Trading
by sturmv | created - 30 Oct 2013 | updated - 5 months ago | PublicMovies and series loosely related to the financial industry, trading, the markets, Wall Street or that have similar psychological profiles (poker, gambling).
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1. Rollover (1981)
R | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
The wife of a murdered petrochemical company chairman and a banker investigating the liquidity of his new bank stumble upon an international financial scheme that could lead to global economic collapse.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Jane Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Hume Cronyn, Josef Sommer
Votes: 1,442 | Gross: $10.85M
2. The Day the Bubble Burst (1982 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, History
A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.
Director: Joseph Hardy | Stars: Blanche Baker, Franklin Cover, Richard Crenna, Dana Elcar
Votes: 62
3. Trading Places (1983)
R | 116 min | Comedy
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche
Votes: 165,601 | Gross: $90.40M
5. Quicksilver (1986)
PG | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jack was doing great trading shares until he wasn't. He gets a job on a bike at Quicksilver speed delivery. There he befriends Hector and the cute Terri. Jack gets an enemy in the criminal Gypsy.
Director: Thomas Michael Donnelly | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos
Votes: 5,290 | Gross: $7.63M
6. Billionaire Boys Club (1987)
TV-14 | 200 min | Drama, Thriller
Ron Levin, a wealthy businessman, has disappeared. No body is found, but there was a list with instructions in his house - a recipe for murder. Its author Joe Hunt is the defendant. The ... See full summary »
Stars: Judd Nelson, Fredric Lehne, Brian McNamara, Raphael Sbarge
Votes: 953
7. Trader (1987 TV Movie)
55 min | Documentary
Filmed before Wall Street's October 1987 crash, TRADER is a one hour documentary of a fascinating man, Paul Tudor Jones II. It delivers a rarely seen view of futures trading and explains ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Glyn | Stars: Peter Borish, Paul Tudor Jones
Votes: 64
8. Wall Street (1987)
R | 126 min | Crime, Drama
An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover
Votes: 165,038 | Gross: $43.85M
9. Working Girl (1988)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin
Votes: 62,352 | Gross: $64.00M
10. Dealers (1989)
R | 92 min | Drama
The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide ... See full summary »
Director: Colin Bucksey | Stars: Paul McGann, Rebecca De Mornay, Derrick O'Connor, John Castle
Votes: 415
11. Limit Up (1989)
PG-13 | 88 min | Fantasy, Comedy
Casey Falls is the assistant of commodity trader Peter Oak, but wants to get a license herself. When the diabolic Nike appears and promises to make her successful by use of her supernatural... See full summary »
Director: Richard Martini | Stars: Nancy Allen, Dean Stockwell, Brad Hall, Danitra Vance
Votes: 264
12. Capital City (1989–1990)
60 min | Drama
The story follows the upwardly-mobile hopefuls at London-based investment bank, as they try to scramble up the corporate ladder, taking risks, eating up the pressure, and following their instincts in search of that elusive deal.
Stars: William Armstrong, Douglas Hodge, Jason Isaacs, Joanna Kanska
Votes: 272
13. Other People's Money (1991)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A corporate raider buys up shares in an undervalued company and falls in love with the founder's son's lawyer/step daughter. Let the battle begin.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck, Penelope Ann Miller, Piper Laurie
Votes: 9,553 | Gross: $25.68M
14. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.
Director: James Foley | Stars: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin
Votes: 116,080 | Gross: $10.73M
15. Barbarians at the Gate (1993 TV Movie)
R | 107 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The president of a major tobacco company decides to buy the company himself, but a bidding war ensues as other companies make their own offers.
Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: James Garner, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Riegert, Joanna Cassidy
Votes: 3,392
16. Traders (1996–2000)
60 min | Drama
Set in the Toronto-based investment house Gardner/Ross, "Traders" explores the intimate lives and loves of investment bankers whose high-stakes decisions and sizzling alliances can have grave international consequences.
