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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Leonardo Dicaprio, ranked
In 1987, Jordan Belfort lands a job as a Wall Street stockbroker for L.F. Rothschild, employed under Mark Hanna, who quickly entices him with the sex- and drug-fueled stockbroker culture and passes on his idea that a broker’s only goal is to make money for himself.
Marshals Edward ‘Teddy’ Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule travel to the Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on Castle Island in Boston Harbor. Lead psychiatrist John Cawley refuses to turn over records, and they learn that Solando’s doctor Lester Sheehan left the island on vacation immediately after Solando disappeared.
Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who’s in trouble with the IRS. Frank runs away when his parents divorce. Needing money, he turns to confidence scams to survive and his cons grow bolder. He impersonates an airline pilot and forges Pan Am payroll checks. Soon, his forgeries are worth millions of dollars.
In late 1823, Hugh Glass guides Captain Andrew Henry’s trappers through the territory of the present-day Dakotas. Guided by Glass, the survivors travel on foot to Fort Kiowa, because he believes that traveling downriver will make them vulnerable.
In 1920s Oklahoma, oil wealth fuels a wave of murders targeting the Osage Nation. Mollie, an Osage woman, joins forces with a young FBI agent to fight corruption and find justice for her people amidst a web of greed and betrayal. Based on a true story, the story was largely suppressed for nearly a century —until journalist David Grann published his book.
In the small town of Endora, Iowa, Gilbert Grape is busy caring for Arnie, his mentally impaired brother who is turning 18, as they wait for the many tourists’ trailers to pass through town during an annual Airstreamers’ Club gathering at a nearby recreational area. With Bonnie’s morbid obesity leaving her unable to care for her children on her own, Gilbert has taken responsibility for repairing the old house and being protective to Arnie, who has a habit of climbing the town water tower, while his sisters Amy and Ellen do the rest.
In February 1969, Hollywood actor Rick Dalton fears his career is fading. Dalton’s best friend and stunt double, Cliff Booth drives Dalton around Los Angeles because Dalton’s driver’s license has been suspended due to his DUI arrests. Booth struggles to find stunt work because of rumors he murdered his wife.
In the slum neighborhood of Five Points, Manhattan, in 1846, two gangs have engaged in a final battle in Paradise Square over who holds sway over the Five Points; these two factions participating in this event are the Nativist Protestants led by William Bill the Butcher Cutting, and a group of Irish Catholic immigrants, the Dead Rabbits, led by Priest Vallon. Having witnessed this, Vallon’s young son hides the knife that killed his father and is taken to an orphanage on Blackwell’s Island.
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
In 1948, Frank Wheeler meets April at a party. Frank later secures a sales position with Knox Machines, and he and April marry. Meanwhile, Helen has asked April if they will meet her son, John, who had been in an insane asylum. She thinks the younger couple may be able to help her son with his condition.
Teenager Jim Carroll is a drug-addicted high school basketball player who regularly gets into mischief with his friends Pedro, Mickey and Neutron on the streets of New York City and at school. A teacher who notices the boys engaging in drug use tells Jim and Mickey that they are suspended for a week, and Swifty tells Jim he will never play basketball for his school again.
In the 1950s, nomadic and flaky Caroline Wolff wants to settle down and find a decent man to provide a better home for herself and her son, Tobias Toby Wolff. Dwight’s domineering personality is soon apparent, but Caroline remains with him, enduring several years of a dysfunctional relationship.