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based on true story

Crime

Drama

Maciej Kawulski Director

Dawid Ogrodnik as Andrzej Kolikowski 'Pershing'

Magdalena Lamparska as Halina Ostrowska

Marcin Czarnik as 'Laszlo'

Agnieszka Grochowska as Milena 'Czarna'

A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a true story.

Big Miracle

2012

6.5

♡ 30

74%

Ken Kwapis Director

John Krasinski as Adam Carlson

Dermot Mulroney as Colonel Scott Boyer

Gregory Jbara as General Stanton

Kristen Bell as Jill Jerard

A small-town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle.

The Sugarland Express

1974

6.7

♡ 29

87%

66%

Adventure

Steven Spielberg Director

Charles Gunn as D.P.S. Officer

Gregory Walcott as Mashburn

Louise Latham as Mrs. Looby

Dean Smith as Russ Berry

Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.

Bloody Sunday

2002

7.6

♡ 23

92%

90%

1970s

Paul Greengrass Director

James Nesbitt as Ivan Cooper

Tim Pigott-Smith as Maj. Gen. Ford

Christopher Villiers as Maj. Steele

Ian Dray as Sib officer

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.

Owning Mahowny

2003

7.0

♡ 7

78%

Richard Kwietniowski Director

Roger Dunn as Bill Gooden

Vince Corazza as Doug

Joe Pingue as Plain Clothes Cop

John Hurt as Victor Foss

Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.

Above Suspicion

2019

5.8

♡ 33

26%

45%

affair

Phillip Noyce Director

Johnny Knoxville as Cash

Thora Birch as Jolene

Robert C. Treveiler as Murph

Emilia Clarke as Susan Smith

The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it's a ticket to disaster for both of them.

I Am Elizabeth Smart

2017

6.3

♡ 6

60%

Sarah Walker Director

Skeet Ulrich as Brian David Mitchell

Kiefer O'Reilly as Edward

Cassidy Nugent as Mary Katherine

Deirdre Lovejoy as Wanda Barzee

The story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.

I'm Not Ashamed

2016

5.9

♡ 95

22%

82%

Brian Baugh Director

Fred Tatasciore as Bus Driver

Taylor Kalupa as Gabby

Bill Clinton as Himself

Mark Daugherty as Kevin

Based on the journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott, the first student killed in the Columbine High School shooting in 1999.

The Clearing

2004

5.8

♡ 16

44%

32%

husband wife relationship

Drama

hostage

Pieter Jan Brugge Director

Willem Dafoe as Arnold Mack

Mike Pniewski as Detective Kyle Woodward

Helen Mirren as Eileen Hayes

Diana Scarwid as Eva Finch

When affluent executive Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a forest, Wayne’s wife is forced to reckon with the FBI agents as they negotiate with the kidnapper.

The Newton Boys

1998

6.1

♡ 16

64%

43%

bank robber

Richard Linklater Director

Ethan Hawke as Jess Newton

Skeet Ulrich as Joe Newton

Lew Temple as Waiter

Matthew McConaughey as Willis Newton

The four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. One day, the eldest, Willis, realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become bank robbers. Soon, they gain notoriety and, five years later, execute the greatest train robbery in American history.

The Sessions

2012

7.2

♡ 13

91%

80%

affectation

Ben Lewin Director

Helen Hunt as Cheryl

William H. Macy as Father Brendan

Robert Roldan as Patient

Jarrod Bailey as Tony

Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.

Lords of Dogtown

2005

7.1

♡ 38

55%

81%

1970s

venice beach, california

Catherine Hardwicke Director

Matt Malloy as Contest Official

Jeremy Renner as Jay Adams Manager

Heath Ledger as Skip

Pablo Schreiber as Stecyk

The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams are the Z-Boys, a bunch of nobodies until they create a new style of skateboarding that becomes a worldwide phenomenon. But when their hobby becomes a business, the success shreds their friendship.

The Town That Dreaded Sundown

1976

6.0

♡ 18

46%

41%

Charles B. Pierce Director

Ben Johnson as Captain J.D. Morales

Earl E. Smith as Dr. Kress

Dawn Wells as Helen Reed

Bud Davis as The Phantom Killer

When two young lovers are savagely beaten and tortured on a back country road in Texarkana, local police are baffled and must find "the Phantom Killer" before he can kill again.

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

2009

5.2

♡ 5

20%

42%

Bob Gosse Director

Keri Lynn Pratt as Kristy

Susie Abromeit as Leslie

Randal Reeder as Tavern Bouncer

Matt Czuchry as Tucker Max

A tireless and charismatic novelty seeker, Tucker tricks his buddy Dan into lying to his fiancée Kristy, so they can go to an legendary strip club three and a half hours away to celebrate Dan’s last days of bachelorhood in proper style.

The Grizzlies

2018

7.5

♡ 19

87%

95%

Miranda de Pencier Director

Eric Schweig as Harry Aviak

Booboo Stewart as Kyle

Will Sasso as Mike

Ben Schnetzer as Russ Sheppard

In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.

The Perfect Game

2009

6.9

♡ 11

baseball

William Dear Director

Frances Fisher as Betty

Tony Revolori as Fidel Ruiz

Ruben Garfias as Senor Suarez

Carlos Gómez as Umberto Macias

Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series.

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

1969

6.3

♡ 11

69%

48%

Abraham Polonsky Director

Robert Redford as Cooper

Garry Walberg as Dr. Mills

John Roy as Reporter

Robert Blake as Willie

While confronting the disapproving father of his girlfriend Lola, Native American man Willie Boy kills the man in self-defense, triggering a massive manhunt, led by Deputy Sheriff Christopher Cooper.

The Night My Number Came Up

1955

7.0

♡ 6

raf (royal air force)

Thriller

Leslie Norman Director

Denholm Elliott as Fl. Lt. McKenzie

Alexander Knox as Owen Robertson

Stratford Johns as Sergeant

Nigel Stock as The Pilot

British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to align with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.

Escape from Pretoria

2020

♡ 177

71%

86%

1970s

anc (african national congress)

apartheid