What's your favorite Finance-related movie?
American Psycho
19% (139 votes)
A Good Year
1% (5 votes)
2% (12 votes)
Boiler Room
6% (41 votes)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
3% (22 votes)
Glengarry Glen Ross
1% (10 votes)
Harold and Kumar
6% (44 votes)
Inside Job
3% (19 votes)
16% (119 votes)
Other People's Money
0% (2 votes)
Pursuit of Happyness
7% (50 votes)
Rogue Trader
1% (7 votes)
The Family Man
2% (15 votes)
The Game
2% (12 votes)
Stocks and Blondes
1% (4 votes)
Trading Places
4% (33 votes)
Wall Street
24% (177 votes)
Wall Street 2
3% (25 votes)
Total votes: 736




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Just to let you know, this
Just to let you know, this was one of the hardest polls for me to take part in, so many good films, but i had to choose, and i am going with Wall Street.
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margin call vs wall street
margin call vs wall street
GO
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Boiler room all the
Boiler room all the way...mostly because the setting was a near replica of my first job's office. The ending was also really good. Wall Street felt cheesy and exaggerated ...something made for people outside of finance.
Trading places was another very awesome movie though most kids today will have never even heard of it.
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Ahhhh so many great movies
Ahhhh so many great movies !!! Im battling between barbarians at the gate, boiler room, The smartest guys in the room, margin call and inside job...
Im voting for the Enron movie... Each time I watch this film im shocked at the amount of market manipulation done by the enron traders (they shut-down power plants to create power outages and increase spot prices), the "mark-to-market" accounting, the asian dude and his stripper wife, the blatant lies of the CEO... how could this even be real ??
Toughest poll to date
Toughest poll to date
SaucyBacon85: Trading places
Trading places was another very awesome movie though most kids today will have never even heard of it.
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good to see Margin Call
good to see Margin Call getting its fair due (though it may be only the quants voting for it), I just watched that again last night and it inspired me to make the poll
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Not as finance focused as the
Not as finance focused as the others, but it's such a great film...had to select The Game.
Im voting for the Enron
Im voting for the Enron movie... Each time I watch this film im shocked at the amount of market manipulation done by the enron traders (they shut-down power plants to create power outages and increase spot prices), the "mark-to-market" accounting, the asian dude and his stripper wife, the blatant lies of the CEO... how could this even be real ??
Finance seemed to be so much more exciting back then.
Margin Call for sure. Love
Margin Call for sure. Love that movie.
I think the one person who
I think the one person who picked Wall Street 2 should be banned.
I picked Margin Call since it's the most realistic finance movie. It also sends chills down my spine of how scary 2008 was after Lehman. While I loved Wall Street, it was a little too liberal and preachy for my taste.
Tough Poll. American Psycho
Tough Poll. American Psycho just purely for the quotes.
Quoting American Psycho with someone kicks off the "did we just become best friends?" scene in Step Brothers.
Lets see Paul Allen's vote
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We should have a bracket
We should have a bracket style tournament for this to name WSO's favorite WS movie.
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So, sooooo, difficult to
So, sooooo, difficult to choose. Especially because Wall Street was a huge part of the reason I wanted to get into the business. Ultimately, though, I had to go with A Good Year because it has come to symbolize everything I learned over my years in finance. And that is simply that a good wine, a hot chick, and doing whatever the fuck you want is ultimately better than selling the remainder of your life for tens of millions of dollars.
Gotta be the worst poll ever. We need one for the top three, maybe. lol
I'm really surprised at the
Props to the one person who
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Boiler room, Tweeter, AJ
i voted for stocks and
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American Psycho #1 Margin
Margin Call was amazing. Was
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Barbarians at the Gate, it
i voted 4 Wall St 2 cause
By the way, if you haven't
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Yea The Game is probably the
historiclegend: Yea The Game
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Trading Places needs to get
I never really enjoyed
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Shocked at how few people
Margin Call was horrible!
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Wall Street is timeless.
1man2nv: Margin Call was
1man2nv: Margin Call was
I still haven't seen Margin
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Margin Call was great; got my
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ginNtonic: 1man2nv: Margin
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I like how people pick Wall
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To those that voted for Wall
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Texsun: I like how people
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