Movies Like Rogue Trader (1999)

Rogue Trader is a 1999 drama, history, thriller film from James Dearden with a MovieMagicScore of 5.9/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Margin Call and Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard.

Drama History Thriller

Margin Call

2011

A thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.

6.9

MagicScore

Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard

2022

Upstart payment firm Wirecard wowed the financial industry with its runaway success — until a tenacious team of journalists exposed massive fraud.

7.4

MagicScore

The China Hustle

2018

An unsettling and eye-opening Wall Street horror story about Chinese companies, the American stock market, and the opportunistic greed behind the biggest heist you've never heard of.

7.2

MagicScore

L'Eclisse

1962

This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.

7.7

MagicScore

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

2018

When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

6.8

MagicScore

Lords of Chaos

2018

A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.

6.8

MagicScore

Bank of Dave

2023

The true story of how Dave Fishwick, a working class man and self-made millionaire, fought to set up a community bank so that he could help the local businesses of Burnley not only survive, but thrive. In his bid to help his beloved community, he has to take on the elitist financial institutions of London and fight to receive the first, new banking license to be issued in over 100 years.

7.0

MagicScore

Monsieur Verdoux

1947

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

7.7

MagicScore

Hustlers

2019

A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.

6.5

MagicScore

#10

Default

2018

Only one week left until South Korea will go under sovereign default. Han Shi-hyun is a leader of the monetary policy team at the Bank of Korea. and is assigned to a crisis team.

6.9

MagicScore

#11

Dumb Money

2023

Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich—until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.

6.7

MagicScore

#12

One Life

2023

British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.

7.8

MagicScore

#13

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

2019

An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.

7.0

MagicScore

#14

Welcome to Marwen

2018

When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town named Marwen where he can heal and be heroic. As he builds an astonishing art installation — a testament to the most powerful women he knows — through his fantasy world, he draws strength to triumph in the real one.

6.5

MagicScore

#15

Headhunters

2011

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

7.2

MagicScore

#16

Inside Man

2006

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.

7.4

MagicScore

#17

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti

2017

In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic conventionalism. On his journey of discovery, he faces solitude and disease, but he also knows the beauty of wild nature and the love of Tehura, a young native girl who becomes his wife and model.

5.7

MagicScore

#18

The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story

2014

The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story delves into the experiences of six unknown young actors placed into the Hollywood spotlight, exposing the challenges of growing up under public scrutiny.

5.3

MagicScore

#19

The Man from Snowy River

1982

Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the lowlands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet.

7.0

MagicScore

#20

Judex

1916

When an unscrupulous banker ruins his family, a young man swears to bring him to justice, so he adopts a new identity, the mysterious Judex, and ominously disguised and sunk into the muddy path of vengeance, punishes the crooks and protects the innocents. (Originally a twelve-part epic serial.)

6.8

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Rogue Trader?

The top films similar to Rogue Trader by MovieMagicScore are Margin Call (6.9), Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard (7.4), The China Hustle (7.2). Each shares drama/history/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Rogue Trader worth watching?

Rogue Trader holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.9/10 from 127 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Rogue Trader?

Rogue Trader (1999) is a drama, history, thriller film directed by James Dearden, starring Ewan McGregor, Anna Friel, Nigel Lindsay.

Where can I find more recommendations like Rogue Trader?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Rogue Trader

This ranked list pairs Rogue Trader (1999), a drama and history and thriller film from James Dearden, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Ewan McGregor take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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