The six best films about financial unrest | Mint

When markets dive – in Main Street with Wall Street, while the interest of the screen writers decreases. From left to right: Jonah Hill plays Danny and Leonardo DiCaprio Jordan Belfort plays in the Wolf of Wall Street, of Paramount Pictures and Red Granite Pictures. Finance is not an obvious topic for playwrights. Interest rates, futures, accounting of the market-to-market: It is phrases to make the average viewer’s eyes disappear. But when markets dive – in Main Street with Wall Street, the interest of the screen writers. Perhaps viewers can expect some tremendous films about the tariff-induced chaos in the coming years. Until then, here are the best films made about financial unrest. “The Big Short” (2015) The 2007-09 financial crisis was definitely serious, but this film-over a group of outsiders and hustlers bursting on the housing bubble, and thus predicting the crisis is very funny. (It is adapted from a book of the same name by Michael Lewis.) Several families make comos to explain financial concepts directly to viewers, while Steve Carell, Christian Bale (below in the photo) and a frightening tanned and Venal Ryan Gosling play three of the men who benefit from the crisis. This film is morally complex and poignant; It lifts and surpasses. “Enron: The smartest guys in the room” (2005) This documentary is about financiers who ended up in prison because they thought they were smarter than everyone. Greedy and hubristically used the managers of Enron Dodgy accounting and aggressive PR-tactics to make their energy trading firm look more profitable than it was. Investors have lost billions and the top executives were convicted of fraud, although the boss, Kenneth Lay, passed away shortly before his sentencing. Based on an equally pleasant book by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind. “The Grapes of Wrath” (1940) The Joad family, kicked off their country in Oklahoma during the Great Depression, west to California to make a better life. The story could easily lie ahead, but Henry Fonda’s prickly main performance as Tom Joad, and the extraordinary film of Gregg Toland (who also filmed “Citizen Kane”), makes it a work of art. John Steinbeck’s novel is an American masterpiece; This film is better. ‘Margin Call’ (2011) A young analyst at an investment bank realizes that the firm is too much of risk -based securities. This film (in the photo below), set in 2008, focuses on the next 24 hours, as the firm sells everything and panic distributions over Wall Street. The ensemble roll division is tremendous, especially Paul Bettany as a shark with a well-hidden heart of gold. But note the portrayal of the rituals and culture of high finance: how people attract and delay people, what they talk about outside the office and how they cut each other’s throat. ‘Too big to fail’ (2011) Another film about the 2007-09 crisis, this time over the headlines. Following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Hank Paulson, America’s Treasury Secretary (William Hurt), Ben Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve (Paul Giamatti), and the leaders of the largest banks. They negotiate the troubled asset assistance program, the government’s purchase of bad assets of banks to escape credit. The screenplay is instructive – Characters explain things together for the benefit of the viewer – so you have completed the film after learning something and that you are entertaining. “The Wolf of Wall Street” (2013) Leonardo DiCaprio plays Jordan Belfort, a smooth talk that made millions of scams in real life before he goes to jail. Martin Scorsese may have intended to make a morality story about the dangers of dirty luxury, but Belfort and his friends clearly have more fun than the honest lawmakers who finally do it. Jonah Hill offers a great supportive action aided by a Gargantuan set of false teeth.