Finance and business movies had always attracted quite an audience, but still the glamour world is away from this world. It appears that the finance sector appear less appealing to the glamor.
It is always said that investments and glamor can never go hand in hand.
But when one needs to know about some of the ways this market and business functions, some movies can be a true delight showcasing both the good and the bad of an industry.
Some of the remarkable Hollywood movies which one needs to have a look if a person is interested in Financial Entertainment.
The Wall Street (1987)
Probably one of the best in the lot. All the quotes, the dialogues and the acting in the movies depict a true image of how things work inside large organizations. A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
Must watch if you want a great lesson in investing.
Up In the Air (2009)
Up in the Air was released in December 2009 and is another film that had the luck of timing. George Clooney played a corporate consultant who flew around the country firing people for companies who couldn't do it themselves.At the time of the film's release in late 2009, the unemployment rate was near the highest of the Great Recession. Director Jason Reitman actually filmed dozens of real life people, who had been laid off themselves, getting "fake" fired, many of which made it into the film.
It's a rare film that focuses on corporate culture, depicting work colleagues socializing. It also offered a unique depiction of the road-warriors, those who fly from coast to coast for a living and spend more time in hotels than their own homes.
The Company Men (2010)
Released in late 2010 when the U.S. economy had started to improve, this movie, starring Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper, may have hit too close to home for some. It fell off the radar quickly. It focused on a year in the life of three men who were downsized from a major corporation and how it impacted their lives and families.
It's one of the rare movies to depict corporate identity and how closely tied Americans are to where they work. At the time of its release, it may have been just too realistic in its portrayal of the struggles of those who were laid off but it's definitely worth checking out now.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Could anything really top Wall Street? Twenty-three years later, expectations ran high.
Michael Douglas reprised his iconic role of Gordon Gekko for this December 2010 sequel which again focused on the world of the top traders and the ultra-rich. Gekko is newly released from prison and looking rebuild his lost empire, trying to win back his family in the process.Many fans of the original movie felt let down by this sequel, but so few films actually depict the elite hedge fund world, it deserves to be on this list.
Margin Call
Margin Call is probably the least known of these 5 movies but it's easily one of the best.
It depicts events that led up to a financial crisis at a fictional large well-known financial firm. The firm's portfolio of mortgage-backed securities blows up leaving the firm vulnerable to a credit crisis, much like that which happened during the actual financial crisis. You don't have to have a thorough understanding of finance to follow this movie with an all-star cast led by Kevin Spacey and Jeremy Irons. If you want to know what the culture is like at an elite Wall Street firm, this is it.
Arbitrage (2012)
Released in September 2012, Arbitrage, like Wall Street, explores the world of the elite hedge fund manager. Richard Gere stars as a hedge fund manager who has cooked the books to conceal fraud at his investment firm. His daughter, who also works at the hedge fund, discovers the fraud and he scrambles to get out of it.There are side plots, but this is yet another movie that thrilled in depicting the master of the universe types that make up Wall Street. If you liked Wall Street, you should be sure to have this movie on your list.
- With inputs from Zacks.com and imdb.com
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