based on true story

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IMDB
8.7 (948816 votes)
Budget
25,000,000.00$
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

Schindler's List | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
8.9 (1133457 votes)
Budget
22,000,000.00$
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

살인의 추억 | Korea
Genre
IMDB
8.1 (119239 votes)
Budget
2,800,000.00$
1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about a serial murderer grow louder. A special task force is set up in the area, with two local detectives Park Doo-Man and Jo Young-Goo joined by a detective from Seoul who requested to be assigned to the case.

Catch Me If You Can | United States of America| Canada
Genre
IMDB
8.1 (737,762 votes)
Budget
52,000,000.00$
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.

Genre
IMDB
6.2 (1803 votes)
Set in early 1980s California, the story follows the meteoric rise of the golden boy of the automotive industry, John DeLorean and his iconic DeLorean Motor Company, through the eyes of his friendship with charming, ex-con pilot turned FBI informant, Jim Hoffman. DeLorean turned to unsavory activities to save his financially troubled DeLorean Motor Company, and it was Hoffman who was all too willing to lure the car designer/engineer into a cocaine trafficking ring set up by the FBI.

Instant Family | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.4 (49105 votes)
Budget
48,000,000.00$
When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.

Genre
IMDB
7.8 (5545 votes)
The true story of the Taj Hotel terrorist attack in Mumbai. Hotel staff risk their lives to keep everyone safe as people make unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and their families.

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.7 (17274 votes)
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

The Big Short | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.8 (331541 votes)
Budget
28,000,000.00$
When four outsiders see what the big banks, media and government regulators refuse to — the impending collapse of the global economy — they have an idea: The Big Short. Their bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of the modern banking industry where they must question everyone and everything. Based on the true story and best-selling book by Michael Lewis.

Genre
IMDB
7.6 (376 votes)
The film is based on the true story of a 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm that was documented in a 1974 New Yorker article, "The Bank Drama" by Daniel Lang. The hostages bonded with their captors and turned against the authorities and gave rise to the psychological phenomenon "Stockholm Syndrome."

Uri: The Surgical Strike | India
Genre
IMDB
8.8 (26509 votes)
Following the roguish terrorist attacks at Uri Army Base camp in Kashmir, India takes the fight to the enemy, in its most successful covert operation till date with one and only one objective of avenging their fallen heroes.

Operation Finale | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.5 (18823 votes)
Budget
24,000,000.00$
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.

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