Easy: Wall Street deals with the 80s and the stock market (shows the seedy underside of unregulated/weakly regulated business)

More Complex: American Beauty or Fight Club or any other movie that fights against the idea of the dollar over the individual.

Fun: Simpsons where Homer decides to sell grease; can be used to talk about supply v demand v profit and outside elements (the mob) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701149/)

It’s fairly old but I’m sure someone has put “The Grapes of Wrath” on DVD by now- It’s a study of a family on the move during the depression. Really good stuff. You may also try “Roger & Me” by Michael Moore. Both are ulitmately about the modern economy’s exploitation of the worker. Never saw it, but heard good things about “Barbarians at the Gate”

The Player- about the making of movies, figuring out what the public would like.

Chinatown – greed and power and corruption in building a water system for Los Angeles.

Wall Street – stock sales

Boiler Room – about sales

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Bullworth – came out in 1992 (?) Warren Beaty.

Tucker: a Man and his dream, (BORING!) My economics teacher made us watch it is class!!

wallstreet

Tucker:a man and his dreams

even the color of money

Cocktail would be a good one as well