20 surreal Movies that are based on real-life stories

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The Elephant Man (1980) | Image Source: Prime Video ( Columbia–EMI–Warner Distributors ) — The Elephant Man (1980) | Image Source: Prime Video (Columbia–EMI–Warner Distributors )

8) The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) | Image Source: Prime Video ( Paramount Pictures)

Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street is a biographical tale of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who conceived fraudulent strategies for Wall Street and heaped mountains of money and power. Those schemes pave the way to debauched excesses in terms of drugs, parties, and other debauched despairs for him. As his company, Stratton Oakmont, keeps running pump-and-dump schemes, Belfort's life spirals into the belly of chaos, ensuring he will attract an inevitable investigation by the FBI. The film uses surrealist, over-the-top imagery and comedy to symbolize the ridiculousness and complete insanity of greed and corruption, leading to complete moral decay.

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