Today, I am introducing you a list of great, evergreen, classic business movies of all time that entrepreneurs and business owners must watch as soon as possible,
These are highly motivational movies. It has failures, set-backs, cautionary tales of corruption, respect and values and more!
More than just an entertainment material, this moves speaks and inspires you a lot. With that in mind, here are my favorite picks for the best business movies of all time.
Gung Ho (1986)
Directed by Ron Howard and starring by Michael Keaton and Gedde Watanabe, Gung Ho was made when Japan start showing the world about how to make better products.
A Japanese auto company is persuaded to take over an abandoned factory--and abandoned U.S. workforce, in a small rust-belt town in Middle America.
Alas, this wonderful idea for a culture-clash comedy goes pretty much to waste in Gung Ho. There's a trumped-up crisis in every reel, and a great deal of double talk about whether the Japanese are workaholic freaks or the new, true inheritors of the old American get-up-and-go.
This movie recommended by Joseph Thomas, Dean of Johnson Graduate School of Management.
The Social Network (2010)
It was an at times blistering, two-hour version of Facebook's origin story, and all the double-crossing and lawsuits that followed. Critics and audiences loved it
The Social Network shows how the colleagues of Mark Zuckerberg laughed at him when he came with an idea for social-networking site which later made him a billionaire.
This movie shows the true mindset of millionaires.
Zuckerberg presents the most intriguing personality in the movie.
This movie recommended by Bob Dammon of Tepper School of Business along with James W. Dean Jr., Dean of Kenan-Flager Business School.
Directed by Oliver Stone and Starring by Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Wall Street is a beautiful story about a young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
The film was well received among major film critics. Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the film has come to be seen as the archetypal portrayal of 1980s success, with Douglas' character declaring that "greed, for lack of a better word, is good."
This movie recommended by Bob Dammon of Tepper School of Business.
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Starring by Marlon Brando, James Caan, The Godfather is one of the greatest business films ever made.
It is about Francis Ford Coppola's epic masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family.
The story, spanning from 1945 to 1955, chronicles the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando), focusing on the transformation of one of his sons, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss.
Its creative cinematography, haunting score, and unforgettable performances by such actors as Marlon Brando and Al Pacino made the multi-generational saga an enduring cultural touchstone.
During the movie we see not a single actual civilian victim of organized crime. No women trapped into prostitution. No lives wrecked by gambling. No victims of theft, fraud or protection rackets. The only police officer with a significant speaking role is corrupt.
Recommended by Paul Danos, Dean of Tuck School of Business and Robert F. Bruner, Dean, Darden School of Business.
Directed by John Lee Hancock, THE FOUNDER features the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a struggling salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California.
“If my competitor was drowning, I’d walk over and put a hose right in his mouth,” says Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) in John Lee Hancock’s savoury drama about the travelling salesman who seized McDonald’s in the 1950s and made it what it is today.
Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. Writer Robert Siegel details how Kroc maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
The film closes in 1970 with Ray preparing a speech where he praises himself for his success in his elaborate mansion with his new wife, Joan. An epilogue reveals that the McDonald brothers were never paid their royalties, which could have been in the area of $100 million a year.
Pirates of Silicon Valley is an original 1999 American made for television biographical drama film, directed by Martyn Burke, starring Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates.
Spanning the years 1971–1997 and based on Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine's 1984 book Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, it explores the impact that the rivalry between Jobs (Apple Computer) and Gates (Microsoft) had on the development of the personal computer.
The film premiered on TNT on June 20, 1999.
The film ends in 1997, with the return of 42 year old Jobs to Apple (after its acquisition of NeXT Computer) and with his announcement at the MacWorld Expo of an alliance between Apple and Microsoft. It also indicates that Jobs is now married, has children, and has reconciled with Lisa.
Wall Street (1987)
The film was well received among major film critics. Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the film has come to be seen as the archetypal portrayal of 1980s success, with Douglas' character declaring that "greed, for lack of a better word, is good."
This movie recommended by Bob Dammon of Tepper School of Business.
The Godfather (1972)
It is about Francis Ford Coppola's epic masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family.
The story, spanning from 1945 to 1955, chronicles the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando), focusing on the transformation of one of his sons, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss.
Its creative cinematography, haunting score, and unforgettable performances by such actors as Marlon Brando and Al Pacino made the multi-generational saga an enduring cultural touchstone.
During the movie we see not a single actual civilian victim of organized crime. No women trapped into prostitution. No lives wrecked by gambling. No victims of theft, fraud or protection rackets. The only police officer with a significant speaking role is corrupt.
Recommended by Paul Danos, Dean of Tuck School of Business and Robert F. Bruner, Dean, Darden School of Business.
“The Founder” (2016)
“If my competitor was drowning, I’d walk over and put a hose right in his mouth,” says Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) in John Lee Hancock’s savoury drama about the travelling salesman who seized McDonald’s in the 1950s and made it what it is today.
Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. Writer Robert Siegel details how Kroc maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
The film closes in 1970 with Ray preparing a speech where he praises himself for his success in his elaborate mansion with his new wife, Joan. An epilogue reveals that the McDonald brothers were never paid their royalties, which could have been in the area of $100 million a year.
Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
Spanning the years 1971–1997 and based on Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine's 1984 book Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, it explores the impact that the rivalry between Jobs (Apple Computer) and Gates (Microsoft) had on the development of the personal computer.
The film premiered on TNT on June 20, 1999.
The film ends in 1997, with the return of 42 year old Jobs to Apple (after its acquisition of NeXT Computer) and with his announcement at the MacWorld Expo of an alliance between Apple and Microsoft. It also indicates that Jobs is now married, has children, and has reconciled with Lisa.
