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Margin Call is a 2011 American drama film written and directed by J. C. Chandor in his feature directorial debut. The principal story takes place over a 24-hour period at a large Wall Street investment bank during the initial stages of the 2007–2008 financial crisis .
The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah; it also played In Competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for the Golden Bear. Margin Call was nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards and won two of them: for Best First Feature and the Robert Altman Award for Best Cast.
The Big Short is a 2015 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Adam McKay and co-written by McKay and Charles Randolph.The film is based on the 2010 book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, and shows how the 2007–2008 financial crisis was triggered by the United States housing bubble. [4]
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All Is Lost is a 2013 action drama film [7] written and directed by J. C. Chandor. The film stars Robert Redford as a man lost at sea. [A] Redford is the only cast member, and the film has 51 spoken English words. All Is Lost is Chandor's second feature film, following his 2011 debut Margin Call.
Too Big to Fail is a 2011 American biographical drama television film directed by Curtis Hanson and written by Peter Gould, based on Andrew Ross Sorkin's 2009 non-fiction book Too Big to Fail. The cast includes William Hurt , Edward Asner , Billy Crudup , Paul Giamatti , Topher Grace , Cynthia Nixon , Bill Pullman , Tony Shalhoub , and James ...
Inside Job is a 2010 American documentary film, directed by Charles Ferguson, about the 2007–2008 financial crisis.Ferguson, who began researching in 2008, [3] said the film is about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption", [4] amongst them conflicts of interest of academic research, which led to ...
A Most Violent Year is a 2014 crime drama film written and directed by J. C. Chandor, who also co-produced with Neal Dodson and Anna Gerb. It stars Oscar Isaac as a fuel supplier who tries to adhere to his own moral compass amid the rampant violence, corruption and decay that threaten his family and business.