Movies by Lists - Films Based on True Stories (235 [262]) 
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| 12th Man [Den 12. mann]They were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them. This is the true story of the one that got away. | 2017 | Harald Zwart | Drama, History, Thriller, War | 7.3 (26.1K votes) | 135 | 20220822 |
| 1492 - Conquest Of ParadiseChristopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people. | 1992 | Ridley Scott (*) | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History | 6.5 (29.7K votes) | 154 | 20211228 |
| AliveAfter crash-landing in the snowswept Andes, a Uruguayan rugby team have no choice but to turn to desperate measures in order to survive. | 1993 | Frank Marshall | Biography, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (54K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| All the Money in the WorldThe story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom. | 2017 | Ridley Scott (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (82K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| All the President's Men"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation. | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula (*) | Drama, History, Thriller | 8.0 (111.6K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Almost FamousA high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour. | 2000 | Cameron Crowe | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.9 (269.2K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| AmadeusThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him. | 1984 | Milos Forman (*) | Biography, Drama, Music | 8.3 (388.6K votes) | 160 | 20211228 |
| American GangsterAn outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film. | 2007 | Ridley Scott (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.8 (414.2K votes) | 157 | 20211228 |
| An American CrimeThe true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s. | 2007 | Tommy O'Haver | Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror | 7.3 (34.2K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| And the Band Played OnThe story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it. | 1993 | Roger Spottiswoode | Drama, History | 7.8 (10.7K votes) | 141 | 20230728 |
| Angela's AshesBased on the best-selling autobiography by Irish expatriate Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Lime | 1999 | Alan Parker | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (21.6K votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Anna and the KingThe story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s. | 1999 | Andy Tennant | Drama, History, Romance | 6.7 (37.5K votes) | 1 | 20220912 |
| ArgoActing under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979. | 2012 | Ben Affleck | Biography, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (598.7K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Baader Meinhof Complex, The [Der Baader Meinhof Komplex]A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s. | 2008 | Uli Edel | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 7.3 (40.2K votes) | 150 | 20240511 |
| BallonEast Germany, 1979. After initially failing to flee from the East to the West in a self-built hot-air balloon, two families struggle to make a second attempt, while the East German State Police are chasing them. | 2018 | Michael Herbig | Drama, History, Thriller | 7.5 (11.5K votes) | 125 | 20220822 |
| Bang Bang Club, TheA drama based on the true-life experiences of four combat photographers capturing the final days of apartheid in South Africa. | 2010 | Steven Silver | Biography, Drama, History | 7.0 (10.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Bank Job, TheMartine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry along with a treasure trove of dirty secrets. | 2008 | Roger Donaldson | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (179.1K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Battle of the Heavy Water, The [Kampen om tungtvannet]A factual reconstruction of the sabotage events which took place to prevent Hitler's Germany in getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic bomb during WW2. | 1948 | Jean Dréville, Titus Vibe-Müller | Action, Drama, War | 7.0 (587 votes) | 107 | 20220731 |
| Beautiful Mind, AAfter John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish. | 2001 | Ron Howard | Biography, Drama | 8.2 (897.8K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| BernieIn small-town Texas, an affable mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when she starts to become controlling, he goes to great lengths to separate himself from her grasp. | 2011 | Richard Linklater (*) | Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.8 (59.4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Big Short, TheIn 2006-2007 a group of investors bet against the US mortgage market. In their research, they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is. | 2015 | Adam McKay | Biography, Comedy, Drama, History | 7.8 (405.4K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Black Book [Zwartboek]In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance. | 2006 | Paul Verhoeven (*) | Drama, Thriller, War | 7.7 (75.6K votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Black Venus [Vénus noire]In the 19th century, a black woman from Africa is on display throughout Europe as an exotic curiosity. | 2010 | Abdellatif Kechiche | Drama, History | 6.8 (2.7K votes) | 159 | 20211228 |
| BlacKkKlansmanRon Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual eve | 2018 | Spike Lee (*) | Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.5 (253K votes) | 135 | 20220315 |
| Bloody SundayA dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972. | 2002 | Paul Greengrass | Drama, History, War | 7.6 (24.4K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| BobbyThe story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and twenty-two people in the hotel, whose lives were nev... | 2006 | Emilio Estevez | Biography, Drama, History | 7.0 (42.3K votes) | 117 | 20230126 |
| Bonnie and ClydeBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks. | 1967 | Arthur Penn (*) | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.8 (109.8K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| BorderlandOn a trip to a Mexican border town, three college friends stumble upon a human-sacrifice cult. | 2007 | Zev Berman | Crime, Horror, Thriller | 5.7 (10K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| BreachFBI upstart Eric O'Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was put on trial for selling secrets to the Soviet Union. | 2007 | Billy Ray | Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 7.0 (61K votes) | 110 | 20230806 |
