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Anatahan

History · War · Based on True Story

NEW RESTORATION!  Inspired by an actual event during WWII, Josef von Sternberg's Anatahan, tells the story of a dozen Japanese sailors who are stranded on the remote island of Anatahan during the waning days of the war. The war ends, unbeknownst to the men, and they engage in their ow…

Army of Crime

World Cinema · Based on True Story · War

In Robert Guédiguian’s taut, internationally acclaimed thriller, set during the French Resistance, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian (Simon Abkarian) and his French wife (Virginie Ledoyen) lead a ragtag assortment of volunteers — Jews, Poles, Hungarians, Italians, Spaniards and Arme…

Being Maria

Based on True Story · Drama

Maria Schneider's rise to fame after "Last Tango in Paris" and its controversial production's impact on her life and career.

Fanny's Journey

Based on True Story · Drama

In 1943, 13-year old Fanny and her younger sisters were sent from their home in France to an Italian foster home for Jewish children. When the Nazis arrive in Italy, their caretakers desperately organize the departure of the children to Switzerland. When they are suddenly left on their own, these 11…

Fatima

World Cinema · Cannes Film Festival · Based on True Story

A patient, reflective study of a middle-aged Moroccan-born single mother pressured by her neighbors and her two teenage children alike to assimilate into a culture of which she's wary.

The Idol

RT Certified Fresh · Based on True Story · Drama

For Mohammed and Nour, nothing less than playing the world famous Cairo Opera Hall will do. It might take them a lifetime to get there but, as Mohammed will find out, some dreams are worth living for.

The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq

Based on True Story

Michel Houellebecq, possibly the most widely read living French writer, was believed kidnapped on September 16, 2011. But was he really? After a flurry of media reports of his abduction, the story goes cold and Houellebecq, famously reclusive, refuses to set the record straight. Now he goes one step…

Manuscripts Don't Burn

World Cinema · Based on True Story

Drawing from the true story of the government's attempted 1995 murder of several prominent writers and intellectuals, Rasoulof imagines a repressive regime so pervasive that even the morally righteous are subsumed or cast aside.

Mephisto

Period Drama · Based on True Story · Historic Drama

The 1981 Academy Award-winning (Best Foreign Language Film) Mephisto concerns a passionate, but struggling actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who remains in Germany during the Nazi regime and reaps the rewards of this Faustian pact by finally achieving the stardom he has long craved.   

Rabin, The Last Day

Based on True Story · World Cinema · Jewish Interest

Lauded director Amos Gitai (Kippur) delves into the prelude and aftermath of the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in this gripping docudrama.

The Robber

World Cinema · Based on True Story · Drama

Based on the real-life story of one of Austria’s most-wanted bank robbers, The Robber is a breathless thriller “as lean and taut as its marathon-winning title character.” (LA Times).

Serial Killer 1

World Cinema · Based on True Story · Drama

Specializing in police procedurals, writer/director Frederic Tellier marks his feature debut with a story about one of the trickiest criminal cases in recent French history, and the first case to incorporate DNA evidence.

Sophie Scholl -The Final Days

RT Certified Fresh · Based on True Story · World Cinema

The true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in the multi-award winning drama SOPHIE SCHOLL-THE FINAL DAYS. Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, SOPHIE SCHOLL stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the young coed-turned-fearl…

Unknown Soldier

Based on True Story · Based on Literature · War

Unknown Soldier follows a platoon of Finnish soldiers on a tour of duty that lasts for more than three years at the end of World War II. Based on the classic novel by Väinö Linna, Unknown Soldier broke box office records in Finland, becoming the highest-grossing movie in dec…