Movies tagged with “based on a true story”| Warfare | Alex Garland, Ray Mendoza |
| Hit Man | Richard Linklater |
| Wicked Little Letters | Thea Sharrock |
| Thelma | Josh Margolin |
| Invincible | Vincent René-Lortie |
| Saturday Night | Jason Reitman |
| Woman of the Hour | Anna Kendrick |
| Cocaine Bear | Elizabeth Banks |
| Boston Strangler | Matt Ruskin |
| Gran Turismo | Neill Blomkamp |
| BlackBerry | Matt Johnson |
| Engineer, The | Danny A. Abeckaser |
| Devotion | J.D. Dillard |
| Flying Sailor, The | Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby |
| Jerry & Marge Go Large | David Frankel |
| Stranger, The | Thomas M. Wright |
| Holy Spider | Ali Abbasi |
| Zola | Janicza Bravo |
| Escape from Mogadishu | Ryoo Seung-wan |
| Swordsman, The | Choi Jae-hoon |
| One and Only Ivan, The | Thea Sharrock |
| Outpost, The | Rod Lurie |
| Fukushima 50 | Setsurô Wakamatsu |
| Man Standing Next, The | 우민호 |
| Superdeep | Arseny Syukhin |
| Shawl, The | Sara Kiener |
| Homo ErecTattoos | Tae-Woo Kim |
| Ford v Ferrari | James Mangold |
| Irishman, The | Martin Scorsese |
| Upside, The | Neil Burger |
| Fighting with My Family | Stephen Merchant |
| Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino |
| 15 Minutes of War | Fred Grivois |
| Highwaymen, The | John Lee Hancock |
| True History of the Kelly Gang | Justin Kurzel |
| Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, A | Marielle Heller |
| Golden Glove, The | Fatih Akin |
| Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan | Kriv Stenders |
| Midway | Roland Emmerich |
| Bombshell | Jay Roach |
| Blinded by the Light | Gurinder Chadha |
| Dark Waters | Todd Haynes |
| Mope | Lucas Heyne |
| Battle of Jangsari | Kwak Kyung-taek, Kim Tae-hun |
| Last to See Them, The | Sara Summa |
| Samurai Marathon | Bernard Rose |
| Gangster, the Cop, the Devil, The | Lee Won-tae |
| Family Romance, LLC | Werner Herzog |
| Climbers, The | Daniel Lee |
| Togo | Ericson Core |
| Boxed | Wanjiru M. Njendu |
| First Man | Damien Chazelle |
| Stan & Ollie | Jon S. Baird |
| Current War, The | Alfonso Gomez-Rejon |
| White Boy Rick | Yann Demange |
| Prayer Before Dawn, A | Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire |
| Rider, The | Chloé Zhao |
| Tag | Jeff Tomsic |
| Lizzie | Craig Macneill |
| Dead Pigs | Cathy Yan |
| Drug King, The | 우민호 |
| El Angel | Luis Ortega |
| 42 Counts | Jill Gevargizian |
| Lost City of Z, The | James Gray |
| American Made | Doug Liman |
| Crucifixion, The | Xavier Gens |
| Only the Brave | Joseph Kosinski |
| Detroit | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 12th Man, The | Harald Zwart |
| Battleship Island, The | Ryoo Seung-wan |
| All the Money in the World | Ridley Scott |
| Masterminds | Jared Hess |
| Conjuring 2, The | James Wan |
| 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi | Michael Bay |
| Finest Hours, The | Craig Gillespie |
| Hacksaw Ridge | Mel Gibson |
| King Cobra | Justin Kelly |
| Operation Chromite | John H. Lee |
| Girl in the Box | Stephen Kemp |
| Operation Mekong | Dante Lam |
| Everest | Baltasar Kormákur |
| Rock the Kasbah | Barry Levinson |
| Spotlight | Tom McCarthy |
| Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) | Eva Husson |
| Lost and Love | Peng Sanyuan |
| ABCD 2 | Remo D'Souza |
| Dinner Party | Andrew Deyoung |
| Foxcatcher | Bennett Miller |
| Monuments Men, The | George Clooney |
| Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter | David Zellner |
| Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier? | Brett Weiner |
| Pain & Gain | Michael Bay |
| Fruitvale Station | Ryan Coogler |
| Captain Phillips | Paul Greengrass |
| Summer in February | Christopher Menaul |
| Nothing Bad Can Happen | Katrin Gebbe |
| Lone Survivor | Peter Berg |
| Parkland | Peter Landesman |
| Wolf Creek 2 | Greg McLean |
| As One | Moon Hyun-sung |
| Floating Castle, The | Shinji Higuchi, Isshin Inudô |
| Killer Elite | Gary McKendry |
| Tin Tale, A | Aida Elkashef |
| Social Network, The | David Fincher |
| Incident by a Bank | Ruben Östlund |
| Bodyguards and Assassins | Teddy Chan |
| Polytechnique | Denis Villeneuve |
| Telstar: The Joe Meek Story | Nick Moran |
| Primeval | Michael Katleman |
| Zodiac | David Fincher |
| Exorcism of Emily Rose, The | Scott Derrickson |
| President's Last Bang, The | Im Sang-soo |
| Last Samurai, The | Edward Zwick |
| Memories of Murder | Bong Joon Ho |
| Manson Family, The | Jim Van Bebber |
| Casino | Martin Scorsese |
| Untold Story, The | Herman Yau |
| M. Butterfly | David Cronenberg |
| Dr. Lamb | Danny Lee Sau-Yin, Billy Tang |
| Haunted, The | Robert Mandel |
| Brighter Summer Day, A | Edward Yang |
| Yellow Fangs | Sonny Chiba |
| Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure | Mel Damski |
| Apprentice to Murder | Ralph L. Thomas |
| Killer Is Still Among Us, The | Camillo Teti |
| Star 80 | Bob Fosse |
| Amityville II: The Possession | Damiano Damiani |
| Imperial Navy, The | Shûe Matsubayashi |
| Melvin and Howard | Jonathan Demme |
| Heaven's Gate | Michael Cimino |
| Amityville Horror, The | Stuart Rosenberg |
| Fall of Ako Castle, The | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Midway | Jack Smight |
| In the Realm of the Senses | Nagisa Ōshima |
| Super Cops, The | Gordon Parks |
| Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Shoot First, Die Later | Fernando Di Leo |
| Dillinger | John Milius |
| French Connection, The | William Friedkin |
| 10 Rillington Place | Richard Fleischer |
| In Cold Blood | Richard Brooks |
| Bridge to the Sun | Etienne Périer |
| True Story of Jesse James, The | Nicholas Ray |
| Man Who Never Was, The | Ronald Neame |
| Wrong Man, The | Alfred Hitchcock |
| McConnell Story, The | Gordon Douglas |
| Phenix City Story, The | Phil Karlson |
| Stratton Story, The | Sam Wood |
| Call Northside 777 | Henry Hathaway |