Upcoming Movies Based on True Stories
Here you will find a schedule of new and upcoming true story movies. Get a jump on the biopics and real-life stories that will hit theaters in the coming months. Discover release dates, watch trailers and meet the real people who are the basis for these new movies based on true stories.December 2023
The Michael Mann film explores the life of Italian sports car mogul Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver).
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A single father learns he's dying and must find the right family to raise his young son.
January 2024
Author C.S. Lewis and neurologist Sigmund Freud debate the existence of God.
This Netflix miniseries tells the story of Griselda Blanco, the godmother of the underworld.
Does the series hit the target with regard to the facts about the 100th Bomb Group during WWII?
February 2024
In the aftermath of WWII, Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn) dethrones Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche) as the world's biggest name in fashion.
Kingsley Ben-Adir portrays Jamaican singer Bob Marley.
A hairdresser rallies a community to help a widowed father save his critically ill daughter.
March 2024
Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini fights for better care for orphaned children living in the slums of New York.
Following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, a manhunt ensues for his killer, actor John Wilkes Booth.
Does this movie about a stray dog who tags along with an adventure racing team follow the facts of the story?
One Life tells the story of Nicholas Winton, who saved more than 600 Jewish children from the Nazis.
Members of a Jewish family each embark on their own path to safety during WWII, hoping to reunite again.
This movie starring Bill Nighy was inspired by stories surrounding the Homeless World Cup soccer competition.
April 2024
The Netflix movie chronicles Prince Andrew's infamous 2019 BBC interview about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Michael Douglas portrays Benjamin Franklin, who at age 70 worked to secure the Franco-American Alliance.
A group of Mexican-American youths fight prejudice to play golf at a white country club in the 1950s, hoping to become champions.
The film tells the story of the Smallbone Family, whose children grew up to become Christian pop superstars.
May 2024
Does Jerry Seinfeld's comedy about the invention of Pop-Tarts at all resemble the real-life Kellogg's / Post rivalry?
Backed by Amy Winehouse's estate, the movie chronicles the evolution of the singer from adolescence to adulthood.
Sight tells the story Ming Wang, an impoverished prodigy who fled China and became one of the world's top eye surgeons.
Two pioneers fall in love and fight for their survival on the frontier during the American Civil War.
June 2024
Gary Johnson (Glen Powell), a professor who moonlights as a fake hit man in police stings, starts to fall for a potential client.
A photographer documents a 1960s biker gang called the Vandals, interviewing the wife of one of its most devoted members.
July 2024
Incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit, John 'Divine G' Whitfield finds hope by acting in a prison theater group alongside other inmates.