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
8.0With You
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
7.3Patch Adams
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
8.5Huisgenoot: Ware Lewensdramas
7.3The Billionaire
4.8Emergency
6.7True Women
7.4Breathe
8.0
True Stories
8.0Time Story
7.2The Bravest
7.2Suffragette
How the Titanic became my lifeboat
6.1Riding in Darkness
6.9Major
6.3True Story
Modern People
6.5Truth
Life and Death
6.0Everything is True, or Almost
6.8The Railway Man
7.3M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story
6.1Hollywoodland
7.3Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story
5.5Abraham Lincoln
6.5Girl Fight
Lessons of Life
6.7The General
6.6To Hell and Back
8.0Through My Eyes
6.5The Movies
6.4To End All Wars
The Warrior
6.8Elvis
6.4Detectives in Trouble
6.1True Confessions
6.7True Stories
5.8Chinese Doctors
5.5I Am Michael
Crazy Love
6.5Caught in Time
7.0A True Mob Story
6.8Heroes and Demons
8.0Schindler
6.2True Blue
6.0Movie Movie
5.3Stolen Children
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