| Bridge of SpiesDuring the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. | 2015 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Drama, History, Thriller | 7.6 (303.1K votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| Bridge on the River Kwai, TheBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it. | 1957 | David Lean (*) | Adventure, Drama, War | 8.1 (214.6K votes) | 161 | 20211228 |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidWyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution - escape to Bolivia. | 1969 | George Roy Hill (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, Western | 8.0 (211.5K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Butler, TheAs Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society. | 2013 | Lee Daniels | Biography, Drama | 7.2 (113K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Caine Mutiny, TheWhen a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny. | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Drama, War | 7.7 (27.1K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Can You Ever Forgive MeWhen Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception. | 2018 | Marielle Heller | Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.1 (52.2K votes) | 106 | 20220822 |
| CapoteIn 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on dea | 2005 | Bennett Miller | Biography, Crime, Drama, History | 7.3 (130.6K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Captain PhillipsThe true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. | 2013 | Paul Greengrass | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (444.9K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Catch Me If You CanBarely 21 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit. | 2002 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama | 8.1 (933.7K votes) | 141 | 20220414 |
| ChangelingGrief-stricken mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) takes on the L.A.P.D. to her own detriment when it tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child. | 2008 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (250.1K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| Charlie Wilson's WarA drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects. | 2007 | Mike Nichols (*) | Biography, Comedy, Drama, History | 7.0 (116.1K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Children Of Huang Shi, TheAbout young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937. | 2008 | Roger Spottiswoode | Drama, War | 7.0 (9.6K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Chorus, The [Les Choristes]The new teacher at a severely administered boys' boarding school works to positively affect the students' lives through music. | 2004 | Christophe Barratier | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.9 (60.5K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Chronicle Of An Escape [Crónica de una fuga]The goalkeeper of a little-known soccer team is kidnapped by a Argentinean government squad and sent to a detention center. After months of torture, he plots his escape with three other young men. | 2006 | Israel Adrián Caetano | Crime, Thriller | 7.2 (3.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Cinderella ManThe story of James J. Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to challenge for the heavyweight championship of the world. | 2005 | Ron Howard | Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Sport | 8.0 (183.6K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| Coach CarterControversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him. | 2005 | Thomas Carter | Biography, Drama, Sport | 7.3 (165.8K votes) | 136 | 20231013 |
| ComplianceA normal Friday service at a fast food restaurant becomes interrupted by a police officer who claims an employee stole from a customer, but something more sinister is going on. | 2012 | Craig Zobel | Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 6.4 (33.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| ConcussionIn Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play. | 2015 | Peter Landesman | Biography, Drama, Sport | 7.1 (93.5K votes) | 123 | 20220415 |
| Conspirator, TheMary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life. | 2010 | Robert Redford (*) | Crime, Drama, History | 6.9 (28.7K votes) | 122 | 20220414 |
| ControlA profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23. | 2007 | Anton Corbijn | Biography, Drama, Music | 7.7 (65.1K votes) | 122 | 20220723 |
| ConvictionA working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders. | 2010 | Tony Goldwyn | Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.2 (44.5K votes) | 2 | 20220912 |
| Counterfeiters, The [Die Falscher]The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII. | 2007 | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Crime, Drama, History, War | 7.6 (45.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Cronicas [Crónicas]A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo." | 2004 | Sebastián Cordero | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 (3.4K votes) | 108 | 20220723 |
| Cross of IronGerman commander Hauptmann Stransky (Maximilian Schell) places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) refuses to lie for him. | 1977 | Sam Peckinpah (*) | Drama, War | 7.5 (26.3K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Current War, TheThe dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas A. Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world. | 2017 | Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | Biography, Drama, History | 6.5 (25.6K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Damned United, TheThe story of the controversial Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of the English football club Leeds United. | 2009 | Tom Hooper | Biography, Drama, Sport | 7.5 (45.7K votes) | 98 | 20240219 |
| Dangerous Method, AA look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis. | 2011 | David Cronenberg (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.4 (102K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Dark WatersA corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution. | 2019 | Todd Haynes (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.6 (89.9K votes) | 126 | 20221228 |
| Dear Mr. GacyA chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy. | 2010 | Svetozar Ristovski | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 (3.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Deepwater HorizonA dramatization of the disaster in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in American history. | 2016 | Peter Berg | Action, Drama, History, Thriller | 7.1 (165.3K votes) | 107 | 20220415 |
| DefianceJewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-co... | 2008 | Edward Zwick (*) | Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War | 7.1 (147.7K votes) | 137 | 20220822 |
