The best true stories (31 titles)
A list of my favourite films that were based on true stories, all of them well a watch!
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Serpico
Al Pacino's outstanding performance makes this true story of corruption in the police force a must see movie.
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Serpico
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Shot on location on New York's energetic and crime-filled streets, Sidney Lumet's SERPICO, based on Peter Maas's book, is a rousing portrait of courage in the face of insidious corruption, initiating a motif that Lumet would continue to mine in PRINCE OF THE CITY. Al Pacino is forcefully real as ..read more »
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Capote
This is the better of two films which document the time in Truman Capote's life that he wrote "In Cold Blood".
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Capote
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr.
Director: Bennett Miller
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In November 1959, the shocking murder of a smalltown Kansas family captures the imagination of Truman CApote, famed author of Breakfast at Tiffany's. With his childhood friend Harper Lee, writer of soon-to-be published To Kill a Mockingbird, Capote sets out to investigate, winning over the locals ..read more »
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In Cold Blood
The classic film version of Truman Capote's book of the same name.
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In Cold Blood
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson
Director: Richard Brooks
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This stylish and powerful drama adapted from Truman Capote's novel about a shocking real-life murder case examines two aimless drifters, Perry Smith (Robert Blake) and Dick Hickock (Scott Wilson), who target the home of Kansas businessman Herbert Clutter for a simple robbery. However, after ..read more »
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from 884 members
Schindler's List
A touching story of incredible heroism off of the battle fields of WWII.
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Schindler's List
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Based on a true story, SCHINDLER'S LIST is Steven Spielberg's epic drama of World War II Holocaust survivors and the man who unexpectedly came to be their saviour. Unrepentant womaniser and war profiteer Oskar Schindler uses Polish Jews as cheap labour to produce cookware for the Third Reich. But ..read more »
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JFK
Once you've watched it, you'll never take the government at it 's word again.
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JFK
(1991)
Starring: Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones
Director: Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone's self-proclaimed 'countermyth', JFK mocks the doubtful veracity of the Warren Commission's findings on the Kennedy assassination and summarizes some of the myriad theories that have been proposed in its stead. Focusing on the investigation by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison ..read more »
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All The President's Men
Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford lead the cast in this film following the journalistic investigation that unveiled the Watergate scandle.
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All The President's Men
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Alan J. Pakula (KLUTE, THE PARALLAX VIEW) found a story worthy of his gift for conspiracy-driven drama in this adaptation of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their investigation of the Watergate burglary, of which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon...read more »
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Zodiac
A story of obsession and and fear at the hands of a 1960's serail killer in San Francisco.
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Zodiac
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey, Chloe Sevigny
Director: David Fincher
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Based on the Robert Graysmith books about the real life notorious Zodiac, a serial killer who terrorized San Francisco with a string of seemingly random murders during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Monster
The harrowing story of Aileen Wuornos, prostitute and murderer.
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Monster
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern
Director: Patty Jenkins
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Charlize Theron delivers a knockout, cast-against-type performance in this gritty drama, based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, a down and out prostitute who was sentenced to death after killing six men between 1989 and 1990. Christina Ricci co-stars as Selby Wall, a lesbian runaway who forms a ..read more »
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Party Monster
Drugs, promiscuity, fashion, dancing, 90's club culture and Macaulay Culkin.
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Party Monster
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Chloe Sevigny
Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
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With PARTY MONSTER, directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE) rework their 1999 shockumentary into a feature film. Based on the book by James St. James, PARTY MONSTER tells the lurid tale of Michael Alig (Macauley Culkin), a self-made party promoter who made a big splash in ..read more »
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Flowers In The Attic
It's poorly acted, and comes acroos like a "movie of the week", but I think that this film is ready to acquire cult status. It's a harrowing true story of triumph over extreme adversity.
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Flowers In The Attic
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Jeb Stuart Adams
Director: Jeffrey Bloom
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In this film adaptation of author V.C. Andrews' bestselling novel, dreams of an inheritance turn into a nightmare for four innocent children left fatherless by a tragic accident. Locked in the deserted north wing of the family mansion by a cruel grandmothe (Fletcher), their only hope lies in ..read more »
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