13 Movies Every Entrepreneur Must Watch

There are some business lessons, tips, and strategies that you cannot learn from books, college, or university. Those things cannot be learned as perfect as you often learn by watching movies. Sometimes some movies leave a deep inspiration you.

So whenever I have free time, which happens often, I spend my time watching some business-related movies, series or documentaries so that there is entertainment and some knowledge is also available.

So I am going to introduce 11 such movies that will not only help you to know about the businesses and entrepreneurship but it will motivate and inspire you too.

So stay on the page till last. Who knows, these movies inspire you so much and you become the next entrepreneur. It will not only inspire you but will also help you grow. By the way, nowadays movies have become a part of life, so you must watch them.

Always remember, being an entrepreneur is not easy and it's not about becoming rich and famous. 

1. STARTUP.COM

Startup.com is a 2001 American documentary film about the birth and failure of start-up govWorks.com, which raised the US $ 60 million from Heart Interactive Media, KKR, New York Investment Fund, and Sapient.

Barring today's headlines, Startup.com examines the current troubled state of the Internet revolution, in which the ideals and dreams of quick money have been suppressed by harsh economic realities and broken promises. With sensitive storytelling and a dynamic, intimate cinematic-style style, the film also manages to personalize this crisis with deeply personal views of the people involved.

Initial release: 25 May 2001 (USA)

Directors: Jehane Noujaim, Chris Hegedus

Screenplay: Jehane Noujaim, Chris Hegedus

Producers: Jehane Noujaim, Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker

IMDb Rating: 7/10

2. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

The movie is based upon a veteran FBI agent followed Frank Abagnale Jr., who successfully secured a million-dollar check before his 19th birthday, posing as a Pan Am pilot, a doctor, and legal prosecutor.

Initial release: 25 December 2002 (USA) 

Director: Steven Spielberg 

Featured song: Catch me if you can 

IMDb Rating: 8.1/10

3. LORD OF WAR

Lord of War is a 2005 American crime drama film written, produced, and directed by Andrew Nicholl and starring and co-produced by Nicholas Cage.

In the 1980's Little Odesa, Ukrainian immigrant Yuri Orlov decided to change his economical life and became an arms dealer with his brother Vitaly Orlov. With the end of the Cold War, his occupation of gunsmiths supplying illicit weapons in turbulent regions of the planet grows, and Yuri bribes a Russian general to sell most of his arsenal. Meanwhile, he becomes a millionaire and uses his money to seduce Sundar Ava Fontaine and they get married and have a son. Interpol agent Jack Valentine is chasing Yuri and trying to put him in jail, but in the end, he realizes that Yuri is a necessary evil for his nation's interest.

Cage plays the role of an illegal arms dealer, inspired by the stories of many real-life arms dealers and smugglers. The film was officially endorsed by human rights group Amnesty International to highlight arms trafficking by the international arms industry.

Initial release: 16 September 2005 (USA) 

Director: Andrew Niccol 

Music director: Antonio Pinto 

Box office: 7.26 crores USD 

Producers: Nicolas Cage, Andrew Niccol, Chris Roberts 

IMDb Rating: 7.6/10

4. WALL STREET

Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, starring Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, and Daryl Hannah. The film tells the story of Bud Fox (Sheen), a young stockbroker who becomes involved with Gordon Gocco (Douglas), a wealthy, dishonest corporate raider.

It is interesting to see how a young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading in illegally on information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, who is trying to get the youngsters in his wing Moves under.

Initial Release: December 11, 1987 (U.S) 

Cast: Michael Douglas, Oliver Stone, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Christine Hannah 

Director: Oliver Stone 

Producer: Edward R. Pressman 

Box Office: $41 Million 

IMDb Rating: 7.4/10

5. ROGUE TRADER 

Rogue Trader is a 1999 British biographical drama film, written and directed by James Dieden and starring Evan McGregor and Anna Frail. The film centers on the life of former derivatives broker Nick Lesson and the fall of Barings Bank in 1995.

This is the story of Nick Lesson (Evan McGregor), an aspiring investment broker who bankrupted one of the oldest and most important banks in Britain.

Initial release: 25 June 1999 

Director: James Dearden 

Adapted from: Rogue Trader 

Screenplay: James Dearden 

Story by: Nick Leeson, Edward Whitley 

IMDb Rating: 6.4/10

6. FYRE

This Netflix documentary is about the disastrous Fyre festival of 2017. The Fyre Festival was billed as a luxury musical experience on a posh private island, but it failed spectacularly in the hands of a rooster entrepreneur.