Stars: Sonja Smits, Bruce Gray, Patrick McKenna, Chris Leavins
Votes: 469
17. Black Wednesday (1997 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
The events surrounding the disastrous day in September 1992 when billions were spent on shoring up the pound and Britain has forced out of the ERM, as re-told by some of the leading cast members of the drama.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Giuliano Amato, Werner Benkhoff, Henning Christophersen
Votes: 17
18. Rounders (1998)
R | 121 min | Crime, Drama
A young, reformed gambler must return to playing high stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks, while balancing his relationship with his girlfriend and his commitments to law school.
Director: John Dahl | Stars: Matt Damon, Edward Norton, Gretchen Mol, John Malkovich
Votes: 160,060 | Gross: $22.91M
19. Pi (1998)
R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart
Votes: 186,335 | Gross: $3.22M
20. Rogue Trader (1999)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama, History
The story of Nick Leeson, an ambitious investment broker who singlehandedly bankrupted one of the oldest and most important banks in Britain.
Director: James Dearden | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Anna Friel, Cristian Solimeno, Lorna Pegler
Votes: 10,658
21. Bull (2000–2001)
60 min | Drama
About the life of stockbrockers in their financial firm, and out of it.
Stars: Alicia Coppola, Ian Kahn, George Newbern, Elisabeth Röhm
Votes: 168
22. The $treet (2000–2001)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama
The $treet is about these men who know how to have fun at work, but all of a sudden there are powerful women joining the organization. It seems like the men's enjoyment is over.
Stars: Tom Everett Scott, Nina Garbiras, Christian Campbell, Melissa De Sousa
Votes: 393
23.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
Trillion Dollar Bet
(2000)
TV-PG | Documentary
For over a hundred years economists had dreamed of a way of reducing risk in the stock market. Two Nobel Prize winning economists found a formula which it seemed did exactly that- only for ... See full summary »
Director: Malcolm Clark | Stars: Stan Jonas, Robert C. Merton, Merton Miller, Paul Samuelson
Votes: 48
24. The Family Man (2000)
PG-13 | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife.
Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven
Votes: 119,304 | Gross: $75.79M
25. Boiler Room (2000)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A college dropout, attempting to live up to his father's high standards, gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm which puts him on the fast track to success. But the job might not be as legitimate as it first appeared to be.
Director: Ben Younger | Stars: Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Nicky Katt
Votes: 56,410 | Gross: $16.94M
26. The Bank (2001)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
The Bank is a thriller about banking, corruption and alchemy.
Director: Robert Connolly | Stars: David Wenham, Anthony LaPaglia, Sibylla Budd, Steve Rodgers
Votes: 2,988
27. Open Outcry (2001 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary
A fascinating look at the high-speed, high-power trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Director Jon Else explores this hectic, noisy, seemingly chaotic workplace with his ... See full summary »
Director: Jon Else
Votes: 12
28. Good Advice (2001)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
An investment banker loses everything and must discover what's important in life.
Director: Steve Rash | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Angie Harmon, Denise Richards, Jon Lovitz
Votes: 7,477
29. Wolves of Wall Street (2002)
R | 85 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
Jeff is ecstatic when he lands a job with one of New York's wealthiest financial firms. But the real secret to their success is an animal instinct that turns them into werewolves.
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Jeff Branson, Louise Lasser, William Gregory Lee, Angela Pietropinto
Votes: 772
30. The Corporation (2003)
Not Rated | 145 min | Documentary, History
Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.
