The 10 Best Finance and Wall Street Must-Watch Movies

The 10 Best Finance and Wall Street Must-Watch Movies 

It is fascinating to the financial world in Finance and Wall Street Movies. The financial

world has often provided captivating themes like stock market insights, greed, and profits,

wealth management, human behavior and financial decisions, and unethical practices and

their consequences on societal problems. These movies depict the true picture of how the

economic world works, what is corporate culture, and how the finance world affects

society?

Finance Movie Watching

Over the years, Hollywood has produced many films on finance and Wall Street. Based on

compelling storytelling and strong performance, we have enlisted the 10 best finance and

Wall Street movies equally provide entertainment and understanding of money, power,

financial crisis, and corporate corruption. So, these are must-watch movies.

Some Key Points:

• These finance movies and finance-related books provide knowledge about the products, services, representatives, and dynamics of the financial world.

• Hollywood films movies in a compelling storytelling way with strong performance, It gets the attention of both experienced investors and finance students.

• These movies provide entertainment, suspense, and educational material in a portrait way that is potentially near to practical knowledge for finance students.

• The Wolf of Wall Street is a biographical film based on the clamorous financial journey of Jordan Belfort, a notorious stock scammer.

    1) The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 film features DiCaprio's strong performance and Martin

Scorsese's dynamic direction. It is the true story of Jordon Belfort, a stockbroker. He kept on

wealth accumulation through fraudulent activities and unethical corporate practices. This

film well portrays the IPO launch process of companies during the late 1980s to 1990s, were

using and how the IPOs of many large companies were successful through the malpractice of

pump-and-dump schemes.

One of the stand-alone lessons of this film is how the top-notch acting showed the

sufferings of Belfort due to the consequences of unethical behavior adopted in his career,

the way near to actual occurrence in the financial world. 

    2) Wall Street (1987)

The film" Wall Street" directed by Oliver Stone, is a must-watch drama film. This movie

introduces the finance world and corporate greed through the main character Bud Fox

(Charlie Sheen) who is a young and ambitious stockbroker who can do anything to achieve

his top financial goals.

Initially, he becomes confused with Gordon Gekko, a ruthless corporate raider. Bud is

deeply involved in Gekko's success, but, after that, he begins questioning him about the

ethical implications of his schemes(inside trading). In his speech, Bud proclaims that Greed

performs as a key driving force in the economy and gives his final famous saying, ' Greed is

God'.

    

    3) Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)

This movie is based on the Enron Corporation scandal which is still one of the five biggest

scandals in the world. Enron's story was the most shocking story of window dressing, inside

trading, and manipulation of financial statements to protect the personal interest of top

corporate executives.

This film revealed how California's energy crisis in 2001 occurred due to Enron trading

was shameful. This corporation introduced Energy Trading a new concept for the first time

and manipulated the energy market by influencing the energy prices regulatory tariffs. It

shut down 76% of California's energy industry. [1]

Enron as a CEO was involved in a series of fraudulent activities that led to the bankruptcy

of Enron's energy, commodities, services, and other corporations. This scandal revealed a

great lesson in implementing accounting reforms and corporate governance rules in the

United States. The concept of independent directors was introduced to protect the general

public interest.

    4) Too Big to Fail (2011)

Based on the notification book ' Too Big to Fail ' by Andrew Ross Sorkin 2009, this

American TV film follows a few policymakers who came to save the stumbling US

economy from the housing bubble that caused the financial crisis of 2007-2008.

The main reason for the housing credit bubble was supply of houses increased, resulting in a

price decrease in the housing sector and an increase in the number of housing borrowers

who were not able to pay back loans. This film portrays the historical events of the financial

crisis and the consequences of the regulatory failures faced in the banking sector.

    5) Margin Call (2011)

Margin Call is an American drama film. It covers the story of a large investment bank on

 Wall Street. It is a 24-hour life story of a firm standing at the edge of an economic disaster.

 It depicts the happenings with the investment bank, at the beginning stages of 2007-

2008 financial crisis. This film answers the questions of greed and capitalism's system

 workings.

    

    6) The Big Short (2015)

It is a nonfiction book story with the same name 'The Big Short'. This movie focuses on

 housing credit bubbles that triggered the 2007-2008 financial crisis. This movie is well

 known for its easy explanation of complex financial information and tells much more about

 psychology than mere finance education. A group of savvy investors became well aware of

 the housing bubble, and such a situation made them capable of earning revenues.

    7) Inside Job (2010)

The 2010 documentary was directed by Charles Ferguson. It explores the key events that led

the American economy to the 2007-2008 recession. It highlighted the financial hypocrisy,

greed, and unethical practices that mount the recession. Ferguson interviewed the industry

experts to explain their roles and what they played at that time. This movie provided

guidelines on avoiding such a recession and mitigating economic losses resulting in millions

of jobless workers and home losses.

    8) Boiler Room (2000)

Boiler Room (2000) movie puts light on the firm's tactics to convince investors to buy the

worthless security at high prices. This practice is called pump and dump and it is common

for firms to pressure the investor to purchase and sell the security on false information.

Many firms seek personal interest at the cost of investors by trying to push up the price of

value-less securities and when it gets some boom, then sell their own holdings. This movie

emphasizes professional integrity and honesty in financial dealings.

The famous quote of this film is "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."

    

    9) Trading Places (1983)

This is a comedy movie that includes the flavor of finance. The film filmed a story about a

bet between two wealthy brothers Randolph and Mortimer Duke who try to manipulate the

employee of Dukes, Winthorpe in a case that he didn't commit just for a $1 bet. At the film's

end, Winthorpe reveals the scheme and causes problems for the Dukes.

    10) The Corporation (2003)

The Corporation 2003 begins with the details of the relationship of the society and the

corporation. This film undercover the the IBM's Nazi ties. How the large corporations

exploit the society's rights.

    What Are The Other Best Finance Movies of All Time?

Some other movies of Wall Street you might watch to experience the deep water of the

financial world include Arbitrage (2012), starring Richard Gere a fund manager who makes

an effort to sell his business empire before the revelation of fraudulent activities; Rogue

Trader (1999) with Nick Leeson (Ewan McGregor), his wife Lisa (Anna Friel), has to face

the consequences of his fraudulent activities; Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) based on a

the novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe explores Wall Street and societal issues like morality,

race, and class.

    Movies Made About Bitcoin

Several movies about bitcoins have been made and the recommended list includes Silk

Road (2021), a crime thriller movie on the fraud of Silk Road Websit's owner, Ross

Ulbricht; Crypto (2019), a young boy undercover the cryptocurrency frauds; The Rise and

Rise of Bitcoin (2014), a documentary film explores the early origins and development of

bitcoins.