100 Best Movies Based on True Stories of All Time
Gangsters, fighters, athletes, serial killers, celebrities and more – these are the best of the best movies based on true stories of all time.
If you’re looking for some good movies or just want to kill time in some way, this list of movies will definitely help you. These are all movies based on true events that may have been previously described in a book. Anyway, these are extremely shocking and wonderful stories so don’t miss the opportunity if you haven’t watched one of these 100!
It’s amazing how much more interesting individual stories are precisely because they are real. The films gain special significance because of the plot so it’s an added plus that it’s about a story that really happened. A lot of people agree with the fact that they are happy with the film and that the story intrigued them when after watching the film, base on a true event, they googled and better explore the story. Then it can be said that the movie is really successful!
The very knowledge that we have taken note of the fact that these are real people and events, that what we are watching really happened to someone, makes us look at the film not only more serious but also makes us ask if life could prepare a similar drama for ourselves. Subconsciously, we take away the importance of those films that are mere fiction, no matter how magnificent, because they are only actors and the rich imagination of the screenwriter and the extraordinary skills of the director. We find it easier to identify with those filmed after true events, and we connect the experiences of the heroes with our own.
And indeed, some of the greatest achievements in the history of film were created based on true events, and we bring you a selection of the 100 best achievements inspired by real experiences and events. Of course, this choice is subjective, it cannot be completely honest and each of us has his favorites. Those who did not get on the list are no less valuable, the list is only the result of the personal preferences of the author of the text.
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, True Story
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, Juan Minujín
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
The Two Popes (2019)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, True Story
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, Juan Minujín
At a key turning point for the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI unexpectedly befriends the future Pope Francis. Inspired by true events.
American Sniper (2014)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Luke Grimes
Navy special forces sniper Chris Kyle is having record numbers of hit targets in Iraq, while his life at home is slowly falling apart.
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, True Story
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy
In this story of a true event (inspired by the novel “Moby Dick”), the crew of a New England whaler fights for their lives after a giant whale sinks their ship.
Coach Carter (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport, True Story
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Rob Brown, Robert Ri’chard
Controversial basketball coach Ken Carter prioritizes school over sports and puts his undefeated high school team on the bench because of poor grades in school.
Zodiac (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, True Story
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr.
In this thriller based on a true story, a political cartoonist, a crime journalist and two police officers investigate the Zodiac, a notorious murderer from San Francisco.
Goodfellas (1990)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
Former mobster Henry Hill recalls his colorful but violent rise and fall in a New York mafia family. The realization of the dream turned into a paranoid nightmare.
Eat Pray Love (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, True Story
Starring: Julia Roberts, James Franco, Javier Bardem
Liz decides to change her life after the divorce and travels the world in search of good food, spirituality and true love.
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, BD Wong
During World War II, the escaped prisoner of war reaches Tibet, where he meets the Dalai Lama, whose friendship completely changes his outlook on life.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, True Story
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
The peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
Moneyball (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport, True Story
Starring: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Frustrated that his baseball club can’t afford expensive players, Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane is trying out a new revolutionary strategy.
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning
To obtain money for her lover’s gender reassignment surgery, a married man teams up with an assistant to rob a New York bank on a hell of a summer day.
Glory (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman
The first regiment, entirely composed of African Americans in the American Civil War, attacks the Confederate army fort in the middle of a sea of prejudice and bloodshed.
The Social Network (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
Director David Fincher’s biographical drama is a chronicle of Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg’s meteoric rise from a Harvard student to an Internet superstar.
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
Genre: Drama, True Story
Starring: Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso
The Yale law student is returning to his hometown in Ohio due to an emergency, where he will have to think about three generations of family history and his own future.
Mank (2020)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, True Story
Starring: Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Dance
Meet Hollywood in the 1930s through the eyes of witty screenwriter and alcoholic Herman J. Mankiewicz, who is trying to complete a screenplay for “Citizen Kane”.
Wonder (2017)
Genre: Drama, Family
Starring: Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay
After a lifetime of schooling at home, a boy with a genetic facial disorder begins attending a traditional school, where he has to find friends among bullies.
The Dig (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James
On the eve of World War II, a British widow hires a self-taught archaeologist to excavate mysterious formations on her property, leading to an incredible discovery.
