Stumbled upon a really nice list on Twitter with a bunch of finance movies, series, and documentaries so thought I'd share it through here to all my bored students.
Movies
Trading Places (1983) -- Trading Movie
Wall Street (1987) -- Stock Market Fiction
Barbarians at The Gate (1993) -- True Story
Rogue Trader (1999) -- True Story (About me)
Boiler Room (2000) -- Stock Market Fiction
American Psycho (2000) -- M&A(ish) movie
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
Gafla (2006) - True Story -- Stock Market Movie (Hindi)
Margin Call (2011) -- Investment Banking Fiction
Inside Job (2011) -- Financial Crisis Movie
Wall Street - Money Never Sleeps -- Sequel to Wall Street (1987)
Arbitrage (2012) -- Finance Fiction
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Big Short (2015) -- Financial Crisis and my all-time favorite
Equity (2016) -- Financial Thriller
Money Monster (2016) -- Stock Market Thriller
Bazaar (2018) -- Fiction
Series
Million Dollar Traders (2009) -- Finance Series
Billions (2016) -- Hedge Fund Series
Succession (2018) -- Media Conglomerate Series
Documentaries
Billion Dollar Day (1985)
The Corporation (2003)
Wall Street Warriors (2006)
The Ascent of Money (2008)
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
Floored (2009)
Freakonomics (2009
Chasing Madoff (2010)
Too Big to Fail (2011)
Baking on Bitcoin (2017)
The China Hustle (2017)
Becoming Warren Buffet (2017)
The Untold Story of the Financial Crisis (2018)
25 Million Pounds (1996) -- Documentary about me
Trader (1987)
Betting on Zero (2016)
Add HBO's Panic: The Untold Story of the Financial Crisis (2018)
Also fuck Taylor Mason.
Thanks for the input.
Agree 100% percent!!
yeah, Panic is a good documentary
yea fuck taylor, creepy little fuck. How do you go from intern to executive in a few months and all the employees are chill with it? She's like a real-life Nebula
Dude, where is the ultimate IB movie - American Psycho ?
Forgot about that one. If we're being honest though, the only thing close to banking shown is the VPs discussion about business cards.
came to comment this
If you havent seen Barbarians at the Gate, stop what you are doing and watch it now, it's great on so many levels. It was on YouTube (full movie) not too long ago, check there, it can be hard to find.
Found on YouTube and watched per your comment last night. Sneakily funny and was very well done.. Second this 100%
Is it the same as the book?
The movie is more 'dramatized' and there is a lot of humor that I didn't recall being conveyed in the book which is more journalistic. If you have read the book, you will enjoy the movie. If you like the movie, I do recommend reading the book as there is a lot of backstory/detail omitted by necessity (which includes the actual works/actions of the i-bankers/PE bidders/lawyers, etc.)
Nothing to add to list, just wanted to add my kudos for putting this together
Anything for those silver bananas.
I like The Godfather III (unlike most I know). I think it's pretty interesting how they try to legitimise the business of olive oil.
nice thank you
Bad banks for TV series
great doc you can add: Trader it’s a day in the life (ish) style documentary about Paul Tudor Jones. if you get lucky you can find it on YouTube. For some reason, people allege he asks youtube to remove it whenever it gets uploaded.
PBS has a few great docuseries - 2008 financial crisis, retirement, and a couple of others. all under the Frontline series.
I can do 1000 crunches now
bulge bracket on amazon, 10/10
also see this https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/polls/whats-your-favorite-finance-relat…
Considering watching it. Heard it was horribly cringey.
Is it actually good? I feel like a lot of people, myself included, talked shit on another thread without even seeing the trailer. I have since watched the trailer but it looked kinda like the predictable format of "associate is having a hard time cus of demanding bosses-->analysts are also kinda tools-->associate realized that analysts are kids with dreams and aspirations too and they connect as people-->associate/analysts do a really good job on something and now she's rolling"... I could be wrong.
oh i was kidding, from the trailer it looked awful
Margin call is the best tho
I'd say Trading Places is a little better overall, but Margin Call's not a bad movie.
I was also about to complain about the absence of Too Big to Fail, but then I noticed it in the Documentaries section. I would argue that it takes too many liberties, and should be moved to Movies.
Trading Places is fantastic. Although they are both about the same subject, I think they are very different films. Margin Call is a hyper realistic movie that finance insiders love and Trading Places is a mass market film with several philosophical twists and turns.
to be honest i cannot think of a more boring thing to make a movie out of
black monday
https://watchdocumentaries.com/trillion-dollar-bet/</a">Trillion Dollar Bet
Decent documentary on the LTCM blow up and fallout. Wish it went into more detail but it is still pretty good.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/to-catch-a-trader/</a">To Catch a Trader
Frontline special on our good friend Steven A. Cohen. If you've read Black Edge this probably isn't worth watching though because the book is much better.
Is Billions S2 worth watching? S1 was good. S2 starts weird.
I thought Season 2 was the last good season of Billions, and I've seen people on this site express similar feelings
Was it S2 or S3 that started with the weird sex shit? Cause that's where I turned it off like 2 years ago. S1 was rad. I loved it. Axe is a great character. Lots of great characters in that show
All the good writers went to succession.
Honestly I've never seen a show fall off as hard as Billions did. Succession is immeasurably better. My advice would be don't watch Billions any further than S1 so that you can remain under the impression that it's a good show.
Add "To Catch A Trader" by PBS, it was a short documentary about SAC Capital and the Galleon Group's insider trading
Traders on Amazon Prime was pretty good
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devils
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7939218/
Ozark, not sure if you'd consider that a pure "Finance" show but it's up there for me personally.
American Greed and Dirty Money can be hit or miss depending on the episode.l, since they are not exclusively trading/IB/equity related.
did someone say boiler room
I’ve got a RIDICULOUS house in South Fork
"...on the south fork." and if you want to be old money chill, you go for the north fork. How do people not know this? I'm a Jersey guy, and even I get the vibe.
Thanks for the list!
I would add The Hummingbird Project (2018) it is a fiction/drama of HFT. it's not a great movie butat least it entertains a little.
Margin call is investment banking? Lol
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