based on true story

Catch Me If You Can | United States of America| Canada
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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.

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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.

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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
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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.

The Old Man & the Gun | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.8 (20308 votes)
The true story of Forrest Tucker, from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are a detective, who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman, who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.

BlacKkKlansman | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.5 (115168 votes)
Budget
15,000,000.00$
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

White Boy Rick | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.5 (12273 votes)
Risk of sleep!
The story of teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

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