Perhaps the most financially accurate movie on the list, "Margin Call" takes place over the span of 24 hours in the life of a Wall Street firm on the brink of disaster (modeled closely after some ...

However, none of these examples have nabbed the #1 spot in IMDb's Top List of Wall Street and Finance Movies. The best IMDb finance film — which ranks 129 in the IMDb Top 250 Movies list — is ...

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 ...

Two of those are fictional movie characters, and one was based on a real person, but they've all shaped the public's perception of what working on Wall Street could be like. If you ask successful ...