Movies like The Hummingbird Project (2019)
The best movies like The Hummingbird Project (2019) are Margin Call (2011), Arbitrage (2012) and The Insider (1999). If The Hummingbird Project hooked you with its thriller and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Insider (1999)7.5/10 from 2,199 votes
- NewestThe Social Reckoning (2026)Released 2026
Margin Call (2011)
Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. An entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisArbitrage (2012)
A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Insider (1999)
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCrypto (2019)
A young agent is tasked with investigating a tangled web of corruption and fraud in New York.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Fifth Estate (2013)
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Bank (2001)
The Bank, a world ripe with avarice and corruption, where O'Reilly and his ilk can thrive and honest Aussie battlers lose everything. Enter Jim Doyle a maverick mathematician who has devised a formula to predict the fluctuations of the stock market. When he joins O'Reilly's fold, he must first prove his loyalty to the "greed is good" ethos. Which way will he go? What does he have to hide?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisPrime Risk (1985)
While siphoning bank funds, computer-wise lovers spot a plot to sink the Federal Reserve.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
The Social Reckoning (2026)
Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network's most guarded secrets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Company Men (2010)
Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and two co-workers jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands and fathers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDark Waters (2019)
A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSyriana (2005)
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSnowden (2016)
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNo More Bets (2023)
A depressed programmer and a model decide to seek gold as a seemingly good job opportunity, but they inadvertently become involved in a well-planned Internet scam.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZipper (2015)
Sam Ellis is a man on the rise — a hot-shot federal prosecutor on the cusp of a bright political future. But what was meant to be a one-time experience with an escort turns into a growing addiction — a new demon threatening to destroy his life, family, and career.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBoiler Room (2000)
A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm and is on the fast track to success—but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisArgo (2012)
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMoney Monster (2016)
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlackBerry (2023)
Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPeople I Know (2002)
A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisWall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Big Short (2015)
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMisconduct (2016)
An ambitious lawyer finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive and his firm’s senior partner. When the case takes a deadly turn, he must race to uncover the truth before he loses everything.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMichael Clayton (2007)
A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMercato (2025)
Mercato takes us behind the scenes of today's soccer, a global industry with interests running into billions. Driss, a player agent, has seven days to save his skin before the end of the mercato...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisEquity (2016)
Senior investment banker Naomi Bishop’s world of high-power big money is brutal and fierce, and one she thrives in. When a controversial IPO threatens the fragile balance of power and confidentiality, Naomi finds herself entangled in a web of politics and deception.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisPercy (2020)
Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation farmer, gets sued by a corporate giant for allegedly using their patented seeds. With little resources to fight a legal battle, Percy joins forces with up-and-coming attorney Jackson Weaver and environmental activist Rebecca Salcau for a monumental case that leads all the way to the Supreme Court.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRogue Trader (1999)
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successful trading run--ends up accumulating $1.4 billion in losses hidden in account #88888.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSilk Road (2021)
Philosophical twenty-something Ross Ulbricht creates Silk Road, a dark net website that sells drugs, while DEA agent Rick Bowden goes undercover to bring him down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHow to Blow Up a Pipeline (2023)
A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMicro Men (2009)
In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home investment in his project,the electric car, also opposes former assistant Chris Curry's belief that he can successfully market a micro-chip for a home computer. A parting of the ways sees Curry, in partnership with the Austrian Hermann Hauser and using whizz kid Cambridge students, set up his own, rival firm to Sinclair Radionics, Acorn. Acorn beat Sinclair to a lucrative contract supplying the BBC with machines for a computer series. From here on it is a battle for supremacy to gain the upper hand in the domestic market.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Hummingbird Project?
The closest matches to The Hummingbird Project are Margin Call (2011), Arbitrage (2012) and The Insider (1999). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Hummingbird Project?
People who watched The Hummingbird Project most often go on to Margin Call (2011), Arbitrage (2012) and The Insider (1999).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Hummingbird Project?
The Insider (1999), rated 7.5/10 by 2,199 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Hummingbird Project?
The Social Reckoning (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Hummingbird Project?
Yes: Margin Call (2011), Arbitrage (2012) and The Insider (1999).
How are movies similar to The Hummingbird Project chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Hummingbird Project, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.