Rapt (2009), Outback (1971), Fighter (2000), The Unloved (2009), Z (1969), The Deep (2012), United Red Army (2007), Went the Day Well? (1942) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Based On True Events movies.
Storyline: Philandering industrialist Stanislas Graff (Yvan Attal) is kidnapped, with his ransom set at 50 million euros. After his finger is chopped off to prove the abductors' seriousness, his wife, Francoise (Anne Consigny), meets with the board of directors to discuss how to raise the money quickly -- but evidence of Stanislas' adultery and gambling make the company reluctant to pay. As rumors spread that Stanislas staged the kidnapping to take care of his debts, public sentiment turns against him.
Plot Keywords: kidnapping, crime, drama, thriller, french film, based on true events, wealthy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After finishing up the school term in a remote outback town, teacher John Grant (Gary Bond) looks forward to spending his holiday with his girlfriend in Sydney. But John gets waylaid in a mining town where a gambling spree leaves him completely broke. He quickly falls in with the hard-drinking locals, who constantly ply him with alcohol and force him to participate in a gruesome kangaroo hunt. Disgusted, John tries to hitchhike out of town and, when that fails, begins to contemplate suicide.
Plot Keywords: adventure, western, australia, wilderness survival, revenge, action, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "Fighter" follows two friends, Jan Wiener, to whom the title refers, and Arnost Lustig, a writer - both in their seventies, and both exiles from Communist Czechoslovakia now living in America - as they retrace Wiener's escape from Prague after the Nazi takeover in the 1930s. Incorporating rare archival footage from Nazi and Communist propaganda films, the documentary focuses on the interaction between Wiener and Lustig as they retrace Wiener's steps.
Plot Keywords: action, war, military, adventure, drama, history, pilot ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lucy is 11-years-old and lives with her father. One day, not for the first time, he beats her. The next time she returns to school, Lucy asks to see her social worker Jackie. Lucy is known to social services and has been in foster care before, but none of her foster parents have any placements available. Jackie takes her to a children's home, Crop Row, where she is left with nothing except the school uniform she is wearing.
Plot Keywords: drama, british, social issues, children, family, loneliness, abuse ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) proves a leftist's (Yves Montand) hit-and-run death was a Fascist plot.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, historical event, government corruption, judicial injustice, investigative journalist, based on true events, social criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The sole survivor of a tragic shipwreck tries to survive in the freezing ocean off the coast of Iceland.
Plot Keywords: thriller, disaster, adventure, survival, ocean, diving, shipwreck ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Massive student uprisings in 1960s Japan coincide with the rise of the far-left militant group, which later tortured and killed some of its members in 1972.
Plot Keywords: political, historical, revolution, radicalism, japan, violence, ideology ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Residents of an English village unwittingly welcome Nazi soldiers who intend to take over their town.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, british, spy, village, resistance, nazi ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Hong Kong detective (Jackie Chan) teams with a police veteran (Kent Cheng) to rescue a wealthy businessman from kidnappers.
Plot Keywords: crime, action, thriller, violence, kidnapping, based on true events, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young Venezuelan Marxist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (Edgar Ramírez) is recruited by the leader of a Palestinian terrorist organization (Ahmad Kaabour) to perform several jobs in Europe in the early 1970s, culminating in the audacious kidnapping of several OPEC oil ministers. From that small-scale beginning, he becomes an infamous international terrorist for hire, known in the media as Carlos the Jackal, who performs violent acts across the globe for a wide variety of nations and organizations.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, historical drama, crime film, terrorism, based on true events, international conspiracy, espionage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two young men face murder charges for the beating of Matthew Shepard, a homosexual student at the University of Wyoming.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, based on true events, social issues, hate crime, lgbtq+, homosexuality ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Detective Peter Hunter returns to Yorkshire to investigate the town's high murder rate. The local police have done little to find the killer, and he soon realizes corrupt police officers are doing everything they can to stop his progress.
Plot Keywords: crime, mystery, thriller, drama, dark, british, serial killer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The friendship of a loyal servant, Scotsman John Brown (Billy Connolly), revives the spirits of Britain's widowed Queen Victoria (Judi Dench).
Plot Keywords: historical, biographical, drama, 19th century, power struggle, friendship, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution instead of creationism. Drawing intense national attention in the media with writer E. K. Hornbeck (Gene Kelly) reporting, two of the nation's leading lawyers go head to head: Matthew Harrison Brady (Fredric March) for the prosecution, and Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy) for the defense.
Plot Keywords: courtroom drama, historical drama, american history, evolution, cultural conflict, based on true events, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The disappearance of a young girl leads a Yorkshire detective (David Morrissey) to believe that he may have helped convict the wrong man of murder three years earlier.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, mystery, drama, dark, violence, serial killer ...
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