Movies Inspired by Real Events
Kinora's catalogue lists 121 films inspired by real events, spanning 1926–2024. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
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- 2019
1917
Undergrounddir. Sam Mendes - 1963
8½
Urbandir. Federico Fellini - 1991
A Brighter Summer Day
Urbandir. Edward Yang - 1992
A League of Their Own
Urban · Ruraldir. Penny Marshall - 1992
A River Runs Through It
Ruraldir. Robert Redford - 2017
A Taxi Driver
Urbandir. Jang Hoon - 2002
Adaptation.
Urban · Wildernessdir. Spike Jonze - 2022
Aftersun
Coastal Seadir. Charlotte Wells - 1972
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Werner Herzog - 1979
All That Jazz
Urbandir. Bob Fosse - 1949
All the King's Men
Rural · Urbandir. Robert Rossen - 2000
Almost Famous
Urbandir. Cameron Crowe - 2007
American Gangster
Urbandir. Ridley Scott - 1979
Apocalypse Now
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola - 1987
Au Revoir les Enfants
Ruraldir. Louis Malle - 1974
Badlands
Rural · Wildernessdir. Terrence Malick - 1988
Bloodsport
Urbandir. Newt Arnold - 1967
Bonnie and Clyde
Ruraldir. Arthur Penn - 1997
Boogie Nights
Urban · Suburbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1993
Bound by Honor
Urbandir. Taylor Hackford - 1980
Brubaker
Ruraldir. Stuart Rosenberg - 1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Rural · Wildernessdir. George Roy Hill - 2018
Capernaum
Urbandir. Nadine Labaki - 1993
Caro diario
Urban · Islanddir. Nanni Moretti - 1995
Casino
Desert · Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1989
Casualties of War
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Brian De Palma - 1941
Citizen Kane
Urbandir. Orson Welles - 2002
City of God
Urbandir. Fernando Meirelles - 2018
Cold War
Urban · Ruraldir. Paweł Pawlikowski - 1993
Cool Runnings
Island · Urbandir. Jon Turteltaub - 2019
Corpus Christi
Ruraldir. Jan Komasa - 1981
Das Boot
Off Worlddir. Wolfgang Petersen - 2008
Departures
Ruraldir. Yojiro Takita - 1989
Do the Right Thing
Urbandir. Spike Lee - 2015
Embrace of the Serpent
Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Ciro Guerra - 1982
Fitzcarraldo
Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Werner Herzog - 1987
Full Metal Jacket
Urbandir. Stanley Kubrick - 2012
Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
Urbandir. Anurag Kashyap - 1998
Gods and Monsters
dir. Bill Condon - 2008
Gomorrah
Urbandir. Matteo Garrone - 1987
Good Morning, Vietnam
Urbandir. Barry Levinson - 1988
Grave of the Fireflies
Urbandir. Isao Takahata - 2020
Greyhound
Coastal Seadir. Aaron Schneider - 1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Rural · Desertdir. John Sturges - 1986
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Urbandir. John McNaughton - 1986
Hoosiers
Ruraldir. David Anspaugh - 2010
Incendies
Urbandir. Denis Villeneuve - 1960
Inherit the Wind
Ruraldir. Stanley Kramer - 2008
Ip Man
Urbandir. Wilson Yip - 1991
JFK
Urbandir. Oliver Stone - 1961
Judgment at Nuremberg
Urbandir. Stanley Kramer - 1995
La Haine
Urban · Suburbandir. Mathieu Kassovitz - 2017
Lady Bird
Suburbandir. Greta Gerwig - 2001
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Ruraldir. Ashutosh Gowariker - 2012
Lawless
Ruraldir. John Hillcoat - 2018
Leave No Trace
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Debra Granik - 2012
Magic Mike
Urbandir. Steven Soderbergh - 2011
Margin Call
Urbandir. J.C. Chandor - 2011
Meek's Cutoff
Desert · Wildernessdir. Kelly Reichardt - 2003
Memories of Murder
Ruraldir. Bong Joon Ho - 2021
Minari
Ruraldir. Lee Isaac Chung - 1975
Mirror
Ruraldir. Andrei Tarkovsky - 1988
Mississippi Burning
Ruraldir. Alan Parker - 1947
Monsieur Verdoux
Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin - 2005
Munich
Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 1983
Never Cry Wolf
Wildernessdir. Carroll Ballard - 2012
No
Urbandir. Pablo Larraín - 2021
Nomadland
Rural · Wildernessdir. Chloé Zhao - 1979
Norma Rae
Ruraldir. Martin Ritt - 1954
On the Waterfront
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Elia Kazan - 2019
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Urbandir. Quentin Tarantino - 2019
Pain and Glory
Urban · Ruraldir. Pedro Almodóvar - 1973
Papillon
Island · Wildernessdir. Franklin J. Schaffner - 2023
Past Lives
Urbandir. Celine Song - 1957
Paths of Glory
Undergrounddir. Stanley Kubrick - 1980
Pixote
Urbandir. Héctor Babenco - 1986
Platoon
Wildernessdir. Oliver Stone - 2018
Roma
Urbandir. Alfonso Cuarón - 1972
Roma
Urbandir. Federico Fellini - 1998
Saving Private Ryan
Ruraldir. Steven Spielberg - 2015
Sicario
Urban · Desertdir. Denis Villeneuve - 1977
Soldier of Orange
dir. Paul Verhoeven - 2021
Spencer
Ruraldir. Pablo Larraín - 1999
Tea with Mussolini
Urbandir. Franco Zeffirelli - 1959
The 400 Blows
Urban · Coastal Seadir. François Truffaut - 1988
The Accused
Urbandir. Jonathan Kaplan - 1979
The Amityville Horror
Suburbandir. Stuart Rosenberg - 1966
The Battle of Algiers
Urbandir. Gillo Pontecorvo - 2024
The Bikeriders
Urbandir. Jeff Nichols - 2021
The Card Counter
Urbandir. Paul Schrader - 2008
The Chaser
Urbandir. Na Hong-jin - 2013
The Conjuring
Ruraldir. James Wan - 2017
The Death of Stalin
Urbandir. Armando Iannucci - 2006
The Departed
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 2022
The Fabelmans
Suburban · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 1971
The French Connection
Urbandir. William Friedkin - 1926
The General
Ruraldir. Clyde Bruckman - 1996
The Ghost and the Darkness
Wildernessdir. Stephen Hopkins - 1990
The Godfather Part III
Urbandir. Francis Ford Coppola - 1940
The Great Dictator
Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin - 1963
The Great Escape
Rural · Undergrounddir. John Sturges - 2019
The Irishman
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 2012
The Master
Urbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1986
The Mission
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Roland Joffé - 1985
The Official Story
Urbandir. Luis Puenzo - 2015
The Revenant
Wilderness · Mountaindir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu - 2018
The Rider
Ruraldir. Chloé Zhao - 1965
The Sound of Music
Urban · Mountaindir. Robert Wise - 2005
The Squid and the Whale
Urbandir. Noah Baumbach - 1974
The Sugarland Express
Ruraldir. Steven Spielberg - 1987
The Untouchables
Urbandir. Brian De Palma - 2013
The Wind Rises
Urban · Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki - 2023
The Zone of Interest
Urbandir. Jonathan Glazer - 2007
There Will Be Blood
Ruraldir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 2007
This Is England
Suburban · Coastal Seadir. Shane Meadows - 2014
Timbuktu
Desertdir. Abderrahmane Sissako - 1993
Tombstone
Desert · Ruraldir. George P. Cosmatos - 2018
Utøya: July 22
Island · Wildernessdir. Erik Poppe - 2017
Wind River
Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Taylor Sheridan - 1969
Z
Urbandir. Costa-Gavras - 2012
Zero Dark Thirty
Urbandir. Kathryn Bigelow
Frequently asked
How many movies are inspired by real events?
Kinora's catalogue lists 121 films inspired by real events, spanning 1926–2024.
What are some movies inspired by real events?
Films inspired by real events in our catalogue include 1917 (2019), 8½ (1963), A Brighter Summer Day (1991), A League of Their Own (1992), and A River Runs Through It (1992).
What is the oldest movie inspired by real events?
The General (1926) is the earliest film inspired by real events in our catalogue; the most recent is The Bikeriders (2024).