15 Movies To Watch If You Love The Wolf Of Wall Street

15 Movies To Watch If You Love The Wolf Of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street showcased Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese at their best, and there are other great movies out there for fans to enjoy.

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The Wolf of Wall Street wasn’t just one of the best films of 2013, it was nothing short of a cultural phenomenon, spawning parodies, internet memes, and instantly quotable lines aplenty. But Martin Scorsese’s expletive-laden biographical crime comedy saga was so much more than that. It was the story of real-life scammer Jordan Belfort vividly brought to life thanks to standout performances from the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, and Margot Robbie.

It was also a lot of fun, chronicling the incredible highs and dangerous lows of Belfort’s rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street. There are definitely similarly great movies for The Wolf of Wall Street fans to seek out – including a few other Scorsese gems.

Updated on March 21st, 2021 by Mark Birrell: The Wolf of Wall Street sits at such a critical point in the history of the crime movie that there are a number of other movies to recommend for fans, whether they inspired the movie or were inspired by it. We’ve added an extra 5 to this list for those interested in the development of the distinct style shown in the movie and those who just want more of the same engaging comedy and drama. From the 1960s to just the modern time period, these movies encompass some of the best that the crime and comedy genres have to offer.

15 Boiler Room (2000)

Long before The Wolf of Wall Street made it into multiplexes – 13 years, to be precise – another slick crime thriller gave moviegoers a glimpse of the murky side of Wall Street. Boiler Room may not have the wit of Scorsese’s movie, but it’s still an entertaining thriller chronicling the rise and fall of Giovanni Ribisi’s Seth, a college drop-out who joins a brokerage firm with dreams of getting rich quick only to realize it comes at a cost.

Notable for featuring early standout supporting turns from Vin Diesel and Scott Caan as well as an appearance from Ben Affleck, Boiler Room is sharply written, well-paced, and worth checking out.

14 Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

Adapted from David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, Glengarry Glen Ross might well be one of the most underrated movies of the 1990s.

Boasting a stellar cast that includes Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, and a scene-stealing cameo from Alec Baldwin, it’s certainly among the most vivid depictions of the cutthroat world of business and a worthy companion piece to The Wolf of Wall Street. Set primarily in the offices of a real estate firm, it chronicles the efforts of four salesmen desperately trying to cut deals after learning two of them will be fired later that week. Worth watching for Baldwin’s brilliant monologue alone.

13 Goodfellas (1990)

The style of editing that Scorsese had cultivated with his longtime creative collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker was already very famous and well-respected by the time that Goodfellas came out. However, this true-crime movie elevated it into the blisteringly energetic format that was used again in The Wolf of Wall Street and emulated in so many other movies, including some on this list.

Following the criminal career of notorious former mobster Henry Hill, the movie created what is practically its own genre at this point, taking Scorsese’s humanization of the most unsympathetic characters imaginable and applying it to a nonlinear retelling of a sprawling historical epic.

12 War Dogs (2016)

Prior to The Wolf of Wall Street, Jonah Hill was mainly known for his work on teen comedies like Superbad. But he showed hidden depths to his abilities alongside DiCaprio et al and continued to do so in War Dogs. Paired alongside the always watchable Miles Teller, Hill plays Efraim, a wannabe businessman who convinces his childhood friend to go into partnership with him as an arms dealer.

But while things go to plan initially, the pair soon find themselves out of their depth after securing a $300 million deal to supply Afghan forces. Hill shines as the unreliable and increasingly unstable Efraim in what is only one of the many crime dramas directly inspired by the style of Goodfellas.

11 The Founder (2016)

A subtler but no less powerful adaption of a true story, The Founder focuses on the real-life exploits of Ray Kroc, a struggling salesman who discovers and sets about turning McDonald’s into the biggest fast-food restaurant chain in the world.

Featuring a powerhouse performance from Michael Keaton as Kroc as well as impressive supporting turns from Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch as the naïve pairing of Richard and Maurice McDonald, The Founder might not have the same flashy approach or the colorful language of The Wolf of Wall Street but it remains a fascinating exploration of the dark side of the American dream.

10 I, Tonya (2017)

Margot Robbie cemented her status as a bona fide A-lister with this Oscar-nominated turn as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding. A warts-and-all black comedy chronicling one of the most infamous incidents in US sporting history when Harding allegedly schemed to have a rival taken out in the build-up to the Olympics, Robbie does a brilliant job of making the troubled skater a complicated, compelling, and strangely sympathetic character.

Director Craig Gillespie also excels in chronicling the heavily disputed “facts” of the case as well as the fallout from it, while Allison Janney bagged an Academy Award for her supporting turn as Harding’s poisonous mother.

9 Wall Street (1987)

The film that inspired Jordan Belfort and countless others to pursue a career on Wall Street, Oliver Stone’s movie offers a fascinating look at the archetypal portrayal of 1980s success.

