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Movies tagged with the "based-on-true-story" keyword
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Adventure |
Biography |
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History |
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Gérard Depardieu |
Armand Assante |
Sigourney Weaver |
Loren Dean |
Ángela Molina |
Fernando Rey |
Michael Wincott |
Tchéky Karyo |
Kevin Dunn |
Frank Langella |
Mark Margolis |
Kario Salem |
Billy L. Sullivan |
John Heffernan |
Arnold Vosloo |
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Ridley Scott |
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Plot Summary:
Big budget account of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas. Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery. Shows the disastrous effects the Europeans had on the original inhabitants, and Columbus' struggle to civilize the New World.
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Jim Sturgess |
Kevin Spacey |
Aaron Yoo |
Jacob Pitts |
Laurence Fishburne |
Jack McGee |
Josh Gad |
Sam Golzari |
Jack Gilpin |
Butch Williams |
Jeffrey Ma |
Frank Patton |
Steven Richard Vezina |
Chaska T. Werner |
Kyle Morris |
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.
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Drama |
Sport |
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Meg Ryan |
Omar Epps |
Charles S. Dutton |
Tony Shalhoub |
Timothy Daly |
Joseph Cortese |
Kerry Washington |
Sean Bell |
Dean McDermott |
Skye McCole Bartusiak |
Juan Carlos Hernández |
Holt McCallany |
Tory Kittles |
Gene Mack |
Beau Starr |
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Charles S. Dutton |
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A Jewish woman from Detroit who became a boxing manager, guiding several major careers. This film focuses on her relationship with one boxer (Epps), who's reportedly a composite of several including Toney, McKart and Hearns. Kallen eventually left her husband of 30 years, and moved to Los Angeles, becoming the commissioner of the International Female Boxers Association...
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Drama |
History |
War |
Western |
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Craig Erickson |
Dennis Quaid |
Billy Bob Thornton |
Jason Patric |
Patrick Wilson |
Emilio Echevarría |
Jordi Mollà |
Leon Rippy |
Tom Davidson |
Marc Blucas |
Robert Prentiss |
Kevin Page |
Joe Stevens |
Stephen Bruton |
Laura Clifton |
Ricardo Chavira |
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John Lee Hancock |
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Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston's rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna's army which led to the indepedence of Texas.
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Action |
Adventure |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Ethan Hawke |
Vincent Spano |
Josh Hamilton |
Bruce Ramsay |
John Newton |
David Kriegel |
Kevin Breznahan |
Sam Behrens |
Illeana Douglas |
Jack Noseworthy |
Christian J. Meoli |
Jake Carpenter |
Michael DeLorenzo |
José Zúñiga |
Danny Nucci |
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Frank Marshall |
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The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold. The only thing the team has riding on after losing so many of their good friends and family members is the slim chance of making it through alive and their faithfulness to God.
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Drama |
Music |
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Billy Crudup |
Frances McDormand |
Kate Hudson |
Jason Lee |
Patrick Fugit |
Zooey Deschanel |
Michael Angarano |
Anna Paquin |
Fairuza Balk |
Noah Taylor |
John Fedevich |
Mark Kozelek |
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Liz Stauber |
Jimmy Fallon |
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Cameron Crowe |
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William Miller is a 15 year old kid, hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with, and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
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Crime |
Drama |
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Bruce Willis |
Matthew Barry |
Emile Hirsch |
Fernando Vargas |
Vincent Kartheiser |
Justin Timberlake |
Shawn Hatosy |
Heather Wahlquist |
Alex Solowitz |
Alec Vigil |
Harry Dean Stanton |
Frank Cassavetes |
Nicole Dubos |
Regina Rice |
Laura Nativo |
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Nick Cassavetes |
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In 1999, in Claremont, California, the violent Jake Mazursky owes US$ 1,200.00 to the coward drug dealer Johnny Truelove, who is son of the powerful criminal Sonny Truelove. They fight and start a personal war, with Jake breaking into the house of Johnny with his friends, stealing the TV and leaving excrement in the living room. Johnny kidnaps Jake's fifteen year old brother Zach Mazurka, who has just had an argument with his parents, and brings him to the upper class house of his friend Frankie Ballenbacher. Along a couple of days, Zach meets the friends of Frankie, goes to parties, drinks boozes, smokes pot and has sex with other teenagers. When Johnny realizes that kidnapping means life sentence, he asks the servile scum Elvis Schmidt to kill the boy.
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Drama |
Horror |
Mystery |
Thriller |
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Donald Sutherland |
Sissy Spacek |
James D'Arcy |
Rachel Hurd-Wood |
Matthew Marsh |
Thom Fell |
Zoe Thorne |
Gaye Brown |
Sam Alexander |
Miquel Brown |
Vernon Dobtcheff |
Shauna Shim |
Madalina Stan |
Philip Hurdwood |
Vlad Cruceru |
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Courtney Solomon |
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In 2006, in Red River, Tennessee, a teenager has frequent nightmares. Her mother reads an old letter from 1817 written by her ancestor, Lucy Bell. After a dispute of lands judged by the church, her husband John Bell is cursed by his opponent Kathe Batts, who has a fame of being a witch. From this moment on, an entity threatens John and her daughter Betsy Bell, attacking the girl during the nights. With the support of Betsy's school teacher Richard Powell, who tries to find rational explanations for the manifestation; her brother John Bell Jr.; and their friend James Johnston, who unsuccessfully tries to exorcize the entity from the house, the family does their best to protect Betsy in the haunted house.
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Amistad
[1997,
USA] from $1.99
Freedom is not given. It is our right at birth. But there are some moments when it must be taken.
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Drama |
History |
Mystery |
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| Actors: |
Morgan Freeman |
Nigel Hawthorne |
Anthony Hopkins |
Djimon Hounsou |
Matthew McConaughey |
David Paymer |
Pete Postlethwaite |
Stellan Skarsgård |
Razaaq Adoti |
Abu Bakaar Fofanah |
Anna Paquin |
Tomas Milian |
Chiwetel Ejiofor |
Derrick N. Ashong |
Geno Silva |
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Steven Spielberg |
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Plot Summary:
AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
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