Ask HN: What movie about entrepreneurship would you recommend?

by ricoche on 9/28/2023, 10:05:05 PM with 39 comments
I'm not just looking to be entertained, I would like to learn cool stuff about business and get inspired along the way.

  • by Kaibeezy on 9/29/2023, 9:07:26 AM

    Is rolling the million-sided dice to win unicorn treats from VC/PE really even about “entrepreneurship”?

    These are:

      - 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

  • by keiferski on 9/29/2023, 3:12:47 AM

    The Social Network is a great film that manages to be inspiring and critical of its subject at the same time.

    Margin Call is about finance, not entrepreneurship, but it’s one of my favorite films.

    It only lasted a season or two, but How to Make it in America was pretty inspiring as well.

  • by robsun on 9/29/2023, 8:24:41 AM

    "Silicon Valley". It's not a movie, but a documentary TV series about startup scene in '00 ;)

  • by vimy on 9/29/2023, 2:57:25 AM

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

  • by blockwriter on 9/29/2023, 1:38:53 AM

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzcarraldo

  • by qzuipo on 9/29/2023, 9:09:32 AM

    "Breaking Bad". Not a movie but series.

    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.

  • by shrimp_emoji on 9/30/2023, 1:03:51 AM

    The Aviator (2004)

    Also the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged_(film_series)

  • by kouru225 on 10/1/2023, 7:39:14 PM

    McCabe and Mrs Miller is a great movie about creating a prostitution business in the Wild West.

    There Will Be Blood also (for obvious reasons)

  • by sourabh03agr on 9/30/2023, 8:00:28 PM

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

  • by Gooblebrai on 10/1/2023, 9:29:53 AM

    Halt and Catch Fire

    Seriously underrated. Based on the 80s.The most realistic drama about entrepreneurship and relationships I've ever watched.

  • by dp-hackernews on 9/29/2023, 12:16:44 PM

    StartUp (TV Series)

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5028002/

  • by franz68 on 9/29/2023, 7:48:12 PM

    The short series about Spotify and ofc The Founder

  • by throwaway167 on 10/1/2023, 3:18:21 PM

    Kitchen Nightmares, UK version.

    Operations, People, Marketing, Sane decision making, Passion.

    But not the US version. That's just drama.

  • by muzani on 9/30/2023, 10:18:06 PM

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

  • by Austin_Conlon on 10/1/2023, 7:53:35 AM

    The documentary on General Magic.

  • by world2vec on 9/29/2023, 9:59:08 AM

    "Straight Outta Compton" (2015).

  • by joshxyz on 9/29/2023, 4:30:29 AM

    - Narcos (about Pablo Escobar)

    - Super Pumped (about Uber)

  • by fruity231 on 9/29/2023, 8:07:09 AM

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

  • by luxpir on 9/30/2023, 7:51:30 PM

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

  • by caeciliusest on 9/29/2023, 2:30:58 AM

    Tetris

  • by readyplayernull on 9/29/2023, 3:03:48 AM

    I found The Profit series to be inspiring.

  • by rasz on 9/29/2023, 11:50:34 AM

    Antitrust from 2001, its about Github.

  • by rahimnathwani on 9/29/2023, 5:54:08 AM

    The Bridge to Nowhere

    Lord of War

    Boiler Room

    I second the other recommendation for Tetris.

  • by rurban on 10/1/2023, 11:46:18 AM

    Startup, the documentary

  • by hulitu on 9/29/2023, 3:06:19 PM

    - Office space

    -The 12 chairs

  • by MrFots on 9/29/2023, 5:20:16 AM

    The Toy

    Capitalism, Cronyism, sticktoitiveness, and, for the right price, you can buy anything.

  • by kb10g on 9/29/2023, 5:45:22 PM

    Gattaca 1997

  • by singleshot_ on 9/29/2023, 8:22:41 PM

    Primer

  • by elevaet on 9/29/2023, 3:18:21 PM

    Primer!