List of 2010s films based on actual events

This is a list of films and miniseries that are based on actual events. All films on this list are from American production unless indicated otherwise.

2010

• 22 Bullets (French: L'Immortel) (2010) – French gangster-action film telling a part of the life story of Jacky Imbert
• 71: Into the Fire (2010) – South Korean war drama film based on a true story of a group of 71 under-trained and under-armed, outgunned student-soldiers of South Korea during the Korean War, who were mostly killed on August 11, 1950, during the Battle of P'ohang-dong
• 127 Hours (2010) – based on the story of Aron Ralston, the American mountain climber who amputated his own arm to free himself after being trapped by a boulder for six days in Bluejohn Canyon in 2003
• All Good Things (2010) – inspired by the life of accused murderer Robert Durst, the film chronicles the life of the wealthy son of a New York real estate tycoon, a series of murders linked to him, and his volatile relationship with his wife and her subsequent unsolved disappearance
• Amish Grace (2010) – television film based on the 2006 West Nickel Mines School shooting at Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, and the spirit of forgiveness the Amish community demonstrated in its aftermath
• Angel of Evil (Italian: Vallanzasca – Gli angeli del male) (2010) – Italian crime film about Italian bank robber and mobster Renato Vallanzasca
• Animal Kingdom (2010) – Australian crime drama film inspired by events which involved the Pettingill criminal family of Melbourne
• Antardwand (2010) – Indian film based on the cases of groom kidnapping reported in Bihar in India
• The Assault (2010) – French action thriller film based on the 1994 hijacking of Air France Flight 8969 by Algerian Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and the raid to free the hostages by the GIGN, the elite counter-terrorism unit of the French National Gendarmerie
• The Bang Bang Club (2010) – Canadian/South African film based on the lives of four photojournalists active within the townships of South Africa during apartheid, especially between 1990 and 1994
• Belgrano (2010) – Argentine biographical drama based on the life of the Argentine national hero Manuel Belgrano
• Beneath Hill 60 (2010) – Australian war drama set during World War I, the film tells the story of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company's efforts in mining underneath Hill 60 in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front, during the war, a series of mines filled with explosive charges were placed beneath the German lines to aid the advance of British troops
• Black Venus (2010) – French drama based on the life of Sarah Baartman, a Khoikhoi woman who in the early 19th century was exhibited in Europe under the name "Hottentot Venus"
• Blood Done Sign My Name (2010) – drama film based on the autobiographical book Blood Done Sign My Name (2004) by historian Timothy Tyson
• Bond of Silence (2010) – television drama film based on the 1997 Murder of Bob Hutchinson in Squamish, British Columbia
• Bonded by Blood (2010) – British film loosely based on the Rettendon murders in 1995
• Bruce Lee, My Brother (2010) – based on the life of Bruce Lee from his teenage years through part of his adult years
• Burke & Hare (2010) – British black comedy film, loosely based on the Burke and Hare murders in 1828
• Carlos (2010) – French/German biographical three-part television miniseries about the life of the 1970s Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal
• Casino Jack (2010) – comedy-drama thriller film focusing on the career of Washington, D.C. lobbyist and businessman Jack Abramoff, who was involved in a massive corruption scandal that led to his conviction as well as the conviction of two White House officials
• Caterpillar (2010) – Japanese drama, a critique of the right-wing militarist nationalism that guided Japan's conduct in Asia during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II
• Chico Xavier (2010) – Brazilian drama film about the Brazilian medium Chico Xavier
• The Client List (2010) – made-for-television drama based on the Odessa, Texas prostitution scandal of 2004
• The Clinic (2010) – Australian horror thriller film following six abducted women and their newborn babies, according to the poster it's "inspired by true events"
• Cold Fish (2010) – Japanese film about a quiet and unambitious owner of a tropical fish shop whose life and family are taken over by a fellow fish entrepreneur who happens to be a serial killer, the film is loosely based on the exploits of two Tokyo serial killers, Sekine Gen and Hiroko Kazama, a husband and wife duo who owned a pet shop and murdered at least four people
• Confucius (Chinese: 孔子) (2010) – Chinese biographical drama film depicting the life of Confucius
• The Conspirator (2010) – mystery Historical drama film telling the story of Mary Sturratt, the only female conspirator charged in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the first woman to be executed by the United States federal government
• Conviction (2010) – legal drama based on the story of a single mother, Betty Anne Waters, who goes to law school so she can become her brother Kenny's attorney after Kenny is wrongly convicted of murder
• Cornelis (2010) – Swedish biographical drama film about the life of the musician Cornelis Vreeswijk
• Crook (2010) – Indian Hindi-language action thriller film based on the controversy regarding the allegedly racial attacks on Indian students in Australia between 2007 and 2010
• Cyrus: Mind of a Serial Killer (2010) – thriller horror film based on real events regarding a serial killer by the name of Cyrus
• D.C. Sniper (2010) – direct-to-video drama thriller based on the Beltway sniper attacks of October 2002 committed by John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo
• Dear Mr. Gacy (2010) – Canadian drama thriller based on the book The Last Victim by Jason Moss
• Eat Pray Love (2010) – biographical romantic drama film starring Julia Roberts as Elizabeth Gilbert, based on Gilbert's 2006 memoir of the same name
• The End Is My Beginning (German: Das Ende ist mein Anfang) (2010) – German-Italian biographical drama based on the posthumous autobiographical best-seller with the same name written by Tiziano Terzani
• The Experiment (2010) – drama thriller film about an experiment which resembles Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment in 1971, the film is a remake of the 2001 German film Das Experiment
• Extraordinary Measures (2010) – medical drama based on the story of John Crowley and Aileen Crowley, whose children have Pompe disease
• Fair Game (2010) – biographical political drama film based on Valerie Plame's 2007 memoir Fair Game and Joseph C. Wilson's 2004 memoir The Politics of Truth
• The Fighter (2010) – based on the life of boxer Micky Ward and his half-brother, Dicky Eklund
• The First Grader (2010) – biographical drama film based on the true story of Kimani Maruge, a Kenyan farmer who enrolled in elementary school at the age of 84 following the Kenyan government's announcement of free universal primary education in 2003
• Fortress of War (2010) – Russian/Belarusian war film recounting the June 1941 defense of Brest Fortress against invading Wehrmacht forces in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II
• Frankie & Alice (2010) – Canadian drama film based on a true story about a popular go-go dancer/stripper in the 1970s who has dissociative identity disorder
• Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (French: Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque)) (2010) – French drama based on the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg
• Green Zone (2010) – British-French-American war thriller depicting the events from the end of the invasion phase of the 2003 invasion of Iraq until the transfer of power to the Iraqis
• The Hammer (a.k.a. Hamill) (2010) – biographical film about Matt Hamill, a deaf wrestler and mixed martial artist
• Hidalgo: La historia jamás contada (2010) – Mexican film about Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and his part in the Mexican War of Independence
• Holly Rollers (2010) – independent crime film drama film inspired by a true story of a young Hasidic man who was lured into the world of international drug trafficking in the late 1990s
• Howl (2010) – biographical film exploring both the 1955 Six Gallery debut and the 1957 obscenity trial of 20th-century American poet Allen Ginsberg's noted poem "Howl"
• Ip Man 2 (2010) – Hong Kong film based on the life of Ip Man, a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun, and the story of him in Hong Kong
• Iron Lord (Russian: Ярослав. Тысячу лет назад) (2010) – Russian historical film telling the true story of Yaroslav the Wise
• Janie Jones (2010) – drama film written and directed by David M. Rosenthal, about a fading, alcoholic rock star meeting his daughter for the first time after being left by her drugged-up mother, and the growing relationship they have while on tour, Rosenthal based the film's storyline on his real-life meeting with his own daughter
• Jew Suss: Rise and Fall (2010) – German Historical drama film about Austrian actor Ferdinand Marian
• Kajínek (2010) – Czech action drama film based on the story of Jiří Kajínek, who managed to escape from a strictly guarded prison in the Mírov fortress
• Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey (2010) – Indian Hindi movie based on Chittagong uprising of 1930
• King of Devil's Island (2010) – French/Norwegian action drama film based on true events that occurred at Bastøy Prison in Norway
• The Kingdom of Solomon (Persian: ملک سلیمان)(2010) – Iranian religious historical film based on the Islamic accounts of Solomon's prophetic life extracted from the Qur'an
• The King's Speech (2010) – historical British drama based on King George VI, who suffered from a severe stammer
• The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010) – Hong Kong biographical martial arts film based on the early life of the Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man
• Leonie (2010) – biographical film based on Léonie Gilmour
• Letters to God (2010) – based on the true story of Tyler Doughtie, an 8-year-old suffering from cancer with a love of writing and sending letters to God
• Lope (2010) – Spanish–Brazilian adventure drama film inspired in the youth of Lope de Vega
• Lost Loves (2010) – Cambodian drama film about Leav Sila, one of countless people that struggled to survive during the years of the Khmer Rouge regime
• Love Ranch (2010) – drama film based on the lives of Joe Conforte and Sally Conforte, a married couple who operated the first legal brothel in the United States, the Mustang Ranch in Storey County, Nevada
• Made in Dagenham (2010) – British film dramatizing the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 that aimed for equal pay for women
• Mahler on the Couch (German: Mahler auf der Couch) (2010) – German historical drama film depicting an affair between Alma Mahler and Walter Gropius, and the subsequent psychoanalysis of Mahler's husband Gustav Mahler by Sigmund Freud
• Malik Ek (2010) – Hindi spiritual film on Sai Baba of Shirdi
• Max Schmeling (2010) – German biographical film telling the story of German boxing icon Max Schmeling
• Meek's Cutoff (2010) – western film loosely based on a historical incident on the Oregon Trail in 1845, in which frontier guide Stephen Meek led a wagon train on an ill-fated journey through the Oregon desert along the route later known as the Meek Cutoff in the western United States
• Montevideo, God Bless You! (2010) – based on the events leading to the participation of the Yugoslavia national football team at the first FIFA World Cup in Montevideo, Uruguay in July 1930
• Mr. Nice (2010) – loosely based on the Welsh former drug smuggler turned author, Howard Marks, who achieved notoriety through high-profile court cases
• My Name Is Khan (2010) – Indian Hindi-language drama film centering on Rizwan Khan, an autistic Muslim man who tries to meet the President of the United States and convince him that he is not a terrorist to win his wife back
• Nanga Parbat (2010) – German mountaineering movie about Reinhold and Günther Messner, who climbed Nanga Parbat
• Nokas (2010) – Norwegian heist film portraying the real life NOKAS robbery that took place in Stavanger, Norway in 2004
• Of Gods and Men (2010) – based on the assassination of the monks of Tibhirine
• Once Upon a Time in Mumbai (2010) – Indian Hindi-language gangster film loosely based on the lives of Mumbai underworld gangsters Haji Mastan and Dawood Ibrahim
• Oranges and Sunshine (2010) – Australian drama based on the book Empty Cradles by Margaret Humphreys
• Picco (2010) – German crime film about the torture murder in the Siegburg correctional facility in autumn 2006
• Piché: The Landing of a Man (French: Piché, entre ciel et terre) (2010) – Canadian drama film based on the true story of Robert Piché, an airline pilot who successfully landed Air Transat Flight 236 in the Azores after the plane lost engine power mid-air
• The Pregnancy Pact (2010) – made-for-television film based on the allegedly true story of a 2008 media circus surrounding a large group of teen girls at the Gloucester High School, Gloucester, Massachusetts, who allegedly agreed to concurrently get pregnant, give birth and raise their children communally
• Rakta Charitra (2010) – Indian trilingual (Telugu, Hindi, and Tamil) biographical crime film based on the life of political leader and factionist Paritala Ravindra
• Rasputin (2010) – Italian film about Grigori Rasputin
• Restless Heart: The Confessions of Saint Augustine (Italian: Sant'Agostino) (2010) – Italian miniseries chronicling the life of St. Augustine, the early Christian theologian, writer and Bishop of Hippo Regius at the time of the Vandal invasion (AD 430)
• Revolución: El cruce de los Andes (a.k.a. San Martín: El cruce de Los Andes) (2010) – Argentine historical epic film that follows the life of José de San Martín, with focus on the Crossing on the Andes
• Risen (2010) – Welsh sports drama biographical film about the Welsh boxer Howard Winstone
• The Road to Coronation Street (2010) – British dramatization of the creation of Coronation Street, the UK's longest-running television soap opera, from conception to its first transmission in December 1960
• The Robber (German: Der Räuber) (2010) – German drama based on a novel by Austrian author Martin Prinz the novel's character is based on Austrian bank-robber and runner Johann Kastenberger
• The Round Up (French: La Rafle) (2010) – French film based on the true story of a young Jewish boy, the film depicts the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv), the mass arrest of Jews by French police who were accomplices of Nazi Germans in Paris in July 1942
• The Runaways (2010) – drama based on the 1970s all-girl rock band The Runaways, focusing in particular on the relationship between rockers Cherie Currie and Joan Jett, adapted from Currie's memoir
• The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010) – made-for-television biographical historical drama film about 19th-century Yorkshire landowner Anne Lister
• Secretariat (2010) – based on the story of a Thoroughbred named Secretariat, who won the Triple Crown in the Belmont Stakes and still holds the record after 37 years, and his owner, Penny Chenery
• Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010) – British biographical film about English new wave musician Ian Dury
• The Silent House (Spanish: La Casa Muda) (2010) – Uruguayan Spanish-language horror film allegedly inspired by real events that took place in the 1940s
• The Social Network (2010) – based on the creation, and lawsuits of Facebook
• Space Dogs (Russian: Белка и Стрелка. Звёздные собаки) (2010) – Russian computer-animated adventure comedy film based on the Soviet space dogs Belka and Strelka
• The Special Relationship (2010) – American/British political film based on relationship between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President Bill Clinton
• Striker (2010) – Bollywood action drama film set in a Mumbai ghetto in the mid-1980s, a story of triumph and human spirit over indomitable odds
• Temple Grandin (2010) – biographical film about Temple Grandin, a woman with autism who revolutionized practices for the inhumane handling of livestock on cattle ranches and slaughterhouses
• Times You Change (German: Zeiten ändern dich) (2010) – German biographical film based on Bushido's 2008 autobiography
• Unstoppable (2010) – action thriller loosely based on the CSX 8888 incident, which tells the story of a runaway train carrying hazardous material, which puts cities and people in danger
• Veda (2010) – Turkish biographical film based on the memoirs of Salih Bozok, which traces the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
• The Way Back (2010) – true story of seven men who escape from prison in Siberia (after being held by Stalin), then walk through the Gobi Desert, Himalayas and all the way to Sikkim, India
• When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story (2010) – made-for-television biographical film based on Lois Wilson and the true story of her husband's alcoholism and her subsequent finding of Al-Anon
• The Whistleblower (2010) – thriller which tells the story of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska police officer who was recruited to serve as a U.N. peacekeeper with DynCorp International in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999
• Who Is Clark Rockefeller? (2010) – police procedural television film based on the life of Christian Gerhartsreiter, a German con artist who for years impersonated many people, at one point claiming to be part of the Rockefeller family going by the faux name "Clark Rockefeller"
• You Don't Know Jack (2010) – television film based in part on the book Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Life and the Battle To Legalize Euthanasia, focusing on the life and work of physician-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian
• Yugapurushan (2010) – Indian film about the life and times of Sree Narayana Guru
• The Zero Hour (2010) – based on the events during the 1996 Venezuelan medical strike

