What 2013 Scorsese film is based on the memoir of Jordan Belfort?

The 2013 Scorsese film based on Jordan Belfort’s memoir is The Wolf of Wall Street. The movie adapts Belfort’s 2007 memoir of the same name, recounting his rise and spectacular collapse as a stockbroker in New York’s financial world.

Martin Scorsese directed the film from a screenplay by Terence Winter, with Leonardo DiCaprio playing Belfort. The story centers on Stratton Oakmont, the brokerage firm Belfort co-founded, and its aggressive “pump and dump” securities fraud scheme. Belfort’s narration gives the film its darkly comic, self-mythologizing tone.

The title can be confused with Wall Street, the 1987 Oliver Stone drama, or The Big Short, which examines the 2008 financial crisis. Boiler Room also depicts corrupt brokerage culture, but it is not a direct adaptation of Belfort’s memoir. The film dramatizes real events and includes fictionalized or compressed details, so it should not be treated as a literal financial-history record.