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Boiler Room (2000)
7.0/10on IMDb
Released
Start here for the closest match to the sales floor. Seth learns at J.T. Marlin that an aggressive phone pitch can turn a stranger’s hesitation into a stock purchase. You get the appeal of being good at the job and the cost of looking too hard at what the firm is selling.
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Wall Street (1987)
7.3/10on IMDb
Released
Watch Bud Fox try to become indispensable to Gordon Gekko by bringing him information other brokers can’t get. If you liked the mentor-and-recruit scenes with Belfort, this version makes you sit with what happens when a young broker’s new loyalties reach his father’s union.
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The Big Short (2015)
7.8/10on IMDb
Released
Choose this for the people trying to prove that the reassuring story about mortgage bonds can’t hold. Michael Burry bets against the market while other investors go looking for the weak loans underneath the ratings. You still get brash jokes, with more attention paid to who ends up carrying the losses.
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American Hustle (2013)
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
Try this for the pleasure of watching a con artist revise a pitch in front of a customer. Irving and Sydney start with a loan scam, then find themselves helping an FBI agent sell a much larger story. You can watch whose confidence holds once the marks include politicians.
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Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
7.6/10on IMDb
Released
If you liked the noise of a room full of people trying to close, watch what a sales contest does to this real estate office. Promises about distant properties are the product, and access to better leads becomes the thing the salesmen lie and fight over.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
6.2/10on IMDb
Released
Gordon Gekko’s return gives you another version of the experienced salesman taking a younger trader under his wing. Choose it if you want to see how his promises to Jake and to his own daughter play against his determination to get back in the business.
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Margin Call (2011)
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
Watch a firm decide to unload assets after an analyst figures out how much they could lose. The pitch is subdued and takes place on phones, but you can feel the same tension in the gap between what a salesperson knows and what a buyer has been told.
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Other People's Money (1991)
6.2/10on IMDb
Released
A corporate raider makes the case for buying and dismantling a struggling manufacturer. The confrontation works through a proxy vote, so try this if you want to hear two people pitch shareholders radically different ideas about what makes a company valuable.
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Catch Me If You Can (2002)
8.1/10on IMDb
Released
Watch Frank Abagnale change an outfit, a title, or the story about who sent him when someone starts asking questions. Spielberg’s take makes the impersonations feel effortless at first, then gives the FBI pursuit time to show how little of a life Frank has left behind the borrowed authority.
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Gold (2016)
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
Watch Kenny Wells bet that investors will want a piece of an Indonesian gold find badly enough to trust the story around it. If you liked the gap between Belfort’s pitch and what backed it up, this film gives you a new version built around assays, investors, and prospectors.
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I Care a Lot (2021)
6.4/10on IMDb
Released
Watch Marla sell a court on her ability to protect older people, then use that authority to profit from taking control of their lives. The deadpan pitch lands because it sounds like a routine professional service, and you get to see what happens inside the arrangement afterward.
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The Founder (2016)
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
Watch Ray Kroc tell buyers they can reproduce a system he found in someone else’s restaurant. The sales pitch is a franchise, and the tension comes from how he treats the people who built the original business as that promise becomes easier to sell.
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The Informant! (2009)
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
Watch an executive make himself sound like the perfect person to help the FBI expose price fixing at his own company. If you liked Belfort’s control of his own narration, listen to the distracting trivia and reassuring explanations that make Whitacre’s account gradually harder to trust.
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Thank You for Smoking (2005)
7.5/10on IMDb
Released
Pick this if you want the salesmanship without a stock floor. Tobacco spokesman Nick Naylor makes a living shifting an argument until the question he can answer replaces the one he was asked. You get to see the technique at work on television and in conversations with his son.
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War Dogs (2016)
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
Try this for a pair of opportunists who learn to act like established contractors long enough to win bigger government deals. Their pitch sells access to supplies, while the pressure builds around whether they can actually deliver what they promised.
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Owning Mahowny (2003)
7.0/10on IMDb
Released
Watch a bank manager turn the trust that comes with his job into a way to borrow money for gambling. If you liked seeing how ordinary transactions can hide a much larger problem, this film stays with the routine of issuing loans and getting back to the casino.
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Rogue Trader (1999)
6.4/10on IMDb
Released
Try this for a rise-and-fall story where the lie is buried in the books. Nick Leeson becomes a star by appearing to make money for Barings, and you can follow what happens as the trades he keeps out of view become too large for his reputation to cover.
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The Wizard of Lies (2017)
6.8/10on IMDb
Released
Choose this for the fallout after the persuasive part has worked. Madoff’s apparent steadiness is part of what kept people investing. The film starts taking that reputation apart through the family and people who trusted the returns, so the fraud feels much less like a party.
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The Laundromat (2019)
6.3/10on IMDb
Released
Watch a widow follow paperwork through companies that exist to conceal who is actually making money. If you want something further into the fallout than Belfort’s own story goes, the satirical narrators let you hear the sales pitch from the people who made opacity into a service.
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Trading Places (1983)
7.5/10on IMDb
Released
A rich pair’s wager throws a street hustler and a commodities broker into each other’s lives. The sharpest scenes use the gap between what the wealthy traders believe and what the people they underestimate know. Try it for a broader comedy that still pays close attention to who gets sold the story.
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The Hoax (2006)
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
Watch Clifford Irving pitch an authorized autobiography of Howard Hughes without Hughes’s cooperation. If you like seeing respectable customers help make a story convincing because they want it to be true, there’s particular pleasure in watching publishers buy the promise of exclusive access.
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