Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is a
6. Working Girl frustrated
secretary
desperate to get ahead in business. Fed up with her boss Katherine (Sigourney Weaver) stealing her ideas, she grabs an opportunity to shine when her menacing manager breaks her leg during a skiing holiday. Whilst Katherine is capacitated, Tess grabs her chance, teaming up with Weaver’s husband and securing an investment deal that saves the company, taking full credit for her own vision.
Meanwhile, McGill is fed up with her boyfriend and secures love with a top executive in the form of Harrison Ford. A romantic take on the corporate world, this film documents a woman’s rise to success and the unconventional way in which she made it with a valuable lesson to any boss - don’t take your secretary for granted!
8. Pirates of Silicon Valley (2000)
Based on the book Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine, this 1999 tech-world biopic documents the rivalry between Apple and Microsoft in the development of the world’s first personal computer. Spanning the period of the early 1970’s to 1997, the film follows the parallel lives of Apple co-founders Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) and Steve Wozniak (Joey Slotnick) as well as Microsoft founder Bill Gates (Anthony Michael Hall), the former a pair of hippies with jobs at Hewlett-Packard, the latter a crafty Harvard dropout. The latter half of the movie is where the action takes place, focusing on how Gate surpassed Apple to become the global powerhouse it is today. This movie makes the list for the simple reason that you see what kind of perseverance and innovation it takes to become filthy rich.
9. Other People’s Money
In this clever morality play, Danny DeVito plays ‘Larry the Liquidator,’ a shrewd corporate raider who threatens a hostile takeover of New England Wire and Cable, a publicly traded company. As the patriarch of the company panics over the threat to his business, he enlist the help of his wife’s daughter Kate Sullivan, a lawyer who vows to protect his assets. DeVito is mesmerised by her and sets out to win over her heart and the company. As he closes in on his goal and conquers New England Wire and Cable, which he intends to sell off in parts and shut down operation — Larry has to decide which he lusts after more: money or Kate.
10. Its a Wonderful Life
As well as targetting the business genre, this film is one of today’s most popular Christmas films, providing a bittersweet comedy about George Bailey (James Stewart), a suicidal character who considers himself cheated out of the life he could have had. Emulating the Scrooge archetype of
supernatural beings
reminding the individual on the value of life, an angel named Clarence (Henry Travers) hurries to George’s side to intervene. Clarence is an elderly chap who offers George the gift of hindsight, enlightening him on what the world would have been like without him, with a succession of examples proving the influence George has on mankind.
7. The Aviator
This film should be of interest to any budding serial entrepreneur. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Howard Hughes, a millionaire in his twenties cultivating his fortune improving the design of oil- drilling. In terms of the film title, the biopic also shows Hughes’ passion for planes, as well as his rise to media mogul status. Following rejection from the
Hollywood scene, Howard then gets started on designing new planes, flying around the world, and risking his life in aircrafts. He then founded his own airline, Trans- World Airlines, gaining dangerous enemies in the form of the head of Pan-American Airlines, Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), and Senator Ralph Owen Brewster (Alan Alda), who attempts to prove that Hughes’ design aimed to con taxpayers for millions of dollars through government contracts. Technically brilliant, stylish and provides a critique of cut-throat free market competition.
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