| DetroitFact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds. | 2017 | Kathryn Bigelow | Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 7.3 (52K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Devil Wears Prada, TheA smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine. | 2006 | David Frankel | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (399.8K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Devil's KnotThe savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a Satanic ritual. | 2013 | Atom Egoyan (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.1 (21.5K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Diving Bell and the Butterfly, TheThe true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed. | 2007 | Julian Schnabel | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (106.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| DominoA recounting of Domino Harvey's life story. The daughter of actor Laurence Harvey turned away from her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter. | 2005 | Tony Scott (*) | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.9 (66.4K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| DownfallTraudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 8.2 (346.4K votes) | 156 | 20211228 |
| Dream HorseDream Alliance is an unlikely race horse bred by small-town Welsh bartender Jan Vokes. With no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream in the hopes he can compete with the racin... | 2020 | Euros Lyn | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport | 6.9 (6.4K votes) | 113 | 20231016 |
| Ed WoodAmbitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams, despite his lack of talent. | 1994 | Tim Burton (*) | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (172.5K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| ElephantSeveral ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent. | 2003 | Gus Van Sant (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (89.7K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Elephant Man, TheA Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication. | 1980 | David Lynch (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.1 (234.2K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Enemy At The GatesA Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad. | 2001 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Action, Drama, War | 7.6 (255.5K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Erin BrockovichAn unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply. | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.4 (190.4K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Escape From AlcatrazAlcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possibly successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world. | 1979 | Don Siegel (*) | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (129.6K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Experiment, The [Das Experiment]For two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison. The "prisoners" have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the "guards" are told to retain order without using physical violence. | 2001 | Oliver Hirschbiegel (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (93K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Fabelmans, TheGrowing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth. | 2022 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Drama | 7.8 (18.4K votes) | 151 | 20221228 |
| FactotumThis drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along t | 2005 | Bent Hamer | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (14.3K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Farewell [L'affaire Farewell]The French intelligence service alerts the U.S. about a Soviet spy operation during the height of the Cold War, which sets off an unfortunate chain of events. | 2009 | Christian Carion | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.9 (6.7K votes) | 113 | 20220723 |
| Fear And Loathing In Las VegasAn oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades. | 1998 | Terry Gilliam (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 7.6 (272.7K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Finding NeverlandThe story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan. | 2004 | Marc Forster | Biography, Drama, Family | 7.6 (203.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Flags of our FathersThe life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II. | 2006 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War | 7.1 (121.7K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Flame and Citron [Flammen & Citronen]A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group. | 2008 | Ole Christian Madsen | Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War | 7.2 (18.5K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Flash of GeniusRobert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper. | 2008 | Marc Abraham | Biography, Drama | 7.0 (17K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Freedom WritersErin Gruwell, a young teacher in a racially divided Los Angeles school, inspires her class of at-risk students, deemed incapable of learning, to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school. | 2007 | Richard LaGravenese | Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.6 (85.9K votes) | 123 | 20240727 |
| Frost NixonA dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. | 2008 | Ron Howard | Biography, Drama, History | 7.7 (106.7K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Full Metal JacketA pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Drama, War | 8.3 (713.8K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| GandhiThe life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest. | 1982 | Richard Attenborough (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (225.5K votes) | 191 | 20211228 |
| Get on UpA chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history. | 2014 | Tate Taylor | Biography, Drama, Music | 6.9 (25.7K votes) | 139 | 20231001 |
| GomorrahScampia Vele is the corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy. | 2008 | Matteo Garrone | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (48.4K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| Goodbye Bafana [The Color of Freedom]Goodbye Bafana is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela. | 2007 | Bille August | Biography, Drama, History | 7.1 (12K votes) | 118 | 20220912 |
| Grand Theft ParsonsA partially fictional account of musician Gram Parsons' death and cremation. After Gram ODs in a desert motel in 1973, his road manager steals Gram's body for a last trip to Joshua Tree. | 2003 | David Caffrey | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 6.0 (3.5K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Gray Man, TheObsessive manhunt to identify and capture a despicable serial killer. | 2007 | Scott L. Flynn | Biography, Crime, Thriller | 5.9 (1.6K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Great Escape, TheAllied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. | 1963 | John Sturges (*) | Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War | 8.2 (237.9K votes) | 172 | 20211228 |
