Tag Archives: based on fact

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

IMDB Rating: 6.10
288 votes

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Fact-based story about Ira Einhorn (Kevin Anderson), a 70's peace-nik who is generally credited as one of the founders of Earth Day. In the late 60's and early 70's, Ira lived with Holly Maddux (Naomi Watts). But when she tries to leave him in 1977, she suddenly disappears. Later her body is discovered in a trunk in Einhorn's apartment. Let out on bail, Einhorn flees from the country and manages to elude authorities for years. Meanwhile he is convicted in absentia and sentenced to prison. Holly's father (Tom Skerritt) is determined to see his daughter's murderer brought to justice and has him tracked and is eventually caught in France in 1997. Martin Donovan appears as the assistant D.A. who put the case together. Today, Einhorn is now appealing his conviction.
Actors
Ira EinhornKevin Anderson
Fred MadduxTom Skerritt
Holly MadduxNaomi Watts
Also posted in 1999, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Buster

IMDB Rating: 5.50
820 votes

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Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.
Actors
Buster EdwardsPhil Collins
June EdwardsJulie Walters
Bruce ReynoldsLarry Lamb
Also posted in 1988, Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | Comments (0)

Catch a Fire

IMDB Rating: 6.70
1869 votes

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A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
Actors
Colonel Nic VosTim Robbins
Patrick ChamussoDerek Luke
Precious ChamussoBonnie Mbuli
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating, History, Thriller | Comments (0)

Karla

IMDB Rating: 5.30
776 votes

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Based on real events, Paul Bernardo (Collins) and his wife, Karla Homolka (Prepon), kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.
Actors
Karla HomolkaLaura Prepon
Paul BernardoMisha Collins
Dr. ArnoldPatrick Bauchau
Also posted in 2006, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Queen

IMDB Rating: 7.60
14182 votes

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The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.
Actors
The QueenHelen Mirren
Prince PhilipJames Cromwell
Prince CharlesAlex Jennings
Also posted in 2006, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The World’s Fastest Indian

IMDB Rating: 8.00
7959 votes

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In `60s New Zealand, at the bottom of the world, Burt Munro takes a 1920 Indian motorcycle and, delightfully without resources other than his own obsession and a Kiwi #8 wire mentality, spends his retirement rebuilding the bike and following his dream to go to Speed Week at Salt Lake in Utah. Under funded, without the support of a team and against all the odds he not only makes it to Bonneville, he sets a world land spend record, not once, but again and again.
Actors
Burt MunroAnthony Hopkins
GeorgeIain Rea
SarahTessa Mitchell
Also posted in 2005, Adventure, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sport | Comments (0)

Bread and Roses

IMDB Rating: 7.10
1380 votes

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Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
Actors
MayaPilar Padilla
Sam ShapiroAdrien Brody
RosaElpidia Carrillo
Also posted in 2000, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)