2011

• 17 Miracles (2011) – historical adventure film based on the alleged experiences of members of the Willie Handcart Company of Mormon pioneers following their late-season start and subsequent winter journey to Salt Lake City in 1856
• 30 Minutes or Less (2011) – action comedy film loosely inspired by the Brian Wells case
• 50/50 (2011) – comedy drama film loosely based on the life of screenwriter Will Reiser
• 96 Minutes (2011) – Crime thriller film telling the true story of a traumatic car-jacking that results in the destruction of four teenagers' lives
• 1911 (Chinese: 辛亥革命) (2011) – Chinese historical drama film based on the 1911 Revolution and Xinhai Revolution
• A Dangerous Method (2011) – historical film set on the eve of World War I, describes the turbulent relationships between Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology; Sigmund Freud, founder of the discipline of psychoanalysis; and Sabina Spielrein, initially a patient of Jung and later a physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts
• A Funny Man (Danish: Dirch) (2011) – Danish biographical drama film about the Danish actor and comedian Dirch Passer
• A Yell from Heaven (Japanese: 天国からのエール) (2011) – Japanese drama film inspired by the true story of Hikaru Oshiro, an Okinawan altruist who founded the "Ajisai Ongaku Mura", a music village that is open for all to use
• Age of Heroes (2011) – British war film based on the real-life events of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit during World War II
• Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy (2011) – made-for-television film based on the murder of Meredith Kercher and the trial of the accused of Amanda Knox
• Anonymous (2011) – period drama film depicting a fictionalised version of the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford an Elizabethan courtier, playwright, poet and patron of the arts, and suggests that he was the actual author of William Shakespeare's play
• Bernie (2011) – black comedy film based on the 1996 murder of 81-year-old millionaire Marjorie Nugent in Carthage, Texas, by her 39-year-old companion Bernie Tiede
• Blackthorn (2011) – Western film based on the life of an aged Butch Cassidy living under the assumed name of James Blackthorn in a secluded village in Bolivia 20 years after his disappearance in 1908
• Cinema Verite (2011) – made-for-television drama film depicting a fictionalized account of the production of An American Family, a 1973 PBS documentary television series that is said to be one of the earliest examples of the reality television genre
• Citizen Gangster (2011) – Canadian biographical drama film based on the true story of Edwin Alonzo Boyd
• Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl (2011) – Brazilian drama about Bruna Surfistinha.
• The Conquest (2011) – French biographical film about Nicolas Sarkozy
• The Craigslist Killer (2011) – crime drama made-for-television film inspired by the true story of a man named Philip Markoff who killed one woman and is known to have assaulted at least two others in Massachusetts and Rhode Island
• The Cup (2011) – Australian biographical film about Damien Oliver's victory in the 2002 Melbourne Cup
• Dear Friend Hitler (2011) – Indian drama based on letters written by Mohandes Gandhi to the leader of the Nazi Party and Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler
• The Devil's Double (2011) – Belgian-Dutch biographical film based on Latif Yahia, body double for Uday Hussein, the playboy son of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein
• The Dirty Picture (2011) – Indian Hindi-language biographical film based on the life of Silk Smitha, a South Indian actress known for her erotic roles
• Dolphin Tale (2011) – family drama inspired by the true story of a bottlenose dolphin named Winter who was rescued off the Florida coast and taken in by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, where she is fitted with a prosthetic tail
• The Eagle (2011) – epic historical drama film based on the Ninth Spanish Legion's supposed disappearance in Britain
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011) – drama based on the September 11 attacks on the Twin Towers
• The Fields (2011) – suspense thriller film loosely based on the life of screenwriter Harrison Smith
• Free Man (2011) – French war drama which recounts the largely untold story about the role that Algerian and other North African Muslims in Paris played in the French Resistance and as rescuers of Jews during the German occupation (1940–1944)
• Girl Fight (2011) – made-for-television film inspired by a 2008 beating in Florida; a video of some of the beating, released by Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, was used heavily by the news media and the story caused nationwide public outrage
• Hattie (2011) – British made-for-television film about the life of British comic actress Hattie Jacques, her marriage to John Le Mesurier and her affair with their lodger John Schofield
• Heleno (2011) – Brazilian biographical drama film telling the story of Heleno de Freitas, a legendary football star who played for Botafogo during the 1940s
• Higher Ground (2011) – drama film following the true story of Corinne Walker and her vacillating relationship with Christianity
• Hysteria (2011) - Set at the end of 1880, the film depicts the invention of the vibrator. Dr. Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) is a young physician who has difficulty with his occupation due to constant arguments over modern medicine. He gets a job assisting Dr. Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce), whose practice specializes in the treatment of "hysteria", a popular diagnosis for women of that time.
• The Intouchables (2011) – French buddy comedy drama film based on the true story of a paralyzed man who develops a friendship with his caretaker
• The Iron Lady (2011) – British biographical film based on the life of Margaret Thatcher, the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century
• Isoroku (2011) – Japanese war drama film about Imperial Japanese Navy Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
• J. Edgar (2011) – biographical drama film based on the life of J. Edgar Hoover
• Janie Jones (2011) – drama film based on the story of a young girl who is abandoned by her meth-addicted former-groupie mother, who informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter
• Juan and Eva (Spanish: Juan y Eva) (2011) – Argentine biographical film based on the first meeting of Argentine president Juan Perón and Eva Perón during the 1944 San Juan earthquake
• The Kennedys (2011) – miniseries chronicling the lives of the famous political Kennedy family, including key triumphs and tragedies it has experienced
• Kill the Irishman (2011) – biographical crime film based on the life of Irish American mobster Danny Greene
• The Lady (2011) – French-British biographical film depicting Aung San Suu Kyi and her late husband Michael Aris
• The Last Ride (2011) – biographical drama film about the last days of country music pioneer and legend Hank Williams
• The Lost Bladesman (2011) – Hong Kong-Chinese historical war biographical action film loosely based on the story of Guan Yu
• Machine Gun Preacher (2011) – biographical action drama film based on the life of former gang biker turned preacher and defender of Africa orphans Sam Childers
• Magic Beyond Words (2011) – made-for-television biographical film detailing the journey of struggling single mother J. K. Rowling, her bid to become a published author, and her rise to fame that followed the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• Margin Call (2011) – independent drama film loosely modeled on "Lehman Brothers" and the financial crisis of 2007–2008
• Moneyball (2011) – biographical sports drama film based on the Oakland Athletics baseball team's 2002 season
• Monica (2011) – Indian Hindi-language film based on the true story of the murder case of Shivani Bhatnagar, a journalist working for the Indian Express newspaper
• My Week with Marilyn (2011) – British-American drama film depicting the making of the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl and focusing on the week during the shooting of the 1957 film when Monroe was escorted around London by Colin Clark after her husband Arthur Miller had returned to the United States
• Nadunissi Naaygal (2011) – Indian Tamil-language Psychological thriller film based on a true story about murderer Veera Bahu
• No One Killed Jessica (2011) – Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film based on real life murder case of Jessica Lall, a model in New Delhi who was working as a celebrity barmaid at a crowded socialite party when she was shot dead in April 1999
• Not a Love Story (2011) – Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film inspired by the murder of Neeraj Grover in 2008 that led to the arrest of Emile Jerome Mathew and Maria Susairaj
• The Pastor's Wife (2011) – made-for-television biographical film based on the true-crime book of the same title about Mary Winkler and her husband
• Perfect Game (Korean: 퍼펙트 게임) (2011) – South Korean biographical film based on the true story of rivals Sun Dong-yeol of the Haitai Tigers and Choi Dong-won of the Lotte Giants, the top pitchers in the Korea Baseball Organization league during the 1980s
• Play (2011) - Inspired by actual court cases, it portrays a group of black boys who rob a smaller group of white boys by means of a psychological game.
• Puncture (2011) – independent film based on a true story about Mike Weiss, a young Houston lawyer and a drug addict
• Ragini MMS (2011) – Indian found footage horror partly based on the real story of a girl from Delhi named Deepika
• Ramabai Bhimrao Ambedkar (2011) – Indian Marathi-language biographical film based on the life of Ramabai Ambedkar also known as Ramai (mother Rama) wife of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
• Raspoutine (2011) – French-Russian historical drama made-for-television film about the last year of the life of one of the most enigmatic figures of Russian history of the 20th century – Grigori Rasputin
• Red Dog (2011) – Australian comedy drama family film based on a true story about a Kelpie/cattle dog cross who was well known for his travels through Western Australia's Pilbara region
• The Resistance (Chinese: 反抗者) (2011) – Chinese martial arts action film set during World War II inspired by the beginning of the Japanese invasion of China where over 300,000 people in the capital of Nanjing were massacred
• The Rite (2011) – supernatural horror film based on actual events as witnessed and recounted by American then-exorcist-in-training Father Gary Thomas and his experiences of being sent to Rome to be trained and work daily with veteran clergy of the practice
• Sanctum (2011) – action-thriller film inspired by Andrew Wight's near-death experience after leading a diving expedition miles into a system of underwater caves, then having to find a way out after a freak storm collapses the entrance
• The Silence of Joan (2011) – French historical film about Joan of Arc's capture and execution in 1431
• Silenced (Korean: 도가니) (2011) – South Korean crime film drama film based on events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s
• Silent House (2011) – independent psychological horror film about a young woman who is terrorized in her family vacation home while cleaning the property with her father and uncle, based on an actual incident that occurred in a village in Uruguay in the 1940s
• Snowtown (2011) – Australian biographical crime film drama film based on the Snowtown murders
• Soul Surfer (2011) – biographical drama film about Bethany Hamilton, a 13-year-old surfer who loses her arm in a shark attack, but is determined to get back in the water
• Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story (2011) – made-for-television film following the true story of the kidnapping and rescue of the son of Tiffany Rubin, who was kidnapped by his father and taken to South Korea
• Tatsumi (2011) – Singaporean Japanese-language animated drama film based on the manga memoir A Drifting Life and five earlier short stories by the Japanese manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi
• Texas Killing Fields (2011) – crime film based on true events surrounding the murder of women picked up along I-45 and dumped in an old oil field in League City, Texas
• Thambi Vettothi Sundaram (2011) – Indian Tamil-language docudrama crime film based on a true story, set in Kaliyikkavila, a town on the state border
• Traffic (2011) – Indian Malayalam-language thriller film based on actual events that happened in Chennai
• United (2011) – British made-for-television film based on the true story of Manchester United's "Busty Babes" and the aftermath of the 1958 Munich air disaster
• Violeta Went to Heaven (Spanish: Violeta se fue a los cielos) (2011) – Chilean biographical film about singer and folklorist Violeta Parra
• We Bought a Zoo (2011) – family comedy drama film based on a memoir by Benjamin Mee, owner of Dartmoor Zoological Park near the village of Sparkwell in the county of Devon in England
• White Vengeance (Chinese: 鴻門宴) (2011) – Chinese historical film loosely based on events in the Chu-Han Contention, an interregnum between the fall of the Qin dynasty and the founding of the Han dynasty in Chinese history.
• William & Kate: The Movie (2011) – made-for-television film about the relationship between Prince William and Catherine "Kate" Middleton (now The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge)
• Winnie Mandela (2011) – biographical drama film about the life of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
• The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake (Chinese: 竞雄女侠·秋瑾) (2011) – Chinese-Hong Kong biographical film about Chinese feminist revolutionary Qiu Jin
• Yugapurushan (2011) – Indian Malayalam-language film based on the life of Narayana Guru
• Yuriko, Dasvidaniya (Japanese: 百合子、ダスヴィダーニヤ) (2011) – Japanese historical biographical film following the relationship between author Yuriko Miyamoto and openly lesbian Russian literature translator Yoshiko Yuasa

2012

• A Smile as Big as the Moon (2012) – made-for-television film based on the 2002 memoir of the same title by teacher Mike Kersjes, outlining his venture to bring out the best from his special education students by taking them to Space Camp
• Abducted: The Carlina White Story (2012) – made-for-television film based on Carlina White
• Act of Valor (2012) – action film based on real US Navy SEALs missions around the world
• Aftershock (2012) – disaster horror film based on true events from the 2010 8.8 earthquake in Chile
• An Officer and a Murderer (2012) – made-for-television film about the crimes committed by Russell Williams, a former Colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force
• Aravaan (2012) – Indian Tamil-language epic historical film which based on the history of Madurai from 1310 to 1910
• Argo (2012) – historical drama thriller film based on the Canadian Caper, dramatization of the rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran in 1979 during the Iran hostage crisis
• As One (Korean: 코리아) (2012) – South Korean sports drama film based on the true story of the first ever post-war Unified Korea sports team which won the women's team gold medal at the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships in Chiba, Japan
• Bert and Dickie (2012) – made-for-television film depicting Dickie Burnell and Bert Bushnell's achievement at the 1948 Summer Olympics
• Big Miracle (2012) – drama film based on Tom Rose's 1989 book Freeing the Whales, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska
• Blue Eyed Butcher (2012) – crime drama made-for-television film based on the 2003 stabbing death of Jeff Wright by the hands of his wife, Susan Wright, but focuses on Kelly Siegler, the case's prosecutor
• Buddha in a Traffic Jam (2012) – Indian political thriller film narrating a tale of inter-meddling of academia with corruption and maoism, loosely based on the life of Indian author and political activist Arundhati Roy
• Chasing Mavericks (2012) – biographical drama film about the life of American surfer Jay Moriarity
• Compliance (2012) – thriller film based upon a strip search phone call scam that took place in Mount Washington, Kentucky, in which the caller, posing as a police officer, convinced a restaurant manager to carry out unlawful and intrusive procedures on an employee
• The Consul of Bordeaux (Portuguese: O Cônsul de Bordéus) (2012) – Portuguese biographical historical drama film depicting the life of Aristides de Sousa Mendes
• Dandupalya (2012) – Indian Kannada-language crime film based on the real-life exploits of a notorious gang named 'Dandupalya'
• Emperor (2012) – American-Japanese historical drama film based on the investigation of the role of Emperor Hirohito in World War II
• Falling Flowers (Chinese: 蕭紅) (2012) – Chinese biographical drama film based on the life of writer Xiao Hong
• Fatal Honeymoon (2012) – made-for-television film loosely based on the suspicious death of Tina Watson whilst she was on her honeymoon
• Flight (2012) – action drama film inspired by the true incident of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, in which a Boeing MD-83 suffered vertical control malfunctions and plummeted 31,000 feet on January 31, 2000
• Florbela (2012) – Portuguese biographical film about poet Florbela Espanca
• For Greater Glory (a.k.a. Cristiada) (2012) – Mexican epic historical war drama film based on the Mexican Catholic counter-revolution of the 1920s
• Game Change (2012) – political drama made-for-television film based on John McCain's 2008 presidential election campaign
• Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) – Indian Hindi-language crime action film centered on the coal mafia of Dhanbad, and the underlying power struggles, politics and vengeance between three crime families from 1941 to the mid-1990s
• The Girl (2012) – British made-for-television film based on Donald Spoto's 2009 book Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies, which discusses the English film director Hitchcock and the women who played leading roles in his films (Tippi Hedren)
• Hannah Arendt (2012) – German-French-Luxembourger biographical drama film centering on the life of German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt
• Hitchcock (2012) – biographical romantic drama based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho about the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho
• House on the Hill (2012) – horror film based on the real-life killing spree of serial killers Leonard Lake and Charles Ng
• Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) – British historical comedy-drama film based on the diaries of Margaret Suckley, a close friend of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• The Iceman (2012) – biographical crime film about notorious hitman Richard Kuklinski
• The Impossible (2012) – Spanish English-language disaster drama film based on the experience of María Belón and her family in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
• Ivan Megharoopan (2012) – Indian Malayalam-language biographical film based on the life of Malayalam poet P. Kunhiraman Nair
• Kazhugu (2012) – Indian Tamil-language comedy thriller film revolving around four people, referred to as "Kazhugu," who recover bodies of suicide victims who jump off a cliff
• Kon-Tiki (2012) – historical drama about the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition
• Last Flight to Abuja (2012) – Nigerian disaster thriller film based on a 2006 Nigerian aviation tragedy
• Lincoln (2012) – biographical historical drama based on the final four months of President Lincoln's life and his efforts in January 1865 to have the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed by the U.S. House of Representatives
• Liz & Dick (2012) – made-for-television biographical film chronicling the relationship of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
• Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom (2012) – Indian Tamil-language black comedy film based on a true story that involves a young man who experiences retrograde amnesia after a cricket incident two days before his wedding
• National Security (Korean: 남영동) (2012) – South Korean prison drama based on the memoir by Kim Geun-tae, a democracy activist who was kidnapped and tortured by national police inspector Lee Geun-an for 22 days in 1985 during the Chun Doo-hwan regime
• No (2012) – Chilean historical drama film based on the unpublished play El Plebiscito, focusing on how advertising tactics came to be widely used in political campaigns for the 1988 plebiscite
• Omar (Arabic: عُمَرْ) (2012) – Arab miniseries based on the life of Omar ibn al-Khattab, (c. 583–644), the second Caliph of Islam, and depicts his life from 18 years old until the moments of his death
• Paan Singh Tomar (2012) – Indian Hindi-language biographical film about the eponymous athlete who was a soldier in the Indian Army and won a gold medal at the Indian National Games, but was forced to become a rebel against the system
• People Like Us (2012) – drama film based on the true story of a sister and brother who never knew that they were siblings
• Renoir (2012) – French drama film based on the last years of Pierre-Auguste Renoir at Cagnes-sur-Mer during World War I
• The Sessions (2012) – erotic comedy-drama based on the 1990 article "On Seeing a Sex Surrogate" by Mark O'Brien, a poet paralyzed from the neck down due to polio, who hired a sex surrogate to lose his virginity
• Shadow Dancer (2012) – British-Irish drama film based on a IRA member turned MI5 Informant
• Soegija (2012) – Indonesian epic historical drama about national hero Albertus Soegijapranata
• Sri Ramakrishna Darshanam (2012) – Singaporean-Indian biographical film based on the life and philosophy of 19th century Bengali mystic saint Ramakrishna
• Vinmeengal (2012) – Indian Tamil-language semi-biographical film detailing the extraordinary struggle of a father, who is a magician, to give a normal life to his son who is born with Cerebral Palsy
• The Vow (2012) – romantic drama film based on Kim and Krickitt Carpenter's story of Kim's memory loss following an accident
• Won't Back Down (2012) – drama film loosely based on the events surrounding the use of the parent trigger law in Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles in 2010
• Zero Dark Thirty (2012) – war thriller film based on the decade-long manhunt for Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after the 11 September 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States

