Movies on the financial crisis

The Belgian magazine (Knack Focus) lists in this week’s issue movies on the financial crisis:

• Dr. Mabuse the Gambler. Mabuse, a sinister mesmerist/psychiatrist, toys with the weaknesses of the rich and influential. He worms his way into the confidence of wealthy men, plays cards with them, hypnotizes them into cheating at their businesses, then puts them in a position to be blackmailed so that he can corner the stock market.
• L’Argent was adapted from the novel L’Argent by Émile Zola, and scathingly portrays the world of banking and the stock-market in Paris in the 1920s.
• Faites sauter la banque! Shopkeeper Victor Garnier (Louis de Funès…, I know…) has naively invested his family’s life savings in an African mine, on his banker’s recommendation. When the mine is nationalized, rendering the stock worthless, he considers himself shamelessly robbed by the bank; it seems only fair to him to return the ‘favor’ and rob the bank, teaming up with the whole family as they were all duped.
• Stavisky is a 1974 French film drama based on a true story surrounding a 1934 political scandal known as the Stavisky Affair, which led to fatal riots in Paris, the resignation of two prime ministers and a change of government.
• Rollover, a 1981 political and financial thriller starring Jane Fonda and Kris Kristofferson.
• Wall Street is a 1987 American film directed by Oliver Stone and features Charlie Sheen as a young stockbroker desperate to succeed and a wealthy but unscrupulous corporate raider (Michael Douglas) whom he idolizes.
• The Hudsucker Proxy is a 1995 comedy fantasy film written, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The film is the story of Norville Barnes, a naive business graduate who is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

Not really my cup of tea, but I can’t think of any really good movie with this theme.