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This is an index of articles that features lists of films based on real-life events. As new entries are produced, they should be included to ensure the list remains current and complete. List of films based on actual events (before 1940) List of 1940s films based on actual events; List of 1950s films based on actual events
Abracadabra is a 2017 Spanish-French fantasy black comedy-drama film written and directed by Pablo Berger. [3] It stars Maribel Verdú, Antonio de la Torre and José Mota. [4]It was shortlisted as one of the three films to choose from to determine the Spanish submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards.
29th Street (1991) – comedy drama film based on the true-life story of actor Frank Pesce, who won the first New York State Lottery in 1976 [84]; A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story (1991) – biographical drama television film recounting the life of Ricky Bell, a Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back sickened with dermatomyositis, and Ryan Blankenship, a physically impaired child [85]
Abracadabra is of unknown origin, and is first attested in a second-century work of Serenus Sammonicus. [1]Some conjectural etymologies are: [2] from phrases in Hebrew that mean "I will create as I speak", [3] or Aramaic "I create like the word" (אברא כדברא), [4] to etymologies that point to similar words in Latin and Greek such as abraxas [5] or to its similarity to the first four ...
Lady Gaga has cycled through many iterations in the time we’ve known her: disco diva, Warholian punk, country-inflected barroom balladeer, star of movies both successful and not. But with the ...
"Abracadabra" heavily references the 2010 "Alejandro" music video, while the pop star said she "reinterpreted" old outfits from Gaga's personal fashion archive.
Abracadabra is a 1952 Italian comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Mario Riva, Riccardo Billi and Lilia Landi. [1] It was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome . The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alfredo Montori and Camillo del Signore.
Cavalleria rusticana (1982) – Italian musical drama film based on the opera of the same name – based on real events [130] Coming Out of the Ice (1982) – biographical television film based on the life of Victor Herman, a Jewish-American who spent 18 years as a Soviet prisoner in the Gulags of Siberia [131]