2013

• 12 Years a Slave (2013) – biographical drama film based on Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free negro who was deceived and kidnapped in Washington, D.C., and sold into slavery (1841–1853)
• 42 (2013) – biographical sports film about baseball player Jackie Robinson, the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball during the modern era
• 3096 Days (German: 3096 Tage) (2013) – German biographical drama film based on the story of Natascha Kampusch who was kidnapped at age 10 and held in captivity for 8 years
• A Journey of Samyak Buddha (Hindi: अ जर्नी ऑफ सम्यक बुद्ध) (2013) – Indian Hindi-language film about the journey of Gautam Buddha’s miraculous birth, marriage, and his path towards enlightenment
• American Hustle (2013) – black comedy crime film inspired by the FBI Abscam operation of the late 1970s and early 1980s
• An Adventure in Space and Time (2013) – British biographical made-for-television film dramatizing the events surrounding the creation of Doctor Who in the 1960s, with emphasis on actor William Hartnell as he took on the role of the original incarnation of the show's main character
• The Anna Nicole Story (2013) – biographical drama made-for-television film about late actress and Playboy Playmate, Anna Nicole Smith
• Ask This of Rikyu (Japanese: 利休にたずねよ) (2013) – Japanese biographical film based on Sen no Rikyū, the historical figure with the most profound influence on chanoyu, the Japanese "Way of Tea", particularly the tradition of wabi-cha
• The Attacks of 26/11 (2013) – Indian Hindi-language action thriller film based on the 2008 Mumbai attacks
• Attahasa (2013) – Indian Kannada-language biographical film based on the notorious forest brigand Veerappan
• Behind the Candelabra (2013) – biographical drama film based on the last ten years in the life of pianist Liberace and the relationship that he had with Scott Thorson
• Belle (2013) – British period drama film inspired by the 1779 painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle beside her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray at Kenwood House
• Betty & Coretta (2013) – made-for-television drama film based on the widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands
• Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013) – Indian Hindi-language film biographical sports drama film based on life of Indian athlete Milkha Singh
• Big Sur (2013) – adventure drama film based on the time Jack Kerouac spent in Big Sur, California, and his three brief sojourns to his friend Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin in Bixby Canyon
• The Bling Ring (2013) – satirical crime film based on the Bling Ring, also known as the Hollywood Hills Burglar Bunch, who broke into Hollywood Hills homes from October 2008 through August 2009
• Blue Caprice (2013) – independent drama film based on the 2002 D.C. sniper attacks
• Bonnie & Clyde (2013) – revisionist miniseries about Great Depression-era outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow
• Bozo (Japanese: ぼっちゃん) (2013) – Japanese drama film based on the Akihabara massacre
• The Butler (2013) – historical drama film based on the real life of Eugene Allen, who worked in the White House for decades
• Camille Claudel 1915 (2013) – French biographical film based on sculptor Camille Claudel
• Captain Phillips (2013) – biographical action thriller film based on the story of the eponymous Captain Richard Phillips, a merchant mariner who was taken hostage by Somali pirates
• CBGB (2013) – biographical drama film about the former New York music venue CBGB
• Celluloid (2013) – Indian Malayalam-language biographical film based on the life story of J. C. Daniel, the father of Malayalam cinema
• The Conjuring (2013) – supernatural horror film based on purportedly real-life reports that inspired The Amityville Horror story
• CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story (2013) – made-for-television biographical film about the R&B and hip hop musical trio TLC
• Dallas Buyers Club (2013) – biographical drama film telling the story of Ron Woodroof, an AIDS patient diagnosed in the mid-1980s when HIV/AIDS treatments were under-researched, while the disease was not understood and highly stigmatized
• Devil's Knot (2013) – biographical crime drama film telling the true story of three murdered children, and the three teenagers known as the West Memphis Three who were convicted of killing them, during the Satanic ritual abuse panic
• The Devil's Violinist (2013) – Italian-German biographical film based on the life story of the 19th-century Italian violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini
• Diana (2013) – British biographical drama film based on the last two years in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales
• Empire State (2013) – crime drama film based on based on a true story of two childhood friends who rob an armored car repository and the NYPD officer who stands in their way
• Ephraim's Rescue (2013) – Christian historical drama based on the true stories of Mormon pioneers Ephraim Hanks and Thomas Dobson and their experiences in the handcart brigades
• The Fifth Estate (2013) – biographical thriller film about the news-leaking website WikiLeaks
• The Frozen Ground (2013) – thriller film based on the crimes of the real-life Alaskan serial killer Robert Hansen
• Fruitvale Station (2013) – biographical drama film based on the events leading to the death of Oscar Grant, a young man killed in 2009 by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle
• Gagarin: First in Space (Russian: Гагарин. Первый в космосе) (2013) – Russian docudrama biographical film about the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, and the mission of Vostok 1
• The German Doctor (2013) - The true story of an Argentine family who lived with Josef Mengele without knowing his true identity, and of a girl who fell in love with one of the biggest criminals of all time.
• Gimme Shelter (2013) – independent Christian drama based on a true story about a runaway teenage girl who becomes pregnant and is placed in a home for pregnant girls
• The Grandmaster (2013) – martial arts drama film based on the life story of the Wing Chun
• Hope (Korean: 소원) (2013) – South Korean film based on the true story of the infamous Cho Doo-Soon case in 2008, in which an 8-year-old girl, named "Na-young" in the South Korean press, was raped and beaten by a drunk 57-year-old man in a public bathroom
• House of Versace (2013) – Canadian made-for-television biographical drama depicting the real-life events of the Versace family
• The Informant (2013) – French crime thriller film loosely based on a true story of a bar owner in Gibraltar
• The Invisible Woman (2013) – British biographical drama film about the secret love affair between Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan, which lasted for thirteen years until his death in 1870
• Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013) – biographical drama film about Jimi Hendrix
• Jobs (2013) – biographical drama film based on the life of Steve Jobs, from 1974 while a student at Reed College to the introduction of the iPod in 2001
• Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret (2013) – made-for-television drama about the Murder of Travis Alexander
• Kill Your Darlings (2013) – biographical drama film about the college days of some of the earliest members of the Beat Generation and the killing in Riverside Park
• The Last of Robin Hood (2013) – independent biographical drama film about actor Errol Flynn
• Legend No. 17 (Russian: Легенда №17) (2013) – Russian biographical sports film based on real events and tells of the rise to fame of the Soviet hockey player Valeri Kharlamov and about the first match of the Summit Series USSR — Canada 1972
• Letters to Sofija (Lithuanian: Laiškai Sofijai) (2013) – Lithuanian biographical film about the life of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
• Like the Wind (Italian: Come il vento) (2013) – Italian biographical film telling the story of Armida Miserere, the first woman to direct a high security jail in Italy
• Lone Survivor (2013) – biographical war film based on the eponymous 2007 nonfiction book by Marcus Luttrell
• The Look of Love (2013) – British biographical film about Paul Raymond
• Louis Cyr (2013) – Canadian biographical drama film about Louis Cyr, the 19th-century strong man still considered to be one of the strongest men to have ever lived
• Lovelace (2013) – biographical drama film centered on porn actress Linda Lovelace, star of Deep Throat, a landmark 1972 film at the forefront of the Golden Age of Porn
• Madras Cafe (2013) – Indian Hindi-language political action thriller film set during the time of Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war
• Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) – British-South African biographical film based on the 1994 autobiography by Nelson Mandela
• Marina (2013) – biographical film based upon the life of the Italian singer Rocco Granata who moved to Belgium when he was a young boy
• Meghe Dhaka Tara (2013) – Indian Bengali-language film inspired from the life and works of Bengali film director Ritwik Ghatak
• One Chance (2013) – British-American biographical comedy drama film about opera singer and Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts
• Orissa (2013) – Indian Malayalam-language romance film based on a Malayali constable, Christhudas, falling in love with an Oriya girl, Suneyi
• Pain & Gain (2013) – action comedy film based on the activities of Sun Gym gang, a group of ex-convicts and bodybuilders convicted of kidnapping, extortion, torture, and murder in Miami in the mid-1990s
• The Pardon (2013) - a woman who overcomes a tragic beginning but was executed for murder.
• Philomena (2013) – British drama film based on the true story of Philomena Lee's 50-year search for her adopted son and Sixsmith's efforts to help her find him
• Prosecuting Casey Anthony (2013) – made-for-television crime film depicting the trial of Casey Anthony for the murder of her daughter, Caylee
• The Railway Man (2013) – British war film based on the 1995 autobiography of the same name by Eric Lomax
• Rush (2013) – British-German biographical sports film centred on the Hunt–Lauda rivalry between two Formula One drivers, the British James Hunt and the Austrian Niki Lauda
• Saving Mr. Banks (2013) – biographical drama film centered on the development of the 1964 film Mary Poppins
• Shootout at Wadala (2013) – Indian Hindi-language biographical-gangster-crime film dramatizing a 1982 encounter by Bombay police in which gangster Manya Surve was shot dead
• Snitch (2013) – action thriller film based on the real experiences of Drug Enforcement Agency informant James Settembrino
• Special 26 (2013) – Indian Hindi-language heist film based on the 1987 Opera House heist where a group posing as CBI officers executed an income tax raid on the jeweler in Bombay
• Tracks (2013) – Australian drama film chronicling Robyn Davidson's nine-month journey on camels across the Australian desert
• U Want Me 2 Kill Him? (2013) (stylised as Uwantme2killhim?) – British drama thriller film based on a true story and follows two teenage schoolboys who are drawn into a complicated world of online chatrooms, eventually leading to bizarre consequences
• Waltz for Monica (2013) – Swedish biographical drama film based on the true life and career of singer and actress Monica Zetterlund
• The Wind Rises (Japanese: 風立ちぬ) – Japanese animated historical drama film about Jiro Horikoshi (1903–1982), designer of the Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft and its successor, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, used by the Empire of Japan during World War II
• Wolf Creek 2 (2013) – Australian horror film based upon the real-life murders of backpackers by Ivan Milat in the 1990s and Bradley Murdoch in 2001
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) – biographical crime film black comedy film based on the 2007 memoir by Jordan Belfort

