Just finished watching "Trading" movies. About 14 of them! Here are the top 4, I can recommend. Entertaining, somewhat informative, and definitely sign of the times: Crazy markets and possible disorderly markets on the horizon. In no order: Too Big to Fail The Big Short Margin Call Dumb Money All the other "recommendations" I saw were too much personality based or simply too outdated: Wall Street never sleeps, wolf of wall street, Rouge trader, Wall Street, Arbitrage etc. So if you want a fun break and keep some perspective, enjoy.
The Big Short & Margin Call are great films. TBTF is pretty average. Everyone knows the story by now. Wall Street was a cult classic for the financial types but it is essentially a cult of Gekko film. The Gekko character was an a amalgam of Ivan Boesky & Carl Icahn not Mike Milken as people claim. Milken was mainly a bond salesman at heart. He really created the original issue Junk Bond market back in the late 1970s at Drexel. Rogue Trader is a good movie. It does seem more about the characters than the actual events that doomed Barings. Boiler Room is a good movie. It is basically the same story as The Wolf of Wall Street. It has more of an indie film feel to it. They even watch Wall Street in the middle of it. There is also a scene that is a take off on the famous scene from Glengarry Glen Ross. It is more of a general morality tale versus about a specific scam like The Wolf Of Wall Street.