Movies like Wall Street
Wall Street (1987) is a crime movie directed by Oliver Stone. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
★ 8.0 · 26,722 votes · Crime, Drama, Comedy
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
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2. Inside Job (2010)
★ 7.7 · 1,085 votes · Documentary, Crime
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.
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3. Boiler Room (2000)
★ 6.7 · 772 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm and is on the fast track to success—but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.
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4. American Psycho (2000)
★ 7.4 · 12,857 votes · Thriller, Drama, Crime
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
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5. 25th Hour (2002)
★ 7.3 · 2,677 votes · Crime, Drama
On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downfall in a city still reeling from 9/11.
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6. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
★ 6.4 · 3,520 votes · Crime, Thriller, Action
Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
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7. Side Effects (2013)
★ 6.6 · 3,424 votes · Thriller, Crime, Drama
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
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8. The Godfather Part II (1974)
★ 8.6 · 14,467 votes · Drama, Crime
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
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9. American Hustle (2013)
★ 6.9 · 7,947 votes · Drama, Crime
A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.
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10. A Most Violent Year (2014)
★ 6.6 · 1,598 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
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11. Rounders (1998)
★ 7.0 · 2,014 votes · Drama, Crime
Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.
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12. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
★ 8.4 · 6,269 votes · Drama, Crime
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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13. Donnie Brasco (1997)
★ 7.5 · 5,022 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
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14. The Grifters (1990)
★ 6.5 · 499 votes · Crime, Drama
A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
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