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Movies tagged with the "based-on-true-story" keyword
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Gérard Depardieu |
Armand Assante |
Sigourney Weaver |
Loren Dean |
Ángela Molina |
Fernando Rey |
Michael Wincott |
Tchéky Karyo |
Kevin Dunn |
Frank Langella |
Mark Margolis |
Kario Salem |
Billy L. Sullivan |
John Heffernan |
Arnold Vosloo |
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Ridley Scott |
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Big budget account of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas. Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery. Shows the disastrous effects the Europeans had on the original inhabitants, and Columbus' struggle to civilize the New World.
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Jim Sturgess |
Kevin Spacey |
Kate Bosworth |
Aaron Yoo |
Liza Lapira |
Jacob Pitts |
Laurence Fishburne |
Jack McGee |
Josh Gad |
Sam Golzari |
Helen Carey |
Jack Gilpin |
Donna Lows |
Butch Williams |
Ben Campbell |
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Robert Luketic |
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.
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Meg Ryan |
Omar Epps |
Charles S. Dutton |
Tony Shalhoub |
Timothy Daly |
Joseph Cortese |
Kerry Washington |
Sean Bell |
Dean McDermott |
Skye McCole Bartusiak |
Juan Carlos Hernández |
Holt McCallany |
Tory Kittles |
Gene Mack |
Beau Starr |
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Charles S. Dutton |
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A Jewish woman from Detroit who became a boxing manager, guiding several major careers. This film focuses on her relationship with one boxer (Epps), who's reportedly a composite of several including Toney, McKart and Hearns. Kallen eventually left her husband of 30 years, and moved to Los Angeles, becoming the commissioner of the International Female Boxers Association...
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Drama |
History |
War |
Western |
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Craig Erickson |
Dennis Quaid |
Billy Bob Thornton |
Jason Patric |
Patrick Wilson |
Emilio Echevarría |
Jordi Mollà |
Leon Rippy |
Tom Davidson |
Marc Blucas |
Robert Prentiss |
Kevin Page |
Joe Stevens |
Stephen Bruton |
Laura Clifton |
Ricardo Chavira |
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John Lee Hancock |
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Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston's rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna's army which led to the indepedence of Texas.
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Action |
Adventure |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Ethan Hawke |
Vincent Spano |
Josh Hamilton |
Bruce Ramsay |
John Newton |
David Kriegel |
Kevin Breznahan |
Sam Behrens |
Illeana Douglas |
Jack Noseworthy |
Christian J. Meoli |
Jake Carpenter |
Michael DeLorenzo |
José Zúñiga |
Danny Nucci |
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Frank Marshall |
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The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold. The only thing the team has riding on after losing so many of their good friends and family members is the slim chance of making it through alive and their faithfulness to God.
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Adventure |
Comedy |
Drama |
Music |
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Billy Crudup |
Frances McDormand |
Kate Hudson |
Jason Lee |
Patrick Fugit |
Zooey Deschanel |
Michael Angarano |
Anna Paquin |
Fairuza Balk |
Noah Taylor |
John Fedevich |
Mark Kozelek |
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Liz Stauber |
Jimmy Fallon |
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Cameron Crowe |
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William Miller is a 15 year old kid, hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with, and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
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Crime |
Drama |
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Bruce Willis |
Matthew Barry |
Emile Hirsch |
Fernando Vargas |
Vincent Kartheiser |
Justin Timberlake |
Shawn Hatosy |
Heather Wahlquist |
Alex Solowitz |
Alec Vigil |
Harry Dean Stanton |
Frank Cassavetes |
Nicole Dubos |
Regina Rice |
Laura Nativo |
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Nick Cassavetes |
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In 1999, in Claremont, California, the violent Jake Mazursky owes US$ 1,200.00 to the coward drug dealer Johnny Truelove, who is son of the powerful criminal Sonny Truelove. They fight and start a personal war, with Jake breaking into the house of Johnny with his friends, stealing the TV and leaving excrement in the living room. Johnny kidnaps Jake's fifteen year old brother Zach Mazurka, who has just had an argument with his parents, and brings him to the upper class house of his friend Frankie Ballenbacher. Along a couple of days, Zach meets the friends of Frankie, goes to parties, drinks boozes, smokes pot and has sex with other teenagers. When Johnny realizes that kidnapping means life sentence, he asks the servile scum Elvis Schmidt to kill the boy.
