At the latest since the new Scorsese hit "The Wolf of Wall Street" hit cinemas at the beginning of January 2014, everyone knows how exciting the world of the stock market in https://exnesscom.com/how-to-trade-cryptocurrency/ is. You want to know even more good movies on this topic? We have compiled the top 5 stock market movies for you. Watch them on a rainy weekend - it's worth it!
Wall Street (1987)
Director Oliver Stone's stock market thriller is the mother of all stock market movies and is set in New York City in 1985. Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) is a young aspiring stockbroker. He comes from humble beginnings and has only one thing on his mind: big money. When he manages to get the famous finance shark Gorden Gekko (Michael Douglas) to work with him, that dream seems within reach.
But he doesn't realize that Gekko is instrumentalizing him to make illegal stock market deals. Stockbrokers Ivan Boesky and Carl Icahn served as models for the two main characters. The crude dealings of the two were already the foundation for the books "Mr. Diamond" by Douglas Frantz and "Club of Thieves" by James B. Stewart.
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).
This stock market movie will look familiar. It was first released in theaters in January 2014. If you have saved yourself the trip to the cinema so far, you should make up for it as soon as possible. "The Wolf of Wall Street" is worth seeing and was not nominated for five Oscars for nothing. The stock market drama is already the fifth collaboration between star director Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. It tells the story of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who - as in Wall Street - is driven primarily by greed and megalomania and ultimately ends up behind bars.
The film is based on the autobiography of the same name by stockbroker Jordan Belfort. The drama shows the rise and rise, but also the bitter fall of the New York broker. In the 1990s, he was involved in crooked stock market transactions and a corruption scandal. In 1998, he had to stand trial for money laundering and securities forgery and was later sent to prison for 22 months. With his broker colleagues, Belfort led the debauched party life for which he was known. This in particular is depicted extensively in the film.
The Great Crash - Margin Call (2011)
"The Big Crash" ("Margin Call") starring Kevin Spacey and Demi Moore is a 2011 thriller from director J. C. Chandor. The film tells the story of the people responsible for the global financial crisis in 2008. It is set in the dramatic 24 hours before the looming disaster.
Actor Zachary Quinto plays Peter Sullivan, a young analyst who realizes that the numbers in his employer's books don't add up. For him, it's as clear as day: the company is on the brink of ruin. That's why the company's leaders have to come up with a plan. Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons and Demi Moore are masterful in their roles. In their plan, they are interested in one thing above all: the survival of the company. They ruthlessly reject the fact that they are dragging the rest of the financial world into the abyss.
Inside Job
Inside Job also revolves around the origins of the financial crisis - but in a different way. That's because Inside Job, starring Matt Damon, is a documentary. In the film, director Charles Ferguson traces the events that culminated in the 2008 financial crisis. He achieves this through a unique combination of plot and interviews with insiders from the financial world. These say that the economic recession of 2008 was a result of the catastrophic collision between out-of-control
investment banking, rampant liberalization and corrupt economists. In 2011, "Inside Job" won the Oscar for Best Documentary.
High Speed Money.
The film High Speed Money, in German "Das schnelle Geld", is a British stock market film from 1999, also called "The Nick Leeson Story". It tells of the stock market dealings of Nick Leeson, a young banker who suddenly became world-famous because he drove the rock-solid Barings Bank to ruin through speculative machinations - and thus sent shock waves across the entire globe.
Ewan McGregor plays the young broker who works in Singapore for an old-established British banking house. His high risk tolerance and good luck help him rise quickly in the Asian financial market - until he speculates. To hide his loss from the board of directors, he enters into increasingly risky transactions. The result: a loss in the billions, which leads to one of the most spectacular crashes in stock market history and puts him behind bars for years.
