Tuesday, March 10, 2015

"BASED ON TRUE STORY"

Inspirational movies 

1.
Lincoln (2012)
  7.4/10 
As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves. (150 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
“ He practically established democracy.Everyday every common man enjoys Independence rights by law, how much small it is, because of him. That's why we call him "father of Democracy". ” - arun-tumi
 
2.
Argo (2012)
  7.8/10 
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980. (120 mins.)
Director: Ben Affleck
“ Most of the people talk ..talk and talk, very few people are up for the moment.
Antonio J Mendez ,he risked his own life to rescue innocent peoples from murdering by terrorist.It is story about how he done it.

In 1997 Matt Damon and Ben Affleck created "Good Will Hunting" ,but most of appreciation goes to Matt Demon .
In 2012 Ben Affleck get his sweet revenge with " Argo". ” - arun-tumi
 
3.
The Blind Side (2009)
  7.7/10 
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family. (129 mins.)
Director: John Lee Hancock
“ Every child is special ,it is up to us how we nurture them. one lady really believed it and proved it again. ” - arun-tumi
 
4.
October Sky (1999)
  7.8/10 
The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes. (108 mins.)
Director: Joe Johnston
 
5.
Men of Honor (2000)
  7.1/10 
The story of Carl Brashear, the first African American, then also the first amputee, US Navy Diver and the man who trained him. (129 mins.)
Director: George Tillman Jr.
 
6.
Temple Grandin (2010 TV Movie)
  8.4/10 
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry. (107 mins.)
Director: Mick Jackson
 
7.
Living Proof (2008 TV Movie)
  7.0/10 
A doctor devotes his life's work to finding a cure for breast cancer. (125 mins.)
Director: Dan Ireland
“ It is not a great cinematographic movie.
It is story how we win the war against breast-cancer. ” - arun-tumi
 
8.
Extraordinary Measures (2010)
  6.5/10 
A drama centered on the efforts of John and Aileen Crowley to find a researcher who might have a cure for their two children's rare genetic disorder. (106 mins.)
Director: Tom Vaughan
“ Not a great cinematographic movie, It sows how a dad saved his children. ” - arun-tumi
 
9.
Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
  6.8/10 
Sam Childers is a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been forced to become soldiers. (129 mins.)
Director: Marc Forster
“ Sam childers who really is rescuing children of africa from being murder.
He actually saving children to be killed or to become child soldier .
This movie tells the story about him. He is not good college boy or socialite he is just a bad tempered man. he finds way to help innocents is his own way.
And he is helping now, now.when you are reading this text. ” - arun-tumi
 
10.
Patch Adams (1998)
  6.6/10 
In the 1970s, a medical student treats patients, illegally, using humor. (115 mins.)
Director: Tom Shadyac
“ He is the one who just not talk that " there is something wrong in the system" , he also fixed the problem. yes he did it. ” - arun-tumi
 
11.
Something the Lord Made (2004 TV Movie)
  8.3/10 
A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas. (110 mins.)
Director: Joseph Sargent
“ He helped inventing the " bypass surgery of heart " and saved millions of babies without the degree of doctorate.
A TRUE DOCTOR. ” - arun-tumi
 
12.
Amazing Grace (2006)
  7.5/10 
The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade. (118 mins.)
Director: Michael Apted
“ He fought and abolished the "slave trade" from across England empire by Law, yes by law. ” - arun-tumi
 
13.
Seabiscuit (2003)
  7.3/10 
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation. (140 mins.)
Director: Gary Ross
“ Story of a horse , his trainer , his jockey and his owner. How they save each other and the neglected horse become champion. ” - arun-tumi
 
14.
Dangerous Minds (1995)
  6.3/10 
An ex-Marine turned teacher struggles to connect with her students in an inner city school. (99 mins.)
Director: John N. Smith
“ A teacher teaches some students when everyone hates them. ” - arun-tumi
 
15.
Freedom Writers (2007)
  7.5/10 
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school. (123 mins.)
“ It is called "REVOLUTION" , a true revolution.The world becomes a good place.
Where friendship abolishes hatred. ” - arun-tumi
 
16.
Take the Lead (2006)
  6.6/10 
The real story of a dance teacher who believed in the talent of a group of problem kids. (118 mins.)
Director: Liz Friedlander
“ VERY GOOD MOVIE. IF YOU LOVE DANCE WATCH IT. ” - arun-tumi
 
17.
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
  8.2/10 
The true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. (121 mins.)
Director: Terry George
 
18.
Hidalgo (2004)
  6.6/10 
In 1890, a down-and-out cowboy and his horse travel to Arabia to compete in a deadly cross desert horse race. (136 mins.)
Director: Joe Johnston
“ All man are same, there is no difference offered by nature. To prove it a man fight and saved mustang horse race from murdering. ” - arun-tumi
 
