Article posted: 12/9/2012 5:00 AM

Financial crisis films you can bank on

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George Clooney portrays Ryan Bingham in "Up in the Air."

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Zachary Quinto, left, and Penn Badgley in a scene from "Margin Call."

Former construction worker Steven A. Stephen is shown in the documentary, "Inside Job."

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"Killing Them Softly" is a stylish and violent dark comedy about low-level gangsters and thugs, set squarely within the U.S. economic collapse of autumn 2008. In rather heavy-handed fashion, it suggests that the mob functions as a microcosm of American capitalism. Thankfully, Brad Pitt is there to keep it from going under. A lot of movies have tried to get their arms around this complicated topic that affected every single one of us in some way. Here's a look at five that did it successfully

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