The Broker

Lions Gate Original Film

He built the city's most sophisticated money-laundering network from a Mayfair office. The detective who caught him had been using his services for three years. Julian Harlow, 35, is the most sophisticated financial criminal in London — a former investment banker who now operates an elaborate money-laundering network for organized crime through a legitimate private equity firm. He is charming, precisely dressed, and operates with such refined patience that the Met's financial crimes unit has been circling him for four years without a single prosecutable piece of evidence. When lead detective Sarah Price finally arrests him on a technicality, Julian's first question in the interview room is a single specific number — the account number of the payments she has been receiving from his network for thirty-six months. The film is a psychological thriller about two people who know each other's crimes completely and must negotiate what happens next. Act One — The Arrest The interview room. Julian's first question. Sarah's silence. The negotiation beginning. Act Two — The Evidence What both sides have on each other. The specific architecture of their mutually assured destruction. Act Three — The Settlement Neither goes to prison. Both lose everything else. The film's most precisely crafted ending.

Story added by mr95 on August 27, 2026