Movies about Based on a True Story
Real events, real people — gripping dramas that actually happened.
Selected by semantic search and ranked by popularity and rating — the best-known films on this theme.
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“a con artist fools an entire industry before it all unravels”
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6.7Biography
7.3The Movies That Made Us
7.4A Haunting
7.0Based on a True Story
7.2Love Sonia
7.8Spotlight
6.3Snowtown
7.6Cinderella Man
7.0Secret Confessions
7.1True Story
8.0Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey
7.7Hotel Rwanda
6.7My True Friend
7.8Harley and the Davidsons
7.3The Billionaire
4.8Emergency
6.7True Women
5.9Blonde
Justice Heroes
7.7Backstory
8.0
True Stories
8.0Time Story
1.3The Bank
7.2The Bravest
7.2Suffragette
How the Titanic became my lifeboat
6.1Riding in Darkness
6.9Major
10.0History
6.3True Story
Modern People
6.5Truth
7.3Moana
Life and Death
6.0Everything is True, or Almost
6.8The Railway Man
7.3M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story
6.9The Case for Christ
6.1Hollywoodland
7.3Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story
6.5Girl Fight
Lessons of Life
7.2Chhapaak
Women's Jail
6.7The General
6.6To Hell and Back
7.0Bordersville
6.5The Movies
The Warrior
6.8Elvis
6.4Detectives in Trouble
6.1True Confessions
6.7True Stories
5.0Spotlight
5.5The Zodiac
5.5I Am Michael
Crazy Love
6.5Caught in Time
7.0A True Mob Story
6.8Heroes and Demons
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