The Big Short (2015)

 

In 2006-2007 a group of investors bet against the US mortgage market. In their research they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is.

Brilliantly staged and cast drama manages to show and explain the reasons for the international financial crisis 2007-2008 and expose its perpetrators, fast-paced and tinged with irony, although it doesn't shy away to reveal the tragic dimensions of this historic event.

Vice (2018)

The story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today.

Political satire focused on a malicious historical politician is foremost successful with the extraordinary performances of its cast and with some biting moments, but generally is not very funny, has a haphazard script and - the reality was much worse than depicted here.