15 good movies based on real events

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

A selection of exciting biopics released over the past few years.

a lion

• Drama, biography.
• USA, Australia, UK, 2016.
• Duration: 118 minutes
• IMDb: 8, 1.

In search of adventure, a five-year-old boy named Sarah from Indian slums wanders into the train station and accidentally falls asleep in a train car. After waking up, he discovers that the train is rushing it is not clear where it is impossible to get off it. So the baby is far from home and ends up in an orphanage.

Soon he is adopted by a married couple from distant Australia. 25 years pass, but Sarah does not lose hope to see her native land again and find her real family, so she goes in search.

For reasons of conscience

• Drama, military, history.
• USA, Australia, 2016.
• Duration: 139 minutes
• IMDb: 8, 2.

Desmond Doss has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. When World War II broke out, the young man decided to volunteer for the front to become an army medic. He knew firsthand about the horrors on the battlefield, so he vowed never to take up arms.

Having endured a lot of ridicule from colleagues and even the threat of a military tribunal because of this, Doss still got to the front line. He saved the lives of dozens of soldiers, remaining a staunch pacifist, for which he received an award - the Medal of Honor.

Eddie "The Eagle"

• Drama, comedy, biography.
• UK, Germany, USA, 2016.
• Duration: 106 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 4.

Eddie wanted to achieve sporting success from an early age. But he was so unlucky and awkward that his peers refused to accept him in team games, and his parents constantly insisted that the boy was not at all created for sports. But Eddie didn't give up.

Over and over again experiencing defeat, he gradually realized what he was capable of. Having found a coach, Eddie begins to engage in ski jumping and sets a goal for himself - by all means get to the Winter Olympics.

Hidden figures

• Drama, biography, history.
• USA, 2016.
• Duration: 127 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 8.

The early 1960s, the rivalry between the US and the USSR in the space race is at its peak. It is very important for the United States to win this confrontation, so the head of a group of scientists from NASA, Al Harrison, decides to hire three talented African-American women, whose abilities can be very useful in preparing a responsible space mission. The girls will be forced to face racial and gender prejudices, but this will not prevent them from completing the task with brilliance.

Zoo keeper's wife

• Drama, military, biography, history.
• Czech Republic, UK, USA, 2017.
• Duration: 127 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 0.

During World War II, the zoo caretakers Jan and Antonina Zhabinsky performed a heroic deed, for which they received an honorary award - the title of the Righteous Among the World. Risking their own lives, they provided shelter to persecuted Jews who made their way in secret from the Warsaw ghetto. The couple managed to save hundreds of innocent people from the Nazis without arousing almost any suspicion in anyone.

The Catcher in the Rye

• Drama, biography.
• USA, 2017.
• Duration: 106 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 6.

Not much is known about the life of Jerome Salinger, an American writer. At the beginning of his career, only his mother supported him, while his father advised him to go into business. The editor Whit Burnett, with whom Salinger became friends at Columbia University, helped the young man to believe in himself and develop his talent.

It was Whit who saw in the short story about Holden Caulfield a real masterpiece, which after a while was destined to turn into the cult novel The Catcher in the Rye.

Dunkirk

• Military, drama, history.
• UK, Netherlands, France, USA, 2017.
• Duration: 106 minutes
• IMDb: 8, 1.

Hundreds of thousands of British, French and Belgian soldiers, driven by the enemy, are trapped on the coastline. The situation is practically hopeless, and the only way to keep them alive is to start a risky rescue operation from the sea. The events of the film describe the Dunkirk operation, which was carried out at the beginning of World War II in France.

Goodbye Christopher Robin

• Family, biography, history.
• UK, 2017.
• Duration: 107 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 2.

Many people read stories about the cute teddy bear Winnie the Pooh and his friends in childhood. But what inspired Alan Milne to create this character is not known to everyone. This touching film tells about the writer's family, his relationship with his son Christopher Robin and, of course, how the idea to write such a fairy tale was born.

Made in America

• Action, thriller, drama, comedy, crime.
• USA, 2017.
• Duration: 115 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 2.

Barry Seal is a first-class pilot with excellent flying skills. He is so talented that he immediately attracts the attention of the CIA, which needs Barry's ability to conduct covert operations in South America. So he becomes a double agent and is gradually drawn into work with an influential crime syndicate.

Stronger

• Drama, biography.
• USA, 2017.
• Duration: 119 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 5.

A terrorist attack during the Boston Marathon divides Jeff Bauman's life into "before" and "after". Previously, he was an ordinary guy with hopes for a bright future, and now he cannot even move freely, because his legs were blown off by the explosion.

Jeff is not completely desperate to think that he can help the police find the villain who caused the explosion. To restore justice and punish those responsible, Jeff will have to overcome many difficulties.

Tonya against everyone

• Comedy, drama, biography, sports.
• USA, 2017.
• Duration: 120 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 7.

Tonya Harding is a talented figure skater and the first American woman to complete the triple axel. But she became famous not at all for this, but for a grandiose scandal. The girl so wanted to get to the Olympics that she was ready to take any measures to eliminate a competitor, including an attack.

Greatest Showman

• Drama, biography, musical.
• USA, 2017.
• Duration: 105 minutes
• IMDb: 8, 0.

Believe it or not, Phineas Barnum's career as America's greatest showman began with a setback. He lost his job and was left practically without a livelihood.

Finding himself in such a desperate situation, Barnum recalls his old idea - to organize a traveling circus, gathering unusual people in it. This enchanting show suddenly brings him unprecedented popularity and becomes his new addiction for many years.

Battle of the sexes

• Drama, comedy, biography, sports.
• UK, USA, 2017.
• Duration: 121 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 8.

This tennis match has made millions of Americans nervous. With a sinking heart, the audience watched the rivalry between aspiring tennis player Billie Jean King and champion Bobby Riggs. The game was supposed to prove that athletes are worthy to compete on equal terms with men and receive the same awards. The stakes were extremely high, and a lot depended on who would get the victory.

Dark times

• Drama, military.
• UK, 2017.
• Duration: 125 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 4.

A biopic about the decisive action taken by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill immediately after his appointment to such a responsible position. Churchill had a hard time: in the first months of World War II, it was extremely important to repulse the advancing enemy and, moreover, overcome the internal disunity in the government.

Young Godard

• Drama, melodrama, comedy, biography.
• France, 2017.
• Duration: 107 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 8.

Jean-Luc Godard was one of the brightest representatives of the new wave of French cinema. No one even had the thought to doubt his talent, but nevertheless, in the 1960s, the director was going through a personal crisis.

He fell madly in love with Anna Vyazemsky, who played the main role in his film, became carried away by youth riots and began to show an ardent interest in the revolutionary movement. All this did not have a very positive effect on Godard's work and on his personal life.