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'
Karol II: The Pope, The Man (2005)
Director: Giacomo Battiato
Starring: Piotr Adamczyk, Alberto Cracco, Dariusz Kwasnik, Michele Placido, Adriana Asti
The story of Pope Jean Paul II from his election as Pope in 1978 til his death in 2005. A human portrait of an extraordinary man who courageously con... Read more
Kate Plays Christine (2016)
6.3/10
Director: Robert Greene
Starring: Kate Lyn Sheil
This mesmerising meta-documentary from innovative US filmmaker Robert Greene follows actress Kate Lyn Sheil (The Color Wheel, House of Cards) as she p... Read more
Kathmandu Lullaby (2011)
Director: Iciar Bollain
Starring: Veronica Echegui, Norbu Tsering Gurung, Saumyata Bhattarai
When Laia, a young teacher, leaves a troubled past in Barcelona and moves to Kathmandu to work at a local school, she is appalled by the extreme priva... Read more
Katyn (2007)
7.1/10
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Starring: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Danuta Stenka, Jan Englert
Lauded Polish director Andrzej Wajda details the tragic events surrounding the 1940 massacre of 15,000 Polish army officers by Soviet troops in the Ka... Read more
Kill the Irishman (2011)
7.1/10
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
Starring: Christopher Walken, Val Kilmer, Vincent D'Onofrio, Linda Cardellini, Ray Stevens...
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene (Stevenson) and... Read more
Kill the Messenger (2014)
7/10
Director: Michael Cuesta
Starring: Andy Garcia, Oliver Platt, Ray Liotta, Barry Pepper, Tim Blake Nelson, Jeremy Re...
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra reb... Read more
Kill Your Darlings (2013)
6.5/10
Director: John Krokidas
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Daniel Radcliffe, Ben Foster, Michael C Hall, Jack Huston,...
Historical drama follows a young Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) while he is attending Columbia University in 1944 and shows how the relationship he... Read more
Killer: A Journal Of Murder (1996)
6.4/10
Director: Tim Metcalfe
Starring: Cara Buono, Robert Sean Leonard, James Woods, Ellen Greene, Robert John Burke, S...
Set in the 1920s, this powerful true story centers on a Jewish Leavenworth prison guard, Henry Lewis, who attempts to befriend convicted killer Carl P... Read more
Killing Hitler (2003)
6.6/10
Director: Jeremy Lovering
Starring: Keith Allen, Kenneth Cranham, Peter McDonald, Kate Ashfield
A BBC/History Channel docudrama combining fast-paced action with true-life facts to portray the 1945 Allied plot to assassinate Hitler. Dubbed Operati... Read more
King of Devil's Island (2010)
7.5/10
Director: Marius Holst
Starring: Benjamin Helstad, Stellan Skarsgard, Kristoffer Joner, Trond Nilssen, Daniel Ber...
At Bastøy, life is tough; the manual labour is arduous and the young wards of the remote island reform school are underdressed and underfed for the fr... Read more