Finance on the Screen (Movies and Television)

The table below contains a list of movies and television series that have business and financial elements.  You can read about these at the Internet Movie Data Base, www.imdb.com.  They contain various aspects of business and finance and are of varying degrees of accuracy.  Look upon these as entertainment first and finance second.

 

 

Movie

 

Year

 

Length (minutes)

 

Director

 

Stars

Arbitrage

2012

107

J. Madden

R. Gere, S. Sarandon

 

It's a Wonderful Life

 

1946

 

129

 

F. Capra

 

J. Steward, D. Reed, L. Barrymore

 

Executive Suite

 

1954

 

104

 

R. Wise

 

W. Holden, B. Stanwyck, W. Pidgeon, S. Winters, J. Allyson, F. March

 

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

 

1956

 

153

 

N. Johnson

 

G. Peck, F. March, L.J. Cobb, J. Jones

 

Patterns

 

1956

 

83

 

F. Cook

 

V. Heflin, E. Begley

 

A Doll's House

 

1973

 

106

 

J. Losey

 

J. Fonda, T. Howard

 

A Doll's House

 

1973

 

105

 

P. Garland

 

C. Bloom, R. Richardson, A. Hopkins

 

Silver Bears

 

1978

 

113

 

I. Passer

 

M. Caine, L. Jourdan, C. Shepherd, J. Leno, T. Smothers, M. Balsam

 

Rollover

 

1981

 

118

 

A. Pakula

 

J. Fonda, K. Kristofferson

 

Trading Places

 

1983

 

116

 

J. Landis

 

D. Aykroyd, R. Bellamy, E. Murphy, D. Ameche, J. L. Curtis

 

Wall Street

 

1987

 

124

 

O. Stone

 

M. Douglas, C. Sheen, M. Sheen, D. Hannah

Wall Street:  Money Never Sleeps

2010

133

O. Stone

M. Douglas, C. Mulligan, S. LaBeouf

 

Dealers

 

1989

 

91

 

C. Buksey

 

P. McGann, R. DeMornay

 

Limit Up

 

1989

 

88

 

R. Martini

 

N. Allen, R. Charles

 

Other People's Money

 

1991

 

101

 

N. Jewison

 

D. DeVito, G. Peck

 

Barbarians at the Gate

 

1993

 

120

 

G. Jordan

 

J. Garner, J. Cassidy

 

Rogue Trader

 

1999

 

101

 

J. Dearden

 

E. McGregor, J. Friel

 

Boiler Room

 

2000

 

119

 

B. Younger

 

B. Affleck, G. Ribisi

 

Mission Impossible II

 

2000

 

183

 

J. Woo

 

T. Cruise, A. Nordoff-Hall

 

The Bank

 

2001

 

106

 

R. Connolly

 

A. LaPaglia

Clancy in Wall Street

1930

76

T. Wilde

C.Murray, A. Herring

Glengarry Glen Ross

1992

100

D. Mamet

A. Pacino, J. Lemmon, A. Baldwin, E. Harris, K. Spacey

 

Television Series

Year

Network

Comments

 

Bull

2000-2001

TNT

20 episodes

 

The $treet

2000-2001

Fox

12 episodes

Dirty Sexy Money

2007-2009

ABC

23 episodes

                                                                          

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