10 movies that every enterprising should see

The classic trilogy spares recommendations. With the Corleone clan we can apprehend the advantages and disadvantages of “family business”.

It is understood that if one wants to bring home the bacon, one's gotta take risks. Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) is an ambitious broker of stock exchange. One day, gives to Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) some secret information and turns into his pupil, putting aside ethics, virtues and scruples, only intending to succeed.

Brantley Foster (J. Fox) leaves his hometown in Kansas in order to take his chance in NYC. Getting there, things don't go as well as planned and he's forced to ask a job to his uncle (Richard Jordan), who runs a millionaire company. In view of the job's modesty, Brantley decides for a double life, creating a character called Carlton Whitfield, a brilliant executive although nobody knows his background.

Based on a true story, the film shows the path of Preston Tucker (Jeff Bridges), visionary entrepreneur who was dreaming of build a car ahead of its time. He made it. After the WW2, he came up with Tucker Torpedo, the fastest and safest in market. The project, however, didn't gear up, because of the lobby of the american auto industry.

Due a crisis of guitly conscience, the successful sports manager Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) writes a statement holding the proposal of a more human way to deal with the athletes, even if it means lower salary.
After that, ends up fired of the consulting company where he worked and loses his clients, except for the football player Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.). The movie teaches us that it is possible to win even though having failed before.

Here we get to know the beggining of two of the foremost technology companies, Apple and Microsoft.
The offstage intrigues between Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) and Bill Gates (Anthony Michael Hall) are there depicted, as well as the know-how rivalry between the companies and their importance in the branch.

Chris Gardner (Will Smith) is a broken family man. His wife feels unhappy, breaking up their marriage and leaving for Chris the responsability to raise the couple's 5-year-old son.
Finally, he gets a non-paid internship in a market broker. Facing the need to save as much money as possible, he and his kid go through deep hardship. But for them this daunting situation is no excuse for giving up their goals.

Young man Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) is running for the main prize offered by a Q&A TV show. While he makes his way through the questions, he looks for the answers in his own life experience: his poor and tough childhood.
An exemple of the search for one's inner force and willpower, essential skills for those who dare and throw themselves into business.

Based on life of Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and his ascent by leading a website he and his colleagues developed while was studying in Harvard. As their project turns into a hit, the intrigues becomes more serious.

Far from being a sports movie, here we have the story of how Billy Beane (Pitt) made the Oakland Athletics shine through the league season. His insight was to analyze team stats, whose payroll had the lowest wages among it's contenders.