Money Never Stops: Top 10 Financial Films

Hollywood studios have always had a penchant for financial storytelling. Form the college intern to market crashes, the plots and twists will never run out...even if they are recycled.

What can set films apart is the writing, the music or the acting. The stories may be redundant, but a great performance can turn the film from a bomb to a success.

There have been finance and money-based movies from as far back as the 1940s, with the enduring banker's struggle in It's A Wonderful Life. It wasn't until the financial boom of the 1980s, along with the Yuppie culture it bread, where writers and directors could really set themselves off.

Here is a list of some of the best fictional financial films.