A Dog’s Way Home (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, True Story
Starring: Ben Ratner, Jonah Hauer-King, Spencer Drever
A loyal female dog who misses home embarks on a dangerous journey through Central America in search of her owner.
Cep Herkülü: Naim Süleymanoglu (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport, True Story
Starring: Hayat Van Eck, Selen Öztürk, Yetkin Dikinciler
This biographical film about Naim Süleymanoğlu shows how this Olympian, defector, outsider and weightlifter struggled despite adversity to strengthen his community.
Sergio (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: Wagner Moura, Ana de Armas, Brían F. O’Byrne
Passions, ideals and bitter realities intertwine when charismatic UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello finds himself trapped in a life-threatening situation in Iraq.
The Last Sentence (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Jesper Christensen, Pernilla August, Ulla Skoog
As the Nazis approach the Swedish border, journalist Torgny Segerstedt resists the indifference of his nation and speaks out against the growing threat.
Mosul (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, War, True Story
Starring: Suhail Dabbach, Adam Bessa, Is’haq Elias
After a renegade Iraqi unit saves his life, a young police officer joins them in the fight against ISIS in a devastated Mosul.
Rose Island (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, True Story
Starring: Elio Germano, Matilda De Angelis, Tom Wlaschiha
An idealistic engineer builds an island off the coast of Italy and declares it a state, thus attracting the attention of the world … and the government.
Young Andersen (2005)
Genre: Drama, True Story
Starring: Simon Dahl Thaulow, Peter Steen, Stine Fischer Christensen
The young H. C. Andersen ends up in a boarding school, where he immediately confronts his strict tutor, who is also the principal.
Notes for My Son (2020)
Genre: Drama, True Story
Starring: Valeria Bertuccelli, Esteban Lamothe, Julián Sorín
Suffering from incurable cancer, a woman fills a unique notebook for her son with thoughts of life, death and love so he can remember it. Recorded according to a true story.
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken
Barely 21 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit.
The King (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: Tom Glynn-Carney, Gábor Czap, Tom Fisher
Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life.
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin
An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city’s water supply.
Julie & Julia (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, True Story
Starring: Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Chris Messina
Julia Child’s story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell’s 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child’s first book.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maxwell Simba, Felix Lemburo
Against all the odds, a thirteen-year-old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
The Duchess (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper
A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell
A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter’s murder when they fail to catch the culprit.
Victoria & Abdul (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
The Imitation Game (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, True Story
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode
During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.
The Irishman (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci
An old man recalls his time painting houses for his friend, Jimmy Hoffa, through the 1950-70s.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Lily Collins, Zac Efron, Angela Sarafyan
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy from the perspective of Liz, his longtime girlfriend, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
Lost Girls (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, True Story
Starring: Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie, Gabriel Byrne
When Mari Gilbert’s daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.
Come Sunday (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Gerard Catus, Allie McCulloch
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
The Laundromat (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, AJ Meijer
A widow investigates an insurance fraud, chasing leads to a pair of Panama City law partners exploiting the world’s financial system.
Walk. Ride. Rodeo. (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Spencer Locke, Missi Pyle, Bailey Chase
A courageous teenager is determined to resume competitive rodeo months after her paralyzing spinal cord injury.
First They Killed My Father (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: Sareum Srey Moch, Phoeung Kompheak, Sveng Socheata
Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.
Kiss and Cry (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, True Story
Starring: Sarah Fisher, Luke Bilyk, Chantal Kreviazuk
A romantic drama based on the story of Carley Allison, a promising 18-year-old figure skater and singer who made medical history in her fight against a rare 1 in 3.5 billion type of sarcoma.
The Highwaymen (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson, Kathy Bates
The untold true story of the legendary detectives who brought down Bonnie and Clyde.
22 July (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie, Jonas Strand Gravli, Jon Øigarden
A three-part story of Norway’s worst terrorist attack in which over seventy people were killed. 22 July looks at the disaster itself, the survivors, Norway’s political system and the lawyers who worked on this horrific case.
The Most Hated Woman in America (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: Melissa Leo, Brandon Mychal Smith, Juno Temple
The life of Madelyn Murray O’Hair, the outspoken activist and founder of American Atheists.
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, True Story
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps
Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.
The Little Hours (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, True Story
Starring: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Micucci
In the Middle Ages, a young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns. Introduced as a deaf mute man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.
