Keyword: based on true story

Smoke & Mirrors

7.1

2016

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The story of a man who fooled an entire country. A tale of cheats and impostors, taking its inspiration from true facts and from one of the most intriguing characters of recent decades: the spy Francisco Paesa.

The Spirit of St. Louis

7.2

1957

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Charles Slim Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

6.4

1969

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In 1909, when young Paiute Indian Willie Boy returns to his California reservation to be with Lola, whose father disapproves of him, a killing in self defense takes place, triggering a massive man hunt for Willie.

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

7.2

1958

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A tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.

The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer

5.5

1993

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Based on the life of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered more than a dozen people, and ate many of them, before he was caught in 1991.

The Night My Number Came Up

7.1

1955

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On a routine flight from Hong Kong to Japan, a British military transport aircrafts fate may or may not depend on a prophetic nightmare.

Amundsen

6.6

2019

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The life and facts of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the first man to arrive on the South Pole.

The Pastor's Wife

5.9

2011

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The story is based on the real-life 2006 media sensation where Mary Winkler murdered her small-town preacher husband.

The Hussy

7.1

1979

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Misfit François kidnaps young Mado and takes her to live with him in the attic of his parents home. A strange relationship evolves till the police comes upon them.

The Young Poisoner's Handbook

7.1

1995

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This film is based on a true story about a British teenager who allegedly poisoned family, friends, and co-workers. Graham is highly intelligent, but completely amoral. He becomes interested in science, especially chemistry, and begins to read avidly. Something of a social misfit, he is fascinated by morbid subjects such as poisons and murder. His family environment is intolerable to him and, in particular, his stepmother torments him. He decides to poison those who annoy him, first with antimony and later with thallium. He smugly thinks himself cleverer than all those around him, but nevertheless he is caught and sentenced to rehabilitation at a psychiatric institution. Once there, he undertakes to deceive the new eminent psychiatrist sent there to cure him, thereby securing his release.

The Return of Martin Guerre

7.4

1982

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In medieval France, some villagers challenge a mans claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.

A Chance in the World

8.1

2017

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A Chance in the World is the unbelievable real life story of Steve, a wounded and broken boy destined to become a man of resilience and vision. From the day he is five-years-old and dropped off at his foster home of the next eleven years, Steve is mentally and physically tortured by Betty (his foster mother), Willie (her husband) and his foster siblings. Desperate for a sense of family and belonging, Steve searches for his biological parents, but no one in the system can help him. No one can tell him why, with obvious African-American features, he has the last name of Klakowicz.