based on real events

37 movies and shows

Los Frikis

Fri, 20 Dec 2024

Gustavo idolizes his older brother Paco and his punk, "Frikis" bandmates. When word reaches the Frikis of a potential reprieve from the effects of the economic crisis, they do the now unthinkable: deliberately inject themselves with HIV to live at a government-run treatment home. It's there that they create their own utopia to live and play music freely.

Better Man

Fri, 06 Dec 2024

Follow Robbie Williams' journey from childhood, to being the youngest member of chart-topping boyband Take That, through to his unparalleled achievements as a record-breaking solo artist – all the while confronting the challenges that stratospheric fame and success can bring.

300

Wed, 07 Mar 2007

Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.

City of God

Fri, 30 Aug 2002

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

Darkest Hour

Wed, 22 Nov 2017

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

The Round Up

Wed, 10 Mar 2010

A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.

Chang'an

Sun, 02 Jul 2023

A few years after the Anshi Rebellion, Tang dynasty military commander Gao Shi suffers a defeat in a battle threatening Chang'an. Trapped in the besieged city, he recalls his lifelong friendship with the acclaimed poet Li Bai.

Vitória

Thu, 13 Mar 2025

Vitória is an elderly woman who lives alone and feels distressed by the increasing violence in her neighborhood. Amid conflicts with her neighbors, she decides to film the movement of drug traffickers from her window, hoping to assist the police. After months of recording suspicious activities, her initiative attracts the attention of a journalist, who approaches Nina and offers to support her in her mission.

The Falcon and the Snowman

Fri, 25 Jan 1985

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

The Confession

Wed, 29 Apr 1970

The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement.

Padre Pio

Thu, 01 Jun 2023

It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, with a tradition of violence and submission to the iron-clad rule of the church and its wealthy landowners. Families are desperate, the men are broken, albeit victorious. Padre Pio also arrives, at a remote Capuchin monastery, to begin his ministry, evoking an aura of charisma, saintliness and epic visions of Jesus, Mary and the Devil himself. The eve of the first free elections in Italy sets the stage for a massacre with a metaphorical dimension: an apocalyptic event that changes the course of history.

Saint Rita

Sun, 26 Sep 2004

Cascia, 14th century, Rita Liotti falls in love, gets married and has two children. Her dream of love is soon hindered by a masculine and violent society, that Rita faces with peace and forgiveness. When she loses her husband and her children, she understands she has a mission: pursuing her path of peace, that will lead her to take the vows, and then to become Saint. Rita is a Saint of these days, who lived in a very violent age and was so brave to break free from the vengeance chain, through a deep, sincere and christian forgiveness. She is a particular Saint, talking to everybody’s hearts, as she was everything. She was a daugher, a wife, a mother and a nun, she experienced every sort of life, and in all her different lives she was a living model of christian life.

Karnan

Fri, 09 Apr 2021

Karnan, an angry young man, fights for the rights of his oppressed people. Can he save them from those who wield power and weapons?

Endless Journey

Fri, 15 Dec 2023

An accidental death of the suspect leads to the entire team of the Third Division being imprisoned. Six years later, team leader Cheng Bing is released but remains consumed by the case. Over the next eleven years, he lives a normal life while secretly tracking down the killer, determined to see justice served.

Pathonpatham Noottandu

Thu, 08 Sep 2022

Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker, a 19th century fiery social reformer and his unswerving fight against the dominant caste oppressions by the upper classes.

Savage Youth

Mon, 22 Jan 2018

Horrorcore hip-hop, drugs, and the lives of six troubled teens collide in a decaying, racially-divided town. While Elena and aspiring rapper Jason fall into a turbulent relationship, Gabe, an earnest young man frustrated with his position in life, begins slinging drugs.

Organ

Sat, 02 Feb 2019

Set towards the end of World War II, Kaede Itakura, who leads kindergartners, and Mitsue Nonomiya, who enjoys music, persuades the parents at the school to take their children out of Tokyo. They seek shelter at an abandoned temple in Saitama while Tokyo is bombed.