Top 10 Business Movies 1. The Social Network
A few years ago you couldn’t pick up a newspaper or magazine without seeing yet another article about Facebook’s rapid rise or its youthful, nerdish founder Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg). The movie adaptation seems to have all of the components of a dramatic business set-up - the idea that took the world by storm, the people who tried to get a piece of the pie and the emergence of an old-hand at start-up in the form of Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake.) Cut out all the drama and you also get an insight into the internet-era’s most controversial court case to date. The film is just as clever as the brilliant protagonist and delivers a conspiracy tale of friendship and bitter rivalry merged with classic capitalism.
3. Glengarry Glen
2. Wall Street
Ross Times are tough in a Chicago real-estate office; all of its salesmen are up for a brutal competition. The prizes? First prize is a Cadillac, second is a set of steak knives, third prize is the sack! Hot-shot Ricky Roma (Al Pacino), rakes in the commission; old-timer Shelley Levine (Jack Lemmon), has lost his touch; tough- talker Dave Moss (Ed Harris) plots against management and nervous George Aaronow (Alan Arkin), is a washed up nervous wreck. The office manager, John Williamson (Kevin Spacey), couldn’t be happier. He doesn’t like any of them and awaits their imminent downfall. What follows is a showdown of people backstabbing each other for the sake of their livelihood. The world of real estate will never seem the same after watching this classic, which amassed 25 Oscar nominations and five victories.
One of the few cinematic portrayals of Wall Street that captures the realism of the stock market and its key players. Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) is a young stockbroker desperate to succeed and becomes involved with his hero, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), a ruthless, egomaniac corporate raider. Gekko takes Bud under his wing and employs him as a professional spy to leak top secret stock information - with the guarantee of a penthouse, a trophy blonde girlfriend and a corner office with a view. The movie broadcasts the moral bankruptcy infiltrating business society at the time, and Gekko’s words are an ode to that philosophy. His phrase from the film perfectly encapsulated the booming economy of the eighties - ‘
Greed...is good.’ Wall Street will engage you even without a background in finance, with Michael Douglas once quoting that fans would approach him as stockbrokers, confessing the influence of the film.
5. Boiler Room 4. Citizen Kane
Named the greatest film to come out of the black and white picture era, Citizen Kane tells the story of Charles Foster Kane, a wealthy publishing King who dies suddenly and causes outcry all over the world. A reporter tries to find out what happened, interviewing the great man’s friends and associates. The journalist then comes across Kane’s written memoirs, featuring a childhood spent in poverty in Colorado until one of the world’s largest gold mines was found on the grounds of his mother’s property. After acquiring the money from his mother at 25, Kane enters the newspaper business and manipulates public opinion, which includes a campaign for the office of governor of New York State. Charles then spends his last years building a vast estate and living alone, leaving a vital secret as his legacy that provides a climactic conclusion. A revered classic with an immense reputation, this Orson Welles screenplay is a perfect exploration of the relentless pursuit of power.
Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi) is a college dropout running an illegal casino from his rented apartment. Suddenly, he finds himself seduced by the opportunity to become a trainee stock broker. Seth gets the job and maintains motivation through flirtation with love interest Abbie (Nia Long) and a desire to men the fractured relationship he has with his father. Developing a passion for hard sale and high commission, Seth begins to question the legitimacy of the firms operations, before becoming a target himself and being arrested by the FBI. An interesting tale on corruption in business and the skepticism of deals that seem too good to be true.
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