Ask HN: What movie about entrepreneurship would you recommend?

Is rolling the million-sided dice to win unicorn treats from VC&#x2F;PE really even about “entrepreneurship”?<p>These are:<p><pre><code> - Chef - Big Night - Joy - Jerry Maguire - The Founder - Spare Parts (arguably) - The one about the guy who invented intermittent windshield wipers and spent his whole life suing the megacorp that stole his idea</code></pre>

The Social Network is a great film that manages to be inspiring and critical of its subject at the same time.<p>Margin Call is about finance, not entrepreneurship, but it’s one of my favorite films.<p>It only lasted a season or two, but How to Make it in America was pretty inspiring as well.

&quot;Silicon Valley&quot;. It&#x27;s not a movie, but a documentary TV series about startup scene in &#x27;00 ;)

The Founder. Not a movie but Halt and Catch Fire was really great.

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&quot;Breaking Bad&quot;. Not a movie but series.<p>Replace drug with any other product and the ingenuity of Walter White to scale the operations, hiring people, shifting operations to different locations, responding to competition makes it interesting.

The Aviator (2004)<p>Also the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Atlas_Shrugged_(film_series)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Atlas_Shrugged_(film_series)</a>

McCabe and Mrs Miller is a great movie about creating a prostitution business in the Wild West.<p>There Will Be Blood also (for obvious reasons)

The founder and Air are must watch. Also, Guru (Bollywood) is a nice one - story of Dhirubhai Ambani, the man who founded Reliance industries

Halt and Catch Fire<p>Seriously underrated. Based on the 80s.The most realistic drama about entrepreneurship and relationships I&#x27;ve ever watched.

StartUp (TV Series)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt5028002&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt5028002&#x2F;</a>

The short series about Spotify and ofc The Founder

Kitchen Nightmares, UK version.<p>Operations, People, Marketing, Sane decision making, Passion.<p>But not the US version. That&#x27;s just drama.

Riot On! It&#x27;s an old story about the pre-touchphone days, but the same lessons still carry over.

The documentary on General Magic.

&quot;Straight Outta Compton&quot; (2015).

- Narcos (about Pablo Escobar)<p>- Super Pumped (about Uber)

How to make money selling drugs (2012), followed by Narconomics: How To Run a Drug Cartel book.

Pi. The insanity but absolute need to push on with the mission.

Tetris

I found The Profit series to be inspiring.

Antitrust from 2001, its about Github.

The Bridge to Nowhere<p>Lord of War<p>Boiler Room<p>I second the other recommendation for Tetris.

Startup, the documentary

- Office space<p>-The 12 chairs

The Toy<p>Capitalism, Cronyism, sticktoitiveness, and, for the right price, you can buy anything.

Gattaca 1997

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