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From Gekko to Belfort: 5 favorite finance movies, ranked

Michael Douglas as insider-trading kingpin Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street." Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images "The Social Reckoning" is out today, and it's part of a flood of tech-focused business films. You know what's better than tech? Finance and markets movies. See below for my top five of all time. Sign up for First Trade , Business Insider's daily markets newsletter. In case you live under a rock (or, even worse, don't read Business Insider) there's a new Facebook movie called " The Social Reckoning " out today. It's not getting the best reviews, but I don't care. The first Facebook movie is an all-time great. Plus I want to see "Succession" favorite Jeremy Strong do his best Mark Zuckerberg impression for two hours. That alone is worth the price of admission. It's part of a recent run of business movies centered on Silicon Valley . But I prefer business films of finance variety — the ones about trade...

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