20 best movies like Margin Call (2011)

List of the best movies like Margin Call (2011): Too Big to Fail, The Social Network, The Big Short, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Wizard of Lies, Moneyball, J. Edgar, Executive Suite, Glengarry Glen Ross, Limitless.

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Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, documentary, crime, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

Based on the bestselling book by Andrew Ross Sorkin, 'Too Big to Fail' offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:56

    On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among friends soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

      The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:00

        A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genredrama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:21

        A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wake, both for the victims and Madoff's family.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genredrama, biography, sport
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:06

          The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genremelodrama, drama, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:17

            As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:44

            When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.

            Markimdb: 7.7
            Genredrama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:40

            Glengarry Glen Ross, follows the lives of four unethical Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to go to any lengths (legal or illegal) to unload undesirable real estate on unwilling prospective buyers.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
            CountryUSA, Mexico
            Duration01:45

            A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:38

              Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.

              Markimdb: 6.2
              Genremelodrama, drama, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:07

                As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.

                Markimdb: 6.2
                Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:43

                When a corporate raider threatens a hostile takeover of a 'mom and pop' company, the patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's attractive daughter—who is a lawyer—to stop the takeover. However, the raider soon becomes infatuated with her, and enjoys the legal manoeuvring as he tries to win her heart.

                Markimdb: 7.4
                Genredrama, biography, history
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:58

                Based on the book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, Game Change focuses on the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, when candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists. Directed by Jay Roach, who previously directed the HBO film Recount and the Austin Powers movies, Game Change premiered on HBO on March 10th, 2012.

                Markimdb: 6.6
                Genredrama
                CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
                Duration01:46

                A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.

                Markimdb: 6.8
                Genredrama, biography, history
                CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, USA
                Duration02:30

                Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.

                Markimdb: 6.9
                Genredrama, biography
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:48

                The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

                Markimdb: 6
                Genredrama, biography
                CountryUSA, Luxembourg
                Duration02:02

                The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.

                Markimdb: 6.6
                Genredrama, biography
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:18

                A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.

                Markimdb: 7
                Genremelodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:54

                An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.

                Markimdb: 7.8
                Genredrama, short
                CountryUSA
                Duration00:19

                At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his nine-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.

                Markimdb: 7.2
                Genredrama, biography
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:44

                Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.

                Markimdb: 7.1
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:02

                A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.

                Markimdb: 7.5
                Genremelodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:11

                A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

                Markimdb: 7
                Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
                CountryUSA, Canada
                Duration01:46

                  The story of the awakening of the painter, Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

                  Markimdb: 6
                  Genrecomedy, drama, biography
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                  Duration01:39

                  Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.

                  Markimdb: 6.8
                  Genredrama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:12

                  A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

                  Markimdb: 6.6
                  Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:41

                  CBGB looks at New York's dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the ground-breaking Lower East Side club started by eccentric Hilly Kristal (Alan Rickman) in 1973 which launched thousands of bands.

                  Markimdb: 7.3
                  Genredrama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:35

                  A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

                  Markimdb: 7.2
                  Genredrama, biography, history
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                  Duration02:31

                    Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

                    Markimdb: 6.4
                    Genredrama, biography
                    CountryUSA, Canada
                    Duration02:05

                    Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

                    Markimdb: 6.6
                    Genredrama, biography
                    CountryBrazil, USA
                    Duration01:35

                    The infamous anti-hero Marcelo Nascimento da Rocha is one of the greatest Brazilian con artists ever that has lured several persons with his schemes. The director and writer Mariana Caltabiano proposes to write his biography and to make a documentary about his life, and she is also lured by the swindler that discloses his rise and fall.

                    Markimdb: 7.2
                    Genredrama, biography, history
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:35

                    This film is the semi-humorous documentary about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires of Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corporation.

                    Markimdb: 7.7
                    Genremelodrama, drama, military, history, sport
                    CountryMacedonia, Czech Republic, USA
                    Duration01:53

                    Spitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of Bulgaria's National Football League

                    Markimdb: 5.6
                    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:05

                    After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight, and attracting the interest of a down and out reporter.

                    Markimdb: 8.1
                    Genredrama, military, history
                    CountryUSA

                    The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.

                    Markimdb: 4.7
                    Genredrama, biography, sport
                    CountryUSA

                    A combination "before the rage" and "after the rage" of world middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta's tumultuous life and times.

                    Markimdb: 6.6
                    Genredrama, sport
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:37

                    The coach of a women's swim team parlays her success into an opportunity to build her school's men's golf team.

                    Markimdb: 7.8
                    Genredrama, crime, biography
                    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                    Duration02:37

                    Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Based on a true story.

                    Markimdb: 7.8
                    Genredrama, military, history
                    CountryUSA

                    Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.

                    Markimdb: 7.2
                    Genrethriller, drama, short
                    CountryUSA

                    In a small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash.

                    Markimdb: 7.4
                    Genremelodrama, drama
                    CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
                    Duration02:20

                    A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.

                    Markimdb: 6.9
                    Genredrama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:40

                    A businessman's professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life over the course of two days.

                    Markimdb: 7.4
                    Genredrama, biography, sport
                    CountryUSA, Canada
                    Duration02:00

                    A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.

                    Markimdb: 7.2
                    Genredrama, biography, history
                    CountryUSA, Canada
                    Duration01:39

                    The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at The New Republic for three years. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down.

                    Markimdb: 7.7
                    Genredrama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:26

                    When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of Gantry's ex-lovers decides that she has a score to settle with the charismatic performer.

                    Markimdb: 6.8
                    Genredrama, music, biography
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:14

                    From director Clint Eastwood comes the big-screen version of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys. The film tells the story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons. The story of their trials and triumphs are accompanied by the songs that influenced a generation, including “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Rag Doll,” and many more.

                    Markimdb: 5.4
                    Genredrama, crime
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:56

                    Organized crime boss Meyer Lansky remembers his life as he is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the USA have put out an extradition order for him.

                    Markimdb: 6.7
                    Genredrama, biography, sport
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:52

                    Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.

                    Markimdb: 6.4
                    Genremelodrama, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:24

                    Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.




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