Movies based on a true story... What your favs?
 

Well I must say documentary movies are my first love and a close second are movies based on a true story.

What are favorite movies that are based on a true story? I know its subjective and ithe movie may be based on facts but fluffed up for hollywood but none the less I would like to know your favorite *based on a true story* movies..

Let's hear them..

dumb & dumber

I should have expected that.. Ha

Any one else care to share?

Fire in the Sky

saw "The Blind Side" last week end, was pretty good

you can share.

zeitgeist

texas chainsaw massacre is another of my fav movies based on a true story.

This film recreates the strange events which happened November 5, 1975 in the town Snowflake, Arizona. Travis Walton works as a logger in the woods. When he and his colleagues drive home after work, they encounter an UFO. For the next five days Travis disappears and his colleagues are accused of murder. When he reappears, first he didn't remember that he was gone, but in time the terrible memories come back..

Oh that sounds bad ass :)

I'm going to check that out tonight...

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

Put that in my to watch list as well.. Thank you Stephane

I like that you shared your views on healthy eating..

You weren't kidding... whoa.. I looked it up..

The whole series are an amazing watch and a must see. It will open up your eyes..

The Social Network


j/k

that's a true story? i'd bet dumb & dumber has more truth to it. :1orglaugh

The Pursuit of Happyness

Based on a true story about a man named Christopher Gardner.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454921/

Rudy!!!!

I watched " Into The Wild " the other day and highly recommend it :thumbsup

Temple Grandin was a great movie, I didn't think I'd like when I read the description but glad I gave it a chance.

this one was not bad too:

The Fighter

The Fighter, is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0964517/

movie is so far from the truth...


miracle is a favorite of mine

i watched some fucking good movie based on true story and now i cant remember the name, fuck

Batman and Bambi...

Breast Men

lolol I am lookin it up as well didnt think it was based on anything either

the one about hustler :)

It's cheesy, but I love A League of Their Own. There's no crying in baseball!

The Matrix

Hunger was pretty good

I can't believe I haven't sat down and watched it yet or middlemen.. Just to much work.. to do ...

Brian's song.

Reversal of Fortune, about Klaus von Bulow.

see the original 1974 film not the pos remake.


The concept for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre arose in the early 1970s when Tobe Hooper worked as an assistant film director at the University of Texas at Austin and as a documentary cameraman.[2] He had already developed a story centering on the theme of isolation, woods, and darkness.[3] He credited the graphic coverage of violence by San Antonio news outlets as one inspiration for the film[4] and based the plot loosely on the murders committed by serial killer Ed Gein in 1950s Wisconsin;[5]

I really enjoyed that.. really humbling and motivating...

Biographic movie of the witty, overachieving, hot-tempered Rudy Giuliani, spaning from his rising days as a New York district attorney in the early 1980's to his marriage to part-time actress Donna Hanover, to his candicies for mayor of New York City and his controversial methods to tackle the city's crime and urban problems, as well as his romance with his assistant Cristyne Lategano which lead to the failure of his marriage, to his battle with prostate cancer, all leading up to the terrible day of September 11, 2001 which Guiliani himself narrowly escaped death after suicide terrorists hijacked and crashed two passenger airliners into the twin World Trade Center towers leading to their collapse in which Guiliani's toughness and spirited personality help calm the city's residents to face the chaos on that day which made him a national hero

Interesting..downloading

I just see it yesterday too :winkwink::winkwink: Awesome movie , i blame that guy for his courage.
Do not forget about American Gangster and Blow , pure masterpieces :winkwink:

Taken and Man on Fire are two of my fav movies based on true events

Miracle tells the true story of Herb Brooks (Russell), the player-turned-coach who led the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to victory over the seemingly invincible Russian squad.

I will check that out..

The.Pianist.2002 - great movie
Touching.The.Void.2003 - bunch of tourists fall into a mountain`s hole and to escape from there one of them cut himself the leg with a knife. I recommend this movie.
Basketball.Diaries.1995 - great movie with cocaine addiction
Breach - great spy movie
Catch.Me.If.You.Can - leonardo di caprio performs in the movie as a scam check artist
A.Beautiful.Mind - the biography of the math john nash
Donnie.Brasco.1997 - great mob movie
An American Crime and The girl next door - true brutal stories

Kings Speech was very good.

ok this is what's wrong with hollywood... those are absolutely fictitious stories and characters, they just make them sound like they really happened by showing dates of deaths and having a text prologue at the beginning...

this thread is not about that! :1orglaugh

apparently so! :)

check out band of brothers... I was impressed when I watched it, but when i did some further reading on the characters and their books I found out that it is almost a perfect rendition of what actually happened, pretty much word for word... which makes this series even better and truly amazing.

One that hasn't been mentioned and my ultimate all time favorite:

"Dog Day Afternoon" w. Al Pacino




No screenwriter could come up with such a story to sound real and no other director than Sidney Lumet could make it into a more memorable movie.

apollo 13
black hawk down
goodfellas

Bingo! (no, not the movie)

Also very, very good: The Pianist.

And "Hotel Rwanda"

Btw Derek, here's a list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._actual_events

the mind blowing thing about this film is the motivation behind the heist! wasn't expecting that...........

I would also very much recommend The Life of Others(Das Leben der Anderen)
Not based on facts but it's definately happened.

Lord of War ;-)