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15 Best Movies About Greed and Money

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Nazarii Verbitskiy Nazarii Verbitskiy
TV Shows & Movies - May 30th 2026, 15:00 GMT+2
Other Peoples Money

15. Other People's Money (1991)

Danny DeVito plays a corporate raider who treats hostile takeovers like a blood sport, and the movie never pretends he's anything but a predator who happens to be funny. Other People's Money works because it doesn't try to redeem its Wall Street villain or make his greed sympathetic. The film lets DeVito be charming and ruthless at the same time, which makes his financial demolition of a family business feel both entertaining and genuinely unsettling. That balance between comedy and actual consequences keeps the movie from going soft on what corporate raiders actually do to people. | © Warner Bros.

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14. The Company Men (2010)

The Company Men takes the 2008 financial crisis and makes it personal through three executives who suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of corporate downsizing. Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, and Ben Affleck each represent a different stage of career destruction, watching their identities crumble along with their stock options. The movie refuses to make anyone a complete villain or victim, instead showing how easily people become collateral damage when quarterly profits matter more than human cost. What stings most is how normal it all feels, like watching your own workplace slowly eliminate everyone you know. | © The Weinstein Company

Rogue Trader

13. Rogue Trader (1999)

The real Nick Leeson brought down a 233-year-old British bank with unauthorized trades that lost $1.3 billion, and Rogue Trader turns that catastrophe into a surprisingly human story about how ambition becomes self-destruction. Ewan McGregor plays Leeson as someone who starts believing his own hype about beating the system, then keeps doubling down on bad bets because admitting failure feels impossible. The movie works because it shows how financial disaster happens gradually, then all at once, with each desperate cover-up making the eventual collapse more inevitable. What makes it different from other Wall Street cautionary tales is how ordinary Leeson seems, right up until he destroys everything. | © BBC Films

Cuba Gooding Jr Jerry Maguire 1996

12. Jerry Maguire (1996)

Jerry Maguire starts with a sports agent having a late-night moral crisis and writing a mission statement about putting people before profits. The problem is that his sudden attack of conscience gets him fired, leaves him with one client, and forces him to rebuild his entire career from scratch. Tom Cruise turns what could have been a simple redemption story into something more complicated, because Jerry's journey toward doing the right thing still involves plenty of scheming, desperation, and ego. The movie works because it never pretends that choosing integrity over money is easy or that good intentions automatically make someone a good person. | © Sony Pictures

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11. War Dogs (2016)

Two college dropouts figure out how to win Pentagon contracts by exploiting a bureaucratic loophole, then watch their scheme spiral completely out of control. War Dogs takes the arms dealing business and turns it into a dark comedy about guys who stumble into something way bigger than they can handle. Jonah Hill and Miles Teller have the right chemistry for a partnership that starts as entrepreneurial hustle and ends in paranoia and betrayal. The movie works because it shows how greed can make terrible ideas feel brilliant right up until they destroy everything. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

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10. The Founder (2016)

Ray Kroc didn't invent McDonald's, but The Founder shows exactly how he stole it anyway. Michael Keaton plays the milkshake machine salesman who meets the McDonald brothers, learns their efficient system, then systematically pushes them out of their own company through legal maneuvering and ruthless expansion tactics. The film treats corporate backstabbing like a heist movie, complete with the slow reveal of how someone can smile through handshake deals while plotting to break every promise. Keaton makes Kroc feel dangerously likable even as he destroys everything decent about the original vision. | © The Weinstein Company

Casino

9. Casino (1995)

Casino turns three hours of Vegas excess into something that feels both massive and suffocating at the same time. Scorsese fills every frame with the mechanics of how casinos actually work, then watches his characters get crushed by the same system they thought they controlled. The violence hits harder because it comes after long stretches of Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci living like kings, making their inevitable downfall feel less like justice and more like watching a machine finally eat the people who built it. Nobody walks away clean, and the desert takes everything back. | © Universal Pictures

The Social Network

8. The Social Network (2010)

The Social Network takes the origin story of Facebook and turns it into something much darker than anyone expected from a movie about college students coding websites. Mark Zuckerberg becomes less of a tech visionary and more of someone who burns every friendship and relationship in pursuit of something bigger, even when he's not entirely sure what that something is. The genius move is how the film shows greed as emotional rather than purely financial. Zuckerberg doesn't just want money or success; he wants to win every argument and prove every person who dismissed him wrong, no matter the cost. | © Sony Pictures Releasing

Goodfellas

7. Goodfellas (1990)

Goodfellas makes crime look like the best job in the world until it becomes the worst nightmare imaginable. Scorsese follows Henry Hill through decades of mob life, showing how the money and respect feel intoxicating before the paranoia and violence make everything collapse. The film moves with the manic energy of someone telling you the story at three in the morning, jumping between laugh-out-loud moments and sudden brutality without warning. What starts as a seductive recruiting pitch for organized crime becomes a cautionary tale about what happens when easy money stops being easy. | © Warner Bros.

