When you search the Real Life Movies genre on Netflix, you'll immediately find a plethora of movies that are based on a real event. See? Finding a true-to-life film on a streaming platform is not difficult!
However, finding GOOD real-life movies is the tricky part.
The good news is that we're here to help you select films that are worth your time!
Here are the top true-life films available on Netflix in 2022.
'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind' (2019)
Starring: Maxwell Simba, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aïssa Maïga
The story is about a young boy who is expelled from school due to his parents' inability to pay tuition. His village is plagued by a variety of natural disasters, putting them in danger of drought and starvation. The young lad sneaks inside the library in the hopes of building a windmill and saving his community, and the title gives away what happens next, as per A Good Movie to Watch.
'The Trial of the Chicago 7' (2020)
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Since the Civil War, the American culture wars have raged, and they erupted once more in the 1960s. The clash between "social justice" advocates and those committed to "traditional values" was at the heart of these conflicts. "The Trial of the Chicago 7" is an engrossing historical drama that illustrates the breadth and complexity of the struggle between traditional and countercultural Americans to define what America stands for, according to Spirituality Practice.
'The Impossible' (2012)
Starring: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland
A heartfelt tribute to natural disaster victims that is full of sadness, anguish, and hope. And it wouldn't be nearly as awful if it wasn't based on a true story of the disaster that killed over 230,000 people, as per A Good Movie to Watch.
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A Cop Movie (2021)
Starring: Mónica Del Carmen, Raúl Briones, María Teresa Hernández Cañas
Director Alonso Ruizpalacios combines reality and fiction, documentary and narrative in the A Good Movie to Watch mentioned that the Mexican film "A Cop Movie" to portray the story of Teresa and Montoya, two police officers whose ambitions are shattered by the corruption of their profession and who eventually find love and consolation in one other.
'MANK' (2020)
Starring: Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Dance
In 1940, as per NPR, a bedridden Mank settles in to create the script from a rented ranch house, and in flashbacks to various stages in his former career working within the Hollywood studio system, the plot unfolds. It's also beautifully shot in black and white by cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt and colorist Eric Weidt, using several of Kane's signature visual methods.
'Hillbilly Elegy' (2020)
Starring: Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso
The film adaptation of Vance's memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" arrives on Netflix laden with cultural baggage and expectations. Roger Ebert noted that it's not a brilliant or even very unique film, but it's emotional and simple enough to appeal to viewers whose families have suffered with addiction and recovery, domestic abuse, financial hardship, and other issues addressed in the plot.
'The Pianist' (2002)
Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay
After fleeing the Cracow Ghetto through a breach in the barbed-wire fence as a boy in Poland, film director Roman Polanski hid from the Nazis. He has spent the years after the battle looking for a story that would portray some of the events he witnessed. Then, as per Spirituality Practice, he came upon Wladyslaw Szpilman's autobiography, a Polish Jew who survived the Warsaw ghetto.
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