Best Finance / Business Movie or Show?
What do people here think is the best finance or business movie or TV show?
The obvious ones people usually mention are things like:
Wolf of Wall Street
Margin Call
Trading Places
Wall Street
Boiler Room
The Big Short
American Psycho
Barbarians at the Gate (the TV movie, not the book)
Dumb Money
Too Big to Fail
Glengarry Glen Ross
Thank You for Smoking (not exactly a finance movie but definitely a business one and my personal fav so I had to include it)
Rogue Trader
Arbitrage
The Hummingbird Project
Equity (2016)
Silver Bears (one that most people probably haven’t heard of)
And then for TV shows:
Industry
Succession
Billions
Bad Banks
Curious what people here think the best one is, and whether there are any good finance/business movies or shows I’m missing that are worth watching.
Social network, partially related because of the VC angle and Peter thiel makes an appearance as himself in the film
The Social Network is also just one of the greatest movies of the 21st century. Worth a watch for Fincher's direction alone.
Came here to say that. this is one of the greatest movies of the last decade and contains so much great information about Silicon Valley and the building of a world-changing tech company.
I would add Floored, which is a documentary about the transition from open outcry to digital trading. Really fun watch to see some of the characters and reactions to the switch.
Memes aside, Wolf of Wallstreet is one of Scorese’s best.
10/10 agree, Floored is amazing
Scorese is at his best when he takes situations that would would be pretty dark but makes them light. Casino, Goodfellas, Wolf of Wallstreet, etc. His last couple of movies were decent, but they have a darker portrayal to them. Goodfellas and Wolf of Wallstreet are some of his best movies, but they both felt like a wild ride.
Entourage, it’s just too good not to include
Respect
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Pretty Woman is a must if you have a lady friend with you!
Industry, Billions
Industry has been killing it. First season is not great but everything after was amazing (Season 2 is my favorite).
I still wish they tone it down on all the sex scenes though. Underrated music score too. I think it blows Succession out of the water (but I also have the unpopular opinion that Succession was mostly a mid-show outside of a few stellar episodes).
There's no way anyone can genuinely think Industry is a better show than Succession
Industry imo gets less interesting every season as it abandons the core premise and veers into "look these sexy people are pursing random careers and having sex"
Succession clears.
Watched both of those.
Margin Call, Equity, and Wall Street are my favorites
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is great, documentary about the collapse of Enron (duh).
The big short is 100% the greatest at making finance/housing crisis understandable to a non-finance person
The cast of the big short is unbeatable. star studded line up of good actors
I actually think Glengarry Glen Ross edges it tbh. The Big Short obviously has a stacked cast, but the performances in Glengarry are just unreal.
Pacino as Roma is incredible, Baldwin’s “coffee is for closers” scene is one of the best monologues in any business movie, and Kevin Spacey is great as Williamson too. Then you’ve also got Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, etc.
The Big Short probably wins on modern star power, but purely on acting I think Glengarry Glen Ross takes it.
Margin Call is probably the most realistic movie as it pertains to the ethical/unethical side of finance, and I think a pretty realistic depiction of the rationale of banks, albeit in an unrealistic time window(The events of the movie take place over 48 hours).
Entourage is a great show. Pretty lackluster movie, however, but if you want to live in Agora fucking hills, a 3-week Tuscan villa vacation, then sometimes you have to take a call on a motherfucking Wednesday.
The $treet , its an early 2000s series.
Big Short - most entertaining
Margin Call - most entertaining from a finance perspective
Smartest Guys in the Room - personal favorite
Trading Places - honorable mention, a classic
Wall Street Warriors is a hard to find docu-series which follows a few traders and PE guy just before the GFC. Also Tim Sykes lol
Watching it as a college kid, I thought they were so impressive, now that I’m far far on the other side in M&A- not so much. Even so, pretty good look into a world that (mostly) no longer exists.
For movies, I’ll always rep Trading Places in these threads. Certified classic that I hope has found its way to gen-z.
The only finance-related show I’ve watched was Succession and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Not really finance unless you're in VC but Silicon Valley? It's fucking hilarious, insanely accurate lol
So many incredible characters in it too. I wish they had more seasons. I rarely rewatch shows and now after reading this comment, I want to start this show again lol.
Margin Call by far !
Margin Call
Surprised nobody mentioned Mad Men - I've heard it mentioned alongside Sopranos and The Wire as one of the greatest shows. Still worth a watch these days?
I think that’s actually about advertising.
GOATed show, not about finance tho.
Not really a finance movie but Gold starring Matthew McConaughey is seriously underrated.
Currently watching Industry. Also watched Billions.
Nobodies mentioned The Associate, or Working Girl. Or Capital, which is actually a French film.
There was also the Canadian show Traders. Not sure if you can find it anywhere now, though.
Silicon Valley is a fantastic tv show, with plenty of references to real world events / people
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