2014

• 24 Days (French: 24 jours, la vérité sur l'affaire Ilan Halimi) (2014) – French drama film based on The Affair of the Gang of Barbarians of January 2006.
• 50 to 1 (2014) – drama based on the true story of Mine That Bird, an undersized thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2009 Kentucky Derby in one of the biggest upsets in the history of the race
• A Murder Beside Yanhe River (Mandarin: 黃克功案件) (2014) – Chinese historical film based on the murder case of Huang Kegong, who was a general of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
• Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B (2014) – made-for-television biographical film based on the life of R&B music star Aaliyah Dana Haughton, following her rise to fame and tragic death at age 22 when she was killed in a plane crash
• The Admiral: Roaring Currents (Korean: 명량) (2014) – South Korean epic action-war film based on the historical Battle of Myeongnyang
• American Sniper (2014) – biographical war drama film based on the life of Chris Kyle who became the deadliest marksman in U.S. military history with 255 kills from four tours in the Iraq War
• Amour Fou (2014) – Austrian biographical film about the German writer Heinrich von Kleist and his lover Henriette Vogel in the final stages of their lives
• An Honest Liar (2014) – biographical film about the life of former magician, escape artist, and skeptical educator James Randi, in particular the investigations through which Randi publicly exposed psychics, faith healers, and con-artists
• Bad Country (2014) – action film based on the true story of a veteran detective who infiltrates the most powerful criminal enterprise in the South
• Beloved Sisters (German: Die geliebten Schwestern) (2014) – German biographical film based on the life of the German poet Friedrich Schiller and upon his long relationships with two sisters, Caroline and Charlotte von Lengefeld
• Big Eyes (2014) – biographical drama film based on American artist Margaret Keane
• The Brittany Murphy Story (2014) – made-for-television biographical film based on the life of Brittany Murphy
• Cesar Chavez (2014) – Mexican-American biographical film about the life of American labor leader Cesar Chavez, who cofounded the United Farm Workers
• Chaar Sahibzaade (2014) – Indian Punjabi-language 3D animated historical drama based on the sacrifices of the sons of the 10th Sikh guru Guru Gobind Singh
• Che (Persian: چ) (2014) – Iranian biographical war film depicting 48 hours of the life of Mostafa Chamran, who was then defense minister of Iran
• Desert Dancer (2014) – British biographical drama film based on the true story of Afshin Ghaffarian, a young, self-taught dancer in Iran, who risked his life for his dream to become a dancer despite a nationwide dancing ban
• Diplomacy (French & German: Diplomatie) (2014) – French-German historical drama based on the Liberation of Paris and Hitler's response
• Effie Gray (2014) – British biographical film based on the true story of John Ruskin's marriage to Euphemia Gray and the subsequent annulment of their marriage
• Electric Slide (2014) – biographical crime film based on Los Angeles-based bank robber Eddie Dodson, who robbed 64 banks in 1983 before he was caught
• Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014) – romantic thriller film about the life of a surfer who falls in love while working with his brother in Colombia and finds out that the girl's uncle is Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar
• The Face of an Angel (2014) – British psychological thriller film based on the real-life story of the murder of Meredith Kercher in 2007
• Foxcatcher (2014) – biographical sports drama loosely based on the events surrounding multimillionaire John du Pont's 1986 recruitment of Mark Schultz and his older brother David, to help coach U.S. wrestlers for participation in Olympic competition, and the subsequent murder of David Schultz by du Pont in January 1996
• Get on Up (2014) – biographical musical drama film about the life of singer James Brown
• Getúlio (2014) – Brazilian biographical drama about Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas and the events that led to his death
• Gods (Polish: Bogowie) – Polish drama based on the life and career of Polish cardiac surgeon Zbigniew Religa, who performed the first successful heart transplant in Poland in 1987
• Grace of Monaco (2014) – biographical drama film based on former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles de Gaulle in 1962
• Happy Face Killer (2014) – made-for-television film inspired by real-life events of the hunt and capture of serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson
• Heaven Is for Real (2014) – Christian drama film based on Pastor Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent's 2010 book of the same name
• Houdini (2014) – miniseries based on the life of the legendary illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini, from poverty to worldwide fame
• House of Manson (2014) – biographical film based on the life of Charles Manson
• The Imitation Game (2014) – British historical drama film about cryptanalyst Alan Turing, who decrypted German intelligence messages for the British government during World War II
• The Internet's Own Boy (2014) – biographical film based on the life of Aaron Swartz
• Jamesy Boy (2014) – biographical crime film drama depicting the true story of ex-convict James Burns
• Jersey Boys (2014) – musical drama film based on the 2004 Tony Award-winning jukebox musical of the same name about the musical group The Four Seasons
• Kajaki (2014) – British war docu-drama film based on the Kajaki Dam incident, involving Mark Wright and a small unit of British soldiers positioned near the Kajaki Dam, in Helmand province, Afghanistan
• Kid Cannabis (2014) – biographical comedy-drama based on the true story of a teen named Nate Norman who dropped out of high school to build a multimillion-dollar marijuana ring by trafficking drugs with his friends through the woods across the US-Canada international border
• Kill the Messenger (2014) – biographical crime film thriller film about reporter Gary Webb who was found dead in his apartment
• The Letters (2014) – biographical drama film based on the life of Mother Teresa and how Vatican priest Father Celeste van Exem was charged with the task of investigating acts and events following her death
• Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (2014) – made-for-television biographical film based on the true story of Lizzie Borden
• Lonesome Dove Church (2014( - The true story of the formation of the Lonesome Dove Church in Texas.
• Love & Mercy (2014) – biographical drama about musician and songwriter Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys
• Marie's Story (French: Marie Heurtin) (2014) – French biographical film based on the true story of Marie Heurtin, a girl who was born deaf and blind in late 19th century France
• Marvellous (2014) – British made-for-television drama about the life of Neil Baldwin
• Mary Kom (2014) – Indian Hindi-language biographical sports film based on the life of the eponymous boxer Mary Kom
• Million Dollar Arm (2014) – biographical sports drama film based on the true story of baseball pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel who were discovered by sports agent J. B. Bernstein after winning a reality show competition
• The Monuments Men (2014) – American-German war film loosely based on the true story of an Allied group from the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program that is given the task of finding and saving pieces of art and other culturally important items before Nazis destroy or steal them, during World War II
• Mr. Turner (2014) – biographical drama film based around the last twenty-five years of the life and career of painter J. M. W. Turner
• Noble (2014) – biographical film about the true life story of Christina Noble, a children's rights campaigner, charity worker and writer, who founded the Christina Noble Children's Foundation in 1989
• Pawn Sacrifice (2014) – biographical drama film portraying the Cold War-era championship chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky
• The Pilgrim (Portuguese: Não Pare na Pista) (2014) – Brazilian-Spanish biographical drama film about the Brazilian lyricist and novelist Paulo Coelho
• Pride (2014) – British LGBT-related historical comedy-drama film based on the true story of a group of lesbian and gay activists who raised money to help families affected by the British miners' strike in 1984, at the outset of what would become the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign
• Rang Rasiya (2014) – Indian erotic drama film based on the life of the 19th-century Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma
• Return to Zero (2014) – made-for-television drama film based on a true story of writer, Sean Hanish and his pregnant wife, only to have their lives devastated when they learn that the child has died in the womb
• Rosewater – political drama film based on Maziar Bahari's 2009 imprisonment by Iran, connected to an interview he participated in on The Daily Show that same year
• Selma (2014) – historical drama film based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches
• Set Fire to the Stars (2014) – Welsh semi-biographical drama film about Dylan Thomas and John Malcolm Brinnin
• The Tenor – Lirico Spinto (2014) – South Korean biographical film chronicling the life of South Korean tenor Bae Jae-chul who performed in numerous European operas, but lost his voice at the peak of his career due to thyroid cancer
• Testament of Youth (2014) – British drama based on Vera Brittain, an independent young woman who abandoned her studies at Somerville College, Oxford, to become a First World War nurse
• The Theory of Everything (2014) – British biographical romantic drama detailing the life of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking
• Tim Maia (2014) – Brazilian biographical drama film about the life of Brazilian musician Tim Maia
• Timbuktu (2014) – Mauritanian-French drama based on the brief occupation of Timbuktu, Mali by Ansar Dine, and the 2012 public stoning of an unmarried couple in Aguelhok
• The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story (2014) – made-for-television film based on the story of delves into the experiences of six unknown young actors placed into the Hollywood spotlight when they were cast for Saved by the Bell
• Unbroken (2014) – war film about Louis Zamperini who survived in a raft for 47 days after his bomber ditched in the ocean during the Second World War, before being captured by the Japanese and being sent to a series of prisoner of war camps
• United Passions (French: United Passions: La Légende du football) (2014) – French drama about the origins of FIFA
• Wild (2014) – biographical adventure drama film based on Cheryl Strayed and her determination to complete the Pacific Crest Trail by hiking and backpacking after numerous problems left her life in shambles

2015

• 7 Days in Hell (2015) – sports mockumentary film inspired by the Isner–Mahut marathon men's singles match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships
• 10 Days in a Madhouse (2015) – biographical film about undercover journalist Nellie Bly, a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World who had herself committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island to write an exposé on abuses in the institution
• The 33 (Spanish: Los 33) (2015) – Chilean biographical disaster-survival drama film based on the real events of the 2010 Copiapó mining disaster
• A Dark Reflection (2015) – British independent investigative thriller film based on actual events surrounding the issue of Aerotoxic Syndrome
• A Song for Jenny (2015) – British made-for-television film about Julie Nicholson, whose daughter Jenny was murdered in the 7 July 2005 London bombings
• The Adderall Diaries (2015) – Crime drama film based on the memoir by Stephen Elliott depicting his experiences with addiction
• Anton Tchékhov 1890 (2015) – French biographical drama film about Anton Chekhov
• Bajirao Mastani (2015) – Indian Hindi-language epic historical romance film narrating the story of the Maratha Peshwa Bajirao I (1700–1740 AD) and his second wife, Mastani
• Beautiful & Twisted (2015) – made-for-television crime film drama film based on the Murders of Bernice and Ben Novack, Jr.
• Bessie (2015) – made-for-television drama film about the American blues singer Bessie Smith, and focuses on her transformation as a struggling young singer into "The Empress of the Blues"
• The Big Short (2015) – biographical comedy-drama film based on the 2010 book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis showing how the financial crisis of 2007–2008 was triggered by the United States housing bubble
• Black Mass (2015) – biographical crime film drama film about Irish-American mobster Whitey Bulger
• Blood, Sweat & Tears (Dutch: Bloed, zweet & tranen) (2015) – Dutch biographical film about the late Dutch singer André Hazes
• Born to Be Blue (2015) – drama film about American jazz musician Chet Baker
• Bridge of Spies (2015) – historical spy thriller based on the story of lawyer James B. Donovan, who is entrusted with negotiating the release of Francis Gary Powers—a U.S. Air Force pilot whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960—in exchange for Rudolf Abel, a convicted Soviet KGB spy
• Captive (2015) – crime film drama thriller film based on the true story about Brian Nichols, who escapes from the Fulton County courthouse in Atlanta on March 11, 2005, and holds Ashley Smith as a hostage
• Chiamatemi Francesco (2015) – Italian biographical film about Pope Francis
• Child 44 (2015) – mystery thriller film loosely based on the case of Andrei Chikatilo
• The Classified File (Korean: 극비수사) (2015) – South Korean film based on a real life kidnapping case in Busan in 1978
• Cleveland Abduction (2015) – made-for-television crime film drama film based on the Ariel Castro kidnappings
• Coalition (2015) – made-for-television political drama film about the formation of a coalition government following the 2010 United Kingdom general election
• Code of a Killer (2015) – British police drama television series which tells the true story Alec Jeffreys' discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its introductory use by Detective David Baker in catching the double murderer Colin Pitchfork.
• Colonia (2015) – historical thriller film based on the 1973 Chilean military coup and the real "Colonia Dignidad", a notorious cult in the South of Chile, led by German lay preacher Paul Schäfer
• Concussion (2015) – biographical sports film based on the true story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, a forensic pathologist who fights against the National Football League trying to suppress his research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) brain degeneration suffered by professional football players
• Crimea. The Way Home (Russian: Крым. Путь на Родину) (2015) – Russian pseudo-documentary made-for-television film about the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014
• The Curse of Clara: A Holiday Tale (2015) – Canadian made-for-television film based on Vickie Fagan's experience as a young girl studying ballet at Canada's National Ballet School who is cast in the role of Clara in the school's annual production of The Nutcracker
• Cyberbully (2015) – made-for-television film based entirely on real experiences of cyberbullying
• Danny and the Human Zoo (2015) – British drama made-for-television film inspired by Lenny Henry's life as a teenager in 1970s Dudley
• Danny Collins (2015) – comedy-drama film inspired by the true story of folk singer Steve Tilston
• The Danish Girl (2015) – biographical romantic drama film inspired by the lives of Danish painters Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener
• Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors (2015) – made-for-television drama film detailing Dolly Parton's upbringing in 1955 as her family struggles to live in Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains, putting a strain on love and faith
• Eddie the Eagle (2015) – biographical sports film based on the life od Michael Edwards, a British skier who in 1988 became the first competitor to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping since 1928
• The Eichmann Show (2015) – made-for-television drama film based on the true story of how American TV producer Milton Fruchtman and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz came to broadcast the trial of one of World War II's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann, in 1961
• Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015) – biographical romantic comedy-drama film based on Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein
• The End of the Tour (2015) – biographical drama film about writer David Foster Wallace
• Everest (2015) – biographical survival adventure film based on the real events of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, and focuses on the survival attempts of two expedition groups, one led by Rob Hall and the other by Scott Fischer
• Experimenter (2015) – biographical drama film based on the 1961 Milgram experiment
• Felix Manalo – Filipino biographical drama film about the life of Felix Ysagun Manalo, the first Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo
• Freeheld (2015) – drama about police officer Laurel Hester's fight against the Ocean County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders to allow her pension benefits to be transferred to her domestic partner after being diagnosed with terminal cancer
• Full Out (2015) – made-for-television drama based on the life story of American gymnast Ariana Berlin
• The Gamechangers (2015) – made-for-television biographical drama film based on the story of the controversies caused by Grand Theft Auto, a successful video game series, as various attempts were made to halt the production of the games
• I Am Michael (2015) – biographical drama about Michael Glatze, a gay activist who renounces homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor
• I Saw The Light (2015) – biographical drama film about Country music legend Hank Williams
• In the Heart of the Sea (2015) – historical adventure-drama about the sinking of the American whaling ship Essex in 1820, an event that inspired Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick
• Ip Man 3 (2015) – Hong Kong biographical martial arts film based on the life of the Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man
• Jan Hus (2015) – Czech historical made-for-television film based on the life of Jan Hus
• Joy (2015) – biographical comedy-drama film about a struggling single mom of three children, Joy Mangano, who invented the "Miracle Mop" and became the President of Ingenious Designs, LLC
• Kid Kulafu (2015) – Filipino biographical sports drama based on the life of the boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao during his childhood
• Kidnapping Freddy Heineken (2015) – British-Dutch crime film drama based on the 1983 kidnapping of Freddy Heineken
• Killing Jesus (2015) – made-for-television film depicting the life of Jesus of Nazareth through the retelling of the political, social, and historical conflicts during the Roman Empire that ultimately led to his crucifixion
• The Lady in the Van (2015) – British comedy-drama film based on the true story of Alan Bennett and his interactions with Mary Shepherd, an elderly woman who lived in a dilapidated van on his driveway in London for 15 years
• Last Cab To Darwin (2015) – Australian drama inspired by the true story of Max Bell, a taxi driver who traveled from Broken Hill to Darwin to seek euthanasia after he was diagnosed with a terminal illness
• Legend (2015) – British biographical crime film thriller film about the Kray Twins which deals with their career and the relationship that bound them together, and follows their gruesome career to life imprisonment in 1969
• Life (2015) – biographical drama film based on the friendship of Life photographer Dennis Stock and Hollywood actor James Dean
• The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) – British biographical drama about the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, based on the 1991 The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel
• Manjhi – The Mountain Man (2015) – Indian Hindi-language biographical film based on the life of Dashrath Manjhi
• Manto (Urdu: منٹو) (2015) – Pakistani biographical drama film based on the life of Pakistani short-story writer Sadat Hassan Manto
• Mary: The Making of a Princess (2015) – Australian made-for-television film about Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
• McFarland, USA (2015) – sports drama film based on the true story of a 1987 cross country team from a mainly Latino high school in McFarland, California
• The People vs. Fritz Bauer (German: Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer) (2015) – German biographical drama film based on Fritz Bauer
• Persona Non Grata (Japanese: 杉原千畝　スギハラチウネ) (2015) – Japanese biographical drama film based on the life of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who was appointed a vice-consul and later a consul in Lithuania and served there from 1939 to 1940 and who saved lives of some 6,000 Jewish refugees by issuing transit visas to the Japanese Empire
• The Program (2015) – biographical drama about Lance Armstrong
• Queen of the Desert (2015) – epic biographical drama based on the life of British traveller, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer and political officer Gertrude Bell
• The Revenant (2015) – western epic survival drama film based on frontiersman Hugh Glass's experiences in 1823
• Rudramadevi (2015) – Indian Telugu-language 3D biographical action film based on the life of Rudrama Devi, one of the prominent rulers of the Kakatiya dynasty in the Deccan
• The Sound of a Flower (Korean: 도리화가) (2015) – South Korean period drama film based on the life of Jin Chae-seon, who became Joseon's first female pansori singer in 1867
• Spare Parts (2015) – drama based on the true story of a group of students from Carl Hayden High School, who won the first place over M.I.T. in the 2004 MATE ROV competition
• Spotlight (2015) – biographical crime film drama following The Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States, and its investigation into cases of widespread and systemic child sex abuse in the Boston area by numerous Roman Catholic priests
• The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) – docudrama thriller film based on the 1971 Stanford prison experiment, conducted at Stanford University under the supervision of psychology professor Philip Zimbardo, in which students played the role of either a prisoner or prison guard
• Steve Jobs (2015) – biographical drama film covering 14 years (1984–1998) in the life of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs
• Straight Outta Compton (2015) – biographical musical crime film drama depicting the rise and fall of the gangsta rap group N.W.A and its members Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, MC Ren, and DJ Yella
• Suffragette (2015) – historical drama film about women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
• The Throne (Korean: 사도) (2015) – South Korean historical drama film based on King Yeongjo and his son Crown Prince Sado
• True Story (2015) – mystery drama film based on Christian Longo, a man on the FBI's most-wanted list accused of murdering his wife and three children in Oregon
• Trumbo (2015) – biographical drama film based on the life of Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo
• Truth – historical political drama film based on American television news producer Mary Mapes's memoir Truth and Duty: The Press, the President and the Privilege of Power focusing on the Killian documents controversy and the resulting last days of news anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes at CBS News
• The Unauthorized Beverly Hills, 90210 Story (2015) – made-for-television film based on the 1990s television drama Beverly Hills, 90210
• The Unauthorized Full House Story (2015) – made-for-television drama film based on the behind-the-scenes making of the sitcom Full House
• The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story (2015) – made-for-television drama film based on the behind-the-scenes making of the sitcom Melrose Place
• Visaranai (2015) – Indian Tamil-language crime drama film dealing with the lives of two men before and after thrown into a kafkaesque scenario in which they get tortured for confession
• The Walk (2015) – 3D biographical drama film based on the story of 24-year-old French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on August 7, 1974
• Walt Before Mickey (2015) – biographical drama film about the early years of Walt Disney
• Whitney (2015) – made-for-television biographical film based on American singer Whitney Houston and her turbulent marriage to R&B artist Bobby Brown
• Wolf Hall (2015) – British historical drama miniseries documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII through to the death of Sir Thomas More, followed by Cromwell's success in freeing the king of his marriage to Anne Boleyn
• Woman in Gold (2015) – British-American biographical drama based on the true story of Maria Altmann, an elderly Jewish refugee living in Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles, who, together with her young lawyer, Randy Schoenberg, fought the government of Austria for almost a decade to reclaim Gustav Klimt's iconic painting of her aunt Adele Bloch-Bauer which was taken by the Nazi's prior to World War II
• Woodlawn (2015) – Christian sports drama film based on the true story of Tony Nathan and the Woodlawn High Colonels football team as coaches and teammates struggle to ease racial tensions during the 1973 desegregation of the Birmingham, Alabama school system

