Finance, Business, and the Stock Market in the Movies

Year

Hint

Movie

1946

A businessman who has given up on life is visited by an angel

1983

An upper-class commodities broker crosses paths with a homeless street hustler

1987

Oliver Stone movie with Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen

1991

Danny DeVito plays a finance businessman specializing in corporate acquisitions

1992

Depicts two days in the lives of four real estate salesmen

1999

Ewan McGregor plays derivatives broker Nick Leeson during the 1995 collapse of Barings Bank

2000

Shady dealings at J.T. Marlin brokerage firm, with Giovanni Ribisi and Vin Diesel

2000

Story told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, serial killer and Manhattan businessman

2010

The subtitle of the sequel to the 1987 movie

2010

A year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company

2011

24 hours at a large Wall Street investment bank during the 2007-8 financial crisis

2013

Martin Scorcese's film based on the memoir of Jordan Belfort

2015

About people who profited from the financial crisis by betting the bubble would burst

2016

Anna Gunn plays a senior investment banker who deals with IPOs.