Wall Street

The ultimate portrait of ’80s corporate excess, Oliver Stone’s hard-hitting, brilliantly entertaining look at the moral emptiness behind the era’s “greed is good” mentality features an iconically sleazy performance from an Academy Award–winning Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, a ruthless Wall Street power player whose high-rolling lifestyle makes him an idol to Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen), an ambitious up-and-coming broker from a working-class background. Desperate to win Gekko’s approval, Fox engages him in a shady insider trading deal—selling his soul in a Faustian bargain that will have shattering personal consequences.