Financial services movies

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The best movies about the markets.

• Repo Man (1984) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995
• Synthetic Pleasures (1995) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114597 Conceived as a derivative road movie, this documentary investigates cutting-edge swap technologies and their influence on our risk management as we approach the 21st century. Could we banish risk altogether? It certainly seems like it!
• Collateral (2004) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369339
• Shorts (2004) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1100119 A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting delta-hedging strategy causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous market makers and scheming hedge-funds alike set out to get their hands on it.
• Margin Call (2011) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615147
• The Swap (2016) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5653444
• Security (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3501112/ A security guard who moonlights as a day trader (Antonio Banderas) and his online buddies protect an eleven-year-old bricks-and-mortar home video outlet which is being targeted by a gang of short sellers for not participating in the digital economy.