List of Finance Movies - Help me eliminate the shitty candidates
Hey monkeys,
I spent my free time browsing the forums for Finance movies so I could create a collection. After watching one of the movies recommended (The Game with Michael Douglas), I realized that some of these movies are very loosely connected to finance and I might as well have just added Assault on Wall Street to the collection.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2368553/
Please help me narrow / add movies to my collection with exceptions for classics such as American Pyscho. I went ahead and deleted #4 Cosmopolis with Robert Pattinson , so you can skip that one.
- American Psycho
- Arbitrage
- Boiler Room
- Cosmopolis
- Enron the Smartest Guys in the Room
- Equity
- Up in the Air
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- Margin Call
- Rogue Trader - Story of Nick Leeson
- The Associate
- The Big Short
- The Bonfire of the Vanities
- The Family Man
- The Game
- The Only Living Boy in New York
- Too Big to Fail
- Trading Places
- Wall Street 1987
- Wall Street 2011
- Barbarians at the Gates
- Capitalism a Love Story
- PBS to catch a Trader
- The Last Days of the Lehman Brothers
- The Intern (2015)
- Wolf of Wall Street
Great list, I'm going to torr... legally acquire these and will come back with an opinion. But you can scratch Arbitrage, as it's a shit movie in general.
Enron is a really good movie IMO. Very interesting
Yeah, I would scratch arbitrage. Here are a couple which aren't technically finance but they really remind me of aspects of finance:
Bright Lights Big City - great movie and great book which is about a young professional partying in 1980s New York City while trying to find himself.
The Firm - Technically a law movie, but so much of this resonates with me. The character has gone through a super competitive elite recruitment process, he works like crazy, and then finds out things aren't what they seem.
Glengarry Glenross - just an amazing movie on shady salesmen
In my own movie library, I have an expanded criteria of Wall Street movies plus business in general.
Yes, I've watched the Firm, great movie. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll download Bright Lights Big City.
add this Warren Buffett - HBO Documentary 2017 (HD)
I love Rogue Trader, gives you a quick glimpse on futures pit-trading. I love it. I personally don't like Margin Call, quants ruin everything ;)
Boiler Room is a good movie as well. Trading Places is pure-comedy.
What I disliked about Rogue Trader is that I felt the movie paled in comparison to the real life story. It's like the script writer was handed this amazing true life tale and the best he could do was construct an ok or halfway decent movie. I almost wish that someone would redo it.
Yeah I hear you on that. I personally think the movie was too fast imo, and some things were rushed. I just loved it purely since I love trading, and got to see how pit-trading worked.
My Name is Bill W. (might be a bit of a stretch) Floored (documentary)
Great list. You included almost every movie. The only one i can add is Suits (tv series): more about lawyers, but one of teh character becomes an investment banker down the show, and it's a good insight about the corporate and business world in general (and the good life too ahahh)
Yea I just finished watching Billions, I've heard Suits is good I'll start watching it next weekend.
I finished s1 of Billions last night. Watched like 3-4 seasons of Suits years ago. Billions stands head and shoulders above Suits IMO, but Suits is worth watching. I think White Collar is a more fun watch than Suits.
I've also thought about adding:
Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong -- Movie about an Investment Banker in Hong Kong who decides to pursue photography instead and dumps his ex-girlfriend b/c he develops yellow fever
Gattaca -- great movie for non-targets looking to get into investment banking (it's a sci-fi movie)
Dear god pls scratch equity. You'll never recover the time lost
Inside Job was interesting. Some good insight and analysis on the financial crisis. Take it with a grain of salt as it's narrated by Matt Damon and takes a noticeable anti-WS stance :/
Trading Places tops your list
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