For someone who is a movie lover and a stock market enthusiast, you’re probably wondering what are the best movies about the stock market.

With a hint of valiance, let’s take a look at these movie scenes that are a clear example of world markets are work.

From Limitless to Trading Places, there are many movie and film documentary titles related to stock markets and trading in general.

These iconic movies are a clear implication of the thrill and drama of the stock market.

Let’s list the top 14 favorites of all time!

Best Movies About The Stock Market

Let’s kick off our list of the best movies about the stock market with a modern action classic, Limitless!

Limitless

In Limitless we get a movie featuring a man who is passionate about his dreams and follows them blindly.

Facing unemployment and his girlfriend’s rejection, writer Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) is sure that he has no future.

That all changes when an old friend gives him a drug that produces enhanced mental acuity.

Stoked on the untested chemical, Eddie rises to the top of the financial world and attracts the attention of a tycoon (Robert De Niro) who intends to use him to make a fortune.

But terrible side-effects and a dwindling supply threaten to collapse Eddie’s house of cards.

One of the awesome things about Limitless is that it motivates viewers to participate in the trading industry.

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What Happens In Vegas

What Happens In Vegas is the appropriate depiction of the competitive side of the stock market.

   

The movie features people trying to be the spoiler of each other’s market game. In short, What Happens In Vegas shows how the market is nothing but a snake pit where someone is always there to pull you down.

The scenes that show the reality of the stock market with double-faced individuals are worth a watch. It’s a perfect demonstration that every coin has two sides.

Trading Places

In this screwball comedy of manners, millionaire commodity brokers Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) wager a bet that pits environment vs. biology and turns the lives of their two unsuspecting victims upside down.

Eddie Murphy costars as Billy Ray Valentine, a streetwise hustler who gets dragged off the street and into the proper life of top Duke Bros. broker Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd), who in turn gets tossed out of his posh townhouse and onto the mean city streets.

The comic team of Murphy and Aykroyd is deliriously funny as they both struggle to comprehend their new lives.

Billy Ray is forced to learn proper etiquette, manners, and business sense while uptight Louis scrambles to make it on the streets, befriending a prostitute (Jamie Lee Curtis) who takes him in and saves him from starvation–or worse.

When the two innocent victims realize the scheming brothers’ plot, they unite and devise a fabulous revenge to prove that their lives can’t be controlled by the power-grubbing Duke brothers.

The film features outstanding work by Denholm Elliott as the butler and Curtis as the prostitute with a heart of gold. Curtis especially shines in the scene in which she removes all of her hustler accoutrements to reveal her true looks.

Scenes from the movie Trading Places are not only iconic but also quite beautifully directed.

It’s a clear portrayal of what the real stockers must feel when luck favors them. The notion of success and happiness is depicted with so much authenticity that you will feel their emotions.

The Big Short

When four outsiders saw what the big banks, media, and government refused to, the global collapse of the economy, they had an idea: The Big Short.

Their bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of modern banking where they must question everyone and everything.

Based on the true story and best-selling book by Michael Lewis (The Blind Side, Moneyball), and directed by Adam McKay (Anchorman, Step Brothers), The Big Short stars Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Brad Pitt.

When the banks committed the greatest fraud in US history, four outsiders risked it all to take them down.

Based on the unbelievable true story and best-selling book from the author of The Blind Side and Moneyball, critics are calling The Big Short ‘brilliant and explosive’ (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal).

Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Brad Pitt turn in career-best performances in ‘one of the most absorbing and entertaining films of the year’ (Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly).

The Wolf of Wall Street

Sex. Money. Power. Brace yourself for an outrageous true story from legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a young stockbroker hungry for a life of non-stop thrills, where corruption was king and more was never enough.

Revered filmmaker Martin Scorsese directs the story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio).

From the American dream to corporate greed, Belfort goes from penny stocks and righteousness to IPOs and a life of corruption in the late 80s.

Excess success and affluence in his early twenties as founder of the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont warranted Belfort the title – ‘The Wolf of Wall Street.’

Sex. Money. Power. Drugs. Brace yourself for an outrageous true story from legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a young stockbroker hungry for a life of non-stop thrills where corruption was king and more was never enough.

His rise to power earned him the title The Wolf of Wall Street. Together Scorsese and DiCaprio deliver a story of American excess.

   

Wall Street

In this riveting, behind-the-scenes look at big business in the 1980s, an ambitious young broker (Charlie Sheen) is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage when he is seduced by the power, status, and financial wizardry of Wall Street legend Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas).

But he soon discovers that the pursuit of overnight riches comes at a price that’s too high to pay.

Barbarians at the Gates

The 80’s… It was a time when everybody was doing the big bucks, but f. Ross Johnson, CEO of R.J. R. Nabisco has every intention of making a fortune.

When Johnson (James Garner) decides to buy out the Nabisco shareholders and take over his company, no one is prepared for what hits the fan.

Johnson is introduced to the master of the leveraged buyout, Henry Kravis (Johnathon Pryce) but, afraid of losing the company to this sharp dealer, he decides to make his move with Peter Cohen (Peter Riegert).

Kravis, however, is not to be outdone and begins an aggressive campaign of his own. What follows is a down-to-the-wire battle to see who’s really king of the Wall Street jungle.

They may look like polite, well-dressed businessmen, but listen hard and you can hear the pounding of Barbarians at the gate.

