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Movies that feel likeThe Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

If you loved The Wolf of Wall Street, the closest films we have are War Dogs (2016), Hustlers (2019) and I, Tonya (2017). All three share The Wolf of Wall Street's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Bad Santa (2003).

🍅 79% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Martin Scorsesegrittycontemplativewittyplayful
9 of 12 streaming nowHBO Max · Hulu · Paramount Plus Premium

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War Dogs
2016 · dir. Todd Phillips
🍅 62%★ 7.1comedy · crime · drama

Two hustlers ride an absurd true story of easy money straight into the wall

The difference: Smaller scale, and the hangover hits much sooner

Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.

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Hustlers
2019 · dir. Lorene Scafaria
🍅 88%★ 6.3drama · comedy · crimeHulu

Scammers milking Wall Street money with swagger, drawn from a true story

The difference: The grifters are the exploited ones here — sympathy replaces excess

A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.

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I, Tonya
2017 · dir. Craig Gillespie
🍅 90%★ 7.5drama · comedyRent or buy

Unreliable narrators spinning a tabloid-true American rise and faceplant

The difference: Working-class desperation, not Wall Street appetite

Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

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American Made
2017 · dir. Doug Liman
🍅 85%★ 7.1comedy · crime · dramaMax

Another grinning American opportunist flying high on money he shouldn't have

The difference: Cruise's charm keeps it breezier than Belfort's debauchery

The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.

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Adaptation.
2002 · dir. Spike Jonze
🍅 90%★ 7.7comedy · crime · drama

Self-loathing narration and a mind spinning its own outrageous story

The difference: Inward and neurotic — creative anguish, not conspicuous excess

Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman and Orlean's book become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the other's.

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Going in Style
2017 · dir. Zach Braff
🍅 82%★ 6.6crime · comedy · drama

Both land grit and stillness at once

Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.

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The Longest Yard
2005 · dir. Peter Segal
🍅 31%★ 6.4drama · comedy · crimeParamount+Starz

A cocky fallen hotshot conning a corrupt system with a showman's grin

The difference: A broad sports remake — crowd-pleasing where Scorsese is caustic

Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.

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The Big Short
2015 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 89%★ 7.8comedy · drama

Wall Street greed explained at full speed with fourth-wall-breaking glee

The difference: Follows the ones betting against the party

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

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Chicago
2002 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 87%★ 7.2comedy · crime · dramaParamount+

The same mix in both: wit, then play

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

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Catch Me If You Can
2002 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 96%★ 8.1drama · crimeParamount+Peacock

An irresistible young con man outrunning the law in high style

The difference: Warmer and wistful — Spielberg forgives what Scorsese indicts

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.

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Bad Santa
2003 · dir. Terry Zwigoff
🍅 78%★ 7drama · comedy · crimeMax

Crime built on grit, twice over

You'd better watch out - Willie T. Soke is coming to town, and he doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. Willie's favorite holiday tradition is to fill his sacks with loot lifted from shopping malls across the country. But this year his plot gets derailed by a wisecracking store detective, a sexy bartender, and a kid who's convinced Willie is the real Santa Claus.

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GoodFellas
1990 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 93%★ 8.7drama · crime

Scorsese seduces you with the lifestyle before showing the bill

The difference: Real violence underneath the fun — the danger is bodily

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

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