35 great films about finance
I’m writing a novel that’s based in New York, in the period just after the first great financial crisis, the Panic of 1793.
As part of my research, I’ve tried to read and watch as many fiction works about finance as I can.
Here’s a list of movies (in no particular order):
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
99 Homes
Wall Street
Boiler Room
Glengarry Glen Ross
Trader
Trading Places
American Psycho
Equity
The Big Short
Working Girl
Bonfire of the Vanities
Margin Call
Rogue Trader
Too Big to Fail
Inside Job
Cosmopolis
The Associate
Money Monster
Other Peoples’ Money
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Wolf of Wall Street (1929)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Dealers
Arbitrage
The Bank
The Queen of Versailles (documentary)
Wall Street Warriors (documentary)
Barbarians at the Gate (documentary)
Floored (documentary)
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers (documentary)
The Smartest Guys in the Room (documentary)
Capitalism, A Love Story (documentary)
Quants (documentary)
The Pit (documentary)
