based on true story movies

Indexed titles: 151

Nuremberg

2025

Rating: 7.4

In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself ...

Oppenheimer

2023

Rating: 8.0

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

Lone Survivor

2013

Rating: 7.4

Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of ...

Roofman

2025

Rating: 7.2

A former Army Ranger and struggling father turns to robbing McDonald’s restaurants by cutting holes in their roofs, earning him the nickname...

Titanic

1997

Rating: 7.9

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mothe...

GoodFellas

1990

Rating: 8.5

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs ...

I Swear

2025

Rating: 8.0

Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, ...

The Imitation Game

2014

Rating: 8.0

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his br...

Christy

2025

Rating: 7.4

Christy Martin never imagined life beyond her small-town roots in West Virginia—until she discovered a knack for punching people. Fueled by ...

Schindler's List

1993

Rating: 8.6

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his facto...

Hacksaw Ridge

2016

Rating: 8.2

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientiou...

The Greatest Showman

2017

Rating: 7.9

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus....

The Revenant

2015

Rating: 7.5

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling....

Dunkirk

2017

Rating: 7.4

The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the G...

The Social Network

2010

Rating: 7.4

In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social...

Grizzly Night

2026

Rating: 6.3

On August 12th, 1967, in Montana's Glacier National Park, the unthinkable happened: On the same night, nine miles apart, there were not one-...

Bohemian Rhapsody

2018

Rating: 8.0

Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they for...

Song Sung Blue

2025

Rating: 7.6

Based on a true story, two down-on-their-luck musicians form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it's never too late to find love an...

Border 2

2026

Rating: 7.4

During the events of the 1971 Indo-Pak war, a new generation of young Indian warriors were getting ready to defend the nation from an even b...

The Intouchables

2011

Rating: 8.3

A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from...

Sully

2016

Rating: 7.2

On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hud...

Ford v Ferrari

2019

Rating: 8.0

American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physi...

Napoleon

2023

Rating: 6.3

An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism ...

Catch Me If You Can

2002

Rating: 8.0

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pil...

Gran Turismo

2023

Rating: 7.7

The ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an...

Reagan

2024

Rating: 6.3

Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked with Ronald Reagan's when Reagan first c...

Boneyard

2024

Rating: 5.5

After Police Chief Carter discovers the remains of eleven women, FBI Special Agent Petrovick is recruited to profile the serial killer respo...

Lincoln

2012

Rating: 6.9

The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change,...

Gold

2016

Rating: 6.6

Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an eq...

Dead Poets Society

1989

Rating: 8.3

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention an...

Girl in the Basement

2021

Rating: 7.6

Sara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow...

The Smashing Machine

2025

Rating: 6.5

In the late 1990s, up-and-coming mixed martial artist Mark Kerr aspires to become the greatest fighter in the world. However, he must also b...

The Zone of Interest

2023

Rating: 7.0

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to t...

The Woman King

2022

Rating: 7.6

The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fiercen...

Saving Private Ryan

1998

Rating: 8.2

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger c...

The Conjuring

2013

Rating: 7.5

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a...

American Made

2017

Rating: 6.9

The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s....

Megan Leavey

2017

Rating: 7.3

The true story of Marine Corporal Megan Leavey, who forms a powerful bond with an aggressive combat dog, Rex. While deployed in Iraq, the tw...

Rush

2013

Rating: 7.7

In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it...

Nouvelle Vague

2025

Rating: 7.3

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges ...

First Man

2018

Rating: 7.0

A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moo...

Plainclothes

2025

Rating: 7.3

In 1990s New York, an undercover police officer receives an assignment to lure and arrest gay men. However, he's surprised to discover a sci...

The Pianist

2002

Rating: 8.4

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves f...

The Blind Side

2009

Rating: 7.7

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...

Tesla

2020

Rating: 5.8

The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by ...

Tow

2026

Rating: 0.0

After her car is towed and she is left with a shocking $21,634 tow bill, an unhoused woman wages a relentless fight to reclaim her car—and h...

Sound of Freedom

2023

Rating: 8.0

The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex t...

Benedetta

2021

Rating: 6.6

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that thre...

The Last Duel

2021

Rating: 7.4

King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel....

Legend

2015

Rating: 7.1

Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 196...

Braveheart

1995

Rating: 7.9

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English ...

Belle

2013

Rating: 7.1

Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slave...

Countess Dracula

1971

Rating: 5.7

Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory lineage, fortunately discovers a way to becom...

Captain Phillips

2013

Rating: 7.5

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American ...

Secretariat

2010

Rating: 7.4

Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing k...

Green Book

2018

Rating: 8.2

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forc...

The Sound of Music

1965

Rating: 7.7

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain ...

The King's Speech

2010

Rating: 7.7

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, Georg...

American Sniper

2014

Rating: 7.4

U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American histor...

City of God

2002

Rating: 8.4

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who d...

Spotlight

2015

Rating: 7.8

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese...

300

2007

Rating: 7.2

Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army...

Amina

2021

Rating: 6.4

In 16th-century Zazzau, now Zaria, Nigeria, Amina must utilize her military skills and tactics to defend her family's kingdom. Based on a tr...

Kneecap

2024

Rating: 7.3

When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed "low life scum" Naoise and Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip-hop act l...

Fairyland

2025

Rating: 5.8

A father-daughter relationship evolves through an era of bohemian decadence in 1970s San Francisco to the sober and heartbreaking era of the...

Memories of Murder

2003

Rating: 8.1

A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three incr...

The Aviator

2004

Rating: 7.2

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film...

Beast of War

2025

Rating: 6.3

When their boat sinks while crossing the Timor Sea during World War II, a troop of young Australian soldiers must find a way to survive the ...

