The Big Short
2015 · Comedy · Adam McKay · 2h 10m
A handful of investors work out that the American housing market is built on bad loans and bet against it, while everyone tells them they are wrong. Fast and jokey, and it stops to explain the finance.
- Strongly realistic
- Clearly complicated
- Clearly fast
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Crime 101
88% alike
2026 · Crime
A careful Los Angeles jewel thief plans his robberies to avoid violence, and a detective who thinks one man is behind them all cannot get anyone to listen. It cuts between the two of them.
- Clearly realistic
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2025 · Thriller
A finance prodigy joins a big investment bank as assistant to its star dealmaker, then an executive asks him to trick his mentor into signing off on falsified accounts. Most of it is deals and manoeuvring.
- Clearly realistic
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City of God
87% alike
2002 · Crime
Two boys grow up in a Rio housing project through the sixties and seventies, one drifting toward photography and the other toward the drug trade. It moves fast and jumps between dozens of lives.
- Strongly heavy
- Strongly realistic
- Clearly fast
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