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Best Movies Based on a True Story

Top rated Movies Based on a True Story on Filmaffinity

- 1
- Schindler's List (1993)
  
  Steven Spielberg
  
  Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Embeth Davidtz, Norbert Weisser, Martin S. Bergmann ...
- 8.6
  
  174,452
- 2
- City of God (2002)
  
  Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
  
  Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva, Seu Jorge, Jonathan Haagensen, Matheus Nachtergaele, Jefechander Suplino ...
- 8.4
  
  127,742
- 3
- The Hole (The Night Watch) (1960)
  
  Jacques Becker
  
  Philippe Leroy, Marc Michel, Michel Constantin, Jean Kéraudy, Raymond Meunier, André Bervil
- 8.4
  
  12,909
- 4
- Goodfellas (1990)
  
  Martin Scorsese
  
  Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, Chuck Low, Christopher Serrone, Debi Mazar ...
- 8.4
  
  113,027
- 5
- Dersu Uzala (1975)
  
  Akira Kurosawa
  
  Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, Svetlana Danilchenko, Vladimir Kremena, Dmitriy Korshikov, Suymenkul Chokmorov
- 8.3
  
  33,104
The Independent
- 6
- The Great Escape (1963)
  
  John Sturges
  
  Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn, James Donald, Donald Pleasence, David McCallum ...
- 8.2
  
  67,380
- 7
- Rome, Open City (1945)
  
  Roberto Rossellini
  
  Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Maria Michi, Harry Feist, Vito Annichiarico, Francesco Grandjacquet, Giovanna Galletti, Carla Rovere
- 8.2
  
  16,996
- 8
- In the Name of the Father (1993)
  
  Jim Sheridan
  
  Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite, John Lynch, Beatie Edney, Mark Sheppard, Don Baker, Frank Harper ...
- 8.2
  
  79,265
- 9
- Rope (1948)
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Joan Chandler, Douglas Dick, Constance Collier, Dick Hogan
- 8.1
  
  36,472
- 10
- Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  
  Sergei M. Eisenstein
  
  Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov, Ivan Bobrov, Aleksandr Levshin, Konstantin Feldman
- 8.0
  
  28,729
- 11
- Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
  
  Charles Chaplin
  
  Charles Chaplin, Martha Raye, Marilyn Nash, Isobel Elsom, Robert Lewis, Mady Correll, Arthur Hohl, Allison Roddan ...
- 7.9
  
  7,218
- 12
- Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
  
  John Frankenheimer
  
  Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Neville Brand, Thelma Ritter, Betty Field, Hugh Marlowe, Edmond O'Brien, Telly Savalas
- 7.9
  
  6,911
- 13
- Come and See (1985)
  
  Elem Klimov
  
  Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas, Victor Lorents
- 7.8
  
  7,504
- 14
- The Straight Story (1999)
  
  David Lynch
  
  Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton, Everett McGill, John Farley, Jane Galloway Heitz, Dan Flannery, Kevin P. Farley ...
- 7.8
  
  42,637
- 15
- Missing (1982)
  
  Costa-Gavras
  
  Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi, Richard Bradford, Janice Rule, David Clennon ...
- 7.8
  
  15,012
- 16
- Midnight Express (1978)
  
  Alan Parker
  
  Brad Davis, John Hurt, Bo Hopkins, Irene Miracle, Randy Quaid, Paolo Bonacelli, Mike Kellin, Michael Ensign ...
- 7.7
  
  29,805
- 17
- The Bridge (1959)
  
  Bernhard Wicki
  
  Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz, Frank Glaubrecht, Karl Michael Balzer, Volker Lechtenbrink, Günther Hoffmann, Cordula Trantow ...
- 7.7
  
  3,227
- 18
- Z (1969)
  
  Costa-Gavras
  
  Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Irene Papas, Jacques Perrin, François Périer, Pierre Dux, Charles Denner, Marcel Bozzuffi ...
- 7.7
  
  6,544
- 19
- In Cold Blood (1967)
  
  Richard Brooks
  
  Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, Jeff Corey, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, John Gallaudet, James Flavin ...
- 7.7
  
  7,848
- 20
- Casque d'or (1952)
  
  Jacques Becker
  
  Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Bussières, Gaston Modot, Paul Barge
- 7.7
  
  4,060
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- 21
- Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
  
  Fritz Lang
  
  Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O'Keefe, Alexander Granach, Margaret Wycherly, Tonio Selwart ...
- 7.7
  
  3,183
- 22
- Nobody Knows (2004)
  
  Hirokazu Koreeda
  
  Yûya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura, Momoko Shimizu, Hanae Kan, Susumu Terajima
- 7.6
  
  7,040
- 23
- 5 Fingers (1952)
  
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  
  James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden, Oscar Karlweis, Herbert Berghof, Ben Astar, John Wengraf
- 7.6
  
  2,664
- 24
- Hotel Rwanda (2004)
  
  Terry George
  
  Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Desmond Dube, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix, Cara Seymour, Fana Mokoena ...
- 7.6
  
  41,775
- 25
- Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
  
  Don Siegel
  
  Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau, Fred Ward, Larry Hankin, Paul Benjamin, David Cryer ...
- 7.6
  
  34,194
- 26
- Into the Wild (2007)
  
  Sean Penn
  
  Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Brian Dierker, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, Catherine Keener ...
- 7.6
  
  70,410
- 27
- Enemy at the Gates (2001)
  
  Jean-Jacques Annaud
  
  Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman, Eva Mattes, Gabriel Thomson ...
- 7.6
  
  82,395
- 28
- Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
  
  Mitchell Leisen
  
  Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois, Rosemary DeCamp, Eric Feldary ...
- 7.6
  
  1,394
- 29
- Memories of Murder (2003)
  
  Bong Joon-ho
  
  Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-Kyung, Kim Roe-ha, Song Jae-ho, Byeon Hie-bong, Koh Seo-hee, Park No-Sik, Park Hae-Il ...
- 7.6
  
  23,461
- 30
- Green Book (2018)
  
  Peter Farrelly
  
  Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Iqbal Theba, Linda Cardellini, Ricky Muse, David Kallaway, Montrel Miller, Harrison Stone ...
- 7.6
  
  49,644

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