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by warrenm 1695 days ago
In no particular order, and covering a variety of genres:

- Sneakers (1993)

- Antitrust (2001)

- The Godfather (1972)

- Mindwalk (1990)

- Groundhog Day (1993)

- Finding Forrester (2000)

- Startup.com (2001)

- Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)

- A Knight's Tale (2001)

- Tron (1982)

- Wargames (1983)

- Quigley Down Under (1990)

- True Grit (2010 (or 1969, but the 2010 is better (imho))

- Ender's Game (2013)

- The Space Between Us (2017)

- Hackers (1995)

- Apollo 13 (1995)

- Twister (1996)

- The Matrix (1999)

- Sharknado (2013)

- Dark Passage (1947)

- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

- The Dreamer of Oz (1990)

There're a few to get you going :)

1 comments

I haven't seen many of these so I can't confirm, but from the look of the list there's a lot of generic movies that don't fit the bill here. I know for a fact that The Godfather, being probably my favourite movie of all time, has nothing to do with tech, sales or tbh anything that should be inspiring.
If the persistence of of Don Corleone and Michael's willingness to do whatever it takes isn't inspiring...not sure what would be