10 Movies You Can Watch This Weekend If You Are Interested In Stock Market

Are you a movie buff who is also interested in the stock market? With the weekend just around the corner, why not combine your zeal for movies and stocks by watching some of the greatest movies about the stock market that have been made to date? Sounds interesting?

Then wait no more as we bring to you 10 movies on the stock market that you can watch over this weekend.

10 Movies On Stock Market That You Can Watch

1. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

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The Wolf of Wall Street is a movie about the lives of Jordan Belfort, a Wall Street stockbroker, and his partner, Donnie Azoff. The characters are played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill, respectively. The drama portrays the unethical and corrupt ways Jordan Belfort sells penny stocks to his customers, ultimately leading to his downfall.

The movie comes with many lessons, such as how a superior should behave with his employees in the corporate world to gain their trust and how one shouldn¡¯t take life that seriously.

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2. Scam 1992 (2020)

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The first Indian movie on the list, Scam 1992, is based on a book authored by Debashis Basu and Sucheta Dalal. The web series centres around Harshad Mehta, a BSE stockbroker, and his involvement in the 1992 securities scam. Mehta was illegally taking money from banks to finance his purchases. He was first exposed by Sucheta Dalal, the co-author of the Scam 1992 book and a reporter at the time. The web series takes a peek into one of the biggest stock market crashes in the history of the Indian share market.

3. Margin Call (2011)

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Perhaps the most financially accurate movie on the list, Margin Call takes place over the span of 24 hours in the life of a Wall Street firm on the brink of disaster (modelled closely after some of the bulge-bracket banks).

Margin Call does little to hide its contempt for the reckless risks taken by some of the largest banks in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. It highlights the trading of complex derivative instruments that investment banks themselves barely understand.

A poignant scene in the movie features two main characters talking about the catastrophe that is soon to be unleashed upon not just their firm but the whole, unsuspecting financial community of companies and investors as well, as a janitor stands between them, completely oblivious to what is going on.

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4. Rogue Trader (1999)

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Created by James Dearden, Rogue Trader is the story of an investment banker who is responsible for Britain¡¯s oldest bank going bankrupt. The movie comes with multiple lessons, such as team management, business ownership, accountability, and the importance of owning up to your mistakes.

5. Boom Bust Boom (2015)

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Directed by Terry Jones, this documentary portrays the history of economic cycles. The movie uses animations to describe concepts from Nobel-winning economists such as Daniel Kahneman, Robert J. Shiller, and Paul Krugman. The movie aims to educate the common man about the economic system by representing multiple economic crashes throughout history.

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6. The Crash of 1929 (2009)

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The Crash of 1929 is a documentary that captures the unbounded optimism of the age, a time when the stock market epitomised the false promise of permanent prosperity. It chronicles a fateful year through the words and experiences of the descendants of these titans of finance. The stock market crash of 1929, also referred to as the Great Crash or the Wall Street crash of 1929, saw both a sudden and a steep decline in stock prices in the United States during late October that year.

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7. Barbarians at the Gate (1993)

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Barbarians at the Gate is a funny docudrama that follows the lives of Nabisco CEO F. Ross Johnson and his incompetence as he attempts to purchase the remaining stockholders of his firm. It is a motion picture-cumulative television film. This timeless classic brilliantly depicts the holding company of RJR Nabisco and is one of the most well-liked and greatest stock market movies based on a true tale.

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8.Bazaar (2018)

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A thriller-drama movie, Bazaar is based on a stock trader¡¯s life. Hired for his trading skills, Rizwan gets entangled in insider trading and corrupt networks. As a stock market-related movie, it provides a good look at what it takes to actually work in the field.

As far as share market movies in Hindi go, Bazaar comes close to the realities that many traders may experience in their trading journeys. The movie is aptly set against the three things that can make or break you in the stock market today: money, power, and business. Although this was one of the first major movies dealing with a new subject in Hindi cinema, it received a cool response. Audiences, while admitting that the plot was good, critiqued the screenplay as being too predictable.

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9. Too Big to Fail (2011)

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Another great movie on the list is 'Too Big To Fail', a movie that focuses on the 2008 financial meltdown and describes how a business (or sector) was deemed to be so deeply ingrained into a financial system or economy that its failure could be disastrous to the entire economy.

10. The Big Bull (2021)

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Another film based on the life of infamous investor and trader Harshad Mehta. this too is a great watch if you are interested in stock market. The story is based on real events of financial market that took place between 1990 and 2000 involving the rise and fall of Harshad Mehta, and the financial crimes he did.

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