| Clue | Movie | Year |
| Ben Stein (the son of noted economist Herbert Stein) plays a high school econ teacher in this movie starring Matthew Broderick | |
| Harvard economist Hollis Chenery is the brother of the protagonist, Penny Tweedy, in this movie about the horse that won the Triple Crown in 1973 | |
| Russell Crowe stars as John Nash, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics for pioneering Game Theory, despite his mental illness | |
| Economist Augusto Daniel Odone (played by Nick Nolte) sets out on a quest to cure his son, Lorenzo, of adrenoleukodystrophy | |
| Paxton Whitehead plays the pompous econ professor, as Rodney Dangerfield plays an rich businessman who returns to college. | |
| Richard Jenkins was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar, playing an econ professor whose life changes when he discovers an immigrant couple living in his Manhattan apartment | |
| Economist Robert Waller wrote the best-selling novel turned into this film starring Eastwood and Streep, about a magazine photographer shooting covered bridges in Iowa. | |