Initial release: 18 January 2019

Director: Chris Smith

Producers: Chris Smith, Mick Purzycki, Danny Gabai 

IMDb Rating: 7.2/10

7. TWELVE ANGRY MAN

12 Angry Men is a 1957 American courtroom drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, adapted from a teleplay by Reginald Rose of the same name. This courtroom drama tells the story of a jury of 12 men, as they deliberately acquit the conviction or conviction of an 18-year-old defendant, forcing gamblers to question morality and values. Does matter.

The 12 Angry Men discover a number of consensus-building techniques and encounter difficulties in the process among men in this group whose range of personality adds to intensity and conflict. It also explores the power that a person has to bring in change. Jurors are identified by number only; At the very end, no name was revealed until the conversation was exchanged. The film forces the characters and the audience to evaluate the jurors' own self-image by observing their personality, experiences, and actions. The film is also notable for its almost exclusive use of a set where all but three minutes of the film take place.

Initial release: April 1957 (USA)

Director: Sidney Lumet

Screenplay: Reginald Rose

Story by: Reginald Rose

IMDb Rating: 8.9/10

8. OFFICE SPACE

The plot is hilarious, the characters are hysterical, and it's just a fun film. If you hate your job then at least want to feel better about it, this film is for you. Three company employees who hate their jobs decide to rebel against their greedy boss.

A software engineer, Peter is tired of his boring job and along with two of his friends makes a vengeful plan to inject the virus into his company's system.

Initial release: 19 February 1999 (USA)

Director: Mike Judge

Based on: Milton; by Mike Judge

Screenplay: Mike Judge

Box office: 1.22 crores USD

IMDb Rating: 7.7/10

9. MONEYBALL

Moneyball is a sports drama film based on the 2011 American biography, directed by Bennett Miller and written by Steven Zillion and Aaron Sorkin.

Brad Pitt stars in this film about Oakland A's general manager Billy Bean made a successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.

Moneyball is a film about management. Based on a true story, Moneyball is a film for anyone who has ever dreamed of taking on the system.

Release date: 24 February 2012 (India)

Director: Bennett Miller

Featured song: The Show

IMDb Rating: 7.6/10

10. THE FOUNDER

The Founder is a 2016 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by John Lee Hancock and written by Robert Seagal. Starring Michael Keaton as businessman Ray Croke, the film portrays the story of McDonald's creation of a fast-food restaurant chain.

Ray, a salesman, meets the owners of McDonald's, a burger joint in Southern California. He realizes the potential of the place and decides to make it the largest restaurant business in the world.

Instead of serving a Happy Meal film, the film instead provides a somewhat historical scene of ambition and drive, and the birth of an empire

Initial release: 16 December 2016 (USA)

Director: John Lee Hancock

Box office: 2.41 crores USD

Budget: $7–25 million

Screenplay: Robert Siegel

IMDb Rating: 7.2/10

11. THE SOCIAL NETWORK

Directed by David Fincher, The Social Network is an American biographical drama film which is written by Aaron Sorkin. Adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires, this movie portrays the founding of the social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits.

At the heart of the film is a stunning, Oscar-worthy performance from Jessie Eisenberg, 19-year-old Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, the "Facebook" backstage genius.

As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg created the social networking site, known as Facebook, he is sued by twins who claimed he stole their idea and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.

Mark Zuckerberg, with the help of his friend Eduardo Saverin, creates a social networking site, Facebook. But soon, a string of lies tear their relationship as well, as Facebook connects people.

Release date: 12 November 2010 (India)

Director: David Fincher

Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin

Box office: 22.49 crores USD

IMDb Rating: 7.7/10

12. NIGHTCRAWLER

Written and directed by Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler is an American thriller film. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Louis "Lou" Bloom, a stringer who records late-night violent incidents in Los Angeles and sells the footage to a local television news station. René Russo, Riz Ahmed and Bill Paxton also star

Louis Bloom, a petty thief, realizes that he can make money by capturing photographs of criminal activities and begins to resort to extreme tactics to obtain them.

Release date: 31 October 2014 (India)

Director: Dan Gilroy

Box office: 3.87 crores USD

IMDb Rating: 7.9/10

13. PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY

Pirates of Silicon Valley is a native 1999 American made for a television biographical drama film directed by Martine Burke and starring Nova Ville as Steve Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates.

The achievements of visionaries Steve Jobs (Noah Wile) and Bill Gates (Anthony Michael Hall) revolutionized the 20th century.

Initial release: 20 June 1999 (USA)

Director: Martyn Burke

Original release:  June 20, 1999

Original network: Turner Network Television

IMDb Rating: 7.2/10

So, that's all for this article. Here I have listed all the 13 movies for Entrepreneurs that are recommended by most of the people. If you are aspiring to be an entrepreneur then you should have to watch these movies for at least once. These are available on Netflix. You can go and watch there.

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