Films based on actual events

Yellow

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 8.6

The story explores a mother daughter relationship and developmental disability and behavior of a child.Film is about Gauri Gadgil, a special needs child, who also plays herself in the film

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Inherit the Wind

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1960 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to brin...

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Quo Vadis, Aida?

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 8

Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the...

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Elizabeth I

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Elizabeth I is a two-part 2005 British historical drama television miniseries directed by Tom Hooper, written by Nigel Williams, and starring Helen Mirren as Elizabeth I of England. The miniseries cov...

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Lilya 4-ever

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Lilja lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt, who neglects her. Lilja hangs out with her friends, Natasha and Volodya, who is...

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Sometimes in April

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

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The Magdalene Sisters

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin an...

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Indictment: The McMartin Trial

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1995 IMDB Rating: 7.6

The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" videotapes the childre...

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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 7.5

An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and ensl...

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