The Best Movies Based on True Stories in 2019 Esquire
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Once you’re finished watching an entirely fictionalized film, that’s it—the story’s over. But when entertainment has its roots in real life, you can engage with a story even after its film adaptation's credits role, through books, documentaries , articles, and interviews. So if you’re looking for engrossing, fact-based films to get caught up in, check out some of the best based-on-a-true-story movies of 2019.
The Best Movies Based on True Stories in 2019 1 of 8
Once you’re finished watching an entirely fictionalized film, that’s it—the story’s over. But when entertainment has its roots in real life, you can engage with a story even after its film adaptation's credits role, through books, documentaries , articles, and interviews. So if you’re looking for engrossing, fact-based films to get caught up in, check out some of the best based-on-a-true-story movies of 2019.
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Lots of families have a business, say, Mom's dentistry practice or Grandpa's hardware store. Britain's knight family are in a pretty unique field, however—they're all professional wrestlers. Written and directed by T he Office ’s Stephen Merchant and produced by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Fighting with My Family stars Midsommar ’Game of Thrones ’s Lena Headey and Shaun of the Dead’ s Nick Frost co-star as her parents, Julia "Sweet Saraya" Knight and Patrick "Rowdy Ricky" Knight, and The Rock’s there, too—playing himself, of course.
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Britain knows its way around a bleak cinematic portrait of working-class life, and Ray & Liz marks the newest entry to that great and grim tradition. Photographer Richard Billingham gained acclaim in the late ’90s for his stark portraits of his chain-smoking mother, Liz, and alcoholic father, Ray. Their desperate, constrained lives are the subject of his first feature film, which pairs scenes from his neglectful, deeply impoverished childhood with depictions of his parents in their older years.
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In Texas in 1991, three little girls died in a house fire. Their father, 23-year-old Cameron Todd Willingham, an unemployed mechanic, was convicted of setting the fire and murdering his daughters, and sentenced to die. He was executed in 2004, but the case would earn national recognition five years later thanks to an article in The New Yorker Unbroken ’s Jack O’Connell as Willingham, and the always wonderful Laura Dern as playwright Elizabeth Gilbert, who became one of the condemned men’s staunchest defenders.
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"Stockholm syndrome," the phenomenon in which some kidnapped people can grow to identify with their abductors, is probably one of the most famous psychological terms. But the events that gave it its name aren't as well known. In 1973, armed robbers took hostages during a botched bank heist in Stockholm, Sweden. During the course of the standoff with police, the four bank employees held hostage began to feel more aligned with their captors than with the authorities working to rescue them—and after the siege ended, one employee would even have a romantic relationship with one of the gunmen . The film stars Ethan Hawke and Mark Strong as the triggermen, with Noomi Rapace playing a bank employee.
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In 2008, terrorists attacked Mumbai in 12 assaults over the course of four days, leaving 163 people dead and more than 300 injured. One of the sites targeted was the city’s iconic luxury hotel, the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, which was seized by gunmen . This film, which stars Dev Patel as a Taj waiter and Armie Hammer as an American guest, takes place during the siege and tells the story of the hotel guests’ and staff’s fight for survival.
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From heist films to musical biopics, some of the year's best movies are based on real-life events.
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