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'
Red Dog (2011)
7.5/10
Director: Kriv Stenders
Starring: Noah Taylor, Josh Lucas, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rachael Taylor
Based on the legendary true story of the charismatic kelpie who united a disparate local mining community in the 1970s and 80s, while roaming the Aust... Read more
Red Dog ( Blu-ray ) (2011)
7.5/10
Director: Kriv Stenders
Starring: Noah Taylor, Josh Lucas, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rachael Taylor
Based on the legendary true story of the charismatic kelpie who united a disparate local mining community in the 1970s and 80s, while roaming the Aust... Read more
Reds (1981)
7.5/10
Director: Warren Beatty
Starring: Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino, Warren Beatty, Maur...
Academy Award-winning director Warren Beatty's acclaimed epic, based on actual events, tells the story of John Reed (Beatty), American Communist, jour... Read more
Reds ( Blu-ray ) (1981)
7.5/10
Director: Warren Beatty
Starring: Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino, Warren Beatty, Maur...
Academy Award-winning director Warren Beatty's acclaimed epic, based on actual events, tells the story of John Reed (Beatty), American Communist, jour... Read more
Reilly - Ace of Spies (1983)
8.3/10
Director: Martin Campbell, Jim Goddard
Starring: Sam Neill, Peter Egan, Ian Charleson, Tom Bell, David Burke, Leo McKern, Kenneth...
The real inspiration behind Ian Fleming's James Bond, Sam Neill is Sidney Reilly, true-life British spy. One heart-stopping mission after another tra... Read more
Rembetiko (1983)
8.2/10
Director: Costas Ferris
Starring: Sotiria Leonardou, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Michalis Maniatis, Themis Bazaka
A fictionalized biopic that uniquely chronicles the story of Greece from 1917 to 1956, as it overlaps it with the tragic personal story of Marika Nino... Read more
Rembrandt (1936)
7.2/10
Director: Alexander Korda
Starring: Elsa Lanchester, Charles Laughton
The depiction of the famous Dutch painter and his struggle to maintain his artistic integrity is related with respectful restraint and attention to fa... Read more
Remember the Titans (2000)
7.8/10
Director: Boaz Yakin
Starring: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Donald Faison, Ryan Hurst, Wood Harris
The racial tensions filling the halls of a newly integrated Alexandria, Virginia high school in 1971 spill over onto the football field, where new hea... Read more
Remembrance (2011)
7.2/10
Director: Anna Justice
Starring: David Rasche, Dagmar Manzel, Shantel VanSanten, Alice Dwyer, Mateusz Damiecki
"Remembrance" depicts a remarkable love story that blossomed against the unlikely background of a German concentration camp in 1944 Poland. This impos... Read more
Renoir (2012)
6.6/10
Director: Gilles Bourdos
Starring: Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, Vincent Rottiers, Thomas Doret, Romane Bohringer
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir, son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste, returns home to convalesce after being... Read more