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In pics: 6 films based on financial frauds you can stream next

To show financial frauds with their enormous impact is tough, but some films have done it with finesse.

Updated:Sep 16, 2021, 05:14 PM IST

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Leonardo DiCaprio played Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street

Martin Scorsese combined dark humour and even darker deeds in this stock market story.

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Michael Douglas made Gordon Gekko a legendary character in Wall Street

The brilliant team of Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas, Wall Street is probably the most watched film on financial fraud in the world.

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The Wizard of Lies is based on the life of Bernard Madoff

With Robert De Niro playing the lead character, the film offers an inside view into the mins of the world's richest people.

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The Big Short has many dimensions

Several stories culminate at one point to arrive at a conclusion about the primary reasons of the international meltdown of 2008.

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Gafla is a little known film about the finance market scam of 1992

Not many have seen this film, but it's one of the better Hindi films based on the financial frauds.

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The Big Bull was also based on the Harshad Mehta scam

Abhishek Bachchan played a stock market broker who had the power to make the market crash if he wanted to in the early '90s.