Your top movies based on "real life" people?
 

I realize Hollywood always takes liberty but I enjoy films based on real life and hope to find some new ones to watch from some of your choices.Watcha got?



Mine in no particular order.



Truman-my favorite movie about a POTUS thought Gary Sinese was great as the lead.



The Buddy Holly Story-Gary Busey nailed this role.



City Of God-subtitled but easily in my top movies of all time.



Raging Bull-Deniro as boxer Jake LaMotta,loved that it was in black and white as well.



The Elephant Man-another black and white but loved the atmosphere and the story.



In Broad Daylight-this story took place just a mere 30 miles from where I live about the Skidmore bully and his murder which has yet to be solved to this day.



Casino-love Goodfellas as well but I still prefer Casino.

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

I thought Lincoln was good.

J Edgar was good.

Public Enemies was good.

Sharknado

La Bamba

The Matrix.

I really liked this one.

Goodfellas.

ROFL

Great Balls of Fire

I thought that Moneyball was a fantastic movie, even though it wasn't exactly a true story.

Almost Famous (but more so, Untitled) was amazing. Red Dog, Lester Bangs, Penny Lane (and all the other groupies) were real people, William is Cameron Crowe, Dennis Hope is a slightly exaggerated Irving Azoff, and the rest of the band is an amalgam of the Eagles and Peter Frampton's tenure in Humble Pie (with Crudup playing Frampton but looking like Glen Frey).

So if we're talking "biopics"

10. Man in the Moon: Jim Carray is Andy Kauffman.

9. Ray: Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles.

8. 42: Jackie Robinson Story. Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey.

7. Brian's Song: James Caan as Brian Piccolo.

6. John Adams: Actually an HBO mini series. Paul Giamatti plays John Adams.

5. Lincoln: Daniel Day Lewis as Lincoln.

4. Patton: George C. Scott as General Patton.

3. Glory: Matthew Broderick as Col. Shaw

2. The Right Stuff: Ed Harris as John Glenn, Scott Glenn as Alan Shephard.

1. Good Night and Good Luck: David Strathaim as Edward R. Murrow

Wyatt Earp (not tombstone)
Right Stuff
Departed (loosely based)
John Adams

Lawless, about the prohibition era Bondurant brothers.

Apollo 13

Breaker Morant

Lawrence of Arabia

Gilligans Island - The Movie

The Mission
Lorenzo's Oil
Power of One

Ed Wood was pretty good movie

Lorenzo Zoil is a funny dude

Glory
Band of Brothers
Almost Famous
The Long Riders
La Bamba
Goodfellas
Lord of War

Blood Sport, cause you know it really went down just like in the movie.

Good show. :thumb:
Yeager did say they thoroughly embellished him breaking the sound barrier, said there was no drama, no violent shaking, and that he just went up for a test flight and when he returned they told him, “Oh yea, just FYI but you broke the sound barrier.”

Miracle

Herb Brooks' 2nd intermission speech in the gold medal game:

"You lose this game, you'll take it to your ****ing grave."

I'm a moron for not listing this. At the top of my list with Earp.

Walk the Line (Johnny and June Carter Cash)

JFK

Carandiru isn't bad.

Tropa de Elite 2 is pretty excellent as well.

The Aviator
La Bamba
A Beautiful Mind
Ed Wood
Milk
Apollo 13
Goodfellas
Almost Famous
Moneyball

Probably others, but...
Best movie about the Titanic EVER
A Night To Remember

Walk the Line
Goodfellas
When We Were Kings

The Samurai trilogy (Musashi)

Yea, the Untitled version of Almost Famous is amazing.

Serpico
Walk the Line
John Carpenters Elvis
Powers Booth Jim Jones movie
Patton
Schindlers List
Rudy
People Vs Larry Flint

Control is pretty good.

This one is easy!
PBJ:rockon:PBJ
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Lincoln
The Aviator
Apollo 13
JFK
Tombstone

Walking Tall, the original not the remake with Dwayne Johnson.

A few that have not been listed yet...

The Ten Commandments
Bonnie and Clyde
Midnight Express
All the President's Men
Hoosiers
Eight Men Out

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Lawrence of Arabia, too.

Really liked all of these :thumb:

It's Man ON the Moon. :shake:

heh, I read right past that as well

Can't believe there's been not one other mention of City Of God has anyone else seen this great film?

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Jesus Christ. How did I not think to list almost everyone of these movies. Excellent work sirs.

I really liked it. It was gripping.

Yes, but I didn't want to list it because you already had.

Don't think it was mentioned but Helter Skelter actually a tv movie had an actor that was quite convincing as Charles Manson.

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Good call. That's a damn good movie, especially considering it was made for TV in the 70s.

Spel chk is fur puzies.

Great book too.

Spell check wouldn't have fixed it.

Yep. Best true crime book I've ever read. Amazing how much power that sawed off little bastard had over those kids.

Apollo 13 and Ray are a couple of my favorites.

Cinderella Man with Russel Crowe was a pretty darn good film.

Most others have already been mentioned.

The Lion in Winter.
The King's Speech.
Becket.
Lawrence of Arabia.
Apollo 13.
Casino.
Donnie Brasco.

Yup and I have a hard time getting a chick to go to the movies with me. Chicks ****ing suck.

No Black Hawk Down? That’s a little surprising.

A couple of man cave movies:
300
Kingdom of Heaven.

Enemy at the Gates is another I didn’t see mentioned.

Miracle...was that speech during the Gold Medal game?

If you like that, you'd like Elite Squad 1&2.