Based On A True Story Movies

A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing helps the police track down the killers while struggling to recover from their trauma.

An elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, reminiscing about his amazing journey from his poverty- stricken childhood to world-wide success after the ingenious invention o...

Madrid, Spain, December 27, 1870. General Juan Prim i Prats, president of the Council of Ministers and Minister of War gets involved in a treacherous ambush, is mortal injured and dies three days late...

When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California, met Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, who was interested in their business. The brothers had a system of maki...

A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost in an aggressive black bear's territory.

The true story of a suburban housewife who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.

The clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, is assigned to Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent. Hanssen is suspected of being responsible for t...

Decorated Vietnam hero, Frank Vega returns home only to get shunned by society leaving him without a job or his high school sweetheart. It's not until forty years later when an incident on a commuter ...

Successful businessman Charles Kruschen (Donald Pilon) is accused of bludgeoning to death his beautiful but manipulative model wife Magdalene (Elke Sommer). As the trial draws to a close, Charles refl...

Carl King devoted his life to proving his friend Colin Warner's innocence after he was wrongly convicted of murder.

The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to a mountain town in Kentucky. He was drawn into an affair with a woman who was poor. It's a ticket to disaster for both of them, be...

Juliet transfers from England to New Zealand with her family and befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. The girls hatch a plan for those who threate...

A thrilling and inspiring true story begins on the eve of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must face one of his most turbulent and defining t...

During the 16th century, as Thailand contends with both a civil war and Burmese invasion, a beautiful princess rises up to help protect the glory of the Kingdom of Ayothaya. Based on the life of Queen...

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone, who is as different from the beloved Yoast as he could possibly be. The two men are able to o...

He wants his wife to ditch the cloth and use sanitary napkins. Gayatri doesn't like disposable pads as they are expensive. His obsession with a 'ladies problem' makes her cringe, but he insists on bri...

A dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of a Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft.

Ivan is a 400 pound silverback gorilla who lives in a suburban shopping mall with an elephant, Bob the dog, and other animals. He doesn't have a lot of recollection of the jungle where he was captured...

The Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback were established in 1929. Sam Kelly is a middle-aged aboriginal man who works with a kind preacher, Fred Smith. A...

On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two ...

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 the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conw...

Phillip is a wealthy quadriplegic who needs a caretaker to help him with his day-to-day routine in his New York penthouse. He decides to hire Dell, a struggling parolee who's trying to reconnect with ...

A woman is searching for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

The true story of Romper Room host "Miss Sherri" Finkbine, who, after the devastating effects of thalidomide were discovered in the early 1960s, sparked a firestorm of controversy with her determinati...

The scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese shook the entire Catholic Church to its core, according to the true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered it.

The son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town was outed to his parents at the age of 19. If he doesn't attend a gay conversion therapy program, he will be exiled and ostracized by his family, f...

At the age of 38, the UN's spokeswoman against female genital cutting is an American model who fled from Africa after being sold in marriage at 13 years of age.

In a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white, two FBI agents are investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s. The younger agent was trained in FBI school and ...

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Richard Nixon to resign from his post.

During World War II, Amsterdam, Netherlands, was a hive of activity. Andries Riphagen, a powerful underworld boss, has made his fortune by putting his many criminal talents at the service of the Nazi ...

Gyunggi Province was established in 1986. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. A series of rapes and murders begin within two months of each other. The dark whispers about a...

The trial of three teenagers accused of killing three young children as part of a satanic ritual became controversial after the murders of three young children.

Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for the Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. John Traynor is a p...

Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison and is based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde. Taylor is forced to flee with his wife and baby when he i...

A callous Indian businessman becomes the spokesman for more than 170,000 stranded countrymen when Iraq invades Kuwait in August 1990.

Brandon Teena is a male who was born to a female and is trying to find himself and love in Nebraska.

Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.

There is a dramatization of the Great Train robbery. The care and planning that took place to pull it off is very detail dependent, showing the care and planning that took place.

America's first female serial killer is an emotionally scarred highway drifter who rapes her and eventually becomes a murderer.

The Cte d'Azur. In 1915. Pierre-Auguste Renoir is grieving the loss of his wife, the pains of old age, and the news that his son Jean has been wounded in action. The old painter is filled with a new, ...

The city of Ypsilanti, Michigan, was established in 1945. Preston Tucker wants to design the car of the future, but he will be sabotaged by his unrealistic expectations and the Detroit automobile indu...

The tragic, true story about Hachik, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.

Just after losing her husband to a similar condition, Dr Anne Turner is diagnosed with a fatal neurological condition. So she plans to end her life herself. Based on a true story.

London, England, in April of 1980. Terrorists attack the Embassy of Iran and take hostages. For six days, tense negotiations are held while the authorities decide whether a military squad should inter...

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 strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she s...

Peshwa Bajirao married to Kashibai, falls in love with Mastani, a warrior princess in distress. They struggle to make their love triumph amid opposition from his conservative family.

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-comin...

The workers at the nuclear power plant in Japan are at risk of dying if they stay at the plant after the region is devastated by an earthquake in 2011.