10 inspiring movies about business you can watch during the New Year holidays

“Bad money”

The world of money is ruled by the rich, but sometimes they also receive “change” from ordinary people. Hedge fund bosses deliberately “shorted” the shares of video game company GameStop to then profit from the company’s bankruptcy. Due to their tactics, many people, including GameStop fans, lost money: financial analyst Keith Gil (Paul Dano) decided to fight back against the “bears”, urging viewers of his YouTube channel to buy stocks that were falling from price and create artificial demand. The story told in “Bad Money” confirms that although the strong have a lot of power, the “weak” can resist them if they unite and believe in the success of the cause.

“Happiness”

Joy Mangano (Jennifer Lawrence) has five people to support: two children, an unemployed ex-husband, her mother, and her grandparents. Since she was little, the woman loved doing things with her hands and, after her dismissal, she came up with a miraculous mop that can be wrung without touching the dirty parts. Believing in her invention, Joy opens a small business, organizes the production of mops and realizes that she does not know how to sell the product. Joy Mangano’s story shows how you can improve something that everyone knows and thus change the world.

“Ferrari”

Now everyone associates the Ferrari brand with luxury, but in the 1950s the concern might have come to an end. The company is in debt, only a sensation that attracts the attention of investors will be able to save it: that is why the director of Ferrari, Enzo (Adam Driver), prepares his best drivers for the famous Mille Miglia race. If Enzo loses, he will have to “hand over” the company to a merger with a wealthy buyer, so his candidates will have no room for error. Although life had already turned its i’s when Ferrari sold Fiat, the film shows that sometimes failure can be the beginning of a success story.

“Founder”

It is a surprising fact, but the McDonalds company became popular not thanks to the work of the McDonald brothers, the fathers of the brand, but with the help of businessman Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), who saw enormous potential in McDonalds. In 1954, Ray was a traveling salesman, advertising supermixers and small utensils. During one of his trips to the city of San Bernardin, he saw the restaurant of brothers Dick (Nick Offerman) and Mac (John Carroll Lynch), who developed a format. for quick customer service without the use of utensils. Ray offers the men business expansion through the “franchise” system and says he will bear all costs (including legal ones).

“Recipe for love”

Sometimes simple professionalism may not be enough. The culinary drama tells the story of French haute cuisine chef Daudin Bouffant, who prepares magnificent dishes for elite clients at the end of the 19th century. They receive an order: a foreign prince is coming to visit Buffan’s establishment and they need to develop a new menu for him. Unfortunately, Daudin’s faithful life and kitchen companion, Eugenie (Juliette Binoche), falls ill, so the man must urgently look for a candidate to replace his “second hand.” The movie “Recipe for Love” is a subtle drama that shows that some masterpieces are born only from teamwork.

“Air: the great leap”

Directed by Ben Affleck (“Gone Girl”). The year is 1984, the Nike brand is known only in a narrow sports community as a manufacturer of running shoes and is on the verge of bankruptcy. The company’s top basketball specialist, Sonya Vaccaro (Matt Damon), suggests that the boss invest part of the budget in promising athlete Michael Jordan (Damian Delano Young). The director of Nike accepts the adventure, but Michael’s mother must be convinced of the value of the collaboration offer.

“Who killed BlackBerry”

Few people use BlackBerry smartphones today, but in the early 2000s they were the kings of the market. The company’s history began with the friendship of several enthusiastic developers led by Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel) and Doug (Matt Johnson), who invented a phone with integrated mail. The men don’t know the rules of the market, so they are deceived by money-hungry aspiring businessman Jim Balsillie (Glenn Howerton). Although the end of BlackBerry came with the launch of the first iPhone, something else completely destroyed the company. Its founders were genius dreamers who did not know how to work according to strict corporate rules, and they were forced into offices and many rules were imposed on them, thus killing the adventurous spirit.

“The Wolf of Wall Street”

Martin Scorsese’s classic film (Taxi Driver) teaches one thing: not to behave like its main character. Trader Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) decided to break all the rules of the fair market, opens a company with his friends, starts selling “junk” stocks to his clients and launders money. Jordan quickly becomes a star, the newspapers write about him, but the police immediately become interested in the man, who does not believe in such success stories.

“Boiling point”

A one-shot film starring Stephen Graham (Peaky Blinders). At the elite restaurant where Andy Johnson works as chef, an inspection was conducted on Christmas Day that reduced the establishment’s rating from five stars to three. Furthermore, everything goes wrong: the dishes are not prepared, the employees quarrel and the guests flock. There is nothing to do: you have to work and finish the working day no matter what.

“Generation P”

The 90s were the heyday of private entrepreneurship in Russia, and at the same time the advertising industry flourished. Vavilen Tatarsky (Vladimir Epifantsev) worked in a normal position until he discovered a new profitable business and began to adapt foreign products to the Russian mentality and come up with slogans for the products. Little by little, Vavilen’s career progresses and he becomes a political consultant. If there is anything realistic about Victor Pelevin’s postmodern novel Generation P, it is that at any second a window of opportunity can open for enrichment and reward for the brave soul.