Financial World
"Financial World" themed TV shows and films delve into the intricate and high-stakes realm of finance, offering a comprehensive exploration of the financial industry's dynamics, complexities, and the individuals navigating its terrain. These narratives often center on protagonists embroiled in the cutthroat world of banking, investments, corporate dealings, or stock markets.
Characters within this genre are typically portrayed as ambitious, sharp-witted, and driven, navigating a world defined by wealth, power, and competitiveness. They may be investment bankers, stock traders, entrepreneurs, or corporate executives, each with their motivations and strategies to climb the financial ladder.
Plotlines often revolve around high-stakes deals, financial crises, hostile takeovers, insider trading, or the ethical dilemmas faced by those pursuing success in an unforgiving environment. Themes of greed, ambition, betrayal, and moral compromise are common, as characters grapple with the moral implications of their actions in pursuit of financial gain.
Characters within this genre are typically portrayed as ambitious, sharp-witted, and driven, navigating a world defined by wealth, power, and competitiveness. They may be investment bankers, stock traders, entrepreneurs, or corporate executives, each with their motivations and strategies to climb the financial ladder.
Plotlines often revolve around high-stakes deals, financial crises, hostile takeovers, insider trading, or the ethical dilemmas faced by those pursuing success in an unforgiving environment. Themes of greed, ambition, betrayal, and moral compromise are common, as characters grapple with the moral implications of their actions in pursuit of financial gain.
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- CreatorMatthew CarnahanStarsDon CheadleKristen BellBen SchwartzCharming, fast-talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants use every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals in this scathing, irreverent satire of corporate America today.
- StarsSimon J. BergerAgnes KittelsenTobias SantelmannA dark drama series based on true stories from Norway's financial scene.
- CreatorMickey DownKonrad KayStarsMyha'laMarisa AbelaHarry LawteyYoung bankers and traders make their way in the financial world in the aftermath of the 2008 collapse.
- CreatorJordan CahanDavid CaspeStarsDon CheadleAndrew RannellsPaul ScheerA group of outsiders takes on the 1980s old-boys club of Wall Street.
- StarsPaula BeerBarry AtsmaDésirée NosbuschAmbitious Jana is confronted with the unscrupulous machinations of the world of finance. Her working life is determined by egotism, the pressure to succeed and machismo. She soon has to decide how far she is prepared to go for her career.
- CreatorEzio AbbateGuido Maria BreraElena BucaccioStarsPia MechlerAlessandro BorghiMalachi KirbyA worldwide financial conspiracy is discovered by a group of traders of a large investment bank.
- CreatorJeppe Gjervig GramJannik Tai MosholtAnders Frithiof AugustStarsEsben SmedThomas HwanNatalie MadueñoA big Danish sustainable energy company has had an enormous, suspect growth. Problems start, when an employee's body is found and cop detective Justesen starts investigating Energreen.
- CreatorDavid GreenwaltJohn McNamaraStarsAdrian PasdarLisa DarrLisa BlountJim Profit works for a multinational company and isn't above using any means necessary to get ahead, which includes bribery, blackmail, intimidation, extortion, and even murder. Everyone at the company, including the president, Charles Gracen, are oblivious to his dark side. As a matter of fact, Gracen thinks of him as a golden boy. But when Joanne Meltzer, the company's security chief, looks into his eyes, she sees something sinister. And when her boss, Jack Walters, is looking into some irregularities at the company, he asks Joanne to investigate, and initially the person she cornered said it was Profit who was behind it. But when Profit learned of this, he convinced this person to change the story she told Joanne. But Joanne knows that Profit is evil and so she tries to get the goods on him. At the same time, Profit tries to find a way to neutralize her and anyone else who might believe her.
- StarsJulia RagnarssonMatias VarelaJulia DufveniusEconomics reporter Bea has promised herself not to mix jobs and private life, but fails to defend herself when she falls in love with the charming bank director Peder. Suddenly she gets a tip that his bank is hiding big problems.
- CreatorAnna Bache-WiigSiv Rajendram EliassenStarsIngrid Bolsø BerdalChristian SkolmenAxel BøyumLaw firm working Ida Waage has to sign a bill for 450 000 Euros, but hesitates. She doesn't know the firm. Can she trust the people she works for? Is it a scam? Should she blow the whistle?
- StarsJosh HartnettArsher AliLeila FarzadA scientist-turned-wall street tycoon becomes the target of a plot to destroy the world's financial markets.
- CreatorPhilipp KässbohrerMatthias MurmannStarsLarissa Sirah HerdenAndreas DöhlerThomas SchubertSeries inspired by real events in the financial world, centers on narcissism, megalomania and double standards.
- StarsJudd NelsonFredric LehneBrian McNamaraRon Levin, a wealthy businessman, has disappeared. No body is found, but there was a list with instructions in his house - a recipe for murder. Its author Joe Hunt is the defendant. The successful young business man had formed a team of prestigious former fellow students for a risky project which should make them all rich. His partners claim they didn't know about the means.
- StarsTakuya KimuraKyôka SuzukiKyoko HasegawaSet in the late 1960s decade of Japan and follows the rivalry between Manpyo Daisuke, a powerful banker, and his eldest son, Manpyo Teppei, the executive managing director of a steel firm.
- StarsRawan MahdiMona HussainHussain Al-MahdiSet in Kuwait in 1987, two women making their way in the boys club of the Kuwait Stock Exchange, on the eve of Saddam Hussein's invasion of the country.
