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Margin Call
Why this pick
A tightly contained, dialogue-driven financial-crisis drama that shares The Big Short’s fury at institutional blindness, but trades explanatory comedy for mounting overnight dread.
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MOVIE2015 2h 10m USA
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Its propulsive, fourth-wall-flirting satire turns financial excess into a gaudy comic spectacle, matching The Big Short’s irreverence and disgust toward Wall Street incentives.
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Too Big to Fail
Why this pick
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Vice
Why this pick
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Why this pick
This sharp documentary unpacks corporate fraud with escalating disbelief and moral bite—the real-world investigative counterpart to The Big Short’s crash-course indignation.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A group of wily opportunists make a fortune off of the U.S. economic crash by sniffing out the situation in advance and betting against the banks.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Christian Bale
Michael Burry
Ryan Gosling
Jared Vennett
Finn Wittrock
Jamie Shipley
Marisa Tomei
Cynthia Baum
Tracy Letts
Lawrence Fields
Max Greenfield
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Billy Magnussen
Mortgage Broker
Rudy Eisenzopf
Lewis Ranieri