Fremont

In many ways a straightforward love story in the manner of many films (see Fallen Leaves), in which two separate working-class people, shat on by the system in different ways, meet each other by chance and begin to make a thing of it.

Dumb Money

The great Paul Dano (the lumbering saint Philip in War and Peace) plays another humble titan, this time a YouTube investor who leads a popular investor uprising which threatens the billionaires. The pivot of the drama is the pressure on the little investors to bottle out and sell: the uprising works if everyone sticks with it, but that’s not always going to be possible…

How the two are related

Both films celebrate the downtrodden, telling with humour and kindness stories of how sometimes they can triumph against the odds. Dumb Money, being a true story, has a more nuanced conclusion; Fremont more of a fairy-tale atmosphere and ending.