| Green BookA working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. | 2018 | Peter Farrelly | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music | 8.2 (442K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Green Street Hooligans [Hooligans]A wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism. | 2005 | Lexi Alexander | Crime, Drama, Sport, War | 7.4 (151.1K votes) | 2 | 20220912 |
| GreenfingersA prison inmate with a green thumb goes on to compete in a national gardening competition. Based on a true story. | 2000 | Joel Hershman | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (5.9K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Hachiko - A Dog's StoryA college professor bonds with an abandoned dog he takes into his home. | 2009 | Lasse Hallström | Biography, Drama, Family | 8.1 (272.6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Hachi-ko [Hachikô monogatari]The true story about a dog's loyalty to its master, even after his death. | 1987 | Seijirô Kôyama | Drama, Family | 8.1 (5.1K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Heroes of Telemark, TheNorwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce an atomic bomb component during World War II. | 1965 | Anthony Mann (*) | Action, Drama, History, War | 6.5 (7.7K votes) | 131 | 20230806 |
| Hillbilly ElegyAn urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future. | 2020 | Ron Howard | Drama | 6.7 (44.7K votes) | 116 | 20230806 |
| HiroshimaThe grisly events leading to the first attack with a nuclear weapon. | 1995 | Koreyoshi Kurahara, Roger Spottiswoode | Drama, War | 7.9 (905 votes) | 190 | 20211228 |
| HitchcockThe relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959 is explored. | 2012 | Sacha Gervasi | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (75K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Hoax, TheIn what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s. | 2006 | Lasse Hallström | Biography, Comedy, Drama, History | 6.7 (16.4K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| HoffaThe story of the notorious American labor union figure Jimmy Hoffa, who organizes a bitter strike, makes deals with members of the organized crime syndicate and mysteriously disappears in 1975. | 1992 | Danny DeVito | Biography, Crime, Drama | 6.6 (22.8K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| HolocaustThe saga of a Jewish family's struggle to survive the horror of Nazi Germany's systematic marginalization and extermination of their community. | 1978 | Marvin J. Chomsky | Drama, History, Romance, War | 8.0 (5K votes) | 0 | 20220414 |
| Horse Whisperer, TheThe mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse. | 1998 | Robert Redford (*) | Drama, Romance, Western | 6.6 (40.6K votes) | 169 | 20211228 |
| Hotel RwandaPaul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa. | 2004 | Terry George | Biography, Drama, History, War | 8.1 (347.8K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| HugoIn 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton. | 2011 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery | 7.5 (317K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Iceman, TheThe story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man. When finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor daughters had any clue about his real profession. | 2012 | Ariel Vromen | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 (73.8K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Imitation Game, TheDuring World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his troubled private life. | 2014 | Morten Tyldum | Biography, Drama, Thriller, War | 8.0 (734.6K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Impossible, TheThe story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. | 2012 | J.A. Bayona | Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller | 7.6 (216K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| In Cold BloodTwo ex-cons murder a family in a robbery attempt, before going on the run from the authorities. The police try to piece together the details of the murder in an attempt to track down the killers. | 1967 | Richard Brooks | Biography, Crime, Drama, History | 7.9 (26.1K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Insider, TheA research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco. | 1999 | Michael Mann (*) | Biography, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (167.8K votes) | 157 | 20211228 |
| Into The WildAfter graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, C | 2007 | Sean Penn | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 8.1 (604.2K votes) | 148 | 20211228 |
| IntouchablesAfter he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver. | 2011 | Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 8.5 (816.4K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| InvincibleBased on the story of Vince Papale, a 30-year-old bartender from South Philadelphia who overcame long odds to play for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles in 1976. | 2006 | Ericson Core | Biography, Drama, Sport | 7.0 (74K votes) | 105 | 20231013 |
| Iron Lady, TheAn elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene. | 2011 | Phyllida Lloyd | Biography, Drama | 6.4 (108.2K votes) | 105 | 20220414 |
| IskyssThis is a love story. A young Norwegian girl falls in love with a Russian POW during WWII. She helps him survive, but later on, after the WWII ends, the lovers are separated, as citizens of mutually unfriendly states. They have to pa | 2008 | Knut Erik Jensen | Drama | 5.0 (137 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| JarheadA psychological study of Marine's state of mind during the Gulf War. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Marine sniper who struggles to cope with boredom, a sense of isolation, and other issues back home. | 2005 | Sam Mendes | Biography, Drama, War | 7.0 (184.4K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Jeremiah JohnsonA mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier. | 1972 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.6 (30.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Jerry and Marge Go Large [Jerry & Marge Go Large]Based on the true story about long-married couple Jerry and Marge Selbee, who win the lottery and use the money to revive their small town. | 2022 | David Frankel | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (16.6K votes) | 96 | 20230424 |
| JFKNew Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story. | 1991 | Oliver Stone (*) | Drama, History, Thriller | 8.0 (151.4K votes) | 189 | 20211228 |
| Joyeux NoelIn December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life. | 2005 | Christian Carion | Drama, History, Music, Romance, War | 7.7 (29.4K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| K-19 - The WidowmakerWhen Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster. | 2002 | Kathryn Bigelow | Drama, History, Thriller, War | 6.7 (67.3K votes) | 138 | 20240416 |
