Best IB/Finance series/movies?
Just curious. Which are the best series/movies related to finance/IB/Consulting industry? Which ones reflect the industry in a more realistic way?
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Margin Call is probably the most realistic, but it is not a very good movie.
Trading Places is not very realistic, but it is one of the best movies of all time.
I think margin call is a GREAT movie basically BECAUSE it is realistic. Yeah it’s dramatized a bit, but it has such a tense, dreary, and depressing tone - it doesn’t try and Hollywood up anything too much either. I think the writing and acting is fantastic too. This is a very well made film in my opinion
Yes - especially finally a movie showing the dark humor (ie bettany joking about jumping off the building) made it much more relatable and real. Also the dynamic with simon baker's character being a young rising star mysteriously as described by bettany was so on point
Margin Call is great. Bettany, Irons and Baker were so good
Margin call
tv show consulting: House Of Lies
The Hummingbird Project, Wall Street, Wall Street II, Boiler Room, Wolf Of Wall Street, The Trade, The Big Short, Silicon Valley, American Psycho, Margin Call, etc etc
I thought the humming bird project had a lot of potential but was kinda boring. Interesting though, kinda like Flash Boys
Barbarians at the Gate, hands down most accurate (because it is a docu-drama real story), and the acting/humor is great. This is an old HBO movie, I think you can watch on youtube. About the KKR buyout of RJR Nabisco, only movie/show i've seen that actually try's to show an LBO deal with some technical detail between the PE shop and the Ibanks.
Great show!! I liked Succession and Billions Season 1 & 2 (Other seasons were too random)
Yeah Billions was pretty good season 1 and 2 which were also somewhat to mostly accurate. And then come season 4 where the guy bought credit default swaps on an equity like wtf???? And then the actual story and character development was shit like the whole time your like since when did this person do this and etc. Season 5 was a disaster and a complete shit show. I’m a Damian Lewis fanboy also a huge fan of Paul Giamatti but they need to fix the writing. They have amazing actors, a high budget, and a good foundation for setting and story they just need to improve the direction it’s taking.l
Glengarry Glen Ross is a good movie about sales and drive, Boiler Room and Wall Street are classic WS movies, The Big Short is a great watch if you’re interested in the Great Recession/securitization, and as for series Silicon Valley is a fantastic move there as well. If you want realistic read books. Too Big to Fail, Flash Boys, Liar’s Poker, Money and Power, King of Capital, etc. I’d take books over movies any day.
Billions started out pretty good, but then faded at the end it seems.
They need to bring it back with the writers who did the Big Short and Succession. Just my opinion.
Sounds like a good idea
The Big Short, Wolf of Wall Street
My Faves:
The Big Short - I thought this was the only realistic one in terms of reflecting personality types (at least in modern day)
Succession/Billions/Yellowstone - similar vibes. Yellowstone season 3 has some stock stuff, plenty of business stuff, but not as central as the others.
The Mechanism - I love this shit. I’ve done some Latam work and have been fascinated by the Operation Car Wash scandal has been toppling govs and corporations across region for the last few years - we don’t get much news about it here (because then we’d realize our gov runs the exact same scheme).
Primer - most brilliantly written movie I’ve seen by a factor of ten. It’s about time travel, but there’s a small section where they trade on future knowledge. Y’know the think you nobody ever considers doing in time travel. It’s not a finance I just wanted to plug Primer. Go watch Primer. Now. It’s free on YouTube
Boiler Room
Unpopular opinion: The Milken Institute panel discussions and The David Rubenstein Show are pretty dope.
About IB specifically I don’t think it’s possible to make an interesting show. That’s why they did what they did to the Indian guy in ep 1 of Industry, it’s just too dry.
The other recs here about other facets of finance though are all great.
It was good
Margin Call and The Big Short.
This series called industry on HBO I believe is the most realistic of the bunch although there is exaggeration for views It is very very accurate.
Floored
Wall Street, American Psycho
Margin Call, Wall Street and The Big Short -- hard to beat the cast of TBS
The Bachelor.
BILLIONS.
funniest Shark Tank pitch of all time: Mark Sullivan with the "Sullivan Generator". Who else has seen this? (Not on YouTube - thus why the Vimeo link. Very difficult to find) https://vimeo.com/53804608
haha yeah this is the best
The Coriolis Effect!
Little Banks on Wall Street (YouTube)
Margin Call was most realistic imo and just a great movie.
Big short was just fantastic and really well casted with sharp dialogue and amazing storytelling. More a movie for everyone to enjoy rather than just finance folks whereas margin call might not be that enjoyable for the general population.
Anyone watched the tv series “Devils”
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