The Best Movies About Or Featuring Wall Street
“What are the best movies about Wall Street?” We looked at 83 of the top Wall Street & Financial Crisis films, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 41 films, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Wall Street” movie lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 40+ movies, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
For more Wall Street media, make sure to check out our sister website, Book Scrolling, for articles on The Best Financial Crisis books & The Best Stock Market books.
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Top 41 Wall Street Movies
41 .) Cosmopolis (2012) directed by David Cronenberg
Lists It Appears On:
- Business Insider
- Business Insider 2
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo during a riot in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager’s life begins to crumble.
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40 .) Catch Me If You Can’ (2002) directed by Steven Spielberg
Lists It Appears On:
- Forbes
- MSN
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
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39 .) Equity (2016) directed by Meera Menon
Lists It Appears On:
- Business Insider 2
- Stash
Senior investment banker Naomi Bishop’s world of high-power big money is brutal and fierce, and one she thrives in. When a controversial IPO threatens the fragile balance of power and confidentiality, Naomi finds herself entangled in a web of politics and deception.
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38 .) Floored: Into the Pit (2009) directed by James Allen Smith
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- The Balance
Enter a world where pandemonium reigns and reckless ambition rules: the trading floors in the financial canyons of downtown Chicago. Here, men use strange hand signals to buy and sell everything from pork belly to soybeans while wearing the weight of our complex economy on their shoulders – along with their neon jackets. It’s a physical, bruising place, one where a slight gain creates heroes, rich beyond what their high school educations should ever afford. But the wrong move on the wrong day can ruin lives. At a time when millions have lost fortunes in the fickle stock market and fear abounds about the faltering financial system, FLOORED is a gripping, honest look behind the curtain of the trading floor that few have ever seen
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37 .) Gold (2016) directed by Stephen Gaghan
Lists It Appears On:
- BP Rising
- The Balance
Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.
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36 .) The Associate (1996) directed by Donald Petrie
Lists It Appears On:
- Business Insider 2
- Journal
Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While trying to find clients Laurel pretends that she has a male partner named Robert Cutty. And when she starts to do well all of her clients wants to meet Cutty which is difficult since he doesn’t exist.
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35 .) The Corporation (2003)
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Journal
The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary is critical of the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behaviour towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person.
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34 .) The Last Days of Lehman Brothers (2010) directed by Whit Stillman
Lists It Appears On:
- Journal
- The Balance
Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.
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33 .) Billions (2016)
Lists It Appears On:
- BP Rising
- Business Insider 2
- The Balance
32 .) Cancel Crash (2012)
Lists It Appears On:
- Market Watch
- Market Watch
- The Balance
A 25th Anniversary Special of the Stock Market Crash of 1987.
31 .) Dealers (1989) directed by Colin Bucksey
Lists It Appears On:
- Business Insider 2
- Journal
- The Balance
The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide by putting a slug through his head while seated at his place in the board room. Despite the high stakes, many of the firm’s staff are eager to step into Tony’s now-vacated shoes and get credit for saving the company. Daniel Pascoe, the leading trader at the firm, is convinced that he’s first in line for the assignment, but the firm imports a new trader from America, Anna Schuman. Daniel is enraged and makes a point of trying to dig up as much dirt on Anna as he can, but things are going to take another turn.
30 .) It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) directed by Frank Capra
Lists It Appears On:
- Business Insider 2
- Forbes
- The Street
A holiday favourite for generations… George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George’s modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business’s $8,000 is lost and George’s troubles begin.
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29 .) Limitless (2011) directed by Neil Burger
Lists It Appears On:
- BP Rising
- MSN
- The Balance
A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret “smart drug” that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.
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28 .) The Bank (2001) directed by Robert Connolly
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Journal
- The Balance
The Bank, a world ripe with avarice and corruption, where O’Reilly and his ilk can thrive and honest Aussie battlers lose everything. Enter Jim Doyle a maverick mathematician who has devised a formula to predict the fluctuations of the stock market. When he joins O’Reilly’s fold, he must first prove his loyalty to the “greed is good” ethos. Which way will he go? What does he have to hide?
