Based On True Story Movies

The story spins around a frustrated unemployed youth who manages to get a parttime job , where he gets stirred up by a stranger who orders him to do a...

This film is based on the Las Poquianchis case in Mexico where Delfina and María de Jesús González lured in young women with false help wanted ads. Th...

The film tells about the brutal class struggle during the civil war in the villages of southern Ukraine.

Matara is the story of boys who role-play their own kingdoms in the summer. The senators plot in a togas made of bed sheets and take puppets as wives,...

An interview from acclaimed business youtuber Noah Kagan introduces us to the most based NYU student, Based John.

Sijou is a small boy who lives in the village of Saikhonguri, a village in Baksa near the Indo-Bhutan border. He lives with his father. One day, his l...

An historical documentary that rereads the recent death of Jorge Videla, bloodthirsty dictator of Argentina in the 70’s, telling the disappearance, on...

This is the true story how one person made a difference in the lives of over 125 people by rescuing them from Nazi Germany. In 1903 Herman Stern arri...

A tamal cook and her son are constantly abused by her alcoholic husband. One day, she decides to take revenge the only way she knows of.

This story is based on Lisa Rydberg's teenage experiences. An unknown man shows Lisa the way to the bus station on a dark night. After a while she wan...

A tender and sweet animated documentary chronicling the childhood romance between two girls.

AV Supersunshine and Philomena Victor, married musicians from Wisconsin, approach a young filmmaker and ask for his help to tell their 'true' story: b...

A team of armed Pakistani militants stage a terrorist attack at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India.

Stories can be told in many ways. Once portrays a true episode that occurred in Argentina in 2012. A train accident that cost the lives of many people...

The idea for this film comes from the encounter with two African boys who live in Rome, and is based on their music. Tunisian Afif and Senegalese Alio...

On a winter night in 2002, a couple in their early 20s is breaking up atop a bridge, when the woman falls down. Is it a suicide or accidental death? T...

In the summer of 1964 three unusual incidents took place on Lake Grace. The first two were totally unexplainable. The third, and most disturbing one,...