movies!

[DJ Samson]

i just got a blockbuster package where I can order movies on the net. I need to fill up my list, so does anyone reccommend any movies that can further my knowledge of business, investing and entrepreneurship? thank you.

[Moxie]

American Beauty, Usual Suspects, Forrest Gump and Artificial Intelligence.

You can thank me later.

[mnt11592]

Bourne Idendity / Supremicie. Borat. Jackass 2. (good stuff)

Although these are not entrepreneur related, they're still sweet movies.

[versas]

Glen Gary Glen Ross

Other People's Money

Wallstreet

Boiler Room

[SendBlast]

Shaving Ryan's Private

wait what was it called

[akula]

i just got a blockbuster package where I can order movies on the net. I need to fill up my list, so does anyone reccommend any movies that can further my knowledge of business, investing and entrepreneurship? thank you.

do you want fiction or non fiction?

There's some good non fiction like startup.com / The corporation and lots of great videos from the Churchill club, Stanford, and Harvard.

For fiction, there's somewhat of a problem. "Business", as a genre it self isn't very popular, and so the movies that do come out (i.e. A Simple Plan, Wall Street, Boiler Room, Citizen Kane, Fargo), deal with "business/money" indirectly, and are mostly negative in their tone, either condemning money outright, or pointing out the dualities of success (i.e. being successful at one thing like business, comes at the cost of success in other things like family relationships). In this genre, my all time favourites are Ran (a simply extraordinary movie) and Once Upon a Time in America (kind of the only movie where the viewer cheers on for the main chracter's sucess and redemption...similarly to Shawshank Redemption).

To that end, I think the most uplifting movies about business are Jerry Macguire and The Hudsucker Proxy, but again, these flicks (like The Godfather) are great dramas which primarily seek to explore the relationships between various characters rather than educate about business, investing or entrepreneurship..in the same way that legal dramas like The Firm and Civil Action don't necessarily venture to educate about the law (although, these are both fine, Grisham, movies)

If looking to learn stuff, I recommend reading venture capital blogs because they are written by real people, in real time, about real issues. It's a better way to learn business because you can contact the author directly, or participate in the comments section.