Margin Call
Why this pick
Like Arbitrage, it turns financial expertise into mounting personal and institutional jeopardy, using a cool, polished corporate setting and tightly escalating overnight pressure.
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Like Arbitrage, it turns financial expertise into mounting personal and institutional jeopardy, using a cool, polished corporate setting and tightly escalating overnight pressure.
Why this pick
Its affluent protagonist constructs a desperate defence around a fatal incident, sustaining the same sleek, morally compromised tension and shifting sense of control.
Why this pick
A botched crime pulls privileged men into lies, family strain and irreversible consequences; its adult moral pressure and increasingly claustrophobic suspense strongly echo Arbitrage.
Why this pick
This stripped-back thriller shares Arbitrage's real-time feeling of a man trying to contain a crisis, with tension built from calls, decisions and concealed culpability.
Why this pick
Its immaculate period surface and controlled lead performance frame a businessman under converging legal and criminal pressure, favoring ethical ambiguity over action spectacle.
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01 / THE STORY
Sixty-year-old magnate Robert Miller manages a hedge fund with his daughter Brooke and is about to sell it for a handsome profit. However, unbeknownst to his daughter and most of his other employees, he has cooking the books in order to cover an investment loss and avoid being arrested for fraud. One night, while driving with his much younger mistress, Julie Cote, he begins to doze off and crashes; Julie is killed. An injured Robert leaves the scene and decides to cover up his involvement to prevent the public, his wife Ellen, and the prospective buyer James Mayfield from discovering the truth.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Robert Miller

Ellen Miller

Det. Michael Bryer

Brooke Miller

Reina

Julie Cote
Syd Felder
James Mayfield