"Margin Call" Movie is released

"Margin Call" is the latest movie on the perils of excesses unleashed on Wall Street. I am just awaiting the movie which has the fascinating actor Kevin Spacey ("The American Beauty"). Normally, such movies run for four days in multiplexes like Inox because non-finance audiences don't warm up to them. I always admire the script-writing skills of the Western writers in getting under the skin of th...e Street Pros in bringing pulsating movie plots out. Over the years and especially during our growing up phases, you just remember "Wall Street" as the old classic that gives you the goosebumps. Later, I have collected DVDs and seen movies of many more Wall Street theme movies. And for connoisseurs of this genre, only Hollywood made the best movies almost every decade. Bollywood makes once in a while but not that consistent. ("Rocket Singh"? "Game"?). In no particular order, dear friends, I recommend: "The Inside Job" (Oscar-winning documentary), "Wall Street-Money never sleeps", "Pursuit of Happyness", "Boiler Room", "Other People's Money", "The Bonfire of Vanities" (Tom Wolfe book), "Barbarians at the Gate" (Another thriller book on the RJR Nabrisco fiasco), "Rogue Trader" (On the life of Nick Leeson), "Trading Places" (again a book), "Rollover", "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" (another thriller book), "The Bank" (where a Financial mathematician writes an algorithm to predict stock market fluctuations), "Capitalism: A Love Story" (a documentary by the venerable Michael Moore), "Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street" (a documentary again), "Nova: A Trillion Dollar Bet" (covering the holy trio of Fisher, Black and Merton and their modern finance theories), "Dealers", "Working Girll", and "The Corporation" (again based on a famous book by the same name. I just tried to give an illustrative list of what are must-haves in every finance professional's library. I will be happy to take additions to the list...