Talk described as 'most brilliant' about the realities behind the concept of 'money'
watch 2/2014short video [14:33] online at YouTube
official website • entry at Wikipedia

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"Capitalism" documentary TV series [Arte-TV France Oct 2014]

Advertised as having 6 parts, IMDb shows 2 duplicates; combination of interviews and on-the-ground footage shot in twenty-two countries; film questions the myth of the unfettered free market, explores the nature of debt & commo-dities, and retraces some of the great economic debates of the last 200 years • The six episode titles are: 1) The Birth of The Free Market; 2) "The Wealth of Nations" (by Adam Smith); 3) Ricardo and Malthus, Did Someone Say Freedom?; 4) What If Marx Was Right?; 5) Keynes vs Hayek, A Fake Debate?; 6) Karl Polanyi, The Human Factor Co-produced, co-written & directed by Ilan Ziv; co-produced & co-written by Bruno Nahon; featuring Robert Boyer, Michael Hudson, Thomas Piketty, David Graeber, Kari Polanyi Levitt, Robert Skidelsky, Ha-Joon Chang, Ho Fung Hung, Yuval Noah Harari, David Harvey, Philippe Norel, Nicholas Phillipson, Abraham Rotstein, Yanis Varoufakis, Noam Chomsky, Alan Ebenstein, Stuart Ewen, Mary Gabriel, James K. Galbraith, Lewis Gordon, Carol Heim Icarus Films color DVD [5/2018] 3 disks for $27.78 available on Ovid streaming service website {requires membership} full credits at IMDb • official French-language website

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"Breaking The Bank" [festival circuit 2014, DVD release 2016]

tagline: "You can bank WITH him, just don't bank ON him" • Tuftons, a struggling 200-year-old family-run British bank, is threatened by ruthless U.S. and Japanese investment banks; its bumbling, incompetent chairman manages to lose everything, but then accepts the challenge and attempts to fend off the onslaught and save the bank • Directed by Vadim Jean; written by Roger Devlin; starring Kelsey Grammer, Sonya Cassidy, John Michael Higgins, Doon Mackichan, Tamsin Greig, Mathew Horne, Pearce Quigley, Julie Dray, Andrew Sachs, Richard Cordery, Lara Heller, Chris Wilson, Gabriel Freilich, Danny Morgan, Emma Louise Williams, Jonathan Hansler, Ray Burnet, Jonathan Rhodes, Stephen McDade, Andrew French, Marketa/Meg Flynn, Leo Ashizawa, Togo Igawa, Shayne Elsa Drummond, Edith Bukovics, Tom Swacha, Jeff Randall - with 37 actors credited as bankers & traders and 14 actors credited as party guests full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia Universal Pictures Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [8/2016] for $9.14 watch 6/2016 official trailer [1:28] online at YouTube

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"The Big Short" [Regency/Paramount Dec 2015]

Filmed in New Orleans, Las Vegas, Miami & New York; story focuses on four Wall Street insiders and outsiders who saw the looming collapse of the derivatives market and decided to bet big bucks against the system • Co-written & directed by Adam McKay; co-written by Charles Randolph; starring Brad Pitt (co-producer), Christian Bale, Karen Gillan, Ryan Gosling, Marisa Tomei, Steve Carell, Finn Wittrock, Melissa Leo, Rafe Spall, John Magaro, Hamish Linklater, Al Sapienza, Byron Mann, Tracy Letts, Jeremy Strong, Shona Gastian, Billy Slaughter, Aiden Flowers & Shauna Rappold, with Max Greenfield, Billy Magnussen & Selena Gomez DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 9/2015 official trailer #1 [2:33] at YouTube

"The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" [New York Times bestseller 2010] by Michael Lewis A character-rich and darkly humorous account of how the combination of ridiculously easy money, investment broker and shareholder greed, non-regulation, and toxic derivatives caused the free fall of the American economy. Movie rights purchased before publication by Paramount Pictures for Brad Pitt's Plan B company • book entry at Wikipedia movie tie-in Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton [11/2015] for $8.51 W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [2/2011] for $8.96 W.W. Norton 9¼x6 hardcover [3/2010] for $18.36 "La Gran Apuesta (The Big Bet)" Spanish edition [2013] Spanish-language Kindle Edition from Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial [7/2013] for $9.99 Debolsillo Spanish-language 7½x5 pb [3/2010] for $11.95

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visit the "7 Days of Genius" Channel at YouTube

"Thomas Piketty, Paul Krugman, and Joseph Stiglitz with Alex Wagner:
The Genius of Economics" [live March 2015]

75-minute panel event at the "7 Days of Genius" Conference at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, co-sponsored by MSNBC • DVD/Blu-ray not available • not listed at IMDb Amazon Instant Video [2015] HD or SD rental or purchase for 99’ watch full 3/2015 panel event [1:15:38] online at YouTube

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"Money Monster" thriller movie [Sony/TriStar/Smokehouse May 2016]

TV show by economic guru Lee Gates is invaded by a desparate man with a gun and explosives who demands exposure of the Wall Street tycoons who stole billions of equity from stock owners like himself • Co-produced by and starring George Clooney; directed by Jodie Foster; written by Jamie Linden, Alan DiFiore & Jim Kouf; also starring Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell, Giancarlo Esposito DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 1/2016 official trailer [2:43] at YouTube