While the action follows the exploits of Charlie Sheen’s junior stockbroker Bud, Wall Street undoubtedly belongs to Michael Douglas. He snagged the Best Actor Oscar for his performance as Gordon Gekko, Bud’s shady boss whose willingness to do whatever it takes to turn a profit proves his undoing. His classic line “greed, for lack of a better word, is good” was one of the most quoted of the decade.

8 Thank You For Smoking (2005)

This searing satirical black comedy shares some of the same DNA as The Wolf of Wall Street, buoyed by a career-best turn from Aaron Eckhart.

He plays Nick Naylor, a smarmy spokesman for Big Tobacco, juggling the dual demands of being a lobbyist spinning half-truths for cigarette manufacturers and being a father and role model to his 12-year-old son. Written and directed by Jason Reitman and based on Christopher Buckley’s 1994 novel of the same name, Thank You For Smoking is a witty and deliciously dark movie that achieves the feat of being both hilarious and deeply depressing.

7 The Aviator (2004)

Leonardo DiCaprio has collaborated with Martin Scorsese on no fewer than five films, and while The Wolf of Wall Street and The Departed may be among the most celebrated, arguably his most complete and complex performance comes in The Aviator.

A stunningly realized biopic chronicling the life and times of aviation pioneer and director Howard Hughes, DiCaprio brilliantly captures the business magnate’s increasingly unstable mental state as he wrestles with the severe obsessive-compulsive disorder that would ultimately turn Hughes into a recluse. It’s a gorgeous film showcasing the Golden Age of Hollywood while offering insight into a truly fascinating figure from the period.

6 Margin Call (2011)

The Big Short may be the popular pick when it comes to films centered on the global financial crash of 2008, but Margin Call is the less showy, more substantial pick in this admittedly limited subgenre of sorts. Taking place over a dizzying 24-hour period at a fictional Wall Street investment bank, it chronicles the terrifying initial stages of the crisis and a group of employees’ doomed attempts at rescuing the situation.

An ensemble piece featuring fine turns from Zachary Quinto, Simon Baker, and Stanley Tucci, it’s Jeremy Irons who steals the show as one of the firm’s senior partners learning of the unfolding chaos in a memorable boardroom scene.

5 The Social Network (2010)

David Fincher took a look at an entirely different–but just as contemporarily relevant–look at unhealthy behavior in this dramatization of the events surrounding Facebook.

The lives of the main characters are much more restrained than the gangster-adjacent energy of The Wolf of Wall Street, but the impact of their work and the implications of their moral dubiousness is far more concerning than even the culture of corruption within the financial world. The allure of success and excessive wealth are still very much a part of the story, but Jesse Eisenberg’s take on Mark Zuckerberg is a more chilling protagonist than DiCaprio’s flamboyantly flawed Jordan Belfort.

4 The Death of Stalin (2017)

World’s don’t get any more cutthroat than the culture within the highest levels of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin’s death and comedies don’t get any darker than Armando Iannucci’s take on the power struggle between the key members of the leader’s inner circle as they consider his replacement.

Steve Buscemi leads the cast as Nikita Khrushchev, caught somewhere a classic political miser from Veep or The Thick of It and his days as a mob boss in Boardwalk Empire, and the talented cast of supporting players deliver some hilarious scenes based around some of the bleakest subject matter from modern history.

3 La Dolce Vita (1960)

There are few filmmakers that Scorsese has as frequently cited as a primary influence on their work than Federico Fellini and the Italian director’s 1960 masterpiece offers a fascinating reference point for Scorsese’s examination of unhappiness and excess in modern life.

La Dolce Vita’s depiction of the ugly side of beauty should also be of great interest to anyone captivated by Scorsese’s use of beautiful actors in lewd circumstances in The Wolf of Wall Street. After all, was so astute in its observations of fame and obsession for the wealthy that it’s the origin of the modern word ‘paparazzi.

2 Casino (1995)

Reteaming Scorsese with Goodfellas’ co-writer Nicholas Pileggi, as well as stars Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, Casino is another tale of greed, power, and loyalty that begins with De Niro’s casino executive Sam ‘Ace’ Rothstein engulfed in a ball of flames before working backward to explain how he ended up there.

Pesci plays to type as mob enforcer Nicky Santoro, while Sharon Stone deserves the biggest plaudits as Ace’s troubled wife Ginger, a performance that certainly laid some of the groundwork for Margot Robbie’s successful turn in The Wolf of Wall Street.

1 The Irishman (2019)

Scorsese, De Niro, and Pesci teamed up once again to adapt another true crime mafia legend, this time revolving around the hitman Frank Sheeran and his supposed involvement in some of the key events of American history in the latter half of the 20th century.

Though De Niro’s Sheeran is a much devilish character to have sympathy for, Scorsese explores the humanity of a fairly unrepentant monster through Sheeran, and the movie more than lives up to the legacy of the director’s other achievements in the genre as well as continuing to further them.

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