| Kautokeino Rebellion, The [Kautokeino-opprøret]Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village. | 2008 | Nils Gaup | Drama, History | 6.8 (2.8K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Kill The IrishmanThe true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's. | 2011 | Jonathan Hensleigh | Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.1 (47.8K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Killing Fields, TheA journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians. | 1984 | Roland Joffé (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.8 (54.5K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| King of Devil's IslandNorwegian winter, early 20th century. On the boys home Bastoy, a new inmate leads the boys to a violent uprising against a brutal regime. How far is he willing to go to attain freedom? | 2010 | Marius Holst | Action, Drama | 7.5 (18.6K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Kings Speech, TheThe story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer. | 2010 | Tom Hooper | Biography, Drama, History | 8.0 (664.6K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| KinseyA look at the life of Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research, whose 1948 publication "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was one of the first recorded works that saw science address sexual behavior. | 2004 | Bill Condon | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (48.8K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Kon-TikiLegendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl's epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. | 2012 | Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History | 7.2 (48.1K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Lady JaneThe story of Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen of England for only nine days. | 1986 | Trevor Nunn | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.1 (6.6K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Last Emperor, TheThe story of the final Emperor of China. | 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.7 (100.2K votes) | 163 | 20211228 |
| Last King of Scotland, TheBased on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s. | 2006 | Kevin Macdonald | Biography, Drama, History, Thriller | 7.7 (183K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Last Lieutenant, The [Secondløitnanten]The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Army HQ. There he finds a lack of leadership and morale that offends him. They even laugh at him an | 1993 | Hans Petter Moland | Drama, War | 6.6 (339 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Last Temptation of Christ, TheThe life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross. | 1988 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Drama | 7.5 (55.8K votes) | 164 | 20211228 |
| Last Temptation, The [O teleftaios peirasmos]The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross. | 1988 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Drama | 7.5 (55.6K votes) | 164 | 20211228 |
| LennyThe story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public. | 1974 | Bob Fosse (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.6 (15.7K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Letters From Iwo JimaThe story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it. | 2006 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War | 7.9 (159.9K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| LincolnAs the American Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves. | 2012 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.3 (255.5K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| Lincoln Lawyer, TheA lawyer defending a wealthy man begins to believe his client is guilty of more than just one crime. | 2011 | Brad Furman | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (228.9K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Longest Day, TheThe events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view. | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck | Action, Drama, History, War | 7.8 (54.6K votes) | 178 | 20211228 |
| Made in DagenhamA dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination. | 2010 | Nigel Cole | Comedy, Drama, History | 7.1 (15.8K votes) | 113 | 20230715 |
| Madness of King George, TheWhen King George III goes mad, his Lieutenants try to adjust the rules to run the country without his participation. | 1994 | Nicholas Hytner | Biography, Comedy, Drama, History | 7.2 (16.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Man Called Intrepid, ADuring World War II, a wealthy Canadian uses his own money to help the Allies form an espionage network. | 1979 | Peter Carter | Adventure, Drama, War | 6.8 (165 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Man to ManAn epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape. | 2005 | Régis Wargnier | Drama | 6.5 (2.1K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Many Happy Returns [Kyôso tanjô]A fun-loving American bulldog pup, a hilarious Himalayan cat, and a wise old golden retriever embark on a long trek through the rugged wilderness of the Sierra Nevada mountains in a quest to reach home and their beloved owners. | 1993 | Duwayne Dunham | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family | 7.0 (45.2K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Marie's Story [Marie Heurtin]Marie Heurtin is born both blind and deaf. Sister Marguerette wins her trust and teaches her how to express herself. | 2014 | Jean-Pierre Améris | Biography, Drama | 7.5 (1.8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| MastermindsA guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history. Based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery. | 2016 | Jared Hess | Biography, Comedy, Crime | 5.8 (54.2K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Max Manus Man of WarThe true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons. | 2008 | Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Action, Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.3 (27.8K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Men Who Stare at Goats, TheA reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions. | 2009 | Grant Heslov | Comedy, War | 6.2 (130.8K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| MilkThe story of Harvey Milk and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official. | 2008 | Gus Van Sant (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.5 (170.4K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Mississippi BurningTwo F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists. | 1988 | Alan Parker | Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 (97K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| MoneyballOakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players. | 2011 | Bennett Miller | Biography, Drama, Sport | 7.6 (402.8K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| MongolThe story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206. | 2007 | Sergei Bodrov | Action, Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.2 (46.2K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| MonsterBased on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer. | 2003 | Patty Jenkins | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (147.1K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Monuments Men, TheAn unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners. | 2014 | George Clooney | Comedy, Drama, History, War | 6.1 (129.7K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Motorcycle Diaries, The [Diarios de motocicleta]The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling. | 2004 | Walter Salles | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 7.8 (99.9K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| MunichAfter the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day. | 2005 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Action, Drama, History, Thriller | 7.5 (222.5K votes) | 164 | 20211228 |