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Drama |
Horror |
Mystery |
Thriller |
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Donald Sutherland |
Sissy Spacek |
James D'Arcy |
Rachel Hurd-Wood |
Matthew Marsh |
Thom Fell |
Zoe Thorne |
Gaye Brown |
Sam Alexander |
Miquel Brown |
Vernon Dobtcheff |
Shauna Shim |
Madalina Stan |
Philip Hurdwood |
Vlad Cruceru |
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Courtney Solomon |
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In 2006, in Red River, Tennessee, a teenager has frequent nightmares. Her mother reads an old letter from 1817 written by her ancestor, Lucy Bell. After a dispute of lands judged by the church, her husband John Bell is cursed by his opponent Kathe Batts, who has a fame of being a witch. From this moment on, an entity threatens John and her daughter Betsy Bell, attacking the girl during the nights. With the support of Betsy's school teacher Richard Powell, who tries to find rational explanations for the manifestation; her brother John Bell Jr.; and their friend James Johnston, who unsuccessfully tries to exorcize the entity from the house, the family does their best to protect Betsy in the haunted house.
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Amistad
[1997,
USA] from $1.99
Freedom is not given. It is our right at birth. But there are some moments when it must be taken.
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Drama |
History |
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Morgan Freeman |
Nigel Hawthorne |
Anthony Hopkins |
Djimon Hounsou |
Matthew McConaughey |
David Paymer |
Pete Postlethwaite |
Stellan Skarsgård |
Razaaq Adoti |
Abu Bakaar Fofanah |
Anna Paquin |
Tomas Milian |
Chiwetel Ejiofor |
Derrick N. Ashong |
Geno Silva |
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Steven Spielberg |
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AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
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Drama |
Horror |
Thriller |
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Ryan Reynolds |
Melissa George |
Jesse James |
Jimmy Bennett |
Chloe Moretz |
Rachel Nichols |
Philip Baker Hall |
Isabel Conner |
Brendan Donaldson |
Annabel Armour |
Rich Komenich |
David Gee |
Danny McCarthy |
Nancy Lollar |
José Taitano |
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George & Kathy Lutz and Kathy's 3 children are moving into an elegant Long Island home. What they don't know is that 6 gruesome murders were committed there the year before - Ronald DeFeo Jr., the oldest son in the family, murdered his parents, his 2 brothers & 2 sisters by shooting them with a .35 caliber in November of 1974. No sooner are the Lutzes moved into the house than they begin seeing horrible things - the ghost of Jodie DeFeo, horribly disfigured bodies - and hearing ghostly voices throughout the house. George seems to notice it the most, and it isn't long before he becomes a danger to those around him. When the local priest, called in to bless the house, comes charging out in horror after being swarmed by flies, he issues a dire warning to Kathy - 'Leave that house'. But will they be able to escape before the house and its vengeful spirits take control of George - and make him into a deadly menace?
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Drama |
History |
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Jodie Foster |
Yun-Fat Chow |
Ling Bai |
Tom Felton |
Syed Alwi |
Randall Duk Kim |
Kay Siu Lim |
Melissa Campbell |
Keith Chin |
Mano Maniam |
Shanthini Venugopal |
Deanna Yusoff |
Geoffrey Palmer |
Ann Firbank |
Bill Stewart |
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Andy Tennant |
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This is the story of Anna Leonowens, the English schoolteacher who came to Siam in the 1860s to teach the children of King Mongkut. She becomes involved in his affairs, from the tragic plight of a young concubine to trying to forge an alliance with Britain to a war with Burma that is orchestrated by Britain. In the meantime, a subtle romance develops between them.
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Biography |
Comedy |
Family |
Musical |
Romance |
Western |
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Betty Hutton |
Howard Keel |
Louis Calhern |
J. Carrol Naish |
Edward Arnold |
Keenan Wynn |
Benay Venuta |
Clinton Sundberg |
Hal Bell |
Archie Butler |
André Charlot |
Michael Dugan |
Phil Dunham |
Edward Earle |
Herbert Evans |
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Busby Berkeley |
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Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who was raised 'Doin' What Comes Naturally'. Frank Butler, the star sharpshooter in 'Colonel Buffalo Bill''s show, however, knows full well that's not how 'The Girl That I Marry' must be. Anyway, not at least until he finds that 'My Defences are Down'. Though Annie defiantly says 'Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better', she realizes that 'You Can't Get a Man With a Gun'. The victor at the end is love; as you know, 'It's Wonderful'. After all, 'There's No Business Like Show Business'.
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Biography |
Crime |
Drama |
Western |
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Brad Pitt |
Mary-Louise Parker |
Brooklynn Proulx |
Dustin Bollinger |
Casey Affleck |
Sam Rockwell |
Jeremy Renner |
Sam Shepard |
Garret Dillahunt |
Paul Schneider |
Joel McNichol |
James Defelice |
J.C. Roberts |
Darrell Orydzuk |
Jonathan Erich Drachenberg |
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Andrew Dominik |
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Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.
