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'
Jobs (2013)
5.9/10
Director: Joshua Michael Stern
Starring: Dermot Mulroney, James Woods, John Getz, Lesley Ann Warren, Lukas Haas, Matthew...
Ashton Kutcher is Steve Jobs, the iconic Apple innovator and groundbreaking entrepreneur. This inspiring and entertaining film chronicles Jobs' early... Read more
Joh's Jury (2005)
6.8/10
Director: Ken Cameron
Starring: Gerry Connolly, Simon Bossell, Malcolm Kennard, John Howard, Noah Taylor, Penny...
A stunning dramatic interpretation of the 1991 perjury trial of beleaguered Queensland premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. Focussing on the jury who wer... Read more
Joy (2015)
6.6/10
Director: David O Russell
Starring: Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini, Robert De Niro, Virginia Madsen, Edgar Ramirez,...
"Joy" is the wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a mat... Read more
Joyeux Noel (2005)
7.8/10
Director: Christian Carion
Starring: Diane Kruger, Benno Furmann, Guillaume Canet, Daniel Bruhl, Gary Lewis
This Oscar-nominated film tells the true story of troops whose lives were changed on Christmas Eve of 1914 as they put down their weapons and celebrat... Read more
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
8.2/10
Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich
In 1948 the trials of Germans for crimes against humanity where drawing to a close and this film examines one of the lesser trials, in which four judg... Read more
Judgment at Nuremberg ( Blu-ray ) (1961)
8.2/10
Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Montgomery Cl...
In 1948 the trials of Germans for crimes against humanity where drawing to a close and this film examines one of the lesser trials, in which four judg... Read more
Jump (2007)
5.4/10
Director: Joshua Sinclair
Starring: Ben Silverstone, Patrick Swayze, Martine McCutcheon, Heinz Hoenig, Sybil Danning...
Phillippe Halsman was one of the most famous celebrity photographers of the 1950s, well-known for making his subjects literally jump for the camera; b... Read more
Jungle (2017)
6.7/10
Director: Greg McLean
Starring: Thomas Kretschmann, Daniel Radcliffe, Alex Russell, Yasmin Kassim
A group of friends join a guide for a trek into the Bolivian jungle, searching for an Indian village. The men soon realize that the jungle is a diffic... Read more
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
6.7/10
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard, Joss Ackland
Based on a true incident, this gripping real-life thriller stars Harrison Ford as a high-ranking Soviet naval officer who, in 1961, supplants captain... Read more
Kajaki: Kilo Two Bravo (2014)
Director: Paul Katis
Starring: David Elliot, Mark Stanley, Scott Kyle
KILO TWO BRAVO relives the true story of a platoon tasked with neutralizing a Taliban roadblock in the Kajaki region of Afghanistan. As they close in... Read more