Directors: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott | Stars: Mikela Jay, Rob Beckwermert, Christopher Gora, Nina Jones
Votes: 21,777 | Gross: $1.88M
31. Owning Mahowny (2003)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.
Director: Richard Kwietniowski | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, John Hurt, Maury Chaykin
Votes: 14,330 | Gross: $1.01M
32. Wall Street: A Wondering Trip (2004 TV Movie)
Documentary
Director: Andreas Hoessli | Stars: Arthur Cashin, Bill Clinton, Ted Gutierrez, Joe Grano
Votes: 13
33. Go Big (2004 TV Movie)
150 min | Comedy, Romance
Gina Katz is fired for being seven minutes late every morning, despite the best sales in the telemarketing firm. Refused entry to the bar where she went to drown her sorrow as ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Tilse | Stars: Justine Clarke, Tom Long, Alex Dimitriades, Leon Ford
Votes: 141
34. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
R | 110 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: John Beard, Tim Belden, Barbara Boxer, George W. Bush
Votes: 20,104
35. Wall Street Warriors (2006– )
25 min | Documentary
An HD documentary series examining the extreme power and intense competition that defines Wall Street, seen through the eyes of those who thrive there.
Stars: Nathalie Emmanuel, Brett Hickey, Mark Jawdoszyn, Lance Cooley
Votes: 344
36.
American Greed (2007–2023)
Episode:
The Martin Frankel Case
(2008)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary, Crime
The case of financier Martin Frankel is a profile of money laundering, prostitution, bizarre sex, drug abuse... and a con man who vanished with $200 million.
Star: Stacy Keach
Votes: 13
37. The Pit (2009)
64 min | Documentary, History, News
Follows a scrappy group of commodities traders as they try to make a living trading coffee on the New York Board of Trade before electronic trading threatens to make their way of life obsolete.
Director: Johanna Lee | Stars: Richard Sylla, Joseph Digiso, Jon Stefanick, Sean Walter
Votes: 233
38. Overheard (2009)
100 min | Crime, Thriller
A trio of police officers conduct surveillance on a listed company.
Directors: Felix Chong, Alan Mak | Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Louis Koo, Daniel Wu, Jingchu Zhang
Votes: 3,458
39. The World's Greatest Money Maker: Evan Davis meets Warren Buffett (2009 TV Movie)
Documentary
Director: Charles Miller | Stars: Evan Davis, Warren Buffett
Votes: 27
40. Million Dollar Traders (2009– )
60 min | Reality-TV
Eight ordinary people are given a million dollars, a fortnight of intensive training and two months to run their own hedge fund. Can they make a killing?
Stars: Andrew Lincoln, Lex van Dam
Votes: 136
41. Jak-jeon (2009)
119 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A group of brokers stumble onto a gangster-manipulated stock and descend into distrust and betrayal.
Director: Lee Ho-jae | Stars: Yong-ha Park, Kim Min-jung, Park Hee-soon, Ho-geun Bae
Votes: 378
42. Floored (2009)
Not Rated | 77 min | Documentary
For some people, risking everything is nothing.
Director: James Allen Smith | Stars: Bobby Ansani, Jeff Ansani, Ron Beebe, Chris Felix
Votes: 502
43. Freefall (2009 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama
'Diamond' Dave Matthews works for a ruthless firm providing mortgages to families denied credit, regardless of whether they can afford the repayments. Divorced City banker Gus sells ... See full summary »
Director: Dominic Savage | Stars: Dominic Cooper, Laura Ainsworth, Aidan Gillen, Joseph Mawle
Votes: 439
44. Trader Games (2010)
Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A hot young Wall Street trader finds a formula based on climatology to play the market and win big... but at what cost?
Director: Fabrice Genestal | Stars: Gilles Lellouche, Vahina Giocante, Qamar Khokhar, Joffrey Verbruggen
Votes: 463
45.
American Greed (2007–2023)
Episode:
Suicide Is Painless
(2010)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, Crime
Fugitive fund manager Sam Israel fakes his own death to escape justice. See how he gets caught.
Star: Mary Thompson
Votes: 6
46.
