10 Movies for Entrepreneurs | 10 Best Films For Entrepreneurs

10 Best Films For Entrepreneurs: The media is a great source of learning and inspiration. It is often said that “Art imitates life and life imitates art”. Just from one single piece of media, so many people around the world can learn things and grow from them. Here are 10 movies for entrepreneurs that show working life in a real light. These movies do not only show the highs but also the lows in the life of a working person.

Wall Street

Wall Street is a 1987 movie starring Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Shee, Daryl Hannah, and many others. Oliver Stone is the co-writer and the director of this film. As the title suggests, the movie is about the investors and financiers that work on Wall Street. The main character, Gordon Gekko, is said to be a mix of several different people from Wall Street. Oliver Stone also claimed that the movie was a tribute to his late father, who worked as a stockbroker during the Great Depression. Michale Douglas also won the Academy Award for the Best Actor Male for this movie. There was a sequel to this movie made in 2010, named Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

MoneyBall

MoneyBall is a 2011 film directed by Bennett Miller and written by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. The film stars Brad Pitt, Chris Pratt, Jonah Hill, and many others. This film is adapted or is based on the non-fiction novel by Michael Lewis called Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. The movie is entirely based on a true story. It is about the sport baseball and the wins and losses of a game. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including the Best Picture category. It is a great movie about the sporting business, team spirit, and on wins and loses.

Catch Me If You Can

Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 biographical movie starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Tom Hanks in the lead roles. The movie was directed and produced by Steven Spielberg. The movie started developing in 1980 itself, but it took Speilberg twenty years to make it and get it on the screen due to issues with copyright, etc. The film is adapted from the semi-autobiographical book by Frank Abagnale Jr., Catch Me If You Can. Christopher Walken was nominated for the Best Supporting Role and the movie was also nominated for the Best Score at the Academy Awards.

The Social Network

The Social Network is a 2010 film based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. It is a biographical movie about the founders of Facebook, mainly Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. Jesse Eisenberg plays the character of Zuckerberg and Andrew Garfield plays the role of Saverin, with many other prominent names like Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, etc. playing supporting roles. It was named the best film of the year 2010 by 22 different critics. This movie won three out of eight nominations, the film received the Academy Awards in the categories Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing. It also won four awards at the Golden Globes Awards.

The Founder

The Founder is also a biographical film, that was directed by John Lee Hancock and written by Robert Siegel. The movie tells the story of the formation of the world’s popular fast-food chain, McDonald’s. The movie starred Don Handfield, Jeremy Renner, and Aaron Ryder in it. It tells the story of how the business had to ruthlessly remove the original founders of McDonald’s, Maurice and Richard McDonalds, who also gave the company their name. The removal was done in order to sustain and run the business well and for longer.

Office Space

Office Space is a 1999 comedy film written and directed by Mike Judge. It stars Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Stephen Root, and Gary Cole in it. The movie is based on the workspace and the working culture of cooperation in the 1990s. It is based on the cartoon series Milton by Mike Judge. This film gained a lot of popularity amongst people and did extremely well at the box office due to its reliability and the fun element it had.

Startup.com

Startup.com is a 2001 documentary. It is directed by Jehane Noujaim and Chris Hegedus and was produced by D.A. Pennebaker. It first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001, and later was released for the public to see. It is about the startup company govWorks.com, which raised $60 million from Sapient, Hearst Interactive Media, and KKR. The start-up turned out to be a failure, but it became a learning lesson for many and the documentary helped capture that well. It received great appraisal from the critics.

Twelve Angry Men

Twelve Angry Men, (also written as 12 Angry Men) is a 1957 courtroom drama film. It is directed by Sidney Lume. It was adapted from a teleplay by Reginald Rose with the same name, that was released in 1954. Movie is a story of a case of an 18-year-old boy accused of stabbing his father to death, and the jury passes judgment on the boy. The movie is packed with intense scenes in the courtroom

The Wolf Of Wall Street

The Wolf Of Wall Street is a very popular 2013 movie that stars Leonardo Di Caprio in the lead role. He also produced the movie, and it was directed and written by Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter respectively. The film is highly appreciated worldwide as is very popular on the internet due to the different memes made from it. It is based on the life of the stockbroker, Jordan Belfort, and his autobiography with the same name as the movie. It was nominated for several Academy Awards and Golden Globes. Leonardo Di Caprio also won the award for the Best Actor in a Comedy or a Musical at the Golden Globes for this film.

Rogue Trader

Rogue Trader is a 1999 movie written and directed by James Dearden and stars Ewan McGregor and Anna Friel. It is based on the life of Nick Leeson, and his book Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World. The movie covers his journey where he spent four years in prison due to financial fraud. The movie was well-received by critics and people alike.

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