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American Casino
Why this pick
A clear-eyed follow-up in spirit to Maxed Out, connecting predatory lending and deregulation to the financial crisis through affected households and investigators.
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MOVIE2006 1h 30m USA
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Inside Job
Why this pick
Matches Maxed Out’s outraged, evidence-led examination of financial power, widening the focus from consumer debt to the institutions behind the 2008 collapse.
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The Flaw
Why this pick
A sober, accessible investigation into inequality, debt, and the crash that retains the systemic critique and explanatory drive of Maxed Out.
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Why this pick
Its brisk, unsettling dissection of corporate misconduct and regulatory failure should suit Maxed Out’s appetite for revealing how finance harms ordinary people.
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The Queen of Versailles
Why this pick
A more intimate companion: it observes conspicuous wealth, leverage, and economic collapse through one family, with the same uneasy concern about debt culture.
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01 / THE STORY
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Mike Hudson