| Mutiny On The BountyIn 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian. | 1962 | Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance | 7.2 (15.9K votes) | 178 | 20211228 |
| New World, TheThe story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas. | 2005 | Terrence Malick (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 6.7 (88.6K votes) | 135 | 20231001 |
| Night to Remember, AOn its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. | 1958 | Roy Ward Baker | Drama, History | 7.9 (15K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Nine Lives [Ni liv]During World War II, nine members of the Norwegian Resistance trapped into a deadly Nazi ambush. Only one escapes on foot, and a fierce hunt through the ice desert has begun. | 1957 | Arne Skouen | Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller, War | 7.3 (1.7K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| NoAn advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum. | 2012 | Pablo Larraín | Drama, History | 7.4 (26.1K votes) | 118 | 20240121 |
| NokasThe movie portrays Norway's most spectacular robbery, where 11 men occupied central Stavanger for twenty minutes and escaped with 57 million kroner (appx $10 million). A police officer was shot and killed. | 2010 | Erik Skjoldbjærg | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.5 (4.3K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| North Face [Nordwand]A secretary at a Berlin newspaper in 1936 gets to write about two Alpinists, as she knows them well. She later gets to report on and photograph her friends' and other Alpinists' climbs of the dangerous Swiss Eiger north face. | 2008 | Philipp Stölzl | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Sport | 7.4 (15.7K votes) | 126 | 20220723 |
| Nowhere BoyA chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life. | 2009 | Sam Taylor-Johnson | Biography, Drama, Music, Romance | 7.1 (36.4K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Of Gods and Men [Des hommes et des dieux]Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay. | 2010 | Xavier Beauvois | Drama, History | 7.2 (15.9K votes) | 122 | 20231001 |
| Orheim Company, The [Kompani Orheim]Jarle Klepp gets a message that forces his mind back to something he'd rather forgotten - his childhood with his father in Stavanger. When ""Orheim"" was his surname. | 2012 | Arild Andresen | Drama | 7.0 (1.4K votes) | 104 | 20221212 |
| Owning MahownyA bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history. | 2003 | Richard Kwietniowski | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (13.3K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| PapillonA French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape. | 1973 | Franklin J. Schaffner (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama | 8.0 (127.8K votes) | 151 | 20211228 |
| Pathfinder [Ofelas]A Warband intent on slaughter terrorizes northern Scandinavian villages in 1000 AD. | 1987 | Nils Gaup | Action, Adventure, Drama | 7.2 (5.1K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| PattonThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton. | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner (*) | Biography, Drama, War | 7.9 (100K votes) | 172 | 20211228 |
| PhilomenaA world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent. | 2013 | Stephen Frears (*) | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 7.6 (98.3K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Pianist, TheA Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. | 2002 | Roman Polanski (*) | Biography, Drama, Music, War | 8.5 (790.4K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| PlatoonChris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict. | 1986 | Oliver Stone (*) | Drama, War | 8.1 (401.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| PolytechniqueA dramatization of the 1989 Montréal Massacre, during which several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist. | 2009 | Denis Villeneuve (*) | Crime, Drama, History | 7.2 (15.9K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Pope JoanA woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim in the ninth century disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks. | 2009 | Sönke Wortmann | Drama, History, Romance | 6.7 (8.6K votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
| Prairie Home Companion, AA look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court. | 2006 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance, Western | 6.7 (23.5K votes) | 2 | 20240303 |
| Prayers For BobbyTrue story of Mary Griffith, gay rights crusader, whose teenage son committed suicide due to her religious intolerance. Based on the book of the same title by Leroy Aarons. | 2009 | Russell Mulcahy | Biography, Drama, Romance | 8.1 (16.4K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| PrideU.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984. | 2014 | Matthew Warchus | Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance | 7.8 (54.9K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Quiz ShowA young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation. | 1994 | Robert Redford (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.5 (68K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Rabbit-Proof FenceIn 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback. | 2002 | Phillip Noyce | Biography, Drama | 7.4 (28.4K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Railway Man, TheA former British Army officer, who was tortured as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him. | 2013 | Jonathan Teplitzky | Biography, Drama, Romance, War | 7.1 (39.3K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Red DustPolice officer Dirk Hendricks files an amnesty application for Alex Mpondo, a member of the South African Parliament who can't remember the torture he once endured as a captive political activist. South African-born attorney Sarah... | 2004 | Tom Hooper | Drama | 6.8 (2.4K votes) | 110 | 20230619 |