American Greed (2007–2023)
Episode:
Madoff Behind Bars
(2010)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, Crime
American Greed looks at Bernie Madoff the mastermind behind the biggest Ponzi scheme in American history. After confessing to his crimes, he is sentenced to 150 years in prison. He takes up... See full summary »
Stars: Stacy Keach, Ronnie Sue Ambrosino, Scott Cohn, Harry Coleman
Votes: 14
47.
American Greed (2007–2023)
Episode:
The Mad Max of Wall Street
(2010)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, Crime
Anthony Elgindy claims to be a former fraudster gone straight. A rogue FBI agent becomes Elgindy's partner in crime.
Star: Stacy Keach
Votes: 6
48. Inside Job (2010)
PG-13 | 109 min | Documentary, Crime
Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.
Director: Charles Ferguson | Stars: Matt Damon, Gylfi Zoega, Andri Snær Magnason, Sigridur Benediktsdottir
Votes: 78,910 | Gross: $4.31M
49. Chasing Madoff (2010)
Unrated | 91 min | Documentary
A look at how one investigator spent ten years trying to expose Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme that scammed an estimated $18 billion from investors.
Director: Jeff Prosserman | Stars: Bernie Madoff, Frank Casey, Gaytri Kachroo, Harry Markopolos
Votes: 1,157
50.
American Greed (2007–2023)
Episode:
Crash & Burn: Marcus Schrenker
(2010)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, Crime
High-flying financier fakes death in a plane crash while under investigation for securities fraud.
Star: Stacy Keach
Votes: 6
51. Freakonomics (2010)
PG-13 | 85 min | Documentary
A collection of documentaries that explores the hidden side of human nature through the use of the science of economics.
Directors: Heidi Ewing, Alex Gibney, Seth Gordon, Rachel Grady, Eugene Jarecki, Morgan Spurlock | Stars: James Ransone, Tempestt Bledsoe, Morgan Spurlock, Melvin Van Peebles
Votes: 7,731 | Gross: $0.10M
52. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
PG-13 | 133 min | Drama
Now out of prison but still disgraced by his peers, Gordon Gekko works his future son-in-law, an idealistic stock broker, when he sees an opportunity to take down a Wall Street enemy and rebuild his empire.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin
Votes: 106,570 | Gross: $52.47M
53.
American Greed (2007–2023)
Episode:
The Wizard of Sarasota
(2011)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, Crime
Arthur Nadel conjures a $330 million hedge fund. In the blink of an eye, he disappears and leaves clients without their life savings.
Stars: Stacy Keach, Tommy Bartlett, Lester Holt
54. Too Big to Fail (2011 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 99 min | Biography, Drama, History
Chronicles the financial meltdown of 2008 and centers on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: James Woods, John Heard, William Hurt, Erin Dilly
Votes: 19,065
55. Limitless (I) (2011)
PG-13 | 105 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A mysterious pill that enables the user to access 100% of his brain's abilities transforms a struggling writer into a financial wizard, but it also puts him in a new world with many dangers.
Director: Neil Burger | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Anna Friel, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro
Votes: 611,826 | Gross: $79.25M
56. Overheard 2 (2011)
121 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A stockbroker working with a crime syndicate is hurt in a car accident while attempting to evade a surveillance operative.
Directors: Felix Chong, Alan Mak | Stars: Louis Koo, Ching Wan Lau, Daniel Wu, Michelle Ye
Votes: 1,945
57.
American Greed (2007–2023)
Episode:
Hedge Fund Imposter
(2011)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, Crime
Marc Dreier is a high-powered lawyer with celebrity clients. But Dreier is a conman and steals more than $700 million from hedge funds.
Stars: Stacy Keach, Bryan Burrough, Marc Dreier, Mary Thompson
Votes: 7
58. Margin Call (2011)
R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
Follows the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.
