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The film that got the whole world interested in statistics, Moneyball is based on a true

story about the manager of the Oakland As baseball team who used statistics to

analyse and understand players strengths and weakness, building up his team from

bottom of the league to a top team. Economists will enjoy seeing stats put to real-world

use and the fact that the numbers guys are the real heroes of the movie. For more on

statistics in sport, check out our long-read insight dedicated to the topic!

An earlier film with a similar theme to Wolf of Wall Street, this 80s drama stars Michael

Douglas as a stockbroker who gets involves with a corporate raider with nefarious

plans. Showing life as an 80s trader in its most gauche and excessive, the film delves

into issues of morality, wealth, and power in the monied world of high-level corporations.

Arbitrage is a thriller drama starring Richard Gere as a hedge fund manager who has

been engaged in shady accounting practices in secret to try and hide his losses and

avoid being arrested for fraud. After a car accident nearly exposes his secrets, he must

decide how to evade the police in order to protect his secret.

For a light-hearted comedy crime film with an economics theme, try the 2009 Matt

Damon movie The Informant! Based on a true story of a whistleblower who reports a

price-fixing conspiracy at his workplace to the FBI, the movie follows the life of a

whistleblower as he tries to help gather evidence against his company. With a fun, ironic

tone, the film looks at the way corporate malpractice occurs and the challenges in

stopping it.

A documentary based on the book Too Big To Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street

and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves which covers

the 2008 financial crisis and how it came about. The film is presented from the point of

view of the key players in various financial institutions who work to try to prevent a

global economic meltdown.

A fictionalised version of the life of John Nash, the mathematician who created game

theory – which went on to become a major topic in economics research. Exploring both

Nash's mathematical work and the schizophrenia that he suffered from, this film was a

popular success as well as being highly rated by historians and those in the field of

mathematics.