Top Films about Finance

system · February 18, 2014, 7:28pm

http://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2013/09/20/20-finance-films-for-entertainment-and-education/ Which one is your favorite and why?

Greenman72 · February 18, 2014, 8:02pm

Unforgiven.

It’s a story about a group of people who raise capital and invest in a project to get eliminate a former customer who has caused them undue economic hardship. Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play the external consultants, and Gene Hackman is the regulator in charge of the case.

Robotech · February 18, 2014, 8:09pm

+1

The main character’s last name is Money.

Scarface · February 18, 2014, 9:54pm

Scarface & Godfather are my favorite finance films

Sweep_the_Leg · February 18, 2014, 10:02pm

From that list: Trading Places, Wall Street, Smartest Guys in the Room and a distant fourth - Boiler Room.

American Psycho gets a nod since Bateman works in IB.

Greenman72 · February 18, 2014, 10:04pm

Debbie Does Dallas was an inspiring film about a young entrepeneur who needed to raise seed capital in order to fulfill the top level of Maslow’s pyramid, a.k.a. self-actualization.

It brought joy to my heart to see a dedicated group of young women banding together to help Debbie realize her ultimate dream.

jmh530 · February 18, 2014, 10:48pm

Most unloved film about finance: The Hudsucker Proxy.

system · February 18, 2014, 11:14pm

Boiler Room was mad homo.

Bunch of sissy white guys acting hard. One does a line of coke and drops a N bomb in the first 10 min.
Rap music is constantly playing in the background of this movie full of white guys. The only diversity is a black female secretary?! Seth quotes the late Notorious B.I.G. WTF! He must be rolling in his grave.
Ben Afflec is bragging about all his money. He dumps it on a car and has a huge house with nothing in it. Bunch of ballers are watching Wall Street on a Friday night. Now das gangsta!?
One of the bar scenes they are playing dice. I think this is the only time in history white boys played ghetto dice.
The white jew in the movie calls his white coworkers nigger-rich.
The white two jews are fighting over the fat black secretary. Since when do white guys chase the brown chocolate?

And so forth. This movie was just bad all around.

igor555 · February 18, 2014, 11:09pm

The Taking of Pelham 123

igor555 · February 18, 2014, 11:11pm

system · February 18, 2014, 11:11pm

^ You’re my hero Garber.

former_trader · February 19, 2014, 12:33am

CFAvsMBA:

Boiler Room was mad homo.

Bunch of sissy white guys acting hard. One does a line of coke and drops a N bomb in the first 10 min.

Rap music is constantly playing in the background of this movie full of white guys. The only diversity is a black female secretary?! Seth quotes the late Notorious B.I.G. WTF! He must be rolling in his grave.

Ben Afflec is bragging about all his money. He dumps it on a car and has a huge house with nothing in it. Bunch of ballers are watching Wall Street on a Friday night. Now das gangsta!?

One of the bar scenes they are playing dice. I think this is the only time in history white boys played ghetto dice.

The white jew in the movie calls his white coworkers nigger-rich.

The white two jews are fighting over the fat black secretary. Since when do white guys chase the brown chocolate?

And so forth. This movie was just bad all around.

Many got their start in that movie and moved on to semi stardom. BTW, Affleck’s speech with the interns was classic. One of the best in movie history.

former_trader · February 19, 2014, 12:35am

Rogue trader and margin call make my top 2.

system · February 19, 2014, 6:29am

american hustle and wolf of wall street are two of my favorite movies.

former_trader · February 20, 2014, 12:01am

Were you born in 2013?

system · February 20, 2014, 12:03am

no…no…lol.i

villnius · February 25, 2014, 7:06pm

While Wolf of Wall Street was extremely entertaining, Margin Call is def my top finance movie. Most accurate portrail of modern risk managment / corporate ideals / and organization roles that I can think of that has ever been put to film.

hpracing007 · February 25, 2014, 7:09pm

I agree, didn’t care for that movie at all.

rawraw · February 25, 2014, 7:10pm

I agree. I liked it

system · February 25, 2014, 7:28pm

former_trader:

CFAvsMBA:

Boiler Room was mad homo.

Bunch of sissy white guys acting hard. One does a line of coke and drops a N bomb in the first 10 min.

Rap music is constantly playing in the background of this movie full of white guys. The only diversity is a black female secretary?! Seth quotes the late Notorious B.I.G. WTF! He must be rolling in his grave.

Ben Afflec is bragging about all his money. He dumps it on a car and has a huge house with nothing in it. Bunch of ballers are watching Wall Street on a Friday night. Now das gangsta!?

One of the bar scenes they are playing dice. I think this is the only time in history white boys played ghetto dice.

The white jew in the movie calls his white coworkers nigger-rich.

The white two jews are fighting over the fat black secretary. Since when do white guys chase the brown chocolate?

And so forth. This movie was just bad all around.

Many got their start in that movie and moved on to semi stardom. BTW, Affleck’s speech with the interns was classic. One of the best in movie history.

Ben’s speach was a ripoff of Baldwin’s speach in Glen Garry Glen Ross.