19.
Invincible (2006)
  7.1/10 
Based on the story of Vince Papale, a 30-year-old bartender from South Philadelphia who overcame long odds to play for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles in 1976. (105 mins.)
Director: Ericson Core
“ Real life hero. ” - arun-tumi
 
20.
Coach Carter (2005)
  7.2/10 
Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him. (136 mins.)
Director: Thomas Carter
“ He teaches the boys how to win. ..........win. ” - arun-tumi
 
21.
The Help (2011)
  8.1/10 
An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African-American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis. (146 mins.)
Director: Tate Taylor
 
22.
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
  7.1/10 
A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa. (141 mins.)
Director: Justin Chadwick
“ I have fought against white domination, I have fought against black domination .I fights for equal respect.
We cannot win a war ,but we can win a election.(Lines from movie)
This is how he avoid civil war and restore peace in South Africa. ” - arun-tumi
 
23.
Invictus (2009)
  7.4/10 
Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup. (134 mins.)
Director: Clint Eastwood
“ He only he unites people, makes people happy. Others like religion , economy they only divide people. ” - arun-tumi
 
24.
Remember the Titans (2000)
  7.7/10 
The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit. (113 mins.)
Director: Boaz Yakin
 
25.
Moneyball (2011)
  7.6/10 
Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players. (133 mins.)
Director: Bennett Miller
 
26.
The Aviator (2004)
  7.5/10 
A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s. (170 mins.)
Director: Martin Scorsese
 
27.
Rescue Dawn (2006)
  7.4/10 
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War. (120 mins.)
Director: Werner Herzog
“ One army pilot escape from enemy prison and saved his friend ” - arun-tumi
 
28.
Erin Brockovich (2000)
  7.3/10 
An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply. (131 mins.)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
 
29.
A Civil Action (1998)
  6.5/10 
The families of children who died sue two companies for dumping toxic waste: a tort so expensive to prove, the case could bankrupt their lawyer. (115 mins.)
Director: Steven Zaillian
 
30.
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
  8.0/10 
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars' worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. (141 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
“ I liked the detective who not only imprisoned the criminal also saved the kid to become a good citizen. ” - arun-tumi
 
31.
American Gangster (2007)
  7.8/10 
In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East. (157 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
“ I liked the detective who stop the drug business and also saved the drug businessman. ” - arun-tumi
 
32.
Walk the Line (2005)
  7.9/10 
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. (136 mins.)
Director: James Mangold
 
33.
Bright Star (2009)
  7.0/10 
The three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life. (119 mins.)
Director: Jane Campion
 
34.
Becoming Jane (2007)
  7.1/10 
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman. (120 mins.)
Director: Julian Jarrold
“ When she told I want to be a writer ,everyone laughed at her. Now She wrote "Pride & Prejudice". The all time favorite novel in English literature. ” - arun-tumi
 
35.
Soul Surfer (2011)
  7.1/10 
Teenage surfer Bethany Hamilton overcomes the odds and her own fears of returning to the water after losing her left arm in a shark attack. (106 mins.)
Director: Sean McNamara
 
36.
The Vow (2012)
  6.8/10 
A car accident puts Paige in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo works to win her heart again. (104 mins.)
Director: Michael Sucsy
 
37.
Big Miracle (2012)
  6.5/10 
In small town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his ex-girlfriend - a Greenpeace volunteer - on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.(107 mins.)
Director: Ken Kwapis
 
38.
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  8.2/10 
After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish. (135 mins.)
Director: Ron Howard
 
39.
Glory (1989)
  8.0/10 
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates. (122 mins.)
Director: Edward Zwick
 
40.
Schindler's List (1993)
  8.9/10 
In Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. (195 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
 
41.
No One Killed Jessica (2011)
  7.2/10 
A journalist, who is more of an activist teams up with the sister of a murdered model, as she gets interested in the case and wants to bring justice to her case. (136 mins.)
Director: Raj Kumar Gupta
 
42.
Mary Kom (2014)
  6.7/10 
A chronicle of the life of Indian boxer Mary Kom, who went through several hardships before audaciously accomplishing her ultimate dream. (122 mins.)
Director: Omung Kumar
 
43.
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
  7.6/10 
A Russian sniper and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad. (131 mins.)
“ Battle of Staingrad ” - arun-tumi
 
44.
Defiance (2008)
  7.2/10 
Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants. (137 mins.)
Director: Edward Zwick
 
45.
Flash of Genius (2008)
  7.0/10 
Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper. (119 mins.)
Director: Marc Abraham
“ I do not recommend that you should do like that. ” - arun-tumi
 
46.
Braveheart (1995)
  8.4/10 
When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, William Wallace begins a revolt and leads Scottish warriors against the cruel English tyrant who rules Scotland with an iron fist. (177 mins.)
Director: Mel Gibson
 
