In Hollywood and beyond, great movies directly inspired by true stories are plentiful. They’re weird, and shocking, and romantic, and downright too wild to be true – and here are the best.
30 Bergen
A biopic about the famous Turkish singer Bergen, who faces many difficulties and tribulations, and tries to be strong against all odds.
Directors: Caner Alper, Mehmet Binay
Writers: Yildiz Bayazit, Sema Kaygusuz
Starring: Farah Zeynep Abdullah, Erdal Besikçioglu, Tilbe Saran
Box office: $11 325 000
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29 Rise
Follow three Nigerian-Greek brothers, who are raised out of anonymity and thrust into the fame of professional basketball. Parents Vera and Charles Antetokounmpo move to Greece from Nigeria for a chance at a better life for their family. The couple work hard to provide for their five children, while the reality of deportation from a difficult citizenship system threatens the dreams for their children. In order to earn enough money to pay the bills, the family works together to sell souvenirs to tourists in Athens. When opportunity arises, the Antetokounmpo brothers take their frustrations to the public basketball courts. Individually, they quickly realize that although they have no experience in the sport, they are naturally gifted ball players. With the help of a talent agent, the trio decide to pursue careers in the NBA.
Director: Akin Omotoso
Writer: Arash Amel
Starring: Dayo Okeniyi, Yetide Badaki, Uche Agada
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28 Home Team
New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton coaches his son’s 6th-grade football team while he is being suspended for the entire 2012 season as a result of his role in the Saints’ Bountygate scandal.
Directors: Charles Kinnane, Daniel Kinnane
Writers: Chris Titone, Keith Blum
Starring: Kevin James, Taylor Lautner, Rob Schneider
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27 Ted K
Ted K lives a life of almost complete seclusion in a simple wooden cabin in the mountains of Montana. But then this former university professor, who despises modern society and its faith in technology, becomes radicalized. What begins with local acts of sabotage, ends with deadly bomb attacks. To the outside world, Ted K becomes known as the Unabomber. Based on Ted Kaczynski’s diaries and writings, Tony Stone’s film is a kaleidoscopic true crime journey into the life of one of America’s most complex and eccentric killers. It features a tour-de-force performance from Sharlto Copley who portrays the complexity of this unique outsider, raging at the forces of both the inescapable technological society that plagues him and his own inner demons.
Director: Tony Stone
Writers: Gaddy Davis, John Rosenthal, Tony Stone
Starring: Sharlto Copley, Drew Powell, Christian Calloway
Box office: $45 000
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26 My Best Friend Anne Frank (Mijn beste vriendin Anne Frank)
Hannah is imprisoned at camp Bergen Belzen days before being liberated, where she thinks back of her time in Amsterdam with her best friend Anne the first few years of the war. Hannah finds out Anne is also in the camp, separated by a wall, the night before Hannah and her family are being exchanged for German captives.
Director: Ben Sombogaart
Writers: Marian Batavier, Paul Ruven
Starring: Aiko Beemsterboer, Josephine Arendsen, Roeland Fernhout
Box office: $1 837 000
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25 She Said
Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood and impelled a shift in American culture that continues to this day.
Director: Maria Schrader
Writers: Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan, Patricia Clarkson
Box office: $13 931 000
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24 Till
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie’s poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother’s ability to change the world.
Director: Chinonye Chukwu
Writers: Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp, Chinonye Chukwu
Starring: Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Jamie Renell
Box office: $11 318 000
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23 Blonde
From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, ‘Blonde’ blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.
Director: Andrew Dominik
Writers: Andrew Dominik, Joyce Carol Oates
Starring: Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale
Budget: $20 000 000
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22 Corsage
A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.
Director: Marie Kreutzer
Writer: Marie Kreutzer
Starring: Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz
Box office: $3 116 000
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21 Medieval
The story of fifteenth century Czech icon and warlord Jan Zizka, who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire.
Director: Petr Jákl
Writers: Petr Jákl, Marek Dobes, Michal Petrus
Starring: Ben Foster, Sophie Lowe, Michael Caine
Budget: $23 000 000
Box office: $4 418 000
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