| Resurrecting The ChampUp-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his | 2007 | Rod Lurie | Drama, Sport | 6.7 (20.6K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Revenant, TheA frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. | 2015 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Western | 8.0 (762.8K votes) | 156 | 20211228 |
| RevolutionA trapper and his young son get pulled into the American revolution early as unwilling participants and remain involved through to the end. | 1985 | Hugh Hudson | Adventure, Drama, History, War | 5.3 (7K votes) | 126 | 20220806 |
| RiphagenThe story about Riphagen, a cunning Dutch traitor during WW2 who helped Nazi round up Jews, stealing their treasures for himself. He destroyed Resistance groups, making many who pursued justice after the war look like fools. | 2016 | Pieter Kuijpers | Biography, Drama, War | 7.1 (8.4K votes) | 131 | 20231001 |
| Rob RoyIn 1713 Scotland, Rob Roy MacGregor is wronged by a nobleman and his nephew, becomes an outlaw in search of revenge while fleeing the Redcoats, and faces charges of being a Jacobite. | 1995 | Michael Caton-Jones | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History | 6.9 (42.3K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Royal Affair, A [En Kongelig Affære]A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever. | 2012 | Nikolaj Arcel | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.5 (46.6K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| Saboteurs, TheThe story behind Hitler's plan of Germany getting the atomic bomb during WW2, and the heavy water sabotages in Rjukan, Norway, seen from four angles, the German side, the allied, the saboteurs and the company side. | 2015 | Per-Olav Sørensen | Drama, History, War | 8.0 (6.9K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| SalvadorA burnt-out photojournalist becomes involved in a Central American revolution. | 1986 | Oliver Stone (*) | Drama, History, Thriller, War | 7.4 (20.9K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Schindlers ListIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. | 1993 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 8.9 (1.3M votes) | 195 | 20211228 |
| SebergInspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal. | 2019 | Benedict Andrews | Biography, Drama, Thriller | 5.8 (7.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| SecretariatPenny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown. | 2010 | Randall Wallace | Biography, Drama, Family, History, Sport | 7.2 (30.9K votes) | 123 | 20240727 |
| Sessions, TheA man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest. | 2012 | Ben Lewin | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (42.4K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Seven Years in TibetTrue story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China's takeover of Tibet. | 1997 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.1 (139.3K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Shake Hands with the DevilThe story of General Romeo Dallaire's frustrated efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors. | 2007 | Jennifer Capraru, Roger Spottiswoode | Drama, History, War | 7.6 (3.4K votes) | 112 | 20220723 |
| Shattered GlassThe story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine. | 2003 | Billy Ray | Drama, History | 7.2 (35.5K votes) | 94 | 20220723 |
| Shepherds And ButchersA lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed. | 2016 | Oliver Schmitz | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.8 (3.5K votes) | 106 | 20220415 |
| Social Network, TheAs Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea, and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business. | 2010 | David Fincher (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.7 (671.6K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Song for a Raggy BoyThe true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland. | 2003 | Aisling Walsh | Drama, History | 7.6 (4.1K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Sound of Music, TheA young novitiate is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer. | 1965 | Robert Wise (*) | Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 8.0 (221.6K votes) | 172 | 20211228 |
| SpartacusThe slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising. | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.9 (131.8K votes) | 197 | 20211228 |
| StalingradThe story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad. | 1993 | Joseph Vilsmaier | Drama, War | 7.5 (34.1K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| StanderThe life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber. | 2003 | Bronwen Hughes | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.1 (8.6K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| StillwaterA father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit. | 2021 | Tom McCarthy | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (35.1K votes) | 139 | 20220315 |
| Stoning of Soraya M., TheA desperate woman asks for a meeting with a journalist to disclose the cruel and inhumane punishment of her niece. | 2008 | Cyrus Nowrasteh | Drama | 8.0 (20.3K votes) | 114 | 20220414 |
| Straight Story, TheAn old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother. | 1999 | David Lynch (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (88.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| SwoonThe true story of gay lovers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. who kidnapped and murdered a child in the early 1920s for kicks. The plot covers the months before the crime, the investigation, trial and final fate of the two men. | 1992 | Tom Kalin | Crime, Drama | 6.7 (1.7K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Thirteen DaysIn October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis. | 2000 | Roger Donaldson | Drama, History, Thriller | 7.3 (57.7K votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| This Boy's LifeThe story about the relationship between a rebellious 1950s teenager and his abusive stepfather, based on the memoirs of writer and literature Professor Tobias Wolff. | 1993 | Michael Caton-Jones | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (58.3K votes) | 115 | 20240419 |
| TitanicA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. | 1997 | James Cameron (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (1.1M votes) | 194 | 20211228 |
| To the Ends of the World [Les confins du monde]Indochina War, 1945: French soldier Robert is the only survivor of a massacre in which his brother has died. Blinded by revenge, he rejoins the forces in search of the assassins. But meeting the young Indochinese Maï disrupts his ... | 2018 | Guillaume Nicloux | Drama, War | 6.3 (1.2K votes) | 103 | 20240519 |
