Items40The creator’s order
  1. 1Boiler Room (2000)Boiler Room (2000) 7.0/10 on IMDbReleased Feb 18, 2000Start 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.0
  2. 2Wall Street (1987)Wall Street (1987) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 10, 1987Watch 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.0
  3. 3The Big Short (2015)The Big Short (2015) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 11, 2015Choose 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…0
  4. 4American Hustle (2013)American Hustle (2013) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 12, 2013Try 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.0
  5. 5Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) 7.6/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 10, 1992If 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.0
  6. 6Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) 6.2/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 20, 2010Gordon 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.0
  7. 7Margin Call (2011)Margin Call (2011) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 28, 2011Watch 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.0
  8. 8Other People's Money (1991)Other People's Money (1991) 6.2/10 on IMDbReleased Oct 18, 1991A 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.0
  9. 9Catch Me If You Can (2002)Catch Me If You Can (2002) 8.1/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 16, 2002Watch 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.0
  10. 10Gold (2016)Gold (2016) 6.7/10 on IMDbReleased Feb 3, 2016Watch 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.0