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27 .) The Company Men’ (2010) directed by John Wells
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- MSN
- Ranker
Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and two co-workers jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands and fathers.
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26 .) The Family Man (2000) directed by Brett Ratner
Lists It Appears On:
- Business Insider 2
- Investopedia
- Journal
Jack’s lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.
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25 .) The Pit (2010) directed by Lew Lehman
Lists It Appears On:
- Business Insider 2
- The Balance
- The Street
Twelve year-old Jamie Benjamin is a solitary misunderstood boy in his preteens. His classmates pick on him, his neighbors think he’s weird and his parents ignore him. But now Jamie has a secret weapon: deep in the woods he has discovered a deep pit full of man-eating creatures he calls Trogs… and it isn’t long before he gets an idea for getting revenge and feeding the Trogs in the process!
24 .) Wall Street Warriors (2008)
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Journal
- The Balance
23 .) Barbarians at the Gate (1993) directed by Glenn A. Jordan
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Journal
- Stash
- The Balance
A television movie based upon the book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco.
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22 .) Pi (1998) directed by Darren Aronofsky
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Journal
- The Balance
- Wall Street Insanity
The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
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21 .) Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) directed by Michael Moore
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Journal
- Ranker
- The Balance
- Wall Street Insanity
Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story comes home to the issue he’s been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).
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20 .) The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) directed by Gabriele Muccino
Lists It Appears On:
- BP Rising
- Journal
- MSN
- The Balance
- Wall Street Insanity
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he’s poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
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19 .) Working Girl (1988) directed by Mike Nichols
Lists It Appears On:
- Business Insider 2
- IMDB
- Investopedia
- Journal
- The Balance
Witty, romantic look at life in the corporate jungle. Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her apartment and even her wardrobe. She creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her to the top, or finish her off for good.
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18 .) Inside Job (2010) directed by Charles Ferguson
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Investopedia
- Ranker
- The Balance
- The Street
- Wall Street Mojo
A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.
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17 .) Other People’s Money (1991) directed by Norman Jewison
Lists It Appears On:
- Business Insider 2
- IMDB
- Journal
- Ranker
- Stash
- The Balance
A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a “mom and pop” company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife’s daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the company. The raider is enamoured of her, and enjoys the thrust and parry of legal manoeuvring as he tries to win her heart. Written by Ed Sutton.
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16 .) Trader (1987)
Lists It Appears On:
- Business Insider
- Business Insider 2
- Market Watch
- The Balance
- The Balance
- The Street
Is financial trading an art, science, profession or out-and-out gamble? If you’re interested in money and you want to know what it’s really like on Wall Street, this is the video you, your family, your colleagues and your friends should own. Filmed before Wall Street’s October 1987 crash, TRADER is a riviting one hour documentary of a fascinating man, Paul Tudor Jones II. It delivers a rarely seen view of futures trading and explains the workings of this frantic, highly charged marketplace. It gives viewers an inside look at his estate in Virginia, skiing in Gstaad, his New York apartment. It also examines Jones’ prediction that America is nearing the end of a 200-year bull market. If he’s right – and he almost always is – this country and the world are about to experience economic changes of unprecedented proportions.
15 .) Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) directed by Oliver Stone
Lists It Appears On:
- BP Rising
- Business Insider 2
- IMDB
- Journal
- MSN
- Ranker
- The Balance
As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader’s mentor.
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14 .) Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street (2009)
Lists It Appears On:
- Business Insider
- Business Insider 2
- Journal
- Personal Income
- The Balance
- The Street
- Value Walk
- Wall Street Mojo
13 .) The Big Short (2015) directed by Adam McKay
Lists It Appears On:
- Benzinga
- BP Rising
- Business Insider 2
- IMDB
- Investopedia
- MSN
- Stash
- Wall Street Mojo
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
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12 .) Too Big to Fail (2011) directed by Curtis Hanson
Lists It Appears On:
- BP Rising
- Business Insider 2
- IMDB
- Ranker
- Stash
- The Balance
- The Street
- Wall Street Insanity
Based on the bestselling book by Andrew Ross Sorkin, ‘Too Big to Fail’ offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world’s economy in a matter of a few weeks.
