We’re not the only ones who think business is exciting. Hollywood has a thing for spotlighting businesses in movies. Doesn’t matter whether it’s a comedy, mystery or hard hitting drama; people love watching the goings-on in offices, major corporations and small mom-and-pop businesses.
Favorite Business Related Movies and Television Shows
Following are some of our favorite business related movies and television shows. If you have favorites that are missing from the list, feel free to add them to the comments section of this article. We’d love to hear about your favorite business related flicks.
Some of ours are (in no particular order):
- Wall Street (the first movie starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen that came out in 1987)
- The Godfather (all of them)
- Moneyball
- Citizen Kane
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Tin Men
- Boomerang (stars Eddie Murphy, Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Martin Lawrence, David Allen Grier, Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt)
- The Company Men
- The Social Network
- Other People’s Money
- Inside Job
- The Office
- Secretariat (Love this movie!)
- Jerry Maguire (starring Tom Cruise)
- The Apprentice
- Horrible Bosses
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Limitless
- The Insider
- Death of a Salesman
- Catch Me If You Can
- The Paper
- The Informant (starring Matt Damon)
- The Boiler Room
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Recommended 10 Movies You Should Watch If you want to become a good entrepreneur, the best advice I can give you is that you should read good books, the second best method to learn the business language is by watching some good business movies.
Movies made on the subject of business are few. Here is a list of some of the best business and inspirational movies of all time.
10. Other People’s Money.
This is a very interesting story of an investor whose main business is to search for bargain companies to take them over and then sell their assets separately on profit. One day, he found this company named New England Wire and Cable Company. But the owner of the company refused to sell his company……..
9. Working Girl
It is a story of a girl (Tess) who works as a secretary. She is very intelligent and hard-working. One day she shares an business idea with her boss (Katharine) but her boss steals this idea and presents it in front of others as her own idea.
Fortunately, Tess get an opportunity to get her idea back when her boss get sick and …….
8. The Pursuit Of Happiness.
This is a very inspirational story of a struggling salesman who is homeless and wants to keep his family together during hard time. By taking full advantage of rare opportunities, the life offers, he becomes a stock market superstar. The salesman role played by famous actor Will Smith.
7. Wall Street
In this movie, Gordon Gekko is a stock market veteran. A young guy named Bud Fox is willing to do illegal activities for him to make a lot of money fast. But Bud Fox’s father is an honest employee and he suggests his son to find a good job….
6. Antitrust
Antitrust is a movie that reveals how big companies buys and steals the ideas of small computer programmers. This story will show you how far can these companies go to stay ahead of his competitors. When two young programmers develop some new programs and try to start their business, one of them accepts a big-income offer from a large company and other get killed…..
5. Trading Places
It is a movie based on racism between black vs. white and rich vs. poor. In this comedy movie, two rich make a one dollar bet, one of them says that if a white rich man loses all his money and gets in difficult sanitations, he will do the same illegal activities as the other poor black people are doing. This movies deserves a very solid recommendation.
4.The Godfather
The Godfather is a very popular film. Many people believe that it is the best movie ever made. It is a story of a mafia family. Don Vito Corleone is the head of this family. Don Vito is a gangster, he runs his business by doing favors and expecting favors in return. This movie has got everything to become the best movie of all time, its rating is simply 10 out of 10.