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'
Domino (2005)
6/10
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo, Mo'Nique , Christop...
The bizarre based-on-fact story of Domino Harvey (daughter of actor Laurence Harvey, played by Keira Knightley) a Hollywood socialite turned bounty hu... Read more
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
7/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Udo Kier, Jack Black, Mark Webber, Jonah Hill, Kim Gordon, Roon...
After nearly dying in a car accident, the last thing Oregon slacker John Callahan intends to do is give up alcohol. Encouraged by his girlfriend and a... Read more
Donnie Brasco (1997)
7.8/10
Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Anne Heche
Based on the memoirs of FBI agent Joseph Pistone (Johnny Depp), aka Donnie Brasco, whose mission is to infiltrate the mob and collect evidence on the... Read more
Donnie Brasco ( Blu-ray ) (1997)
7.8/10
Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Al Pacino, Anne Heche, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen
Based on the memoirs of FBI agent Joseph Pistone (Johnny Depp), aka Donnie Brasco, whose mission is to infiltrate the mob and collect evidence on the... Read more
Doomsday Gun (1994)
6.1/10
Director: Robert Young
Starring: Frank Langella, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, James Fox
The intriguing story of ballistics genius Gerald Bull who built the mammoth 'Super Gun' for Saddam Hussein - funded by the American taxpayers! Frank L... Read more
Down and Out With the Dolls (2002)
6.1/10
Director: Kurt Voss
Based around the fast rise and fall of an all-girl, four piece 1990s Portland, Oregon rock band, 'The Paper Dolls', as they to make it in the music wo... Read more
Downfall (2005)
8.2/10
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Thomas Kretschmann, Ulrich Matthers, Heino Ferch, Ulrich Noethen, Ju...
Bruno Ganz is rivetting as the mad dictator during his final days in the Berlin Bunker. But director Hirschbiegel understands that evil does not exis... Read more
Downfall (Blu-ray) (2005)
8.2/10
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Thomas Kretschmann, Ulrich Matthers, Heino Ferch, Ulrich Noethen, Ju...
Bruno Ganz is rivetting as the mad dictator during his final days in the Berlin Bunker. But director Hirschbiegel understands that evil does not exis... Read more
Dr Crippen (1962)
6.3/10
Director: Robert Lynn
Starring: Coral Browne, Donald Pleasence, James Robertson Justice, Samantha Eggar
The true story of American-born Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen (Donald Pleasence ), who was hanged in London in 1910 for poisoning his wife, Belle (Coral B... Read more
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
7/10
Director: Rob Cohen
Starring: Lauren Holly, Jason Scott Lee, Robert Wagner, Nancy Kwan
This well-done biography of the martial arts hero who died mysteriously at 33 examines his brief but spectacular career, along with his personal and p... Read more