Brain on Fire (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz, Thomas Mann, Richard Armitage
A young, capable professional cannot explain her newly erratic behavior.
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, True Story
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom
Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possible successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.
Snowden (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo
The NSA’s illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency’s employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.
Concussion (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport, True Story
Starring: Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks
In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.
The Dirt (2019)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, True Story
Starring: Douglas Booth, Iwan Rheon, Machine Gun Kelly
Based on the bestselling autobiography from Mötley Crüe, the film is an unflinching tale of success and excess as four misfits rise from the streets of Hollywood to the heights of international fame.
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall
Based on writer Susanna Kaysen’s account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s.
Papillon (1973)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Papillon (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime, True Story
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Damijan Oklopdzic, Christopher Fairbank
Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil’s Island.
Molly’s Game (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner
The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.
A River Runs Through It (1992)
Genre: Drama, True Story
Starring: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt
The story about two sons of a stern minister — one reserved, one rebellious — growing up in rural Montana while devoted to fly fishing.
The Post (2017)
Genre: Drama, True Story
Starring: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson
A cover-up spanning four U.S. Presidents pushes the country’s first female newspaper publisher and her editor to join an unprecedented battle between press and government.
The Blind Side (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport, True Story
Starring: Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All-American football player and first-round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
Lion (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara
A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
All the President’s Men (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden
“The Washington Post” reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution – escape to Bolivia.
Spotlight (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
The Sound of Music (1965)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, True Story
Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.
Schindler’s List (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
The French Connection (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
Selma (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Oprah Winfrey
A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War, True Story
Starring: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
300 (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, True Story
Starring: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham
King Leonidas of Sparta and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
The Pianist (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, True Story
Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly
After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
Spartacus (1960)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.
Midnight Express (1978)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins
Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Into the Wild (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener
After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.
Gotta Kick It Up! (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, True Story
Starring: Camille Guaty, America Ferrera, Jhoanna Flores
A school dance team get a new lease of life thanks to a teacher who lets them in on the secret of Latin rhythms for a big competition.
Seabiscuit (2003)
Genre: Drama, History, Sport, True Story
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Elizabeth Banks
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
Capote (2005)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Clifton Collins Jr., Catherine Keener
In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.
Milk (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch
The story of Harvey Milk and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California’s first openly gay elected official.
127 Hours (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara
A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
Lincoln (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn
As the American Civil War continues to rage, America’s president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.
American Hustle (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper
A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild F.B.I. Agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and the Mafia.
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie
Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.
Wild (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Gaby Hoffmann
A chronicle of one woman’s one thousand one hundred mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.
The Theory of Everything (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, True Story
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior
A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.
Hidden Figures (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe
The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.
Dunkirk (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
The Last Full Measure (2019)
Genre: Drama, War, True Story
Starring: Sebastian Stan, Alison Sudol, Asher Miles Fallica
Thirty-four years after his death, Airman William H. Pitsenbarger, Jr. (“Pits”) is awarded the nation’s highest military honor, for his actions on the battlefield.
I Still Believe (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, True Story
Starring: K.J. Apa, Britt Robertson, Nathan Parsons
The true-life story of Christian music star Jeremy Camp and his journey of love and loss that looks to prove there is always hope.
Resistance (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, True Story
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Clémence Poésy, Matthias Schweighöfer
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Bad Education (2019)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, True Story
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Ray Romano, Welker White
The beloved superintendent of New York’s Roslyn school district and his staff, friends and relatives become the prime suspects in the unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history.
Miss Virginia (2019)
Genre: Drama, True Story
Starring: Matthew Modine, Aunjanue Ellis, Vanessa Williams
A struggling inner-city mother sacrifices everything to give her son a good education. Unwilling to allow her son to stay in a dangerous school, she launches a movement that could save his future – and that of thousands like him.
On the Basis of Sex (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux
The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.
Hustlers (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles
Inspired by the viral New York Magazine article, Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.
Just Mercy (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, True Story
Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson
World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
Cadillac Records (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, True Story
Starring: Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé
Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Chris Cooper
Based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Lloyd Vogel.
Harriet (2019)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, True Story
Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Janelle Monáe, Leslie Odom Jr.
The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman’s escape from slavery and transformation into one of America’s greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