The Godfather

6. The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather turns a crime family into a business empire, where every handshake hides a transaction and loyalty gets measured in dollars. Coppola builds the whole thing around Michael's transformation from war hero to calculating don, but the real story lives in how the Corleones treat violence like overhead costs. The movie never glorifies the blood or the money. It just shows how power corrupts through a thousand small compromises until you wake up as someone you never planned to become. | © Paramount Pictures

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5. Margin Call (2011)

Wall Street meltdowns usually get the big-budget treatment with car chases and villainous CEOs, but Margin Call strips all that away to show what really happened in those conference rooms during the 2008 crisis. The entire film takes place over 24 hours as a team of risk analysts discovers their firm is holding worthless assets that could destroy the company. Jeremy Irons delivers the film's coldest moment when his character calmly explains why they'll dump all the toxic investments on unsuspecting clients before anyone else figures it out. The horror comes from watching smart people make terrible choices while speaking in the measured tones of a board meeting. | © Lionsgate

The Big Short

4. The Big Short (2015)

The Big Short turns the 2008 financial crisis into something that feels like a dark comedy about the smartest people in the room being completely ignored. Christian Bale, Steve Carell, and Ryan Gosling play the handful of investors who saw the housing bubble coming and bet against the entire American economy. The movie breaks the fourth wall to explain complex financial instruments through celebrity cameos and bathtub metaphors, making mortgage-backed securities feel as absurd as they actually were. What hurts is watching these characters get rich off a disaster that destroyed millions of lives, and knowing they were right the whole time. | © Paramount Pictures

Wall Street

3. Wall Street (1987)

Gordon Gekko's "greed is good" speech became the defining moment of 1980s excess, but Wall Street works because it shows how seductive that philosophy actually sounds when delivered by someone who has mastered the game. Charlie Sheen's young stockbroker gets pulled into Michael Douglas's orbit not through force but through the promise of belonging to something bigger and more exciting than his ordinary life. The movie captures how financial corruption spreads through mentorship and aspiration rather than simple villainy. Oliver Stone built a cautionary tale that accidentally created a folk hero, with Douglas's performance so magnetic that viewers still quote Gekko decades later. | © 20th Century Fox

There Will Be Blood

2. There Will Be Blood (2007)

There Will Be Blood watches Daniel Plainview turn oil into an empire while losing every human connection that might have mattered. Paul Thomas Anderson built the whole film around Daniel Day-Lewis drinking milkshakes and screaming about drainage, but the real horror comes from watching someone choose wealth over his own adopted son. The movie runs for nearly three hours without a single moment where Plainview seems capable of joy, friendship, or basic decency. Greed becomes a disease that infects everything it touches, including the audience. | © Paramount Pictures

The Wolf of Wall Street

1. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

The Wolf of Wall Street turns financial crime into a three-hour party that never quite lets you forget how ugly the hangover will be. Leonardo DiCaprio's Jordan Belfort doesn't just steal money from investors; he celebrates every scam with enough cocaine and chaos to power a small city, making the audience complicit in enjoying behavior they know is destroying lives. Scorsese films the Wall Street excess like a rock concert, complete with slow-motion drug sequences and speeches that feel like victory laps over other people's retirement funds. The genius move is how the movie makes you laugh at Belfort's antics while showing exactly who pays for his fun. | © Paramount Pictures

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There's something endlessly watchable about people throwing everything away in the pursuit of more, and cinema has never run out of ways to tell that story. These 15 movies looked greed straight in the eye and made it compelling, ugly, and sometimes uncomfortably relatable.

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There's something endlessly watchable about people throwing everything away in the pursuit of more, and cinema has never run out of ways to tell that story. These 15 movies looked greed straight in the eye and made it compelling, ugly, and sometimes uncomfortably relatable.

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