35+ Great Political Movies Based on True Stories Ranker Film Updated November 1, 2024 20.5K views 49 items Ranked By 2.8K votes 384 voters 3 reranks Sometimes the truth is more entertaining than fiction, especially when it comes to films inspired by real-life political events, scandals...
Also ranks #14 on The Best Movies Based On Real Serial Killers Also ranks #25 on The Best Horror Movies Based On True Stories, Ranked 16 Bernie Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey 665 votes This darkly comedic true-crime story centers on the bizarre relationship between Ber...
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Based on the James Ellroy 1990 novel of the same name, it’s the third book in his L.A. Quartet series, the others being The Black Dahlia (1987) and The Big Nowhere (1988). All focus on the Los Angeles Police Department, corruption, and scandal. The former was turned into an unsucc...
Hardboiled Hollywood: The True Crime Stories Behind the Classic Noir FilmsThe article reviews the book "Hardboiled Hollywood: The True Crime Stories Behind the Classic Noir Films" by Max Décharné.EshlemanMichaelO.EBSCO_bspLibrary Journal
Tales from the Crypt (1972) is a delicious British anthology based on stories from the EC Comics series. Each of the five chapters is eerie storytelling that offers horror fans glimpses into the minds of depraved and devilish characters with sinister motivations. ...
Based on the first novel by ‘Angry Young Man’ author Alan Sillitoe, (who also wrote ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’), the film gave Albert Finney his big break as the hard-drinking, hard-smoking and hard-loving Arthur Seaton, a nihilistic machine worker in Nottingham who ...
Nicholson’s performance as the President wasn’t as broad as I’d thought it might be, based on the trailers I’d seen. His second role as the Vegas guy didn’t work so well, not sure why they did that. Will be interesting to see how this does. Might be a little too weird for...
(the post-War period from 1947 - 1955), director Charles Crichton and Oscar-nabbing screenwriter T.E.B. Clark crafted a likeably amoral crime caper centred onAlec Guinness' meek bank clerk who decides to pull off a brilliant gold robbery. Though later scenes hint at a possibly darker ...
Based on the first novel by ‘Angry Young Man’ author Alan Sillitoe, (who also wrote ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’), the film gave Albert Finney his big break as the hard-drinking, hard-smoking and hard-loving Arthur Seaton, a nihilistic machine worker in Nottingham who ...