Based On True Story Movies

A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.

Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting...

In one of the occupied European cities, the commandant of the garrison gathers a troupe of circus performers. Coming from different countries, they...

In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great...

A detective and a fortune teller join forces to find a kidnapped child whom no one expects to be alive. Based on a true story.

Larry Ray moves into daughter's dorm, manipulates her friends by exploiting insecurities, promises personal transformations through disturbing...

In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in...

Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals...

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

An elementary school in the mountains is to be abolished due to the decreasing population. The PE teacher is assigned to form a choir and to win the...

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 true...

A group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establishes a get rich quick scam that turns deadly.

A chronicle of the life of Jaro, the leader of a juvenile delinquent gang, depicting his rise from street urchin to outlaw anti-hero on the way to...

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

Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis...

A marriage couple find their daughter drowned in the pool house. At the hospital, the doctor refuses to give up and holds tightly to a remote hope of...

After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the...

Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more...

The true story of a French WW1 deserter who, with the support of his wife, spends a decade in disguise as a woman.