Director: J.C. Chandor | Stars: Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany
Votes: 144,076 | Gross: $5.35M
59. Capital (2012)
R | 114 min | Drama
The newly appointed CEO of a giant European investment bank works to hold on to his power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy out his company.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Gad Elmaleh, Gabriel Byrne, Liya Kebede, Natacha Régnier
Votes: 5,580 | Gross: $0.10M
60. Cancel Crash (2012 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary
It was the defining moment of the 1980s. The New York Stock Exchange, the epicenter of the world financial markets and backbone of American capitalism, was under siege. On October 19th, ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Vitale
Votes: 22
61. Arbitrage (2012)
R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
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.
Director: Nicholas Jarecki | Stars: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling, Tim Roth
Votes: 54,788 | Gross: $7.92M
62. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
R | 180 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey
Votes: 1,580,365 | Gross: $116.90M
63. Ghost Exchange (2013)
Unrated | 88 min | Documentary, News
'Ghost Exchange' probes the volatile state of U.S. capital markets and their critical impact on America's economic future. The film explores the acceleration of the evolution of U.S. stock ... See full summary »
Directors: Camilla Sullivan, Rob Lyall | Stars: James Angel, Sal Arnuk, Linda Semans Donovan, Eric Scott Hunsader
Votes: 64
64.
American Greed (2007–2023)
Episode:
The Prisoner of Wall Street
(2013)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary, Crime
Perry Griggs ran an investment fraud claiming to sell coffee futures when all he did was keep investors' money. He was convicted of securities fraud and sentenced to eight years in federal ... See full summary »
65. Assault on Wall Street (2013)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Jim, an average New Yorker, lives with a sick but loving wife. Suddenly, everything changes when the economy crashes and causes him to lose everything. Filled with anger and rage, Jim goes to seek revenge for the life taken from him.
Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Dominic Purcell, Erin Karpluk, Edward Furlong, John Heard
Votes: 21,725
66.
American Greed (2007–2023)
Episode:
Greedy, Groovy Guru/Doomsday Profit
(2013)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, Crime
First, a New Age evangelist becomes a greedy, groovy, guru, telling investors that positive thinking can lead to positive returns. But this false prophet is returning nothing but false ... See full summary »
Star: Stacy Keach
67.
American Greed (2007–2023)
Episode:
One World's Collapse/Certified Pilfering Accountant
(2013)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, Crime
Jack Walsh and Charles Martin appear to be getting very rich running a Chicago currency trading brokerage. But an audit reveals that they've been pilfering clients' accounts to the tune of ... See full summary »
Star: Stacy Keach
68.
Frontline (1983– )
Episode:
To Catch a Trader
(2014)
TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, News
FRONTLINE tracks an ongoing seven-year investigation into the largest insider trading scandal in U.S. history.
Director: Nick Verbitsky | Stars: Will Lyman, Sheelah Kolhatkar, Bethany McLean, Martin Smith
Votes: 90
69. The Big Short (2015)
R | 130 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 2006-2007 a group of investors bet against the United States mortgage market. In their research, they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is.
Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt
Votes: 483,666 | Gross: $70.26M
70. The Wizard of Lies (2017 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 133 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The fall of Bernie Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme robbed $65 billion from unsuspecting victims; the largest fraud in U.S. history.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Alessandro Nivola, Nathan Darrow
Votes: 28,626
71. The Ascent of Money (2008– )
120 min | Documentary
Niall Ferguson takes us on a historical adventure through the ascent of money, applying fact and opinion throughout.
Stars: Niall Ferguson, Gareth Armstrong, Richard Lintern
Votes: 832
72. Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve (2013)
Not Rated | 104 min | Documentary, History, News
Nearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the U.S. Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed ... See full summary »
Director: Jim Bruce | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Paul Volcker, Janet Yellen, Peter Atwater
Votes: 1,157
73. Equity (I) (2016)
R | 100 min | Drama
Senior investment banker Naomi Bishop is threatened by a financial scandal and must untangle a web of corruption.
Director: Meera Menon | Stars: Anna Gunn, James Purefoy, Sarah Megan Thomas, Alysia Reiner
Votes: 3,856 | Gross: $1.60M
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