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11 .) The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) directed by Brian De Palma
Lists It Appears On:
- Business Insider
- Business Insider 2
- Personal Income
- Value Walk
- IMDB
- Journal
- Ranker
- The Balance
- Wall Street Insanity
After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight, and attracting the interest of a down and out reporter.
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10 .) Arbitrage (2012) directed by Nicholas Jarecki
Lists It Appears On:
- BP Rising
- Business Insider
- Business Insider 2
- IMDB
- MSN
- Personal Income
- The Balance
- The Street
- Value Walk
- Wall Street Insanity
A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
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9 .) Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) directed by James Foley
Lists It Appears On:
- Business Insider
- Business Insider 2
- Forbes
- IMDB
- Journal
- Personal Income
- Ranker
- Top 10 Films
- Value Walk
- Wall Street Insanity
Glengarry Glen Ross, follows the lives of four unethical Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to go to any lengths (legal or illegal) to unload undesirable real estate on unwilling prospective buyers.
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8 .) Rogue Trader (1999) directed by James Dearden
Lists It Appears On:
- Business Insider
- Business Insider 2
- IMDB
- Journal
- Ranker
- Stash
- The Balance
- The Street
- Wall Street Insanity
- Wall Street Mojo
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who–after a successful trading run–ends up accumulating $1.4 billion in losses hidden in account #88888.
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7 .) American Psycho (2000) directed by Mary Harron
Lists It Appears On:
- BP Rising
- Business Insider
- Business Insider 2
- IMDB
- Investopedia
- Journal
- Personal Income
- Ranker
- The Street
- Top 10 Films
- Value Walk
- Wall Street Insanity
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
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6 .) Margin Call (2011) directed by J.C. Chandor
Lists It Appears On:
- BP Rising
- Business Insider
- Business Insider 2
- Forbes
- IMDB
- Investopedia
- MSN
- Ranker
- Stash
- The Balance
- The Street
- Wall Street Insanity
A thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.
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5 .) The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) directed by Martin Scorsese
Lists It Appears On:
- BP Rising
- Business Insider 2
- Forbes
- IMDB
- Investopedia
- MSN
- Ranker
- Stash
- The Balance
- The Street
- Wall Street Insanity
- Wall Street Mojo
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort’s autobiography.
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4 .) Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) directed by Alex Gibney
Lists It Appears On:
- Business Insider
- Business Insider 2
- Forbes
- IMDB
- Investopedia
- Journal
- MSN
- Personal Income
- Ranker
- The Balance
- The Street
- Value Walk
- Wall Street Insanity
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
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3 .) Boiler Room (2000) directed by Ben Younger
Lists It Appears On:
- BP Rising
- Business Insider
- Business Insider 2
- Forbes
- IMDB
- Journal
- MSN
- Personal Income
- Ranker
- Stash
- The Balance
- The Street
- Value Walk
- Wall Street Insanity
- Wall Street Mojo
A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm, which puts him on the fast track to success, but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.
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2 .) Trading Places (1983) directed by John Landis
Lists It Appears On:
- Business Insider
- Business Insider 2
- Forbes
- IMDB
- Investopedia
- Journal
- MSN
- Personal Income
- Ranker
- The Balance
- The Street
- Top 10 Films
- Value Walk
- Wall Street Insanity
- Wall Street Mojo
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
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1 .) Wall Street (1987) directed by Oliver Stone
Lists It Appears On:
- BP Rising
- Business Insider
- Business Insider 2
- Forbes
- IMDB
- Investopedia
- Journal
- Market Watch
- MSN
- Personal Income
- Ranker
- Stash
- The Balance
- The Street
- Top 10 Films
- Value Walk
- Wall Street Insanity
- Wall Street Mojo
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 whom takes the youth under his wing.
