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There Will Be Blood (2007) R | 158 min | Drama. A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business. Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Martin Stringer. Votes: 640,319 | Gross: $40.22M.
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- Titanic. Released: 1997. Rated: PG-13. Memorable quote: “A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets.” Twenty-five years after its release, our hearts still go on for James Cameron’s Academy Award–winning romantic drama.
- 12 Years a Slave. Released: 2013. Rated: R. Memorable quote: “I don’t want to survive. I want to live.” It is nearly impossible for a movie based on a true story to avoid taking any creative license, but 12 Years a Slave comes very close.
- Argo. Released: 2012. Rated: R. Memorable quote: “This is what I do. I get people out. And I’ve never left anyone behind.” Despite being a gripping spy thriller based on the very real extrication of six American diplomats from Iran in 1980 by CIA operative Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck, who also directed the movie), this film took a lot of creative license.
- Hidden Figures. Released: 2016. Rated: PG. Memorable quote: “On any given day, I analyze the velometer levels for air displacement, friction and velocity. And compute over 10,000 calculations by cosine, square root and lately analytic geometry by hand.”
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- King Richard. Watch Now. King Richard is the story of Richard Williams, father of legendary tennis champions Venus and Serena Williams, at the very start of their careers.
- Spencer. Watch Now. Kristen Stewart stars in Pablo Larraín's Spencer as Princess Diana. The drama takes place over the three days in 1991 as the British royal family spends the Christmas holidays at Sandringham, the Queen's country retreat in Norfolk.
- Belfast. Watch Now. Kenneth Branagh's moving semi-autobiographical drama Belfast is based in part on Branagh's own childhood in the Northern Irish capital.
- The Favourite. Watch Now. In 18th-century England, Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) is on the throne. Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) and her cousin Abigail Masham (Emma Stone) both vie to be Anne's favorite.
- All the President's Men (1976) Film. Drama. Wait, you’re telling us Watergate is an actual thing that happened, and in 1974 two reporters really did take down a sitting US president?
- In Cold Blood (1967) Film. Before true crime podcasts and Dateline NBC marathons, there was Truman Capote, whose account of the 1959 massacre of a family in rural Kansas shocked a nation not yet desensitised to random acts of unspeakable violence.
- Hustlers (2019) Film. Drama. A rare depiction of a r ecession that’s neither a teary drama about farmers losing their homes nor a political screed against greedy one-percenters, Hustlers is instead a hyperkinetic story of economic survival, set in a world hit particularly hard by the 2008 financial crisis: New York strip clubs.
- Argo (2012) Film. Drama. It’s one of those stories too far-fetched for even the most inventive screenwriter to make up. At the onset of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, a movie-loving CIA agent hatched a plot to smuggle six diplomats out of the country by pretending to be a Canadian film crew shooting a fake Star Wars-alike sci-fi flick there.
- Schindler's List. Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes. 2,117 votes. Capturing the harrowing experiences of Holocaust survivors, this film focuses on Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved over a thousand Polish Jews by employing them in his factories.
- Goodfellas. Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci. 1,708 votes. This crime drama plunges viewers into the dark world of organized crime, following the rise and fall of notorious gangster Henry Hill and his associates in the Lucchese crime family.
- Apollo 13. Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon. 1,952 votes. Ron Howard's tribute to the courage and determination of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission brings to life the incredible true story of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew as they struggle to survive a catastrophic malfunction in outer space.
- Tombstone. Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn. 1,228 votes. Dramatizing the legendary events surrounding the O.K. Corral shootout, this Western film follows the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday as they join forces to bring law and order to the town of Tombstone, Arizona.
Nov 11, 2022 · Watch: The United States vs. Billie Holiday. Julie and Julia. Julie & Julia isn’t just based on a true story—it’s based on two true stories. This heartwarming comedy film tells the story of Julie Powell’s desperate attempt to flee her meaningless corporate job. Inspired by a friend’s successful blog, Julie decides to start her own.
65 Movies Based on True Stories. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. David Lee/NETFLIX. 1. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) The most electrifying, fully realized cinematic take on an August Wilson play to ...
