Toronto | Hollywood movies have always demanded a villain, and the man with the money has been an easy target from the days of It's a Wonderful Life through to Wall Street, American Psycho, and The Big Short. But themes of financial malfeasance and class struggle are more prominent in movies this year, at least if the offerings at the Toronto International Film Festival are any indication.

Steven Soderbergh's anticipated The Laundromat (September 27), starring Meryl Streep and Gary Oldman, is a fictionalised dive into the global tax-evasion schemes that became known as the Panama Papers. Greed (September 7) is a mockumentary-style farce starring Steve Coogan as a billionaire retail tycoon named Sir Richard "Greedy" McCreadie - a thinly disguised portrayal of Topshop honcho Sir Philip Green - as he prepares to celebrate his 60th birthday with his plutocrat friends on the Greek island of Mykonos.

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