Must Watch Finance & Wall Street Movies
Movies are a great way to learn about a topic. Sadly many of the movies about Wall Street give the wrong impression. NOT everybody that works on Wall Street is a Jordan Belfort or Bernie Maddoff or cook up scams like ENRON.
Scroll down and take a look at our top picks of must-watch Wall Street Movies.
(The links are NOT affiliate links and from the IMDB - (Independent Movie Database) - the world’s largest and most trusted sources of movies)
Finance & Wall Street

Wall Street (1987)
Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan

Boiler Room
(2000)
Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long

Trading Places
(1983)
Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy

American Psycho (2000)
Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas
RomCom

Mad Money
(2008)
Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes

The Bonfire of the Vanities
(1990)
Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith

Working Girl
(1988)
Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver

Arbitrage
(2012)
Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling
The 2008 Financial Crisis

Inside Job
(2008)
Matt Damon, Gylfi Zoega, Andri Snaer Magnason

The Big Short
(2015)
Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling

Too Big to Fail
(2011)
James Woods, John Heard, William Hurt
The Rich and (in)famous

Rogue Trader (1999)
Ewan McGregor, Anna Friel, Christian Solimeno

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie

Chasing Madoff (2010)
Bernie Madoff, Frank Casey, Gaytri Kachroo

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
(2005)
John Beard, Tim Belden, Barbara Boxer

The Crooked E (2003)
Christian Kane, Shannon Elizabeth, Cameron Bancroft
Documentaries

Capitalism: A Love Story
(2009)
Michael Moore, William Black, Jimmy Carter

Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street (2010)
Marije Meerman

Eat the Rich
(2022)
On Netflix

Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street (2023)
On Netflix