Tolkien

2019

Rating: 6.9

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a s...

Girl, Interrupted

1999

Rating: 7.6

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a st...

Skincare

2024

Rating: 6.0

Famed aesthetician Hope Goldman is about to take her career to the next level by launching her very own skin care line. However, she soon fa...

Scoop

2024

Rating: 6.3

Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization gives an insider account of how the women of Newsnight secured Prince Andrew's infamou...

Just Mercy

2019

Rating: 7.9

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned ...

Friendship!

2010

Rating: 6.3

A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years ago. Together with his best friend, he st...

Georgetown

2019

Rating: 5.9

Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his at...

Belén

2025

Rating: 7.7

In the conservative northwestern region of Argentina, Julieta finds herself accused of infanticide after a medical emergency. Facing a misca...

The Spy

2019

Rating: 6.1

Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed female movie star, enlists as a spy for Swedish intelligence but ends up becoming entangled with ...

Airlift

2016

Rating: 7.1

When Iraq invades Kuwait in August, 1990, a callous Indian businessman becomes the spokesperson for more than 170,000 stranded countrymen....

Death Hunt

1981

Rating: 6.6

Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, buys a dog almost dead after a brutal do...

Black Hawk Down

2001

Rating: 7.4

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot ...

Pride

2014

Rating: 7.7

In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is ...

Greyhound

2020

Rating: 7.4

A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the f...

Kisapmata

1981

Rating: 8.2

A young woman gets married but her authoritarian father refuses to let her out of his sight....

The Impossible

2012

Rating: 7.4

In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, ...

The Prosecutor

2024

Rating: 6.9

A poor young man is wrongly charged with drug trafficking after being deceived. An ex-prosecutor investigates the case, uncovers a corrupt l...

I, Tonya

2017

Rating: 7.5

Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown...

A Beautiful Mind

2001

Rating: 7.9

From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathe...

22 Minutes

2018

Rating: 6.8

Events happening in the 22 minutes before, during and after the explosions of the Thamrin bombings. Based on a true story....

The Ritual

2025

Rating: 5.9

Two priests, one in crisis with his faith and the other confronting a turbulent past, must overcome their differences to perform a risky exo...

Percy

2020

Rating: 6.7

Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation farmer, gets sued by a corporate giant for allegedly using their patented seeds. With little resources t...

Parasakthi

2026

Rating: 6.0

In a time of civil disobedience in the erstwhile Madras state, a ruthless intelligent officer turns up with a duty to track down rebels. Che...

Boston Strangler

2023

Rating: 6.7

Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives ...

Night Crossing

1982

Rating: 6.1

Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a ...

Clouds

2020

Rating: 8.2

Young musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread, leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time, he follows his dream ...

Capone

2020

Rating: 5.0

The 47-year old Al Capone, after 10 years in prison, starts suffering from dementia and comes to be haunted by his violent past....

Stockholm

2019

Rating: 5.9

Based on the extraordinary true story of the European city’s 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis that was documented in the 1974 New Yorker a...

Instant Family

2018

Rating: 7.5

When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but ...

The Post

2017

Rating: 7.0

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unpr...

The World Will Tremble

2025

Rating: 6.7

The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order ...

Anastasia

1997

Rating: 7.6

Ten years after she was separated from her family, an eighteen-year-old orphan with vague memories of the past sets out to Paris in hopes of...

Mundije

2025

Rating: 0.0

Ilir Luma, a martial arts master specialized in the Pelasgian art of "Mundije", escaped the communist regime, when he was only 14 years old....

Outlaw King

2018

Rating: 6.8

Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne....

Molly's Game

2017

Rating: 7.2

Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she esta...

Danny Collins

2015

Rating: 6.7

An ageing hard-living 1970s rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old undelivered letter written to him by John L...

Milk

2008

Rating: 7.2

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becom...

Almost Famous

2000

Rating: 7.5

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rollin...

The Duchess

2008

Rating: 7.0

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and perso...

Lawrence of Arabia

1962

Rating: 8.0

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to figh...

Moneyball

2011

Rating: 7.3

The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing co...

The Terminal

2004

Rating: 7.3

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there....

Lake Bodom

2016

Rating: 5.3

Four friends are spending the night at Lake Bodom, where unsolved murders took place many years ago. The young men are determined to venture...

Glory

1989

Rating: 7.5

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confede...

BlacKkKlansman

2018

Rating: 7.5

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercove...

Napoleon

1927

Rating: 7.8

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign...

Desert Flower

2009

Rating: 7.6

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermode...

The Patriot

2000

Rating: 7.2

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, prefer...

Radio

2003

Rating: 7.3

In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots a mentally disabled African-American you...

Darkest Hour

2017

Rating: 7.4

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing...

Amadeus

1984

Rating: 8.0

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented youn...

Cool Runnings

1993

Rating: 7.0

When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican bobsl...

Judy

2019

Rating: 6.7

Thirty years after starring in "The Wizard of Oz," beloved actress and singer Judy Garland arrives in London to perform sold-out shows at th...

Chaplin

1992

Rating: 7.4

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his tur...

Owning Mahowny

2003

Rating: 6.7

Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the he...

Bronson

2009

Rating: 7.0

A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this ...

Sarah's Oil

2025

Rating: 7.9

Sarah Rector, a Black girl born in early 20th-century Oklahoma Indian Territory, believes there is oil beneath the barren land she’s allotte...

Into the Wild

2007

Rating: 7.8

After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $2...

Alive

1993

Rating: 6.9

The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to surviv...

Fruitvale Station

2013

Rating: 7.4

Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fat...