A Crude Awaking: The Oil Crash - Peak-oil theory investigation
A Good Year - Investment banking and fraud
Amelie - Maximising utility
American Psycho - Financial intrigue
Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder) - Economics of famine
Balkanizateur - Efficiency of capital markets
Black Gold - farming in Nigeria - the challenges faced
Boiler Room - Making illegal profits
Brassed Off - Effects of Industrial decline
Cast Away - Motivational theory
City of God - Poverty and the value of human life in Brazil
The Corporation - Corporations as externalising machines
Darwin's Nightmare - Tragedy of the commons, the effect of multinational co-operations on Uganda and Tanzania
Death of a Salesman - Choice of profession, sense of self worth based on economic performance
Elite Squad - Importance of trust and property rights in economic development
Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room - Perverse incentives, regulation of private business, supply restrictions raising price
Erin Brokovich - Environmental externalities
Goldfinger - Relative price of gold
The Insider - Business ethics
Kinky Boots - Redundancy, motivation and product operations
LA Confidential - Prisoners' dilemma
La Haine - Government interest in employment and education
La Terra Trema - Poverty and the risks of entrepreneurship
Life and Debt - Fair trade, inequality and economic growth
Monty Python's Life of Brian - First-degree price discrimination (Haggling scene)
The Lives of Others - Spending GDP
Mary Poppins - A run on the bank
McLibel - Externalities and civil justice
The Meaning of Life - Externalities from consumption ("Mr. Creosote explodes" scene)
Mother India - Rural financial markets in poor countries
Oliver Twist - Economics of crime, economics of charities
Of Mice and Men - The Great Depression, migrant workers, the multiplier effect
Other People's Money - Business understanding
Pride and Prejudice - Dowries, economics of inheritance
Rogue Trader - The collapse of Baring's Bank
Rounders - Game theory, risk aversion and behavioural economics
Startup.com - Venture capital, business growth and failure
St Francis - Choice between wealth and poverty
Thank You for Smoking - Power of corporation, nature of business ethics, the principal-agent problem and externalities
There Will be Blood - Entrepreneurship and risk
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Barriers to entry, labour theory of value, turning labour into capital, economic value of trust, role of property rights
The Trillion Dollar Bet - Money and banking
The Tycoon - Emergence of crime in countries in transition from communist to market economies
Toplo - Agency theory
Trading Places - Profit - making scheme Wall Street Real market schemes
Walmart - The High Cost of Low Prices - Business practices
When the Leeves Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts - Looking at the reaction to Hurricane Katrina
This list has been compiled from:
A case-study by Gherardo Girardi
Many films (not listed) also contain large amounts of game theory, this site acts as a 'game theory in films' archive.