2016

• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016) – biographical action war film following six members of Annex Security Team who fought to defend the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya after waves of attacks by militants on September 11, 2012
• A United Kingdom (2016) – biographical romantic drama film based on the true-life romance between Seretse Khama, heir to the throne of Bechuanaland (later Botswana, of which he became president), and his wife Ruth Williams Khama
• Airlift (2016) – Indian Hindi-language action thriller film about a Kuwait-based businessman as he carries out the evacuation of Indians based in Kuwait during the Invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein's Iraq which lead to the beginning of the Gulf War
• Aligarh (2016) – biographical drama film based on the true story of Ramchandra Siras, a professor of Marathi and the head of the Classical Modern Indian Languages Faculty at the famed Aligarh Muslim University, who was suspended on grounds of morality
• All the Way (2016) – made-for-television biographical drama film based on events during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson
• Altamira (2016) – Spanish biographical drama film chronicling the groundbreaking discovery of Stone Age cave paintings in the Cave of Altamira in Cantabria, Spain, and the subsequent controversy by leading religious and scientific figures of the day
• Amateur Night (2016) – biographical comedy film based on the early experiences of film writers Joe Syracuse and Lisa Addario in Hollywood
• Anna (2016) – Indian Hindi-language biographical drama film based on the life of Indian social activist Anna Hazare
• Anthropoid (2016) – British-French war film based on the story of Operation Anthropoid, the World War II assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by exile Czechoslovak soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš on May 27, 1942
• Apartment 407 (2016) - Selling Isobel, a thriller based on true events, featuring the real victim in true life playing the main character. It's about a woman who got locked in a soundproof wardrobe, drugged, held against her will and sold for sex to multiple men, for 3 days in an apartment in central London. It's a film about her fight for survival all the way to the resolution.
• Azhar (2016) – Indian Hindi-language biographical sports drama film based on the life of Indian cricketer and former national team captain Mohammad Azharuddin
• Barry (2016) – drama film about Barack Obama's life at Columbia University in 1981
• The Birth of a Nation (2016) – American-Canadian historical drama film based on the story of Nat Turner, the enslaved man who led a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831
• Birth of the Dragon (2016) – martial arts action film based on the supposedly true story revolving around the young martial artist Bruce Lee, who challenged kung fu master Wong Jack-man in 1965 in San Francisco
• Bleed for This (2016) – biographical sports film based on the life of former world champion boxer Vinny Paz
• Brain on Fire (2016) – American-Irish biographical drama film telling the true story of a New York Post writer who begins to suffer a mysterious illness and would have been committed to the psychiatric ward and probably died of encephalitis, if it were not for the efforts and skills of Syrian-American neurologist Souhel Najjar
• Cézanne and I (French: Cézanne et moi) (2016) – French biographical drama film based on the friendship between 19th century novelist Émile Zola and painter Paul Cézanne
• Chocolat (2016) – French drama film loosely based on the real life of Rafael Padilla, a clown who performed in a Paris circus around the 1900s and son of a slave from Cuba, a Spanish colony at the time
• Christine (2016) – British-American biographical drama film about Christine Chubbuck, a news reporter who struggles with depression, along with professional and personal frustrations as she tries to advance her career
• The Chronicles of Melanie (Latvian: Melānijas hronika) (2016) – Latvian biographical drama film based on the real life of Melānija Vanaga
• Chuck (2016) – biographical sports drama film based on the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner and his 1975 title fight with the heavyweight champion, Muhammad Ali, which inspired Sylvester Stallone's character and screenplay for the 1976 film Rocky
• Confirmation – made-for-television political thriller film about Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination hearings, and the controversy that unfolded when Anita Hill alleged she was sexually harassed by Thomas
• The Conjuring 2 (2016) – supernatural horror film based on purportedly real-life reports that inspired The Amityville Horror story
• The Dancer (French: La Danseuse) (2016) – French biographical historical drama film about Loie Fuller
• Dangal (2016) – Indian Hindi-language biographical sports drama film based on Mahavir Singh Phogat, a pehlwani amateur wrestler who trains his daughters Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari to become India's first world-class female wrestlers
• Deepwater Horizon (2016) – biographical disaster film based on the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
• Denial (2016) – biographical film dramatizing the Irving v Penguin Books Ltd case, in which Lipstadt, a Holocaust scholar, was sued by Holocaust denier David Irving for libel
• Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie (2016) – satirical parody film loosely based on the 1987 autobiographical book Trump: The Art of the Deal
• Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet (Korean: 동주) (2016) – South Korean black-and-white biographical period drama film based on the life of poet Yun Dong-ju and his eventual imprisonment by the Japanese government for being involved in the Korean independence movement
• Down by Love (2016) - Based on the life of Sorour Arbabzadeh and Florent Goncalves in 2010, a young woman, Anna Amari, is detained at a prison for women in Versailles, where she encounters Jean Firmino, the prison director. She is sentenced to nine years in prison and they begin an illegal relationship which brings the attention of the authorities onto them.
• Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (German: Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden) (2016) – Austrian-Luxembourgish biographical film based on the life of Egon Schiele
• Ek Thi Marium (Urdu: اک تھی مریم) (2016) – Pakistani made-for-television biographical drama film based on the life of Pakistani female fighter pilot Marium Mukhtiar
• El Inca (2016) – Venezuelan drama about professional boxer Edwin Valero
• Elvis & Nixon (2016) – comedy-drama film based on the 21 December 1970 meeting of Elvis Presley and President Richard Nixon at the White House
• Fanny's Journey (French: Le Voyage de Fanny) (2016) – French-Belgian children's war drama film inspired by an autobiographical book by Fanny Ben Ami, a girl escaping the Holocaust
• The Finest Hours (2016) – action thriller film based on the historic 1952 United States Coast Guard rescue of the crew of SS Pendleton, after the ship split apart during a nor'easter off the New England coast
• Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) – biographical film about Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress known for her poor singing and generosity
• The Founder (2016) – biographical drama film based on a true story about Ray Kroc and the start of the McDonald's franchise
• Free State of Jones (2016) – historical war film inspired by the life of Newton Knight and his armed revolt against the Confederacy in Jones County, Mississippi, throughout the American Civil War
• Genius (2016) – British-American biographical drama film based on the 1978 National Book Award-winner Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg
• Gold (2016) – crime film drama film based on the true story of the 1993 Bre-X mining scandal, when a massive gold deposit was supposedly discovered in the jungles of Indonesia
• Greater (2016) – biographical sports film about American football player Brandon Burlsworth, a walk-on college player who became an All-American, dying in a car crash 11 days after being drafted high in the 3rd round to the National Football League
• Hacksaw Ridge (2016) – American-Australian biographical war film focusing on the World War II experiences of Desmond Doss, an American pacifist combat medic who, as a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, refused to carry or use a weapon or firearm of any kind
• Hands of Stone (2016) – biographical sports film about the career of Panamanian former professional boxer Roberto Durán
• Hidden Figures (2016) – biographical drama film about African American female mathematicians who worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the Space Race
• I'm Gilda (Spanish: Gilda, no me arrepiento de este amor) (2016) – Argentine biographical drama film about the life of tropical singer and songwriter Gilda
• I'm Not Ashamed (2016) – biographical drama film based on the journals of Rachel Scott, the first victim of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Columbine, Colorado
• The Infiltrator (2016) – biographical crime thriller film based on the eponymous autobiography by Robert Mazur, a U.S. Customs special agent, who in the 1980s helped bust Pablo Escobar's money-laundering organization by going undercover as a corrupt businessman
• Jackie (2016) – biographical drama following Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy in the days when she was First Lady in the White House and her life immediately following the assassination of her husband, United States President John F. Kennedy, in 1963
• The Last Descent (2016) – biographical survival drama film based on the 2009 rescue attempt of John Edward Jones in Nutty Putty Cave, west of Utah Lake
• The Last Family (2016) - A Polish biographical film. The true story of the artistic Beksinski family: Zdzislaw, his wife Zofia and their talented yet trouble-making son Tomasz.
• LBJ (2016) – political drama about the beginning of the presidency of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson following the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy
• The Legend of Ben Hall (2016) – Australian bushranger film, based on the exploits of bushranger Ben Hall
• Lion (2016) – Australian-British biographical drama based on the true story of how Saroo Brierley, 25 years after being separated from his family in India, sets out to find them
• The Lost City of Z (2016) – biographical adventure drama film based on the story of Percy Fawcett, who was sent to Brazil and made several attempts to find a supposed ancient lost city in the Amazon
• Loving (2016) – biographical romantic drama film which tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, the plaintiffs in the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court (the Warren Court) decision Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated state laws prohibiting interracial marriage
• Mah e Mir (Urdu: ماہ میر) (2016) – Pakistani biographical film based on the life of the famous poet Mir Taqi Mir
• Masterminds (2016) – crime comedy film based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery in North Carolina
• Maudie (2016) – Irish-Canadian biographical drama film about the life of folk artist Maud Lewis, who painted in Nova Scotia
• Miracles from Heaven (2016) – Christian drama film the true story of Annabel Beam who had a near-death experience and was later cured of an incurable disease
• M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016) – Indian Hindi-language biographical sports drama film based on the life of former Test, ODI and T20I captain of the Indian national cricket team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni
• Neerja (2016) – Indian Hindi-language biographical thriller film based on the attempted hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi, Pakistan by Libyan-backed Abu Nidal Organization on 5 September 1986
• Nelly (2016) – biographical-drama film based on Nelly Arcan, an award-winning Canadian author and former sex worker who committed suicide in 2009
• Neruda (2016) – Spanish-language biographical drama film depicting the dramatic events of the suppression of Communists in Chile in 1948 and how the poet Pablo Neruda had to go on the run, eventually escaping on horseback over the Andes
• The Night Stalker (2016) – biographical drama about the serial killer Richard Ramirez
• Nina (2016) – biographical film about American musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone
• The Odyssey (French: L'Odyssée) (2016) – French-Belgian biographical adventure film based on Jacques-Yves Cousteau, a French ocean-going adventurer, biologist, and filmmaker
• Patriots Day (2016) – action thriller film about the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013 and the subsequent terrorist manhunt
• Pelé: Birth of a Legend (2016) – biographical film about the early life of Brazilian footballer Pelé and his journey with Brazil to win the 1958 FIFA World Cup
• The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016) – true crime miniseries revolving around the O. J. Simpson murder case
• The Promise (2016) – epic historical drama film set in the final years of the Ottoman Empire
• Queen of Katwe (2016) – biographical sports drama film based on the life of Phiona Mutesi, a girl living in Katwe, a slum of Kampala, the capital of Uganda who learns to play chess and becomes a Woman Candidate Master after her victories at World Chess Olympiads
• Race (2016) – biographical sports drama film about African American athlete Jesse Owens, who won a record-breaking four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games
• Ramabai (2016) – Indian Kannada-language biographical film based on the life of Ramabai Ambedkar, the first wife of Indian social reformer and politician B. R. Ambedkar
• Red Dog: True Blue (2016) – Australian family comedy film detailing the early days of the Red Dog, the Pilbara Wanderer
• Riphagen (2016) – Dutch drama film about Dries Riphagen, a Dutch criminal who collaborated with Nazi Germany
• Rudy Habibie (2016) – Indonesian biographical historical drama film about B. J. Habibie
• Rustom (2016) – Indian Hindi-language crime film drama film based on the K. M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra court case
• Sarbjit (2016) – Indian biographical drama film based on Sarabjit Singh, an Indian man who was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 1991 and who consequently spent 22 years in prison for alleged terrorism and spying
• Snowden (2016) – biographical thriller film about Edward Snowden, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) subcontractor and whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) beginning in 2013
• Southside with You (2016) – biographical romantic drama film focusing on the Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson's first date in 1989
• A Street Cat Named Bob (2016) - The true feel-good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, has his life transformed when he meets a stray ginger.
• Strangled (2016) - True story of a serial killer in 1950-60s Hungary.
• Sully (2016) – biographical drama about Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger's January 2009 emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, in which all 155 passengers and crew survived—most suffering only minor injuries—and the subsequent publicity and investigation
• Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel'le (2016) – made-for-television biographical drama based on the true story of R&B singer, Michel'le
• USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016) – war disaster film based on the true story of the loss of the ship of the same name in the closing stages of the Second World War
• Veerappan (2016) – Indian Hindi-language biographical crime film based on the real-life Indian bandit Veerappan and the events leading to Operation Cocoon, a mission to capture and kill him
• War Dogs (2016) – biographical black comedy crime film about two arms dealers, Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz, who receive a U.S. Army contract to supply ammunitions for the Afghan National Army worth approximately $300 million
• Xuanzang (Mandarin: 大唐玄奘) (2016) – Chinese historical adventure film based on Xuanzang's seventeen-year overland journey to India during the Tang dynasty in the seventh century

