Corporate Thrillers

Corporate Thrillers

11 Episodes

Scandal, corruption, and high-stakes power struggles play out amid imposing high-rises and glassy boardrooms in these sleekly tailored tales of office intrigue and money-hungry machinations. In the years between 1987’s Black Monday stock-market crash and 2008’s global financial meltdown, Wall Street, white-shoe law firms, and Fortune 500 companies held a special fascination for Hollywood. In these poisonous portraits of “greed is good” excess (WALL STREET, ARBITRAGE), morally shaded legal dramas (PRIMAL FEAR, THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE), and globe-trotting conspiracy thrillers (ANTITRUST, THE INTERNATIONAL), competing ambitions, ruthless backstabbing, and murky ethical politics rise to the realm of the Shakespearean.

Corporate Thrillers
  • Corporate Thrillers Teaser

    Episode 1

  • Wall Street

    Episode 2

    Directed by Oliver Stone • 1987 • United States
    Starring Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen

    The ultimate portrait of ’80s corporate excess, Oliver Stone’s hard-hitting, brilliantly entertaining look at the moral emptiness behind the era’s “greed is good” mentality features an iconicall...

  • The Firm

    Episode 3

    Directed by Sydney Pollack • 1993 • United States
    Starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Hal Holbrook

    The first of what would become a virtual microgenre unto itself—the John Grisham adaptation—remains one of the best legal thrillers of the 1990s thanks to the intelligent direction of veteran ...

  • Disclosure

    Episode 4

    Directed by Barry Levinson • 1994 • United States
    Starring Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland

    A best-selling novel by Michael Crichton provides the basis for this heated thriller about sexual politics in a high-tech corporation. After Tom Sanders (Michael Douglas), a married executiv...

  • Michael Clayton

    Episode 5

    Directed by Tony Gilroy • 2007 • United States
    Starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton

    Attorney Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is a fixer, the go-to guy when his powerful New York law firm wants a mess swept under the rug. But now he’s handed a crisis even he may not be able to f...

  • Primal Fear

    Episode 6

    Directed by Gregory Hoblit • 1996 • United States
    Starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton

    A high-profile slaying becomes the case of an ambitious attorney’s career in this smash-hit legal thriller boasting shocking twists and compelling performances from Richard Gere and an Academy Aw...

  • The Devil’s Advocate

    Episode 7

    Directed by Taylor Hackford • 1997 • United States
    Starring Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron

    A diabolical performance from Al Pacino lights up this operatically over-the-top legal thriller with a supernatural twist. He’s John Milton, the most powerful and feared attorney in New York City...

  • Antitrust

    Episode 8

    Directed by Peter Howitt • 2001 • United States
    Starring Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tim Robbins

    In this slick Y2K-era technothriller, Milo Hoffman (Ryan Phillippe) thinks he’s found his dream job when he’s hired by Gary Winston (Tim Robbins), the CEO of the world’s largest computer comp...

  • The Deal

    Episode 9

    Directed by Harvey Kahn • 2005 • Canada, United States
    Starring Christian Slater, Selma Blair, Robert Loggia

    An unusually dense and detailed insider’s view of corporate corruption distinguishes this twisty boardroom thriller. In a near future where an energy crisis has pushed oil prices to astro...

  • The International

    Episode 10

    Directed by Tom Tykwer • 2009 • United States, Germany
    Starring Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl

    A high-stakes game of suspense, intrigue, and explosive action plays out against a succession of striking international locales from Milan to New York to Istanbul in this globe-trotting c...

  • Arbitrage

    Episode 11

    Directed by Nicholas Jarecki • 2012 • United States
    Starring Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth

    New York hedge-fund magnate Robert Miller (Richard Gere) appears as the very portrait of success. But behind the gilded walls of his mansion, Miller is in over his head, desperately trying to comp...