8 Best Wall Street and Financial Thrillers

By Vlad Zakh · October 26, 2027

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Money, greed, and the fragile architecture of modern finance have produced some of the most morally complex thrillers in American cinema.

Dumb Money (2023) 01

Dumb Money (2023)

IMDb ★ 6.9

Amateur investors on an internet forum trigger a chaotic short squeeze against Wall Street hedge funds.

Molly's Game (2017) 02

Molly's Game (2017)

IMDb ★ 7.4

A former Olympic skier builds and loses an exclusive high-stakes underground poker empire.

The Big Short (2015) 03

The Big Short (2015)

IMDb ★ 7.8

A handful of investors foresee the impending collapse of the housing market and bet against it.

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 04

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

IMDb ★ 8.0

A stockbroker's fraudulent penny-stock empire fuels a life of unchecked excess and corruption.

Margin Call (2011) 05

Margin Call (2011)

IMDb ★ 7.1

Investment bank executives scramble through one desperate overnight session as a financial catastrophe unfolds.

Boiler Room (2000) 06

Boiler Room (2000)

IMDb ★ 7.0

A college dropout joins a fraudulent brokerage firm before realizing the true cost of easy money.

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) 07

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

IMDb ★ 7.7

Desperate real estate salesmen face ruin as a brutal new sales contest threatens to fire the bottom performers.

Wall Street (1987) 08

Wall Street (1987)

IMDb ★ 7.4

A young stockbroker's ambition draws him into the orbit of a ruthless, amoral corporate raider.

Vlad Zakh

Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix, built to fix a specific annoyance: most recommendation sites are just algorithm-driven noise. Our lists are researched and organized by who's in a film, where it's from, and the mood you're actually in tonight.