Entertainment
The Greatest Movies About Making Money
Whether they are about gambling, business, or planning a good heist, movies about making money and getting rich have made millions for Hollywood. The top making money movies have even won Academy Awards for the actors who played characters that known how to work the system. This is a list of movies about doing business, featuring everything from The Wolf of Wall Street to Citizen Kane to American Hustle.
What films will you find on this list of the best making money movies? You won't be surprised to see Glengarry Glen Ross here. Alec Baldwin's opening monologue in the 1992 film epitomized corporate greed and showed the plight of struggling salesmen as they try to make the deal and get the leads. Wall Street is another great movie about making money. The Big Short followed the story of a few smart money men who spotted – and profited from – the 2008 recession before anyone. Other great films featured on this top money making movies list include 21, The Secret of My Success, and Moneyball.
Which film about making money is your favorite? Vote them up so the rest of the world will know.
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- 1Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie
- Released: 2013
- Directed by: Martin Scorsese
In 1987, Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) takes an entry-level job at a Wall Street brokerage firm. By the early 1990s, while still in his 20s, Belfort founds his own firm, Stratton Oakmont. ...more - 2Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Frank Abagnale, Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) worked as a doctor, a lawyer, and as a co-pilot for a major airline -- all before his 18th birthday. A master of deception, he was also a brilliant forger, ...more - 3Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale
- Released: 2015
- Directed by: Adam McKay
In 2008, Wall Street guru Michael Burry realizes that a number of subprime home loans are in danger of defaulting. Burry bets against the housing market by throwing more than $1 billion of his ...more - 4Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
- Released: 1990
- Directed by: Martin Scorsese
A young man grows up in the mob and works very hard to advance himself through the ranks. He enjoys his life of money and luxury, but is oblivious to the horror that he causes. A drug addiction and a ...more - 5Alastair Duncan, Vincent Riotta, Emma Croft
- Released: 1994
- Directed by: Stelvio Massi
War Dogs is a 1994 action film written by Daniel Stone and directed by Stelvio Massi. - 6Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen
- Released: 1987
- Directed by: Oliver Stone
On the Wall Street of the 1980s, Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) is a stockbroker full of ambition, doing whatever he can to make his way to the top. Admiring the power of the unsparing corporate raider ...more - 7Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer
- Released: 1983
- Directed by: Brian De Palma
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana (Al Pacino) stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his ...more - 8Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci
- Released: 1995
- Directed by: Martin Scorsese
In early-1970s Las Vegas, low-level mobster Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro) gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, ...more - 9Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton
- Released: 2006
- Directed by: Gabriele Muccino
Life is a struggle for single father Chris Gardner (Will Smith). Evicted from their apartment, he and his young son (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith) find themselves alone with no place to go. Even ...more - 10George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Dapper Danny Ocean (George Clooney) is a man of action. Less than 24 hours into his parole from a New Jersey penitentiary, the wry, charismatic thief is already rolling out his next plan. Following ...more - 11Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Ted Demme
In the turbulence of the 1970s, the international drug trade underwent a fast, violent and lucrative revolution - and one ordinary American was at its center. But in just a few short years, George ...more - 12Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy
- Released: 1983
- Directed by: John Landis
Upper-crust executive Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) and down-and-out hustler Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) are the subjects of a bet by successful brokers Mortimer (Don Ameche) and Randolph ...more - 13Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan
- Released: 2005
- Directed by: Andrew Niccol
The 20-year arms dealing career of Queens, N.Y., outcast Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) serves as a window onto the end of the Cold War and the emergence of worldwide terrorism. He finds himself ...more - 14Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
- Released: 2010
- Directed by: David Fincher
In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer genius Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, ...more - 15Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Ben Younger
Welcome to the infamous "boiler room" -- where twenty something millionaires are made overnight. Here, in the inner sanctum of a fly-by-night brokerage firm, hyper-aggressive young stock jocks peddle ...more - 16Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Released: 2011
- Directed by: Bennett Miller
Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), general manager of the Oakland A's, one day has an epiphany: Baseball's conventional wisdom is all wrong. Faced with a tight budget, Beane must reinvent his team by ...more - 17Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright
- Released: 2017
- Directed by: Doug Liman
Barry Seal, a TWA pilot, is recruited by the CIA to provide reconnaissance on the burgeoning communist threat in Central America and soon finds himself in charge of one of the biggest covert CIA ...more - 18Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne
- Released: 2008
- Directed by: Robert Luketic
21 is a 2008 American drama film directed by Robert Luketic and stars Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Bosworth, Liza Lapira, Jacob Pitts, and Aaron Yoo. The film is inspired by ...more - 19Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish
- Released: 2011
- Directed by: Neil Burger
Facing unemployment and his girlfriend's rejection, writer Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) is sure that he has no future. That all changes when an old friend gives him a drug that produces enhanced ...more - 20Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Michael Cera
- Released: 2017
- Directed by: Aaron Sorkin
The true story of Molly Bloom, a beautiful, young, Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 ...more - 21Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner
- Released: 2013
- Directed by: David O. Russell
Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) dabbles in forgery and loan-sharking, but when he falls for fellow grifter Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams), things change in a big way. Caught red-handed by FBI agent ...more - 22Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin
- Released: 1992
- Directed by: James Foley
When an office full of New York City real estate salesmen is given the news that all but the top two will be fired at the end of the week, the atmosphere begins to heat up. Shelley Levene (Jack ...more - 23Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: Mike Judge
Corporate drone Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) hates his soul-killing job at software company Initech. While undergoing hypnotherapy, Peter is left in a blissful state when his therapist dies in the ...more - 24Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult
- Released: 2020
- Directed by: George Nolfi
In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration and equal access to the American Dream; inspired by true events. - 25Ansel Elgort, Taron Egerton, Emma Roberts
- Released: 2018
- Directed by: James Cox
A group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establishes a get-rich-quick scam that turns deadly.
