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'
Escape from Alcatraz ( Blu-ray ) (1979)
7.6/10
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom
Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel re-team for their fifth film in this fascinating account of the only three men ever to escape from the infamous... Read more
Escape From Sobibor (1987)
7.5/10
Director: Jack Gold
Starring: Alan Arkin, Rutger Hauer, Joanna Pacula
This powerful, true-life saga details the efforts of a Russian Army officer leading a group of prisoners in a daring escape from a Nazi extermination... Read more
Essex Boys (1999)
6.1/10
Director: Terry Winsor
Starring: Sean Bean, Alex Kingston, Charlie Creed-Miles, Tom Wilkinson
This gritty crime thriller is loosely based on the Rettendon murders of 1995, where three men where found shot dead in a Range Rover on the outskirts... Read more
Ethel & Ernest (2016)
7.8/10
Director: Roger Mainwood
Starring: Simon Day, Peter Wight, Luke Treadaway, Roger Allam, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbe...
The true story of British author and illustrator Raymond Briggs's parents, Ethel and Ernest, two ordinary Londoners living through a period of extraor... Read more
Evelyn (2002)
7/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn, Julianna Margulies, Stephen Rea, John Lynch, Sophie...
Compassionate drama set in 1950s Dublin, and based on a true story, stars Pierce Brosnan as Desmond Doyle, an unemployed house painter whose wife walk... Read more
Everest (2015)
7.1/10
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Starring: Josh Brolin, Keira Knightley, Thomas M Wright, Martin Henderson, Sam Worthington...
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the worlds highest mountain, Everest documents the awe-inspiring jour... Read more
Everest ( Blu-ray ) (2015)
7.1/10
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Starring: Josh Brolin, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Thomas M Wright, Jason Clarke, Ma...
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, Everest documents the awe-inspiring jour... Read more
Evil ( aka Ondskan ) (2003)
7.8/10
Director: Mikael Hafstrom
Starring: Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundstrom, Gustaf Skarsgard, Linda Zilliacus
In the mid-'50s, teenager Erik Ponti (Andreas Wilson) suffers serious abuse at the hands of his father. When he carries this violence into his school... Read more
Evilenko (2004)
6.2/10
Director: David Grieco
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Marton Csokas, Ronald Pickup, Frances Barber
It is the end of the 80s, Detective Timurovic Lesiev (Marton Csokas), a young magistrate and family man, must urgently find an answer to this horrible... Read more
Evita (1996)
6.3/10
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Madonna , Jonathan Pryce, Antonio Banderas
Based on the opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice detailing the brief but dynamic life of Eva Peron (Madonna) who, as the wife of Argentinean Pre... Read more