Films based on memoirs

2013 film directed by Steve McQueen

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical dark comedy crime film co-produced and directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Terence Winter, and based on Jordan Belfort's 2007 memoir. It loosely recounts Belfort's career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, leading to his downfall. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort; Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend Donnie Azoff; Margot Robbie as his second wife, Naomi Lapaglia; Matthew McConaughey as his mentor and former boss Mark Hanna; and Kyle Chandler as FBI special agent Patrick Denham portraying Gregory Coleman. It is DiCaprio's fifth collaboration with Scorsese.

2012 film directed by Ben Affleck

1980 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2010 film directed by Danny Boyle

2014 film directed by Clint Eastwood

1987 film directed by Brian De Palma

1999 film by James Mangold

2008 film directed by Peyton Reed

2009 film by Nora Ephron

2010 film directed by Ryan Murphy

1993 film by Michael Caton-Jones

Awakenings is a 1990 American biographical drama film written by Steven Zaillian, directed by Penny Marshall, and starring Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Stormare and Max von Sydow. It is based on Oliver Sacks's 1973 nonfiction memoir Awakenings. The film tells the story of the fictional neurologist Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Williams), whose character is based on Sacks.

2014 film by Jean-Marc Vallée

1986 film directed by Adrian Lyne

2007 film directed by Julian Schnabel

2005 film directed by Sam Mendes

1999 film by Joe Johnston

2018 film by Felix Van Groeningen

Marty Supreme is a 2025 American sports comedy-drama film directed by Josh Safdie, who co-wrote it with Ronald Bronstein. Set in the 1950s, it stars Timothée Chalamet as table tennis player Marty Mauser and follows his quest to become world champion. Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, Kevin O'Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara and Fran Drescher appear in supporting roles.

2018 film directed by Marielle Heller

2020 film directed by Jasmila Žbanić

1976 film by Federico Fellini

1999 film directed by Alan Parker

2023 film by Sofia Coppola

2018 film directed by Joel Edgerton

2003 film directed by Audrey Wells

2023 film directed by Julius Avery

2020 film directed by Ron Howard

2013 film directed by Steven Soderbergh

2009 film directed by Ang Lee

2021 film directed by Kevin Macdonald

2023 film by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin

2018 film directed by Gus Van Sant

2010 film directed by Doug Liman

2008 film by Robert B. Weide

2006 film by Dito Montiel

2017 film directed by Angelina Jolie

2010 film directed by Floria Sigismondi

2006 film by Ryan Murphy

2021 film directed by Audrey Diwan

2015 film directed by Natalie Portman

1981 film by Frank Perry

2016 film by Gerard Barrett

2010 film directed by Mick Jackson

2021 film directed by Paul Weitz

2001 film directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg

2017 film directed by Destin Daniel Cretton

2015 US film by James Vanderbilt

2012 film by Stephen Frears

2020 film directed by Sara Colangelo

1991 film by Randa Haines

2021 film directed by Peeter Rebane

2008 television film by Peter Werner

2003 film directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato

2021 film directed by George Clooney

2022 film directed by Peter Farrelly

2001 film by Éric Rohmer

drama film directed by Nora Fingscheidt

2013 film directed by John Curran