{"id":921832,"date":"2026-10-09T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921832\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:34:09","slug":"the-5-best-finance-and-markets-movies-of-all-time-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921832\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Best Finance and Markets Movies of All Time, Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The granddaddy still absolutely holds up.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Douglas&#8217; Gordon Gekko \u2014 a slick-haired, cold-blooded embodiment of Wall Street greed \u2014 is an all-time movie villain whose every line is quotable. &#8220;Ever wonder why fund managers can&#8217;t beat the S&amp;P 500? Cause they&#8217;re sheep, and sheep get slaughtered,&#8221; is a personal favorite of mine.<\/p>\n<p>Young Charlie Sheen is excellent as Bud Fox, the ambitious trader pulled into Gekko&#8217;s insider-trading orbit. The plot \u2014 Gekko&#8217;s plan to raid an airline&#8217;s pension fund \u2014 can be a little far-fetched, but the mechanics of trading, corporate control, and takeover tactics remain remarkably clear and credible. That accessibility helps explain its enduring Wall Street appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The period details are fun, too: landlines on the floor, brick-sized cell phones, loose-leaf paper everywhere. Gekko even has a treadmill in his office.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and one last thing \u2026 the next time you&#8217;re hanging out with someone in finance, casually drop the line &#8220;Blue Horseshoe loves Anacott Steel&#8221; and watch them go nuts. You can thank me later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The granddaddy still absolutely holds up. Michael Douglas&#8217; Gordon Gekko \u2014 a slick-haired, cold-blooded embodiment of Wall Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[199710,64,63,234251,489644,1548,489645,134,489642,489641,15460,344,489640,13883,32604,489643,14916,6618,349439],"class_list":["post-921832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-admission","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-banker","tag-business-film","tag-business-insider","tag-dealmaker","tag-entertainment","tag-finance-variety","tag-jciollibusinessinsider","tag-movie","tag-movies","tag-new-facebook-movie","tag-one","tag-ranked","tag-recent-run","tag-silicon-valley","tag-time","tag-trader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}