Films that Mean Business

List creator: AMicone Created on: September 5, 2002 - 9:25 PM PDT Description: Films about business people and entrepreneurs

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	Wall Street (Collector's Edition) (1987)
An ambitious investment broker must choose between greed and his humanity
	Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Starry eyed visionary invents a new car and takes on the big automakers, a dramatization of a true story that is also an allegory for Francis Ford Coppola's struggles against the corporate machinery of Hollywood
	Startup.com (2001)
Documentary about the dot-com business govworks.com that inadvertently became a historical document of the internet boom and bust
	Barbarians at the Gate (1993)
Entertaining look at the excesses of takeover mania in the eighties when RJR Nabisco went private
	The Business of Strangers (2001)
A drama concerning the neurotic and destructive personalities of two women business people
	Citizen Kane (1941)
A parable concerning the life of William Randolph Hearst that explores the corrupting influence of power on one's soul
	Boiler Room (2000)
	Rogue Trader (1998)
Ewan McGregor succumbs to the dark side of equity trading, portraying the rogue trader who single handedly destroyed Barings Bank, based on a true story
	The Man in the White Suit (1951)			Not Rated
Inventor makes a suit that never gets dirty and runs up against the capitalist system with humorous results
	Salesman (Criterion Collection) (1969)			Not Rated
One of the gems of the "direct cinema" movement, this film explores the characters of several real life bible salesmen
	Ghostbusters (1984)
Lighthearted comedy about wacky scientists who start a ghostbusting business. "No job to large...no fee too large."