- StarsMark LewisAdel KaramAmel BouchouchaTarek is given the task to come up with a million-dollar idea for the launch of a new bank. An idea strikes him, but he will only reveal it to the CEO, making Zeina, the CEO's assistant played by Bouchoucha, suspicious.
- CreatorHart HansonStarsSonja SmitsBruce GrayPatrick McKennaSet in the Toronto-based investment house Gardner/Ross, "Traders" explores the intimate lives and loves of investment bankers whose high-stakes decisions and sizzling alliances can have grave international consequences.
- CreatorHarald ZwartStarsHåkon T. NielsenEvelyn Rasmussen OsazuwaStella Sophia ZwartThis is a humorous drama TV show centered around the Norwegian Pension Fund, affectionately called Oljefondet. The fund was created to invest the enormous amount of tax renevue from the Norwegian oil and gas industry. The fund is there to secure the future costs of pensioners and the socialist way of free health care amongst other things. The show follows some fictional investors working for the fund investing the billions and more billions according to the rules for ethical investments that the Norwegian politicians put in place. Following these complex ethical guidelines in a big cynical world of big business, creates some interesting complications. Currently the fund owns 1%, well, of the world.
- CreatorDarren StarJeff RakeStarsTom Everett ScottNina GarbirasChristian CampbellThe $treet is about these men who know how to have fun at work, but all of a sudden there are powerful women joining the organization. It seems like the men's enjoyment is over.
- StarsAdam ChengVivian ChowAmy KwokWhen their family's entire fortune is wiped out after making the wrong bet on the Hong Kong stock exchange, an investment financier forces his sons to commit suicide before following after them.
- StarsToby StephensLaurence FoxRiz AhmedA single mum strapped for cash, Louise gets a promotion at her London bank, but at an unexpected cost. She quickly learns that the price of her promotion is entry into a criminal underworld she didn't know existed. She becomes involved with shady people trying to pull off a scam and she isn't quite sure who to trust.
- StarsHugo BonemerThaíssa CarvalhoLeonardo FrancoMr. Velasco is a successful businessman who, after a risky transaction, loses everything and ends up bankrupt. The former executive will discover the profitable world of the informal economy on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro.
- CreatorAndrew MacLearStarsWilliam ArmstrongDouglas HodgeJason IsaacsThe story follows the upwardly-mobile hopefuls at London-based investment bank, as they try to scramble up the corporate ladder, taking risks, eating up the pressure, and following their instincts in search of that elusive deal.
- StarsKirk DouglasChristopher PlummerTimothy BottomsThis is the story of the happenings at a major bank. The first of which, is that bank President Ben Rosselli (Leonardo Cimino) announces that he is dying, and that with no heir to take his place, he informs the bank's officers that he is letting them choose a successor. The two Vice Presidents, who are the front runners for the job, are Alex Vandervoort (Kirk Douglas) and Roscoe Heyward (Christopher Plummer). Now Alex is not exactly running around looking for support, and Roscoe can only see the benefits the Presidency can give him. So he goes around looking for people who would like to do business with the bank. He goes to George Quartermain (Lorne Greene), who wants the bank to give him more than they are allowed. While most of the board are excited of the possibility of going into business with Quartermain, Alex is the only one who is weary of it, as it's a big risk. Alex is not popular also because, while his wife Celia (Marisa Pavan) is mentally ill and confined to an asylum, he is having an affair with a lawyer, who specializes in helping the disadvantaged, the bank was originally supposed to fund a project to help them, but has pulled out, and Alex is also asking them not to. Also, the bank is plagued with false credit cards being circulated, so the bank's security officer, who was hired by Alex is not having much luck in finding them, which is another reason why Alex is not so popular.
- CreatorCora YimStarsFrancis NgHsiao-chuan ChangChan-Leung PoonA revenge story of financial market.
- StarsJim BroadbentDavid SchneiderClaire SkinnerComedy series about Peter, an incompetent bank manager; and his long-suffering staff and customers.
- StarsGe HuRenzi JianLong ChenQiu Dong is a public speaker who has lost purpose in life. Despite his talent for motivating others, it seems the only person he can't motivate is himself.
- StarsGo SooLee Sung-minShim Eun-kyungThe Korean government owns a large stake in Jungin Bank. When the bank faces insolvency, the members of the Financial Services Commission struggle to stave off a repeat of the 1997 Korean financial crisis.
- StarsKim Sun-youngHan Ji-EunJung Moon-sungAn entertaining story about a diverse group that comes together to learn about stocks. They help each other navigate the ups and downs of the stock market and their personal lives.
- StarsKim Sang-jungChae Shi-raYoo Dong-geunA re-make of the Japanese "Auditor Nozaki Shuhei", it is the story of a bank auditor who pursues justice and the changing of policies in an era where the economic bubble is collapsing, and financial authorities are in battle over money and power.
- StarsYûji OdaNanako MatsushimaMiori TakimotoShuhei Nozaki is a branch manager at Oozora Bank. People like him because of his sense of justice and humanity, but he doesn't have a successful career at work. One day, the branch where he works closes. Shuhei receives a promotion and works as an auditor. Working as auditor, he sees corruption and decides to change the bank. He faces opposition from all the way at the top of the company. The CEO, Masahiko Kyogoku , and his associates, Shingo Takeda and Sachiko Tachikawa, try to stop Shuhei.