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The 40+ Additional Best Wall Street Movies
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| 42 | A Good Year (2006) |
The Balance
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American Greed (2007 to current)
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The Balance
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| 44 | Billion Dollar Day (1985) |
The Balance
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| 45 | Black Wednesday (1997) |
The Balance
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| 46 | Capital (2012) |
The Balance
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| 47 | Dealers | IMDB | |
| 48 | Die Hard with a Vengeance | Ranker | |
| 49 | Firewall (2006) |
Business Insider 2
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| 50 | Food, Inc | (2008) | MSN |
| 51 | Freakonomics’ (2010) | MSN | |
| 52 |
Golman Saches: Power and Peril (2010)
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The Balance
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| 53 | Jungle 2 Jungle | Ranker | |
| 54 | Limit Up (1989) |
The Balance
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| 55 | Mad Men’ | Benzinga | |
| 56 | Million Dollar Traders (2009) |
The Balance
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| 57 | Mind Over Money (2010) |
The Balance
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| 58 | Money For Nothing’ | Benzinga | |
| 59 | Money Monster | BP Rising | |
| 60 | Ocean’s Eleven | Forbes | |
| 61 | Owning Mahowny (2003) |
The Balance
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| 62 | Quicksilver (1986) |
The Balance
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| 63 | Remembering Black Monday |
Market Watch
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| 64 |
Requiem For The American Dream’
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Benzinga | |
| 65 | Rollover (1981) | Journal | |
| 66 | Silver Bears (1978) |
The Balance
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| 67 | Stavisky (1974) |
The Balance
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| 68 |
Street Food Around The World’
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Benzinga | |
| 69 |
Super Rich: The Greed Game (2008)
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The Balance
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| 70 | The Ascent of Money (2008) |
The Balance
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| 71 | The Dark Knight Rises | Ranker | |
| 72 | The Game (1997) |
Business Insider 2
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| 73 |
The Midas Formula: Trillion Dollar Bet (1999)
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The Balance
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| 74 | The Office’ | Benzinga | |
| 75 | The Scam (2009) |
The Balance
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| 76 | The Trillion Dollar Bet (2000) |
Wall Street Mojo
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| 77 | The Warning (2009) |
The Balance
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| 78 | The Wizard of Lies | BP Rising | |
| 79 | The Wolf of Wall Street (1929) | The Street | |
| 80 | Trillion Dollar Bet (2000) | Journal | |
| 81 | Waffle Street’ | Benzinga | |
| 82 | White Collar’ | Benzinga | |
| 83 | Wolves of Wall Street | Ranker | |
20 Best Financial Crisis Film Sources/Lists
| Source | Article |
| Benzinga | NFLX And Chill With These 8 Wall Street Shows And Movies |
| BP Rising | 15 WALL STREET MOVIES YOU CAN’T MISS |
| Business Insider | 13 Awesome Wall Street Movies To Entertain You On Your Day Off |
| Business Insider 2 | 27 Wall Street movies to watch over Christmas |
| Forbes | 10 Best Wall Street Movies To Ring In 2017 |
| Fortune | These 7 Movies Tell The Real Story Behind the Financial Crisis |
| IMDB | Top 25 Greatest Movies About Finance (Banks, Stock Market, and Wall Street) |
| Investopedia | Top 10 Wall Street Movies |
| Journal | Best Wall Street Films to Watch |
| Market Watch | The 5 best movies featuring Black Monday |
| MSN | ‘The Big Short’ and 14 Other Best Movies About Money and Wall Street |
| Personal Income | 9 Must See Wall Street Movies |
| Ranker | The Best Movies About Wall Street |
| Stash | 10 Best Movies About Finance & The Stock Market |
| The Balance | List of Trading Movies, Documentaries, and TV Shows |
| The Street | 16 Must-See Wall Street Movies |
| Top 10 Films | The 80s And 90s: Two Decades Of Wall Street Power Movies |
| Value Walk | Nine Must See Wall Street Movies |
| Wall Street Insanity | The 15 Best Wall Street Movies Ever Made |
| Wall Street Mojo | Top 10 Wall Street Movies You Must Watch |