2017

• 6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain (2017) – survival drama film based on the true story of former professional hockey player Eric LeMarque, who finds himself stranded in the High Sierra during a fierce snowstorm and must use his wit and willpower to survive
• 6 Days (2017) – action thriller film based on the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London
• 9/11 (2017) – drama depicting five elevator passengers trapped during the September 11 attacks
• The 12th Man (2017) - Norwegian historical drama film. Jan Baalsrud, who escapes from occupying Nazi Germans in Rebbenesøya, via Lyngen Fjord and Manndalen, to neutral Sweden in the spring of 1943.
• Above the Law (French: Tueurs) – French-Belgian crime thriller film based on the true story of a career criminal, who commits a bank heist with his crew, and is set up by corrupt police, for the murder of a judge investigating the 30 year old unsolved case of the mass murders of Brabant who had been duped into being at the getaway scene, and for killing bystanders who witness the murder
• Aftermath (2017) – thriller film based on events and persons surrounding the 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision of a passenger airline with a cargo jet, although the names, places, nationalities, and incidents were changed
• The Age of Pioneers (2017) – Russian historical drama film about cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human to perform a spacewalk
• All Eyez on Me (2017) – biographical drama about hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur
• All Saints (2017) – Christian drama about a small-town Tennessee preacher, Michael Spurlock, who attempts to save his struggling church as well as a group of refugees from Karen State, Myanmar, in Southeast Asia
• All the Money in the World (2017) – crime film thriller film depicting the events surrounding the actual 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III in Italy and the refusal of his grandfather, The multi-billionaire oil tycoon, J Paul Getty, to cooperate the extortion demands of the Italian organized crime group known as ‘Ndrangheta
• American Made (2017) – biographical crime film about Barry Seal, a drug-smuggling pilot who became a government informant
• Anarchist from Colony (Korean: Park Yeol) (2017) – South Korean biographical period drama film about the life of independence activist Park Yeol
• Baba Sathya Sai (2017) – Indian biographical film based on the life of Indian spiritual leader Sathya Sai Baba
• Battle of the Sexes (2017) – biographical sports drama of the 1973 exhibition tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs
• The Big Sick (2017) – romantic comedy film loosely based on the real-life romance between Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon, it follows an interethnic couple who must deal with cultural differences after Emily becomes ill
• Bitter Harvest (2017) – romantic-action drama film based in Soviet Ukraine in the early 1930s
• The Black Prince (2017) – historical drama film depicting the story of Duleep Singh, the last Maharajah of the Sikh Empire and the Punjab area, and his relationship with Queen Victoria
• Bobbi Kristina (2017) – biographical drama film based on the life of Bobbi Kristina Brown
• Bomb City (2017) – crime film based on the death of Brian Deneke, the homicide that revealed the cultural clash between the local jocks and the punk community in Amarillo, Texas, and the result from the subsequent court case sparked debate over injustice in the American judicial system
• Borg vs McEnroe (2017) – sports drama film focusing on the famous rivalry between tennis players Björn Borg and John McEnroe at the 1980 Wimbledon Championships
• Breathe (2017) – biographical drama film that tells the story about Robin Cavendish, who became paralysed from the neck down by polio at age 28
• Britney Ever After (2017) – biographical drama film based on the life of Britney Spears
• The Case for Christ (2017) – Christian drama based on the true story that inspired the 1998 book of the same name by Lee Strobel
• Chappaquiddick (2017) – drama starring Jason Clarke as Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, detailing the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident in which Kennedy drove his car into the Poucha Pond, killing Kopechne, as well as the Kennedy family's response
• Churchill (2017) – British historical war-drama film about Winston Churchill in June 1944 – especially in the hours leading up to D-Day
• Cocaine Godmother (2017) – biographical crime drama film based on the life of Griselda Blanco
• The Climb (2017) - A young man from the suburbs with no mountaineering experience decides to climb Mt Everest to show a woman he'd do anything for her.
• Crown Heights (2017) – biographical crime film drama film depicting the true story of Colin Warner who was wrongfully convicted of murder, and how his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving Colin's innocence
• The Current War (2017) – historical drama film inspired by the 19th century competition between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over which electric power delivery system would be used in the United States (often referred to as the "war of the currents")
• Darkest Hour (2017) – war drama set in May 1940, it stars Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill and is an account of his early days as Prime Minister during World War II and the May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis, while Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht swept across Western Europe and threatened to defeat the United Kingdom. The German advance leads to friction at the highest levels of government between those who would make a peace treaty with Adolf Hitler, and Churchill, who refused
• Dating Game Killer (2017) – made-for-television biographical film about serial killer Rodney Alcala
• The Death of Stalin (2017) – British satirical black-comedy film that depicts the power struggle following the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953
• Detroit (2017) – period crime drama film of the Algiers Motel incident during the 1967 Detroit riot
• The Disaster Artist (2017) – comedy-drama film based on Tommy Wiseau's 2003 The Room
• Django (2017) – French biographical drama film about the life of Django Reinhardt
• Dunkirk (2017) – about the Dunkirk evacuation in France during World War II
• England Is Mine (2017) – British biographical drama film, based on the early years of singer Morrissey, before he formed The Smiths in 1982 with Johnny Marr
• Final Portrait (2017) – British-American drama about the friendship between Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker Alberto Giacometti and American writer James Lord
• First They Killed My Father (2017) – story on how they forced 7-year-old Ung, to be trained as a child soldier while my siblings were sent to labor camps
• Flint (2017) – made-for-television drama based on the Flint water crisis
• Gautamiputra Satakarni (transl. Satakarni, son of Gautami) (2017) – Indian Telugu-language epic historical action film based on the life of 2nd century AD Satavahana ruler Gautamiputra Satakarni
• The Glass Castle (2017) – biographical drama based Jeannette Walls' 2005 best-selling memoir of the same name, depicting Wall's childhood, where her family lived in poverty and sometimes as squatters
• Going Vertical (Russian: Dvizhenie vverkh) (2017) – Russian sports drama film about the controversial victory of the Soviet national basketball team over the 1972 U.S. Olympic team, ending their 63-game winning streak, at the Munich Summer Olympic's men's basketball tournament
• Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017) – British biographical drama film about A. A. Milne and his son Christopher Robin Milne, the inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh books
• The Greatest Showman (2017) – musical biographical drama film, inspired by the story of P. T. Barnum's creation of Barnum's American Museum and the lives of its star attractions
• I Am Elizabeth Smart (2017) – made-for-television biographical crime film based on the Kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart
• I, Tonya (2017) – biographical film with elements of black comedy and crime drama, it follows the life of figure skater Tonya Harding and her connection to the 1994 attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017) – made-for-television biographical telling the story of Henrietta Lacks, who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in the 1950s, and whose cancer cells (later known as HeLa) would change the course of cancer treatment
• The Institute (2017) – thriller film about a young girl's stay at The Rosewood Institute
• Jungle (2017) – circa 1981 true story of Yossi Ghinsberg who survived being lost in the Bolivian Jungle
• Loving Pablo (2017) – Spanish biographical crime drama film based on Virginia Vallejo's memoir Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar
• The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) – biographical drama based on the book of the same name by Les Standiford, following Charles Dickens (Stevens) as he conceives and writes A Christmas Carol
• The Man with the Iron Heart (2017) – English-language French-Belgian biographical war-drama-thriller film based on French writer Laurent Binet's novel HHhH, and focuses on Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague during World War II
• Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017) – biographical political thriller film depicting how Mark Felt became the anonymous source nicknamed "Deep Throat" for reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and helped them in the investigation which led them to the Watergate scandal, which resulted in the resignation of President Richard Nixon
• Marshall (2017) – biographical legal drama starring Chadwick Boseman as Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, and focuses on one of the first cases of his career, the State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell
• Megan Leavey (2017) – biographical drama based on the true events about a young female marine named Megan Leavey and a combat dog named Rex
• Menendez: Blood Brothers (2017) – made-for-television biographical film based on the lives of Lyle and Erik Menéndez, two brothers who were convicted of murdering their parents in 1989
• The Mercy (2017) – British biographical drama film based on the true story of the disastrous attempt by the amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst to complete the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in 1968 and his subsequent attempts to cover up his failure
• Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland (2017) – made-for-television biographical film based on the 2014 book, Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days, written by Jackson's personal bodyguards Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard. The film dramatizes Jackson in the final years of his life
• Molly's Game (2017) – biographical crime drama film based on the memoir of the same name by Molly Bloom
• The Most Hated Woman in America (2017) – In 1995, Madalyn Murray O'Hair is kidnapped along with her son Garth and granddaughter Robin by three men
• My Friend Dahmer (2017) – biographical psychological drama film about American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer
• The New Edition Story (2017) – biographical about the R&B group New Edition, from their rise to fame as a boy band from the Orchard Park Projects of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to becoming a successful adult act
• Only the Brave (2017) – The story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire
• Papillon (2017) – biographical drama film telling the story of French convict Henri Charriere, nicknamed Papillon ("butterfly"), who was imprisoned in 1933 in the notorious Devil's Island penal colony and escaped in 1941 with the help of another convict, counterfeiter Louis Dega
• The Pirates of Somalia (2017) – drama about Jay Bahadur and his reporting on piracy in Somalia
• The Polka King (2017) – biographical comedy film about real-life Polish-American polka band leader Jan Lewan, who was imprisoned in 2004 for running a Ponzi scheme
• Poorna: Courage Has No Limit (2017) – Indian Hindi language biographical adventure film with Aditi Inamdar as Malavath Poorna, the youngest girl to climb the Mount Everest.
• The Post (2017) – historical political thriller film starring Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham, the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee, the executive editor of The Washington Post. Set in 1971, The Post depicts the true story of attempts by journalists at The Washington Post to publish the Pentagon Papers, classified documents regarding the 20-year involvement of the United States government in the Vietnam War
• A Prayer Before Dawn (2017) - Billy Moore, a young British boxer and troubled heroin addict, is arrested in Thailand after being charged with possession of stolen goods and a firearm.
• Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) – biographical drama film about William Moulton Marston, the creator of Wonder Woman
• Rebel in the Rye (2017) – biographical drama about the life of writer J. D. Salinger during and after World War II
• Roxanne Roxanne (2017) – drama revolving around the life of rapper Roxanne Shante
• Salyut-7 (2017) – Russian historical drama film about the 1985 Soyuz T-13 mission to the Salyut 7 space station
• Same Kind of Different as Me (2017) – Ron Hall, a successful art dealer, comes to the home of Julio, a man he previously sold a painting to. Julio allows Ron to write a book about his life and a life-changing event he experienced
• Sand Castle (2017) – film centering on Matt Ocre, a young soldier in the United States Army, who is tasked with restoring water to a village in Iraq, based on the true events and the experience of the film's writer Roessner during the Iraq War
• Stronger (2017) – biographical drama film based on the memoir of Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman
• Thank You for Your Service (2017) – biographical war drama based on the 2013 non-fiction book of the same name by David Finkel. Finkel, a Washington Post reporter, wrote about veterans of the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment returning to the vicinity of Fort Riley, Kansas, following a 15-month deployment in Iraq in 2007
• Three Christs (2017) – drama based on Milton Rokeach's nonfiction book The Three Christs of Ypsilanti of three patients whose paranoid schizophrenic delusions cause each of them to believe they are Jesus Christ
• The Upside (2017) – comedy-drama film, a remake of the 2011 French film The Intouchables, which was itself inspired by the life of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo
• Viceroy's House (2017) – British-Indian historical drama film telling the true story of the final months of British rule in India. Viceroy's House in Delhi was the home of the British rulers of India. After 300 years, that rule was coming to an end. For 6 months in 1947, Lord Mountbatten, great-grandson of Queen Victoria, assumed the post of the last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people
• Victoria & Abdul (2017) – British biographical comedy-drama film based on the book of the same name by Shrabani Basu, about the real-life relationship between Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and her Muslim servant Abdul Karim
• War Machine (2017) – satirical war film depicting a fictionalized version of events surrounding Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal in Afghanistan
• Women Walks Ahead (2017) – biographical drama film about the story of Caroline Weldon, a portrait painter who travels from New York to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull in 1890
• The Wizard of Lies (2017) – television biopic film starring Robert De Niro as businessman and fraudster Bernie Madoff, Michelle Pfeiffer as Ruth Madoff and Alessandro Nivola as their older son Mark Madoff
• The Zookeeper's Wife (2017) – war drama telling the true story of how Jan and Antonina Zabiński rescued hundreds of Jews from the Germans by hiding them in their Warsaw Zoo during World War II

