Pain & Gain
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Matches Scorsese’s rush of greed, macho excess and escalating criminal absurdity, with a propulsive, darkly comic portrait of delusional strivers.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Matches Scorsese’s rush of greed, macho excess and escalating criminal absurdity, with a propulsive, darkly comic portrait of delusional strivers.
Why this pick
Its charming, increasingly untouchable entrepreneur turns illicit opportunity into a manic lifestyle, balancing comic swagger with the pressure of an inevitable collapse.
Why this pick
Shares the furious, irreverent attack on financial-world corruption, using direct-address energy, comic invention and anger beneath the outrageousness.
Why this pick
Two ambitious friends get intoxicated by money, access and their own bravado; its fast, comic rise-and-fall rhythm closely suits Belfort’s reckless appeal.
Why this pick
For the high-velocity narration, lavish insider milieu and a fiercely driven protagonist navigating wealth, ego and mounting legal danger.
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01 / THE STORY
In the height of the free-flowing cash of the 1980s, stock broker Jordan Belfort transforms from a Wall Street newcomer to an unethical corrupt IPO cowboy. Flush with corruption and greed, Jordan's company begins to soar, just as the SEC and the FBI are closing in on his family and his empire.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Jordan Belfort

Donnie Azoff

Naomi Lapaglia

Mark Hanna

Agent Patrick Denham

Max Belfort

Nicky Koskoff ('Rugrat')
Robbie Feinberg ('Pinhead')