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A social problem film is a narrative film that integrates a larger social conflict into the individual conflict between its characters. In the context of the United States and of Hollywood , the genre is defined by fictionalized depictions of social crises set in realistic American domestic or institutionalized settings.
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)
This is a list of genres of literature and entertainment (film, television, music, and video games), excluding genres in the visual arts.. Genre is the term for any category of creative work, which includes literature and other forms of art or entertainment (e.g. music)—whether written or spoken, audio or visual—based on some set of stylistic criteria.
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I Am Slave (2010) – British biographical television film mostly based on the experiences of Mende Nazer, a Sudanese author, human rights activist and a former slave in Sudan and London [67] Ip Man 2 (Cantonese: 葉問2:宗師傳奇 ) (2010) – Hong Kong biographical martial arts film based on the life of Ip Man , a grandmaster of the martial ...
Human Desire is a 1954 American film noir drama starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Broderick Crawford directed by Fritz Lang. It is loosely based on Émile Zola's 1890 novel La Bête humaine. The story had been filmed twice before: La Bête humaine (1938), directed by Jean Renoir, and Die Bestie im Menschen, starring Ilka Grüning (1920).
100 Meters (Spanish: 100 metros) (2016) – Spanish biographical sports film based on the true story of a Ramón Arroyo, a Spanish man with multiple sclerosis who tried to finish an Ironman triathlon –3,8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and 42 km running– after he received his diagnosis and was told that he would not be able to walk 100 meters ...
Film adaptation(s) Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel (1982), Marty Jezer: Abbie Hoffman: Steal This Movie! (2000) The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), Irving Stone: Michelangelo: The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) Aimée & Jaguar. Eine Liebesgeschichte, Berlin 1943 (1994), Erica Fischer: Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim: Aimée & Jaguar (1999)