True Stories
True Stories are those based (sometimes loosely!) on fact. They cover topics as diverse as drug addiction, poverty, political unrest, the corruption of power, alcoholism, class divisions, sexual inequality, mental illness and other human struggles. Meet some of history's most intriguing characters, find out what it's really like to climb a mountain or paint a masterpiece. Truly, the True Story is one of cinema's most engaging and enthralling genres.
Bio-pics feature in this section and are also gathered together separately under the 'Biography' sublink left.
Pictured: Inside the Las Vegas mob, Scorsese's unromantic 'Goodfellas'
Chappaquiddick (2017)
6.5/10
Director: John Curran
Starring: Bruce Dern, Clancy Brown, Taylor Nichols, Kate Mara, Jim Gaffigan, Jason Clarke,...
On July 18, 1969, Sen. Ted Kennedy drives his car off of a bridge on Massachusetts' Chappaquiddick Island. The accident results in the death of passen... Read more
Chapter 27 (2006)
5.7/10
Director: J P Schaefer
Starring: Jared Leto, Lindsay Lohan, Judah Friedlander
Jared Leto put on a staggering 30 kgs and delivers a mesmerizing performance as Mark David Chapman the man who killed John Lennon. Envisioning himself... Read more
Chariots of Fire (1981)
7.2/10
Director: Hugh Hudson
Starring: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Ian Holm
England's finest athletes have begun their quest for glory in the 1924 Olympic Games. Success brings honour to their nation. For two runners, the hono... Read more
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
7.1/10
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Ned Be...
In the early 1980s, hard-drinking Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks), known for his addiction to pork-barrel projects, spearheads a massive... Read more
Chasing Mavericks (2012)
7.2/10
Director: Curtis Hanson, Michael Apted
Starring: Elisabeth Shue, Gerard Butler, Jonny Weston, Abigail Spencer
The life and legend of Santa Cruz surfer Jay Moriarty is celebrated in this dramatic biopic. When 15-year-old Jay Moriarty (Jonny Weston) discovers th... Read more
Chattahoochee (1990)
6.4/10
Director: Mick Jackson
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Pamela Reed, Ned Beatty, M Emmet...
A stirring true drama about a troubled Korean War veteran (Gary Oldman) who is sentenced to a Florida mental institution with unbelievably bad conditi... Read more
Children of the Silk Road (2008)
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, David Wenham
Aka "The Children of Huang Shi". In 1930s war-ravaged China, a young English journalist named George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) leads 60 orphans thro... Read more
Chopper (2000)
7.2/10
Director: Andrew Dominik
Starring: Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, David Field, Dan Wyllie
Standover man, unrepentant underworld executioner, inventive raconteur, and Australia's most infamous living criminal, whose deadpan wit and colourful... Read more
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
7.8/10
Director: Francesco Rosi
Starring: Gian Maria Volonte, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny
Rosi's BAFTA-winning epic stars Gian Maria Volonte as Carlo Levi, an artist and political exile banished to a southern Italian village by Mussolini's... Read more
Chronicle of an Escape (2006)
7.3/10
Director: Adrian Caetano
Starring: Pablo Echarri, Rodrigo De La Serna, Lautaro Delgado, Nazareno Casero, Matias Mar...
Based on true events, this harrowing drama set in the 1970s tells the story of a pro soccer player (Rodrigo De La Serna) profiled as a terrorist and k... Read more