| TrumboIn 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. | 2015 | Jay Roach | Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.5 (80.1K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Tucker - The Man and His DreamThe story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept. | 1988 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (19.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| U Want Me 2 Kill Him [uwantme2killhim]A teenage boy's descent into the dangerous world of the Internet and the harrowing consequences of his actions. A true story. | 2013 | Andrew Douglas | Drama, Thriller | 6.3 (3.1K votes) | 92 | 20220822 |
| UnbrokenAfter a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. | 2014 | Angelina Jolie | Action, Biography, Drama, Sport, War | 7.2 (160.2K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| United 93A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot. | 2006 | Paul Greengrass | Action, Drama, History, Thriller | 7.6 (104.6K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| UnstoppableWith an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe. | 2010 | Tony Scott (*) | Action, Thriller | 6.8 (193.4K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Untouchables, TheDuring the era of Prohibition in the United States, Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone and, because of rampant corruption, assembles a small, hand-picked team to help him. | 1987 | Brian De Palma (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (299.4K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| ValkyrieA dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II. | 2008 | Bryan Singer (*) | Drama, History, Thriller, War | 7.1 (237.8K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| War HorseYoung Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on. | 2011 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War | 7.2 (154K votes) | 146 | 20211228 |
| Warm SpringsThe stirring true story of Franklin D. Roosevelt's battle with polio in 1921. | 2005 | Joseph Sargent | Biography, Drama | 7.4 (3.3K votes) | 121 | 20240313 |
| Wave, TheAn experiment in an American High School where students learn how easy it is to be seduced by the same social forces which led to the horrors of Nazi Germany. Based on a true story. | 1981 | Alexander Grasshoff | Drama | 7.1 (3.3K votes) | 44 | 20231207 |
| Way Back, TheSiberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India. | 2010 | Peter Weir (*) | Adventure, Drama, History | 7.3 (114.5K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| We Are MarshallWhen a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive. | 2006 | McG | Drama, Sport | 7.0 (64.5K votes) | 131 | 20240205 |
| We Bought a ZooSet in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo. | 2011 | Cameron Crowe | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7.1 (141K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Whistleblower, TheA drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal. | 2010 | Larysa Kondracki | Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.1 (34K votes) | 112 | 20220806 |
| Wind that Shakes the Barley, TheAgainst the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces. | 2006 | Ken Loach (*) | Drama, War | 7.5 (49.3K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Wind That Shakes the Barley, TheAgainst the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces. | 2006 | Ken Loach (*) | Drama, War | 7.5 (49.4K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Wolf of Wall Street, TheBased on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government. | 2013 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama | 8.2 (1.3M votes) | 180 | 20211228 |
| Woman in GoldMaria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family. | 2015 | Simon Curtis | Biography, Drama, History | 7.3 (57.2K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| You Dont Know JackA look at the life and work of doctor-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian. | 2010 | Barry Levinson (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.6 (29.7K votes) | 134 | 20230728 |
| ZodiacBetween 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree. | 2007 | David Fincher (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (512.1K votes) | 157 | 20211228 |
| The Interrogation of Michael Crowe | 2002 | Don McBrearty | Drama, Thriller | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Un p'tit gars de Ménilmontant | 2013 | Alain Minier | Crime, Drama | 5.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Matthew Shepard Story | 2002 | Roger Spottiswoode | Drama | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Music Never Stopped | 2011 | Jim Kohlberg | Drama, Music | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Into the White | 2012 | Petter Næss | Action, Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| In ascolto | 2006 | Giacomo Martelli | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Relief of Belsen | 2007 | Justin Hardy | Drama | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Misery Harbour | 1999 | Nils Gaup | Drama | 6.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Cab to Canada | 1998 | Christopher Leitch | Drama | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Gjest Baardsen | 1939 | Tancred Ibsen | Comedy, Drama, Crime, Romance | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Englandsfarere | 1946 | Toralf Sandø | Drama, War | 6.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Semmelweiss | 1983 | Terje Mærli | Biography, Drama | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Hunt for the BTK Killer | 2005 | Stephen Kay | Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| What Richard Did | 2012 | Lenny Abrahamson | Drama | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Cinema Verite | 2011 | Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Drama | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Killing Lincoln | 2013 | Adrian Moat | Biography, Drama, History, War | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | 2007 | Yves Simoneau | Drama, History, Western | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Entre les murs | 2008 | Laurent Cantet | Drama | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini | 2007 | Gianluca Maria Tavarelli | Drama | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Engelen | 2009 | Margreth Olin | Drama | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Cornelis | 2010 | Amir Chamdin | Biography, Drama, Music | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley | 2008 | Niall MacCormick | Biography, Drama | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Our Fathers | 2005 | Dan Curtis | Drama | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Matthew Shepard Story | 2002 | Roger Spottiswoode | Drama | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Savovi | 2019 | Miroslav Terzic | Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Zlatý podraz | 2018 | Radim Spacek | Drama, Sport | 5.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Byk | 2019 | Boris Akopov | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |