Introduction: Movies for Business Inspiration

Here are the top 10 Movies for Business Inspiration every business owners must watch this week.

1. The Founder

The Founder is a film about Ray Kroc, an American business magnate who founded the fast-food chain McDonald’s. The film tells the story of Ray Kroc, who was responsible for the creation of the McDonald’s restaurant chain, which went on to become the most successful restaurant company in the world. Michael Keaton plays Kroc in the film. Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch also star in it and play the roles of Ray and Maurice McDonald, the original proprietors of the McDonald’s restaurant chain.

2. Glengarry Glenn Ross

The fact that this film stars Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, Jack Lemmon, and Alec Baldwin (in a scene-stealing cameo), among others, ought to be sufficient justification for viewing it.

The play Glengarry Glen Ross, which served as the inspiration for the film Glengarry Glen Ross, is about the struggles that real estate salespeople face during a particularly difficult sales season.

3. The Big Short

The Big Short is a film that is based on the book of the same name written by Michael Lewis. It tells three separate but parallel stories of people who were able to predict and profit from the financial crisis that hit the United States in 2007 and 2008.

Both Christian Bale and Steve Carell turn in Oscar-worthy performances in this film, which was directed by Adam McKay, who was previously most well-known for the Anchorman film series.

In addition to this, the movie is well-known for its unconventional approaches to the explanation of traditionally dry and complicated financial topics, such as subprime mortgages and collateralized debt obligations.

4. The Wolf of Wall Street

The film The Wolf of Wall Street is an adaptation of the real-life experiences of Jordan Belfort. The story traces his rise and fall as an entrepreneur and demonstrates how his company, Stratton Oakmont, became involved in illegal penny stock trading and a securities scam that attracted the attention of the FBI.

Superbly directed by Martin Scorsese, with standout performances from Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, and Margot Robbie, as well as a memorable cameo from Matthew McConaughey (who was performing at the height of his “McConaissance” at the time), “The Revenant” is an outstanding film.

5. Boiler Room

You’re going to like this if you can get past the fact that Vin Diesel plays a smooth-talking stockbroker in the movie. If you can do that, you’ll be able to appreciate this. If you liked The Wolf of Wall Street, you will like Boiler Room even more because it is loosely based on Stratton Oakmont, the fraudulent stock trading company that Jordan Belfort founded. If you liked The Wolf of Wall Street, you will like Boiler Room even more because it is loosely based on Stratton Oakmont.

The characters in the film idolize Gordon Gekko from Wall Street and make a living by conning naive people into purchasing penny stocks. They do this by manipulating them. You are fully aware of where this is going to go!

6. The Social Network

The Social Network is a film that was directed by David Fincher and tells the story of how Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook while he was a student at Harvard. The film also details how Zuckerberg was later sued by two brothers who claimed that he stole their idea as well as by his best friend who was fired from the company.

7. Pirates of Silicon Valley

The film Pirates of Silicon Valley, which is based on the book Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, examines the competition that existed between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates between the years 1971 and 1997. This film was released in 1999, right around the time that Steve Jobs was starting to have success in his second innings at Apple. At the conclusion of the film, Bill Gates has gained the upper hand in the competition, but we all know how things turned out in real life.

8. Startup.com

The documentary Startup.com is the ideal film to watch if you are interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the rise and fall of internet companies during the dotcom bubble. The story of GovWorks, a promising startup that failed spectacularly due to mismanagement and internal power struggles, is the subject of the documentary film “Startup.com,” which is a film about the business world.

9. Wall Street

This is the film that features the well-known line “Greed is good,” which is delivered by the likable character Gordon Gekko, who is played brilliantly by Michael Douglas, who was awarded an academy award for his performance.

Wall Street is a film directed by Oliver Stone that tells the story of ambition and greed. Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas give outstanding performances as their respective characters in the film. The primary protagonist, Bud Fox, looks up to Gordon Gekko as a role model and becomes enamored with Gekko’s glamorous lifestyle, only to find himself caught in the treacherous web of insider trading.

10. Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened

The Fyre festival was promoted as the most impressive music festival in the history of the world. The “luxury music festival” was promoted on Instagram by a number of celebrities and social media influencers, including Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, and Emily Ratajkowski. The “luxury music festival” was organized by Billy McFarland and the rapper Ja Rule. The one and only obstacle? MacFarland, who had a history of starting up fraudulent business ventures, was the mastermind behind the entire scheme, and it was all a con.

An exclusive look at what went on behind the scenes of the disastrous music festival is provided by the documentary Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, which can be viewed on Netflix.

You need to watch the documentary in order to get a full understanding of the scope of this fraud. The documentary includes some shocking revelations from Billy’s unfortunate team members, the festival goers who were stranded on the island, and the heartbreaking story of a Bahamian restaurateur who had to spend $50,000 out of her own life savings in order to pay her staff who were preparing and serving meals to the stranded festival goers. She was fortunate enough to create a GoFundMe page after the documentary was released, and thanks to the compassion and generosity of people who were moved by her story in the documentary, she was able to recover the money that she had lost through the page.

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The Aviator

Another one of Scorsese and DiCaprio’s films that they worked on together is on this list. The film The Aviator is a biopic about the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, who overcame all the odds to become a famous businessman and successful film director, all while dealing with his OCD, which gradually got worse over time. DiCaprio’s performance in the film, which earned him a nomination for a second Academy Award, is nothing short of brilliant. Additionally, it is regarded as being among the very best films of its genre ever made.