2018

• 3 Days in Quiberon (German: v3 Tage in Quiberon) (2018) – German drama film about actress Romy Schneider
• 7 Days in Entebbe (2018) – action thriller film that tells about the story of Operation Entebbe, a 1976 counter-terrorist hostage-rescue operation
• 12 Strong (2018) – action war drama based on the story of U.S. 5th Special Forces Group who were sent to Afghanistan immediately after the September 11 attacks
• The 15:17 to Paris (2018) – biographical drama following Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler, and Alek Skarlatos through life leading up to and including their stopping of the 2015 Thalys train attack
• 22 July (2018) – crime film drama film about the 2011 Norway attacks and their aftermath
• 27 Guns (2018) – action adventure biographical film about Yoweri Museveni and his military colleagues during the Ugandan Bush War
• A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018) – biographical comedy-drama film about comedy writer Douglas Kenny, during the rise and fall of National Lampoon
• A Private War (2018) – biographical war drama film about Marie Colvin, an American journalist for The Sunday Times, visiting the most dangerous countries and documenting their civil wars
• Adrift (2018) – survival drama film based on a true story set during the events of Hurricane Raymond in 1983
• American Animals (2018) – Heist film based on the story of an actual heist which took place at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky in 2004.
• The Angel (2018) – Egyptian-Israeli spy thriller film based on Ashraf Marwan, a high-ranking Egyptian official who became a double agent for both countries and helped achieve peace between the two
• At Eternity's Gate (2018) – French-British biographical drama film about the final years of painter Vincent van Gogh's life
• Beautiful Boy (2018) – biographical drama film based on a father-son relationship increasingly strained by the latter's drug addiction
• Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey (2018) – Canadian-American crime film drama film recounting the true story of Lisa McVey who was abducted and raped for 26 hours by serial killer Bobby Joe Long in 1984
• Billionaire Boys Club (2018) – biographical crime film drama film based on the real life Billionaire Boys Club from Southern California during the 1980s, a group of rich teenagers who get involved in a Ponzi scheme and eventual murder
• Birds of Passage (Spanish: Pájaros de verano) (2018) – epic crime film explores the rise of a Wayuu man and his family as they enter the drug trade, prosper, and slowly lose their traditions and former way of life
• BlacKkKlansman (2018) – biographical crime film set in the early-1970s Colorado Springs, the plot follows Ron Stallworth, the first African-American detective in the city's police department as he sets out to infiltrate and expose the local Ku Klux Klan chapter
• Blaze (2018) – biographical drama film based on the life of country musician Blaze Foley
• Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) – biographical musical drama depicting the story of the life of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the British rock band Queen, from the formation of the band in 1970 up to their 1985 Live Aid performance at the original Wembley Stadium
• Boy Erased (2018) – biographical drama based on the story f the son of Baptist parents who is forced to take part in a gay conversion therapy program
• Burden (2018) – drama based on the story of Mike Burden, an orphan raised within the Ku Klux Klan who attempts to break away when the woman he falls in love with urges him to leave for a better life together
• Brian Banks (2018) – biographical drama film about Brian Banks, a high school football linebacker who was falsely accused of rape and upon his release attempted to fulfil his dream of making the National Football League
• Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) – biographical film based on the story of Lee Israel and her attempts to revitalize her failing writing career by forging letters from deceased authors and playwrights
• The Catcher was a Spy (2018) – American war film about Moe Berg, a former baseball player who joined the war effort during World War II and participated in espionage for the U.S. Government.
• Charlie Says (2018) – biographical drama film about infamous killer, Charles Manson
• City of Lies (2018) – crime thriller film about the investigations by the Los Angeles Police Department of the murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.
• Colette (2018) – biographical drama film based upon the life of French novelist Colette
• Come Sunday (2018) – drama based on Carlton Pearson's excommunication
• Diary of My Mind (French: Journal de ma tête) (2018) – Swiss made-for-television true crime film about a school teacher who must confront the effects of having been made an unwitting accomplice to a murder committed by her student Benjamin, when he confesses to the murder and his motivations in a homework assignment he turned in to her just before committing the crime, based on a true crime story from European history
• Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018) – comedy-drama film following a recently paralyzed alcoholic who finds a passion for drawing off-color newspaper cartoons
• Dovlatov (Russian: Довлатов) (2018) – Russian biographical film about writer Sergei Dovlatov
• The Drug King (Korean: 마약왕) (2018) – South Korean crime film drama film depicting the true life story of Lee Doo-sam, a drug smuggler building his empire in Busan's crime underworld in the 1970s
• The Favourite (2018) – period black comedy film set in early 18th-century England, the film's plot examines the relationship between two cousins, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough and Abigail Masham, who are vying to be Court favourites of Queen Anne
• First Man (2018) – biographical drama film exploring the years leading up to the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in 1969
• First Name: Mathieu (French: Prénom: Mathieu) (2018) – Swiss made-for-television true crime film based on the real life case of serial killer Michel Peiry
• The Front Runner (2018) – political drama film chronicling the rise of American Senator Gary Hart, a candidate to be the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, and his subsequent fall from grace when media reports suggested he was having an extramarital affair
• Girl in the Bunker (2018) – made-for-television film depicting the kidnapping of 14-year-old Elizabeth Shoaf
• Gold (2018) – Indian Hindi-language period-sports drama film based on the journey of India's first national hockey team to the 1948 Summer Olympics
• Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer (2018) – drama based on the real life events about Kermit Gosnell, a physician and abortion provider who was convicted of first degree murder in the deaths of three infants born alive, involuntary manslaughter in the death of a patient undergoing an abortion procedure, 21 felony counts of illegal late-term abortion, and 211 counts of violating a 24-hour informed consent law
• Gotti (2018) – biographical crime film about New York City mobster John Gotti
• Goyo: The Boy General (Fillipino: Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral) (2018) – Filipino historical epic film about Gregorio del Pilar, who died during the historic Battle of Tirad Pass in the Philippine–American War
• Green Book (2018) – biographical comedy-drama film inspired by the true story of a tour of the Deep South by African American classical and jazz pianist Don Shirley and Italian American bouncer Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, who served as Shirley's driver and bodyguard
• The Happy Prince (2018) – biographical drama film about Oscar Wilde
• Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance (2018) – made-for-television film about the meeting and courtship of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
• Hotel Mumbai (2018) – Australian-American-Indian action thriller film inspired by the 2009 documentary Surviving Mumbai about the 2008 Mumbai attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India
• Hurricane (2018) – Polish-British biographical war drama depicting the experiences of a group of Polish pilots of No. 303 Squadron RAF (Dywizjon 303) in the Battle of Britain in the Second World War
• I Can Only Imagine (2018) – Christian biographical drama based on the story behind the group MercyMe's song of the same name, the best-selling Christian single of all time
• Indivisible (2018) – Christian drama based on the true story of Darren Turner. It follows an Army chaplain as he struggles to balance his faith and the Iraq War
• In Like Flynn (2018) – Australian biographical film about the early life of actor Errol Flynn
• Killed by My Debt (2018) – British made-for-television drama based on the life of Jerome Rogers who died by suicide aged twenty having accrued debts of over £1,000 stemming from two unpaid £65 traffic fines
• King of Thieves (2018) - A British heist film,The film is based on the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary of 2015.
• Kursk (2018) – Belgian-French-Luxembourgish disaster drama-thriller film depicting the true story of the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster
• Le Mans 1955 (2018) – computer-animated short film inspired by the 1955 Le Mans disaster
• Leto (transl. Summer) (2018) – Russian musical film depicting the Leningrad underground rock scene of the early 1980s, drawing loosely from the lives of the Soviet rock musicians Viktor Tsoi and Mike Naumenko
• Lizzie (2018) – biographical thriller film based on the true story of Lizzie Borden, who was accused and acquitted of the axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892
• Mahanati (transl. The great actress) (2018) – Indian Telugu-language biographical drama based on the life of Indian actress Savitri
• Mary Queen of Scots (2018) – historical drama film about Mary, Queen of Scots and her cousin Queen Elizabeth I and chronicling the 1569 conflict between their two countries
• May the Lord Be with Us (Czech: Bůh s námi - od defenestrace k Bílé hoře) (2018) – Czech made-for-television historical drama film set during Bohemian Revolt that triggered Thirty Years' War
• Metanol (2018) – Czech made-for-television drama focusing on the 2012 Czech Republic methanol poisonings
• Midnight Runner (2018) - One of the best runners in Switzerland tries to overcome the loss of his brother by robbing innocent women at night. Based on a true story.
• The Miracle Season (2018) – sports drama film based on the true story of the Iowa City West High School volleyball team after the sudden death of the team's heart and leader, Caroline Found, in 2011
• The Mule (2018) – crime drama film which recounts the story of Leo Sharp, a World War II veteran who became a drug courier for the Sinaloa Cartel in his 80s
• My Dinner with Hervé (2018) – made-for-television drama based on the later days of actor Hervé Villechaize
• No One Would Tell (2018) – made-for-television film based on the true story of Jamie Fuller, a 16-year-old high school student who murdered his 14-year-old girlfriend
• The Old Man & the Gun (2018) – biographical crime filmabout Forrest Tucker, a career criminal and escape artist
• Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero (2018) - computer-animated adventure film centering on the real-life Sergeant Stubby, a stray Boston Terrier.
• On My Skin (Italian: Sulla mia pelle) (2018) – Italian drama based on the real story of the last days of Stefano Cucchi, a 31-year-old building surveyor who died in 2009 during preventive custody, victim of police brutality
• On the Basis of Sex (2018) – biographical legal drama film based on the life and early cases of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1993 to her death in 2020, and became the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court
• Operation Finale (2018) – historical drama film that follows the efforts of Israeli Mossad officers to capture former SS officer Adolf Eichmann in 1960
• Outlaw King (2018) – British-American historical action drama film about Robert the Bruce, the 14th-century Scottish King who launched a guerrilla war against the larger English army. The film largely takes place during the 3-year historical period from 1304, when Bruce decides to rebel against the rule of Edward I over Scotland, thus becoming an "outlaw", up to the 1307 Battle of Loudoun Hill
• Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran (2018) – Indian Hindi-language historical action drama film based on India's second secret nuclear test series in Pokhran, Rajasthan in 1998
• Paterno (2018) – made-for-television drama about former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, and his career leading up to his dismissal following the university's child sex abuse scandal in 2011
• Raazi (2018) – Indian Hindi-language spy thriller film about an Indian spy married to a Pakistani man during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
• Red Joan (2018) – British spy drama film inspired by the life of Melita Norwood who worked at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association as a secretary and supplied the Soviet Union with nuclear secrets
• Riot (2018) – Australian made-for-television drama about the LGBTI rights movement in the 1970s and the beginnings of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
• Sanju (2018) – Indian Hindi-language biogrophical comedy drama film depicting the life of Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, his addiction with drugs, arrest for his association with the 1993 Bombay bombings, relationship with his father, comeback in the industry, the eventual drop of charges from the Bombay bombings, and release after completing his jail term
• Sirius (2018) – Swiss made-for-television true crime film based on the Order of the Solar Temple fires at Salvan in 1994
• Skin (2018) – biographical drama following the life of Bryon Widner, a former member of a Neo-Nazism-influenced skinhead group
• Soorma (transl. Warrior) (2018) – Indian Hindi-language biographical sports drama film based on the life of and return of hockey player Sandeep Singh
• Stan and Ollie (2018) – biographical comedy-drama based on the later years of the lives of the comedy double act Laurel and Hardy
• Stockholm (2018) - The film is loosely based on the true story of the 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm.
• Tag (2018) – comedy film based on the true story that was published in The Wall Street Journal about a group of grown men who spend one month a year playing the game of tag
• Traffic Ramasamy (2018) – Indian Telugu-language biographical film based on the real-life story of the veteran social activist K. R. Ramaswamy who received the nickname of Traffic Ramaswamy for his activism in controlling traffic related issues in Tamil Nadu
• Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018) – Christian drama that acts as a sequel to the 2014 film Unbroken, although none of the original cast or crew returns except the producer Matthew Baer, and actors Vincenzo Amato and Maddalena Ischiale. The film chronicles Louis Zamperini following his return from World War II, his personal struggles to adjust back to civilian life and his eventual conversion to evangelical Christianity after attending one of Billy Graham's church revivals
• Vice (2018) – biographical comedy-drama film following Dick Cheney on his path to become the most powerful Vice President in American history
• Vita and Virginia (2018) – British biographical romantic drama based on the love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
• Waco (2018) – American television miniseries dramatizes the 1993 standoff between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas.
• Welcome to Marwen (2018) – drama inspired by the true story of Mark Hogancamp, a man struggling with PTSD who, after being physically assaulted, creates a fictional village to ease his trauma
• White Boy Rick (2018) – biographical crime drama film based on a true story, the film stars Richie Merritt as Richard Wershe Jr., who in the 1980s became the youngest FBI informant ever at the age of 14
• The White Crow (2018) – British-French biographical drama film chronicling the life and dance career of ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev
• Winchester (2018) – supernatural horror film based on the life of Sarah Winchester and follows her as she is haunted by spirits inside her San Jose mansion in 1906

