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Ask HN: Fintech/Business Movie or Web Series Like "Silicon Valley" or Else
Can you guys suggest some good movies or web series? It sometimes boosts the work by how it is displayed on the screen. Any good series will do.
Thanks
- hnthrowaway0328 3y agoMargin Call might be the most accurate one (as accurate as a movie can get) and one that actually peeks into modern finance operations.
- smoldesu 3y agoI like "The I.T. Crowd", but it might be a little too dated/cynical for some people today.
- injb 3y agoI don't understand your second sentence but you might want to look at Office Space - it's a movie about software developers made by the same creator as Silicon Valley (Mike Judge).
- mtmail 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/@Honeypotio https://www.youtube.com/@Honeypotio has a couple of good documentaries (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtEPUaeDclku1ECmuN3IsUimHApukWIOf https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtEPUaeDclku1ECmuN3Is...) interviewing open source developers. For more fun, fiction and action have a look at the Tetris movie on Apple TV.
- munbun 3y ago“Industry” on HBO for glimpse into junior-level investment banking
- cableshaft 3y agoCheck out "Better Off Ted". It's a fun and silly tv series about a company that comes up with crazy inventions that aired for two seasons. Example scene from the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCPsT0mU4so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCPsT0mU4so
- devKnight 3y agoHalt and Catch Fire is not a comedy, but still an amazing show about the early days of personal computers
- ac2u 3y agoEarly seasons are really good but it just gets a little repetitive towards the end.
- Gooblebrai 3y agoI disagree. I think they handled pretty well the last seasons and the ending. Very underrated show.
- mayd 3y agoI found this very watchable, and nostalgic, despite the sometimes glaring technical inaccuracies. Lee Pace elevates any show in which he appears.
- KomoD 3y agoMythic Quest, comedy show about a game studio that is developing a mmorpg. Was pretty good in my opinion
- softwaredoug 3y agoLots of classic movies about or that came roughly around the 2008 financial crisis:) Wolf of Wall Street Margin Call The Big Short
- kratom_sandwich 3y agoMargin Call is amazing! Also, I recommend Charles Ferguson’s documentary „Inside Job“ on the financial crisis
- x86x87 3y agoCode Monkeys. Animation, 8bit, pretty crude humor. Look it up on youtube.
- joshxyz 3y agobillions super pumped person of interest
- girishso 3y ago> person of interest Nice to see, most underrated series, the only series I watch every year.
- thelastgallon 3y agoBillions
- ipaddr 3y ago4 new spin-offs are coming. Millions, Trillions, Billions UK and a believe a Miami edition
- gsuuon 3y agoBetas is also a techy comedy
- mayd 3y agoI love corporate/financial/technology/mathematics thriller film genres but they seems to be a very small niche. Good ones are especially rare. My favourite is "Michael Clayton" (2007), and "Margin Call" (2011) is my second favourite. "Sneakers" (1992) is old but pretty good. "Disclosure" (1994) is also old but quite watchable. Dare I mention "Pi" (1998)? Someone here mentioned the TV series "Billions" which is my guilty pleasure. The stories are so absurd but the great cast manages to carry it off successfully. The only criticism I would make is that, although the show is ostensibly about a hedge fund manager, it seems to contain almost zero actual finance or game theory stuff. The only occasion, that I can recall, when finance enters the plot in a semi-serious way is the episode "Short Squeeze", which was one of my favourite episodes.