Wall Street movies can bring the financial landscape into ... The "Big Short" is based on the nonfiction best-selling book about the 2007-2008 financial crisis by financial journalist Michael ...

Money makes the plot move in the best movies about Wall Street and finance. Greed is not good, but there’s something great about taking a complicated topic like stock markets and finance and breaking ...

In a sentence: No movie about Wall Street is funnier than the 1983 comedy "Trading Places." Plot: Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd are at their best as director John Landis tells the tale of how one ...

In a sentence: A rare look inside the minds of mathematical geniuses who have invented financial models that have both destroyed and made Wall Street. Plot: Quants is 45-minute documentary on the ...

Here’s a roundup of the month’s best movies and TV shows, as covered by The Wall Street Journal’s critics. The world may be divided between those who do and do not still feel a little thrill ...