2019

• 4x4 (2019) – Argentine-Spanish thriller crime film based on Ciro, a criminal who breaks into a 4x4 pickup truck owned by an obstetrician medic Enrique Ferrari to steal a car stereo
• 15 Minutes of War (French: L'intervention) (2019) – French-Belgian war film based on real events known at the Prise d'otages de Loyada
• 72 Hours: Martyr Who Never Died (2019) – Indian Hindi-language biographical film based on the life and times of rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat, who fought against the enriching Chinese army during the 1962 Sino-Indian War
• 1917 (2019) – American-British war film based in part on an account told to Mendes by his paternal grandfather, Alfred Mendes, and chronicles the story of two young British soldiers during World War 1 who are given a mission to deliver a message. This warns of an ambush during a skirmish, soon after the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line during Operation Alberich in 1917
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) – biographical drama based on Lloyd Vogel, a troubled journalist for Esquire who is assigned to profile television icon Fred Rogers
• A Call to Spy (2019) – historical drama film inspired by the true stories of three women who worked as spies in World War II
• A Girl from Mogadishu (2019) – Irish-Belgian semi-biographical film based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed, who having escaped war-torn Somalia, emerged as one of the world's foremost international activists against gender-based violence
• A Hidden Life (2019) – epic historical drama film based on the life of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer and devout Catholic who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II
• A Regular Woman (German: Nur eine Frau) (2019) – German biographical film based on the life of Hatun "Aynur" Sürücü who was killed by her brother in an honor killing
• Abigail (2019) – a short drama film inspired by a true story dealing with the subject matter of end-of-life decisions.
• Abducted: The Mary Stauffer Story (2019) – based on the true story of the kidnapping of Mary and Elizabeth Stauffer at the hands of Ming Sen Shiue
• Above Suspicion (2019) – crime thriller film based upon Joe Sharkey's non-fiction book of the same name revolving around the murder of Susan Smith
• The Accidental Prime Minister (2019) – Indian Hindi-language biographical drama film about Manmohan Singh, the economist and politician who served as the 13th Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014 under the United Progressive Alliance
• The Act (2019) – true crime drama miniseries based on the real life of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and the murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, who was accused of abusing her daughter by fabricating illness and disabilities as a direct consequence of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
• Adults in the Room (Greek: Enílikoi stin aíthous) (2019) – French-Greek film based on the 2015 Greek bailout
• The Aeronauts (2019) – biographical adventure film follows the balloon expedition of James Glaisher, whose life goal is to travel into the sky to predict the weather and breaks the world record for altitude after reaching a height of 36,000 feet
• Amundsen (2019) – Norwegian biographical film that details the life of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen
• An Officer and a Spy (French: J'Accuse) (2019) – French historical drama film about the Dreyfus affair
• Apache: The Life of Carlos Tevez (Spanish: Apache: La vida de Carlos Tevez) (2019) – Argentine miniseries about Carlos Tevez's rise as a football player amid the conditions in Argentina's Ejército de Los Andes, better known as Fuerte Apache
• Article 15 (2019) – Indian Hindi-language crime drama film inspired by multiple real-life cases involving crimes driven by caste-based discrimination, including the 2014 Badaun gang rape allegations and 2016 Una flogging incident.
• Bad Education (2019) – crime drama film based on the true story of the largest public school embezzlement in American history
• The Balkan Line (Russian: Балканский рубеж) (2019) – Russian-Serbian film depicting a secret operation to capture Slatina Airport in Kosovo after the bombing of Yugoslavia, led by Yunus-bek Yevkurov
• Batla House (2019) – Indian Hindi-language action thriller film inspired by the Batla House encounter case that took place on 19 September 2008
• The Battle of Jangsari (Korean: 장사리) (2019) – Korean action-war film telling the true story of a group of 772 student soldiers who staged a small diversionary operation at Jangsari beach in Yeongdeok to draw away North Korean attention from Incheon.
• The Best of Enemies (2019) – drama which focuses on the rivalry between civil rights activist Ann Atwater and Ku Klux Klan leader C. P. Ellis
• Blinded by the Light (2019) – British comedy-drama film inspired by the life of journalist Sarfraz Manzoor and his love of the works of Bruce Springsteen
• Bolden (2019) – drama film based on the life of cornetist Buddy Bolden
• Bombshell (2019) – biographical drama film based upon the accounts of the women at Fox News who set out to expose CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019) – British drama film based on the memoir The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
• Brave Father Online: Our Story of Final Fantasy XIV (2019) – Japanese comedy drama film based on a Japanese television drama miniseries Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light, which is based on blog post Dad of Light written by Maidy
• Breakthrough (2019) – Christian drama film about St. Louis author Joyce Smith's son John who slipped through an icy lake in January 2015 and was underwater for 15 minutes before resuscitative efforts were started. Although being rescued, he is in a coma, and his family must rely on their faith to get through the ordeal
• Brecht (2019) – German made-for-television biographical film dealing with the life and work of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht
• Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019) – British made-for-television drama film based on the lead-up to the 2016 referendum through the activities of the strategists behind the Vote Leave campaign, that prompted the United Kingdom to exit the European Union, known as Brexit
• Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) – Comedy film based on the true story of an overweight woman in New York City who sets out to lose weight and train for the city's annual marathon
• Brotherhood (2019) – Canadian drama based on the true story of a group of youth at a summer camp on Balsam Lake in the Kawartha Lakes, who had to fight for survival when an unforeseen thunderstorm overwhelmed their canoe trip
• Capsized: Blood in the Water (2019) – biographical natural horror-survival film, based on the 1982 true story of a small boat crew aboard a private yacht who are stranded in shark infested waters, following a storm that overturns their vessel
• Catherine the Great (2019) – British-American drama miniseries depicts Empress Catherine II of Russia’s reign from 1764, two years after taking power, until her death in 1796.
• The Cave (Thai: นางนอน) (2019) – Thai action-drama film about the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand
• Cherkasy (2019) – Ukrainian drama film about the defense of the eponymous naval Natya-class minesweeper, blocked by Russian troops in Donuzlav Bay, Crimea during the 2014 capture of Southern Naval Base
• Chernobyl (2019) – historical drama miniseries revolving around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed
• Claws of the Red Dragon (2019) – Canadian made-for-television drama film depicting a fictionalization of the political and diplomatic issues surrounding the 2018 arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
• Close (2019) – action thriller based on Jacquie Davis, one of the world's leading female bodyguards, whose clients have included J. K. Rowling, Nicole Kidman, and members of the British royal family
• The College Admissions Scandal (2019) – made-for-television film is based on the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal
• Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019) – Australian war film about the Battle of Long Tan during the Vietnam War
• Daniel (Danish: Ser du månen, Daniel) (2019) – Danish biographical film about Daniel Rye who was held hostage by ISIS for 13 months.
• Dark Waters (2019) – legal thriller film based on Robert Bilott's real-life legal battle against DuPont over the release of a toxic chemical into Parkersburg, West Virginia's water supply, affecting 70,000 townspeople and livestock
• Dauntless: The Battle of Midway (2019) – Action film based on a true story of United States Navy aviators at the Battle of Midway
• Death of a Cheerleader (2019) – made-for-television film about the Murder of Kirsten Costas
• The Devil Has a Name (2019) – dark comedy based on the decades-long legal battle between Fred Starrh and Aera Energy over allowing 600 million barrels of oil waste, from unlined wastewater ponds, to contaminate California's Central Valley groundwater where more than half the nuts, fruits and vegetables in the U.S. are grown
• The Dirt (2019) – biographical comedy-drama film about Heavy metal band Mötley Crüe
• Dolemite Is My Name (2019) – biographical comedy film about filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore, best known for portraying the character of Dolemite in both his stand-up routine and a series of blaxploitation films, starting with Dolemite in 1975
• Effigy: Poison and the City (German: Effigie – Das Gift und die Stadt) (2019) – German-American historical thriller film about German 19th century female serial killer Gesche Gottfried
• Elcano & Magellan: The First Voyage Around the World (Spanish: Elcano y Magallanes: La primera vuelta al mundo) (2019) – Spanish computer-animated adventure film telling the story of 1519 circumnavigation led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano
• Elisa & Marcela (Spanish: Elisa y Marcela) (2019) – Spanish biographical romantic drama film based on the story of Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, two women who posed as a heterosexual couple in order to marry in 1901 at the Church of Saint George in A Coruña becoming the first same-sex matrimony recorded in Spain
• En el corredor de la muerte (2019) – Docudrama miniseries depicting the judicial case that began in 1994 when club owner Casimir Sucharski and dancers Sharon Anderson and Marie Rodgers were found shot to death in Sucharski's house in Miramar, Florida
• Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter (2019) – made-for-television biographical film based on Catherine and India Oxenberg and their story of escaping the NXIVM cult
• Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) – biographical crime thriller film about the life of serial killer Ted Bundy
• The Farewell (2019) – A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark. Based on Director Lulu Wong's real life.
• Fighting with My Family (2019) – British-American biographical sports comedy-drama film based on the WWE career of English professional wrestler Paige
• Fisherman's Friend's (2019) – British biographical comedy-drama based on a true story about Port Issac's Fisherman's Friends, a group of Cornish fishermen from Port Issac who were signed by Universal Records and achieved a top 10 hit with their debut album of traditional sea shanties
• Ford v Ferrari (2019) – sport drama film about automotive designer Carroll Shelby and race car driver Ken Miles, who lead a team of American engineers and designers from Ford to build a race car that can beat legendary Ferrari
• Fosse/Verdon (2019) – biographical miniseries which tells the story of director–choreographer Bob Fosse and actress and dancer Gwen Verdon's troubled personal and professional relationship
• The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019) – Korean action thriller film based on a true story from 2005 three characters: a serial killer, the gangster who was almost a victim of the killer and the cop who wants to arrest the killer
• Goalie (2019) – Canadian biographical sports film about the hockey goaltender Terry Sawchuk
• The Golden Glove (German: Der Goldene Handschuh) (2019) – German-French horror drama film depicting the story of German serial killer Fritz Honka who murdered four women between 1970 and 1975 and hid the parts of dead bodies in his apartment
• The Great War of Archimedes (2019) – Japanese historical film about the building of the battleship Yamato and the political maneuvers, specifically around budget and cost issues, that led to the decision to build the ship.
• Gumnaami (2019) – Indian Bengali-language biographical mystery film based on the mystery of Netaji's death, based on the Mukherjee Commission hearings and the book Conundrum written by Anuj Dhar and Chandrachur Ghose
• Harriet (2019) – biographical drama film based on the life of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery and led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad
• The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019) – horror thriller film based on the 1969 Tate murders mixed with fictional elements
• Hell on the Border (2019) – Western film based on the true story of Bass Reeves, the first African-American deputy U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi River.
• The Highwaymen (2019) – historical crime film drama film about two former Texas Rangers who attempt to track down and apprehend notorious criminals Bonnie and Clyde in the 1930s
• Hustlers (2019) – crime film comedy-drama film which follows a crew of New York City strippers who begin to steal money by drugging stock traders and CEOs who visit their club, then running up their credit cards
• I Am the Night (2019) – drama miniseries inspired by the memoir One Day She'll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel, written by Fauna Hodel, documenting her unusual beginnings and the connection to her grandfather, George Hodel, a prime suspect in the infamous Black Dahlia murder mystery
• I Am Somebody's Child: The Regina Louise Story (2019) – made-for-television film based on the life of Regina Louise
• I Am Woman (2019) – Australian biographical film about Australian feminist icon Helen Reddy
• Ip Man 4: The Finale (Mandarin: 葉問4：完結篇) (2019) – Chinese martial arts film, the fourth and final film in the Ip Man film series based on the life of the Wing Chun grandmaster of the same name
• The Irishman (2019) – epic crime drama film about Frank Sheeran, a truck driver who becomes a hitman involved with mobster Russell Bufalino and his crime family, including his time working for the powerful Teamster Jimmy Hoffa
• John the Apostle, the Most Beloved (Spanish: Juan Apóstol, el más amado) (2019) – Mexican made-for-television film based on the life of John the Apostle
• Judy (2019) – biographical drama film about American singer and actress Judy Garland
• Just Mercy (2019) – biographical legal drama film based on Bryan Stevenson's 2014 eponymous memoir, in which he explored his journey to making his life's work the defense of African American prisoners
• Kardec (2019) – Brazilian drama about Léon Denizard Rivail, a French educator who, when studying the phenomenon of “Spinning tables”, discovers that there is the possibility of communicating with the spirits
• Kesari (2019) – Indian Hindi-language action-war film following the events leading to the Battle of Saragarhi, a battle between 21 soldiers of the 36th Sikhs of the British Indian Army and 10,000 Afridi and Orakzai Pashtun tribesmen in 1897
• The Kid (2019) – semi-biographical western action film centering around Rio Cutler who forms and unlikely alliance with local sheriff Pat Garret and infamous outlaw Billy the Kid in a mission to rescue his sister Sara from Grant Cutler, the boy's thuggish uncle and gang leader
• The Kill Team (2019) – war film, a fictionalised adaption of the events explored by an earlier documentary of the same name
• The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain (2019) – biographical drama based on the police shooting of Chamberlain in 2011
• The King (2019) – epic war film based on King Henry V of England
• Kingdom (Japanese: キングダム) (2019) – Japanese action adventure film that portrays the life of Li Xin, a general of Qin, from his childhood as an orphan through his military career during the Warring States period of ancient China
• Lakshmi's NTR (2019) – Indian Telugu-language biographical drama film based on the life of former film actor and chief minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh, N. T. Rama Rao
• Lancaster Skies (2019) – British war film focusing on the British bomber campaign in World War II
• The Last Vermeer (2019) – drama film based on the story of Han van Meegeren, an art maker who swindled millions of dollars from the Nazis, alongside Dutch Resistance fighter Joseph Piller
• The Laundromat (2019) – biographical comedy-drama film based on the Panama Papers scandal
• The Last Full Measure (2019) – war drama that tells the true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen (also known as a PJ) who personally saved over sixty men and flew on almost 300 rescue missions during the war to aide downed soldiers and pilots
• The Lighthouse (2019) – American-Canadian horror psychological thriller survival film about two lighthouse keepers start to lose their sanity when a storm strands them on the remote island on which they are stationed (based, in part, on the Smalls Lighthouse incident, which occurred in 1801)
• Lillian (2019) – Austrian drama film inspired by the true story of Lillian Alling, an Eastern European immigrant to the United States who, in the 1920s, attempted a return by foot to her homeland. Starting in New York, she walked across the United States and Canada trying to cross the Bering Strait
• The Loudest Voice (2019) – drama biographical miniseries depicting Roger Ailes as he creates and guides the rise of Fox News
• Love You to Death (2019) – made-for-television crime film drama depicting the events of the Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard
• Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi (2019) – Indian Hindi-language period drama film based on the life of Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi
• Maria's Paradise (Finnish: Marian paratiisi) (2019) – Finnish drama based on the life of Maria Åkerblom
• Mercy Black (2019) – horror film loosely based on the story was Mary Bell, who had murdered two toddlers when she was a child. Bell had been granted a new identity after being released from jail, but tabloid reporters discovered her new identity
• Midway (2019) – war film based on the attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Battle of Midway during World War II
• Military Wives (2019) – British comedy-drama film inspired by the true story of the Military Wives Choir
• Mission Mangal (2019) – Indian Hindi-language drama film loosely based on the life of scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation who contributed to India's first interplanetary expedition Mars Orbiter Mission
• Moffie (2019) – South African-British biographical war romantic drama film revolving around two gay characters Nicholas van der Swart and Dylan Stassen who attempt to come to terms with their homosexuality
• Mosul (2019) – Arabic-language war action film based on the 2016 Battle of Mosul, which saw Iraqi Government forces and coalition allies defeat ISIS who had controlled the city since June 2014
• Mr Jones (2019) – biographical thriller film that tells the story of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, who in 1933 travels to the Soviet Union and Ukraine and uncovers the Soviet famine of 1932–33
• Mrs Lowry & Son (2019) – biographical drama set in Pendlebury Greater Manchester, chronicling the life of the renowned artist L. S. Lowry
• The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson (2019) – crime film horror film based on the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, presenting an alternative theory of who her killer could have been, serial killer Glen Edward Rogers, as opposed to the main suspect, her ex-husband, O. J. Simpson
• My Name is Sara (2019) - An american biographical drama film.It is based on the life of Holocaust survivor Sara Góralnik.
• NTR: Kathanayakudu (transl. NTR: The Hero) (2019) – Indian Telugu-language biographical film, based on the real life and acting career of N. T. Rama Rao
• NTR: Mahanayakudu (transl. NTR: The Great Leader) (2019) – Indian Telugu-language biographical film, based on the real life and political career of N. T. Rama Rao
• Official Secrets (2019) – British-American docudrama based on the life of whistleblower Katharine Gun who leaked a memo detailing that the United States had eavesdropped on diplomats from countries tasked with passing a second United Nations resolution on the invasion of Iraq
• Oh Mercy! (French: Roubaix, une lumière) (2019) – French crime film drama film inspired by the 2008 TV documentary Roubaix, commissariat central, directed by Mosco Boucault.
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) – comedy-drama film featuring multiple storylines in a modern fairy tale tribute to the final moments of Hollywood's golden age, highlighting Sharon Tate
• Once Upon a Time in London (2019) – British crime film about the notorious gangsters Billy Hill and Jack Comer
• Our Friend (2019) – biographical drama film based on Matthew Teague's 2015 Esquire article "The Friend: Love Is Not a Big Enough Word"
• Panipat (2019) – Indian Hindi-language epic war film depicting the events that took place during the Third Battle of Panipat
• Patsy & Loretta (2019) – made-for-television biographical film based on the friendship between country singers Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn
• The Professor and the Madman (2019) – biographical drama film about the professor, James Murray, who in 1879 began compiling the Oxford English Dictionary and led the overseeing committee, and W. C. Minor, a doctor who submitted over 10,000 entries while he was undergoing treatment at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum
• Radioactive (2019) – British biographical film based on the life of Marie Curie
• The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019) – spy thriller film which is loosely based on the events of Operation Moses and Operation Joshua in 1984–1985, in which the Mossad covertly evacuated Jewish Ethiopian refugees to Israel
• The Report (2019) – drama following staffer Daniel Jones and the Senate Intelligence Committee as they investigate the CIA's use of torture following the September 11 attacks
• Richard Jewell (2019) – biographical drama film depicting the Centennial Olympic Park bombing and its aftermath during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, in which security guard Richard Jewell found a bomb and alerted authorities to evacuate, only to later be wrongly accused of having placed the device himself
• Ride Like a Girl (2019) – Australian biographical sports drama based on the true story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup in 2015
• Robert the Bruce (2019) – historical drama war film concerning the renowned king of the same name
• Rocketman (2019) – biographical musical drama based on the life of musician Elton John
• Roe v. Wade (2019) - Dramatization of the 1973 landmark decision of the same name, rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions.
• Run This Town (2019) – drama based on the final year of Rob Ford's tenure as the mayor of Toronto
• Samurai Marathon (Japanese: サムライマラソン) (2019) – Japanese-British historical action adventure film inspired by the origin story of the Ansei Toashi 30-km footrace held annually in Annaka City
• Seberg (2019) – Political thriller film about Jean Seberg, who in the late 1960s was targeted by the FBI because of her support of the civil rights movement and romantic involvement with Hakim Jamal, among others
• The Shiny Shrimps (French: Les Crevettes pailletées) (2019) – French sports comedy film about an Olympic swimming champion who makes a homophobic comment in a television interview, and is disciplined by the national swim team with the responsibility of coaching a gay water polo team who aspire to compete in the Gay Games, loosely based on Cédric Le Gallo's real-life water polo team
• The Sholay Girl (2019) – Indian Hindi-language biographical period drama film based on India's first stuntwoman, Reshma Pathan
• Shooting Clerks (2019) – British-American biographical comedy-drama film detailing how Kevin Smith bankrolled his $27,000 first film with maxed-out credit cards and garnered career-making critical attention at the Sundance Film Festival when Clerks debuted there in 1994
• Sister Aimee (2019) – biographical film dramatizing the disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
• Soldier Boy (Russian: Солдатик) (2019) – Russian drama film based on the real-life story of the youngest soldier in World War II, Sergei Aleshkov, who was only 6 years old
• Song Without a Name (Spanish: Canción sin nombre) (2019) – Peruvian drama film based on true event of an indigenous Andean woman whose newborn baby is whisked away moments after its birth in a downtown Lima clinic - and never returned
• The Souvenir (2019) – drama film depicting a semi-autobiographical account of Joanna Hogg's experiences at film school
• Spread Your Wings (2019) - Based on the real story of Christian, a specialist on wild goose migrations, and the adventure he and his son embarked.
• The Spy (2019) – French espionage-thriller drama miniseries based on the life of Israel's top Mossad spy Eli Cohen
• Super 30 (2019) – Indian Hindi-language biographical drama narrating the life of mathematician Anand Kumar and his educational program of the same name
• Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy (2019) – Indian Telugu-language historical action film inspired by the life of Indian independence activist Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy from the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh
• Tashkent Files (2019) – Indian Hindi-language conpiracy thriller film about the death of former Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Thackeray (2019) – Indian biographical film following the life of Balasaheb Thackeray, the founder of the Indian political party Shiv Sena
• Togo (2019) – drama about "two key figures in the 1925 serum run to Nome, also known as the Great Race of Mercy, in which dog-sled teams relayed to transport diphtheria antitoxin serum through harsh conditions over nearly 700 miles to save the Alaskan town of Nome from an epidemic sickness
• Tolkien (2019) – biographical drama film about the early life of English professor J. J. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as notable academic works
• The Traitor (2019) – Italian biographical crime film drama film about the life of Tommaso Buscetta, the first Sicilian Mafia boss who was treated by some as pentito
• Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story (2019) – biographical drama film about Alex Cooper's experience in being sent to a conversion therapy home and the brutalities she endured while there
• The Trial of Christine Keeler (2019) – British drama miniseries based on the chain of events surrounding the Profumo affair in the 1960s.
• True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) – British-Australian biographical western film based on the story of Australian bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang as they flee from authorities during the 1870s
• The Two Popes (2019) – biographical drama film predominantly set in the Vatican City in the aftermath of the Vatican leaks scandal, the film follows Pope Benedict XVI as he attempts to convince Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio to reconsider his decision to resign as an archbishop as he confides his own intentions to abdicate the papacy
• Union of Salvation (Russian: Союз спасения) (2019) – Russian war epic period adventure film about veterans of the French invasion of Russia of 1812, who conspired to install Konstantin Pavlovich as the new tsar of the Russian Empire, transform Russia into a constitutional state and abolish serfdom
• Unbelievable (2019) – true crime miniseries about a series of rapes in Washington State and Colorado
• Unplanned (2019) – anti-abortion drama film based on the disputed memoir Unplanned by Abby Johnson
• Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019) – Indian Hindi-language war action film based on the true events of the retaliation to the 2016 Uri attack
• Virus (2019) – Indian Malayalam-language medical thriller film set in backdrop of the 2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala
• Walk. Ride. Rodeo. (2019) – biographical film about the life of Amberley Snyder, a nationally ranked rodeo barrel racer who defies the odds to return to the sport after barely surviving a car crash that leaves her paralysed from the waist down
• The Warrior Queen of Jhansi (2019) – British period drama film on the 1857 Indian Rebellion against the British East India Company
• Wasp Network (2019) – Spy thriller film based on the true story of Cuban spies in American territory during the 1990s
• When They See Us (2019) – crime drama based on events of the 1989 Central Park jogger case and explores the lives and families of the five Black and Latino male suspects who were falsely accused then prosecuted on charges related to the rape and assault of a white woman in Central Park, New York City
• While at War (Spanish: Mientras dure la guerra) (2019) – Spanish-Argentine historical drama film following the plight of philosopher and writer Miguel de Unamuno in Salamanca, a city controlled by the Rebel faction
• Yatra (transl. Journey) (2019) – Indian Telugu-language biographical film based on padayatra of Reddy who served as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from May 2004 to June 2009 representing Indian National Congress

References

External links

• History at the Movies: Historical and Period Films
• Internet Movie Database list
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