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Drama |
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Sean Penn |
Naomi Watts |
Don Cheadle |
Jack Thompson |
Brad William Henke |
Nick Searcy |
Michael Wincott |
Mykelti Williamson |
April Grace |
Lily Knight |
Jared Dorrance |
Jenna Milton |
Mariah Massa |
Eileen Ryan |
Derek Greene |
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Niels Mueller |
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Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman (Sean Penn) who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb. At the start of the movie, the man is separated from his wife and stressed in his job where he is made the butt of jokes and is an under-performer. Attempts to get his brother's old tire business resurrected with a black partner is rejected by the banks. When he is officially served with divorce papers, everything comes apart and Richard Nixon's broken promises comes to represent all the evils that have come down on him. A news story about a pilot that landed a helicopter on the White House lawn gives him the idea for his attack. Bolting onto a Baltimore plane, he attempts the hi-jacking.
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Val Kilmer |
Mira Sorvino |
Kelly McGillis |
Steven Weber |
Bruce Davison |
Nathan Lane |
Ken Howard |
Laura Kirk |
Margo Winkler |
Diana Krall |
Brett Robbins |
Willie C. Carpenter |
Charles Winkler |
Drena De Niro |
Kelly Chapman |
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Irwin Winkler |
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Amy is an architect who works for perfection. She takes a vacation at a small town health spa where she meets Virgil, a blind masseur. She falls in love with him for the senses he loves that she takes for granted. They listen to the rain, they make love, and then she does research on restoring sight he hasn't had since he was one year old. He joins her in New York and undergoes the treatment only to find that seeing doesn't mean comprehending what one sees. The difficult road to understanding the visual world tests their relationship. The strain is taken to the limits when Virgil begins to lose his sight once again.
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Leonardo DiCaprio |
Cate Blanchett |
Kate Beckinsale |
John C. Reilly |
Alec Baldwin |
Alan Alda |
Ian Holm |
Danny Huston |
Gwen Stefani |
Jude Law |
Adam Scott |
Matt Ross |
Kelli Garner |
Frances Conroy |
Brent Spiner |
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Martin Scorsese |
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The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese's favorite films, Hell's Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.
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Animation |
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Kevin Bacon |
Bob Hoskins |
Bridget Fonda |
Jim Cummings |
Phil Collins |
Jack Angel |
Danny Mann |
Robbie Rist |
Juliette Brewer |
Juliette Brewer |
Sandra Dickinson |
Miriam Margolyes |
Miriam Margolyes |
Lola Bates-Campbell |
Donald Sinden |
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Simon Wells |
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A half-wolf, half-husky named Balto gets a chance to become a hero when an outbreak of diphtheria threatens the children of Nome, Alaska in the winter of 1925. He leads a dog team on a 600-mile trip across the Alaskan wilderness to get medical supplies. The film is based on a true story which inspired the Iditarod dog sled race.
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Bank Job, The
[2008,
UK] from $1.99
The true story of a heist gone wrong... in all the right ways.
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Crime |
Thriller |
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Jason Statham |
Saffron Burrows |
Stephen Campbell Moore |
Daniel Mays |
James Faulkner |
Alki David |
Michael Jibson |
Richard Lintern |
Don Gallagher |
David Suchet |
Peter Bowles |
Andrew Brooke |
Trevor Byfield |
Peter De Jersey |
Rufus Dean |
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Roger Donaldson |
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Based on the true story of the 1971 Baker Street bank robbery which was prevented from being told for over thirty years because of a Government gagging order. The real story of how one of the biggest robberies in British history took place with no arrests ever made nor money ever recovered.
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Biography |
Crime |
Drama |
Sport |
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Leonardo DiCaprio |
Lorraine Bracco |
Marilyn Sokol |
James Madio |
Patrick McGaw |
Mark Wahlberg |
Roy Cooper |
Bruno Kirby |
Jimmy Papiris |
Nick Gaetani |
Alexander Chaplin |
Ben Jorgensen |
Josh Mostel |
Juliette Lewis |
Michael Imperioli |
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Scott Kalvert |
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Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin — all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. He can't go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.
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Bat*21
[1988,
USA] from $1.99
Trapped behind enemy lines. A whole army after him... And only one man can save him.
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Gene Hackman |
Danny Glover |
Jerry Reed |
David Marshall Grant |
Clayton Rohner |
Erich Anderson |
Joe Dorsey |
Reverend Michael Ng |
Theodore Chan Woei-Shyong |
Don Ruffin |
Scott Howell |
Michael Raden |
Timothy Fitzgerald |
Stuart B. Hagen |
Jeffrey Baxter |
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During the Vietnam war, a U.S. observation plane is hit by a missile. The only survivor of the crew is the Lieutenant Colonel Iceal Hambleton, an expert in missile weaponry. Because of his knowledge, it is crucial to rescue him before the Vietcong get their hands on him. It's a very difficult task because the enemy is listening to Hambleton's radio transmissions. And he knows it...
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