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"Equity" [Sony Pictures Classics July 2016]

A female senior investment banker is threatened by a concocted financial scandal and must untangle a web of corruption • Directed by Meera Menon; written by Amy Fox, Sarah Megan Thomas & Alysia Reiner; starring Anna Gunn, James Purefoy, Sarah Megan Thomas, Alysia Reiner, Craig Bierko, Margaret Colin, Nate Corddry, Nick Gehlfuss, Carrie Preston DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 5/2016 official trailer [2:05] at YouTube

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"Private Banking" [Hugofilm/ARTE/SRF Swiss TV Dec 2017]

2-part Swiss-German TV movie; the patron of a small Swiss private bank becomes ill and falls into a coma; his daughter, with no clue about the banking business, takes over day-to-day management of the bank; it turns out that the bank is built upon corrupt South Africa connections and the daughter tries to turn the bank into a legitimate business • Co-written & directed by Bettina Oberli; co-written by Thomas Ritter & David Sandreuter; music by Michael Sauter; starring Stephanie Japp, Bruno Todeschini, Dietrich Siegl, Bettina Stucky, Anna Schinz, Marc Benjamin, Michael Gempart, Christian Kohlund, Fabian Krόger, Ludwig Boettger, Peter Mygind, Bruno Cathomas, Heidi Maria Glφssner, Anja Herden, Lisa Brόhlmann, Zoe Hutmacher, Aurel Kuthy, Lukas Kubik, Brencis Udris, Matthias Hungerbόhler, Patrizia Laeri, Raphael Sandoz Mey, Anina Strebel, Joel Basman, Jeffery Kissoon, Philipp Malbeck, Susanne Wille, Thomas Ritter • full credits at IMDb • DVD/Blu-ray not available SRF-TV MP-3 soundtrack album download [5/2019] 27 tracks for $11.49

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"Black Monday" [Showtime Jan 2019]

When an ever-steeper climb of the financial markets is followed by the resounding crash of 1987, a colorful group of traders choose to ride the roller coaster; the half-hour period TV series centers on a boutique investment firm run by Maurice, a brash fast-talker whose plan for survival comes via an eager recent business-school graduate with an algorithm he thinks can beat the market; along with other misfits, the firm aims to take on the dominant white-male elite firms, particularly the powerhouse Lehman Brothers; pilot directed by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg • 10-episode series created & co-produced by Jordan Cahan & David Caspe; starring Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells, Paul Scheer, Regina Hall, Eugene Cordero, Michael James Scott, Kadeem Hardison, Arthur R.H. Wasem Sr., Casey Wilson, Yassir Lester, Kurt Braunohler, Edwin Gagiano, Ken Marino, Greg Bryan, Frederick Falk, Jayden Maddux, Jacob Melton DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailers online at YouTube: 9/2018 teaser #1 [1:19] • 10/2018 trailer #2 [2:19]

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"A Conspiracy of Paper" [Warner Bros. - still in development?]  
Announced 12/2010: The period mystery thriller novel by David Liss sparked a bidding war after its publication in 2000;
Ridley & Tony Scott will produce; adaptation by Danny Strong; story is set in early 18th century London against
the backdrop of the beginnings of stock speculation and the retreat from a metal-based currency
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • latest info at IMDb (2021)

"A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel" [2000] by David Liss Kindle Edition from Random House Digital [2000 edition] for $11.99 Ballantine Books 8¼x5½ pb [1/2001] for $10.20 Random House 9¼x6 hardcover [2/2000] out of print/200+ used

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"Industry" [BBC-TV/H.B.O. Max Nov 2020 to present]  

"... the most thrilling show on TV" • 8-episode first season plot follows a group of five recent college graduates competing for a limited set of permanent positions at Pierpoint & Co., a prestigious investment bank in London, England; 8-episode second season is further office & personal drama upon returning to work after the British COVID lockdowns • { the hints about the setting being after/during the 2008 economic meltdown are not true, nor is this series about Wall Street per se } • Created, co-produced & written by Mickey Down & Konrad Kay; multiple directors; featured actors Myha'la Herrold, David Jonsson, Marisa Abela, Harry Lawtey, Ken Leung, Freya Mavor, Conor MacNeill, Will Tudor, Nabhaan Rizwan; other actors are Sagar Radia, Caoilfhionn Dunne, Katrine De Candole, Jay Duplass, Priyanga Burford, Mark Dexter, Nicholas Page Hayman, Sonny Poon Tip, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Derek Riddell, Jonathan Barnwell, Sarah Parish, Andrew Buchan, Nicholas Bishop, Amir El-Masry, Trevor White, Indy Lewis, Ruby Bentall, Alex Alomar Akpobome, Adam Levy, Pip Carter, Angus Imrie, Helene Maksoud, Branden Cook, Kεre Conradi, Joshua James, Joshua McGuire, Irfan Shamji, Brittany Ashworth, Elena Saurel, Nicolo Pasetti series credits at IMDb • official series homepage • series entry at Wikipedia Season 1: Amazon Instant Video [2021] purchase SD $9.99, purchase HD $9.99 Season 2 has not finished streaming

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