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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)
These 79 best movies based on true stories prove that truth really can be stranger than fiction. It can also be more heartwarming, shocking, and inspirational.
2 Hearts (2020) – romantic drama film based on the true story of Leslie and Jorge Bacardi and Christopher Gregory [1]; 18 Presents (Italian: 18 regali) (2020) – Italian drama film based on an actual Italian woman, Elisa Girotto, who had planned and allocated 17 years of birthday gifts for her daughter Anna before her death in September 2017 due to a terminal breast cancer.
The Last Full Measure (2019) – war drama film that tells the true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen (also known as a PJ) who personally saved over sixty men and flew on almost 300 rescue missions during the war to aide downed soldiers and pilots [117] [118]
You Gotta Believe is based on the true story of a Little League team's journey to the 2002 Little League World Series. The team traveled from Fort Worth, Texas, to Williamsport, Pa., dedicating ...
The same thing is happening this awards season with "The Brutalist" (in theaters now, expanding nationwide Jan. 24), a 3½-hour saga about a Hungarian-Jewish architect named László Tóth (Adrien ...
Target Number One (released as Most Wanted in the United States, Suspect numéro un in Quebec) is a 2020 Canadian crime drama film directed by Daniel Roby. [3] Based on the true story of Alain Olivier, a Canadian drug addict from Quebec who spent eight years in prison in Thailand in the 1980s after having been set up as an unwitting pawn in an espionage plot by the Canadian Security ...
But Rosenthal said he was also inspired by “Le Grand Bleu,” a 1988 film about rival free divers directed by Luc Besson, as well as by films and novels depicting dangerous romantic relationships.