This HBO original comedy, adapted by Larry Gelbart (Tootsie) from the book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, concerns one of the most compelling tales of corporate buyout madness in the go-go 1980s.

James Garner plays F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco. Following failed and expensive efforts to sell a smokeless cigarette to the public, Johnson decides that he’s had enough of navigating around the wrath of the company’s stockholders.

Drawing up plans to buy RJR Nabisco outright, he soon finds himself outmatched (though still determined) in a race for the prize with takeover king Henry Kravis (Jonathan Pryce).

The ensuing battle is both bitterly funny and full of acid-tinged insights into the ’80s greed that changed corporate America forever.

Besides Gelbart’s great script and Glenn Jordan’s competent direction, the star of this exciting film is Garner, who is absolutely wonderful as the gracious Johnson.

American Psycho

Patrick Bateman is a handsome, well-educated, executive who works days on Wall Street. His nights are spent in ways we cannot begin to fathom.

A 26 year- old living his own American Dream – as a serial rapist and killer preying upon the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis.

Glengarry Glen Ross

Slick real-estate salesmen fight for survival and hot leads in David Mamet’s adaptation of his play. Directed by James Foley.

Befitting the film’s subject matter, the bonus features on the 10th-anniversary special-edition DVD of Glengarry Glen Ross provide an even balance of topical and behind-the-scenes exploration.

James Foley’s commentary, like his acclaimed adaptation of David Mamet’s play, is concise, articulate, and richly observant on the topics of theme, direction, and rehearsal.

The same is true of shorter commentaries by Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, director of photography Juan Ruiz Anchia, and production designer Jane Musky–all are intelligent and generous in sharing their artistic approach to Mamet’s rich material.

The interview documentary “Always Be Closing” attempts, with adequate success, to draw parallels between the revealing anecdotes of real-life salesmen and a survey of salesmen in drama, from Death of a Salesman to Tin Men and beyond.

Pennsylvania filmmaker Tony Buba’s short documentary “J. Roy: New and Used Furniture” is a quirky but welcomed inclusion, with its vintage portrait of a small-time entrepreneur.

The “Tribute to Jack Lemmon” is touching, funny, and deeply affectionate (Peter Gallagher’s anecdotes are particularly amusing; Chris Lemmon’s are appropriately moving).

Lemmon himself is included in a 1998 excerpt from Inside the Actor’s Studio and a Charlie Rose interview.

All of these features are well-conceived and sharply organized; David Mamet’s predictable absence is this DVD’s only minor drawback.

Rogue Trader

Ewan McGregor shines in this riveting true story about how greed, excess, and high-stakes gambling brought down one of Britain’s oldest and most successful financial institutions.

When futures trader Nick Leeson (McGregor) is sent to Singapore by the 200-year-old Barings Bank, he dreams of making a killing in the stock market.

Nick’s firm believes he is the most successful trader they’ve ever employed…but he secretly begins to steal vast amounts of their money to cover his risky financial wagering.

With enough debt to match his desperation, Nick risks everything in a frantic bid to beat the system and win back the money.

Boiler Room

Anyone who says that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have it. Welcome to the new American Dream.

Eager to show his aloof father that he can succeed in life, an ambitious, intelligent college dropout takes a job at a small stock brokerage firm, where he meets with great success.

But when he learns that the company is selling worthless securities to gullible buyers, he realizes the cost of his ambitions–and how deeply embroiled he has become in the scam.

19-year-old New York college drop-out Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi) has always been a disappointment to his father, Marty (Ron Rifkin), but seems to have at last earned a little grudging respect when he passes his broker’s exams and becomes employed at J.T. Marlin.

Inspired by the ambitious approach of his new colleagues in the ‘boiler room’, Seth sets out to make his first million, at the same time embarking on a romance with company secretary Abby (Nia Long).

However, it isn’t long before Seth realizes that he is in fact defrauding his new clients; the stock he is selling is worthless, and the whole J.T. Marlin operation is an illegal scam.

Unable to talk to anyone, Seth’s dilemma over whether to expose the operation and so lose his newfound friends and status is heightened when the FBI becomes involved…

Margin Call

Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, Margin Call is a thriller entangling the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.

When an entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both financial and moral catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of disaster.

Writer/director J.C. Chandor’s enthralling first feature is a stark and bravely authentic portrayal of the financial industry and its denizens as they confront the decisions that shape our global future.

The Dark Knight Rises

When The Dark Knight Rises opens, Batman is in self-imposed exile. It’s been eight years since he vanished into the night, turned sudden fugitive by accepting the blame for the death of Harvey Dent. For a time the lie worked.

Criminal activity in Gotham City ceased, crushed by the anti-crime act.

However, the arrival of a cunning cat burglar with a mysterious agenda is changing everything.

Even more dangerous is the emergence of a masked terrorist whose ruthless plans for Gotham are driving the reluctant superhero out of retirement.

But even if he dons the cape and cowl again, Batman may be no match for the evil awaiting him.

Lastly, we will be ending our list with the outstanding scene from the best movie of the Dark Knight trilogy.

In the movie The Dark Knight Rises, Bane selects the stock market building as a target with intentions to hamper the world economy.

His tactic of destroying the world through the stock market still makes viewers go awestruck. That’s why we consider it one of the most awesome stock movie scenes presently.

Have you watched these movies yet? If not, then add them to your binge list as you’ll not regret it. We are unable to pick our favorite from the top movies about the stock market mentioned here. But give them a watch and decide which ones are your favorite!
 

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