Movies like Money Monster
Money Monster (2016) is a thriller movie directed by Jodie Foster. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Margin Call (2011)
★ 6.9 · 2,211 votes · Thriller, Drama
Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. An entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm.
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2. Inside Man (2006)
★ 7.4 · 6,626 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.
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3. Novocaine (2025)
★ 6.8 · 1,820 votes · Action, Comedy, Thriller
When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, everyman Nate turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.
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4. Yannick (2023)
★ 7.1 · 750 votes · Comedy, Drama, Thriller
In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a bad boulevard comedy at a Parisian theatre, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
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5. 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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6. American Psycho (2000)
★ 7.4 · 12,858 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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7. Phone Booth (2003)
★ 6.9 · 4,381 votes · Thriller, Crime
A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
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8. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
★ 7.9 · 3,541 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.
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9. Panic Room (2002)
★ 6.8 · 5,620 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
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10. The Call (2013)
★ 6.8 · 3,153 votes · Crime, Thriller
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.
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11. The Player (1992)
★ 7.2 · 1,000 votes · Mystery, Drama, Thriller
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
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