List of economics films explained

This is a list of economics films. Economic film is a genre of film concerned with economics, typically about business, investing, and finance. It covers both fictional and documentary films.

Fictional films

• 99 Homes (2014)
• Adults in the Room (2019)
• Americathon (1979)
• Arbitrage (2012)
• L'argent des autres (1978)
• (2011)
• August (2008)
• Baazaar (2018)
• The Bank (2001)
• Barbarians at the Gate (1993; TV movie)
• A Beautiful Mind (2001)
• The Big Short (2015)
• Boiler Room (2000)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
• Brief Season (1969)
• Buy & Cell (1988)
• Capital (2012)
• Cash McCall (1960)
• The Company Men (2010)
• Corsair (1931)
• The Crash (2017)
• Dealers (1989)
• Default (2018)
• Diamond Necklace (2012)
• Dealers (1989)
• L'Eclisse (1962)
• The Entrepreneur (2011)
• Equity (2016)
• The Guarantee (2014)
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
• The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
• The Hummingbird Project (2018)
• The Informant! (2009)
• The Insider (1999)
• (2013)
• Limit Up (1989)
• Margin Call (2011)
• Moneyball (2011)
• Money Monster (2016)
• Other People's Money (1991)
• Owning Mahowny (2003)
• Prime Risk (1985)
• The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)^[1]
• Quicksilver (1986)
• (2009)
• Rogue Trader (1999)
• Rollover (1981)
• The Scam (2009; Korean title Jak Jeon)
• The Secret of My Success (1987)
• The Solid Gold Cadillac (1957)
• Too Big to Fail (2011; TV movie)
• Uncut Gems (2019)
• Up in the Air (2009)^[2]
• Wall Street (1987)
• (2010)
• The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
• The Wizard of Lies (2017; TV movie)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• Woman's World (1954)

Documentaries

• £830,000,000 - Nick Leeson and the Fall of the House of Barings (1996; TV documentary)
• (2016)
• The Big One (1996)
• (2009)
• The Corporation (2003)
• Debtocracy (2011)
• The Emperor's New Clothes (2015)
• (2005)
• Floored (2009)
• The Forecaster (2014)
• (2010)
• Globalisation Is Good (2003; TV documentary film)
• (2011)
• Inequality for All (2013)
• Inside Job (2010)
• I.O.U.S.A. (2008)
• The Last Days of Lehman Brothers (2009; TV film)
• Let's Make Money (2008)
• Life and Debt (2001)
• (2006)
• Marx Reloaded (2011)
• Maybe I Should Have (2010)
• (2007)
• (2013)
• Moneyocracy (2012)
• The Recess Ends (2009)
• Risk/Reward (2003)
• Roger and Me (1989)
• South of the Border (2009)
• Squeezed (2007)
• Startup.com (2001)
• System Error: How Will Capitalism End? (2018)
• (2005)
• Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics (1995)
• The Yes Men (2003)
• The Yes Men Fix the World (2008)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Entrepreneur who inspired Will Smith film speaks at commencement Cal State LA . 2024-11-02 . www.calstatela.edu.
2. News: "Up in the Air" . 2024-11-02 . The Economist . 0013-0613.