47.
Munich (2005)
  7.6/10 
Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day. (164 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
 
48.
The Hurt Locker (2008)
  7.6/10 
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work. (131 mins.)
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
 
49.
The Great Debaters (2007)
  7.6/10 
A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. (126 mins.)
Director: Denzel Washington
 
50.
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  8.6/10 
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. (169 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
 
51.
Lone Survivor (2013)
  7.6/10 
Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare. (121 mins.)
Director: Peter Berg
 
52.
Silkwood (1983)
  7.2/10 
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.(131 mins.)
Director: Mike Nichols
“ Her honest fight did not see day light. A good person. ” - arun-tumi
 
53.
The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
  7.9/10 
The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle -- a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967. (127 mins.)
Director: Roger Donaldson
 
54.
Apollo 13 (1995)
  7.6/10 
NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.(140 mins.)
Director: Ron Howard
 
55.
The Dish (2000)
  7.3/10 
A remote Australian antenna, populated by quirky characters, plays a key role in the first Apollo moon landing. (101 mins.)
Director: Rob Sitch
 
56.
Cinderella Man (2005)
  8.0/10 
The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s. (144 mins.)
Director: Ron Howard
 
57.
Awakenings (1990)
  7.8/10 
The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them. (121 mins.)
Director: Penny Marshall
 
58.
Conviction (2010)
  7.2/10 
A working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders. (107 mins.)
Director: Tony Goldwyn
“ How far will you go to save your innocent brother from injustice.
I salute her.
She become a advocate to prove his brother's innocence .
Can u??? ” - arun-tumi
 
59.
In the Name of the Father (1993)
  8.1/10 
A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them. (133 mins.)
Director: Jim Sheridan
 
60.
The Whistleblower (2010)
  7.2/10 
A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex scandal. (112 mins.)
Director: Larysa Kondracki
“ Shameful slave trade is still going on even now, and guess what who is running the business. ” - arun-tumi
 
61.
The Insider (1999)
  7.9/10 
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a "60 Minutes" expose on Big Tobacco. (157 mins.)
Director: Michael Mann
 
62.
Donnie Brasco (1997)
  7.8/10 
An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life to the expense of his regular one. (127 mins.)
Director: Mike Newell
“ A man being a FBI find a true friend in mafia gang, a criminal. ” - arun-tumi
 
63.
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
  8.0/10 
In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is himself diagnosed with the disease. (117 mins.)
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
“ When we take medicine , we put trust on medicine maker and hope it helps us to get well. What if they don't do that. Will you believe that patients are just money making machine to them. ” - arun-tumi
 
64.
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
  8.2/10 
Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government. (180 mins.)
Director: Martin Scorsese
“ Excellent direction.
Mind blowing broker.He steals your money with your permission. ” - arun-tumi
 
65.
The Bank Job (2008)
  7.3/10 
Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. But Terry and his crew don't realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets - secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal. (111 mins.)
Director: Roger Donaldson
“ how to tackle the odd situation.....main catching thing ” - arun-tumi
 
66.
12 Years a Slave (2013)
  8.1/10 
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.(134 mins.)
Director: Steve McQueen
“ What on earth they gave best picture award to this film. This film is good, very good no doubt.They can gave it best direction award ,very well .fabulous. But the "best picture"???? Noway.
"Dallas Buyers Club " is far far more greater film and it is probably the best picture of 2013. ” - arun-tumi
 
67.
American Hustle (2013)
  7.3/10 
A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia. (138 mins.)
Director: David O. Russell
“ I liked how did he still alive. ” - arun-tumi
 
68.
The Intouchables (2011)
  8.6/10 
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver. (112 mins.)
“ " his caretaker becomes his best friend" ” - arun-tumi
 
69.
Rudy (1993)
  7.5/10 
Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame. (114 mins.)
Director: David Anspaugh
 
70.
My Left Foot (1989)
  7.9/10 
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot. (103 mins.)
Director: Jim Sheridan
 
71.
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
  6.4/10 
A young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors. (148 mins.)
Director: Luc Besson
“ how monarchy murdered good peoples . ” - arun-tumi
 
72.
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
  7.2/10 
Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people. (144 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
“ Officially it is "Not Based on true story ". but
The story centered on some actual events in history.
Truly inspirational . ” - arun-tumi
 
73.
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
  6.5/10 
Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people. (154 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
“ Officially it is "Not Based on true story ". but
The story centered on some actual events.
The thing is he tried to established a better world, but failed.
but he proved that he is right " world is round". ” - arun-tumi
 
74.
The Impossible (2012)
  7.6/10 
The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. (114 mins.)
Director: J.A. Bayona
 
75.
The Monuments Men (2014)
  6.1/10 
An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners. (118 mins.)
Director: George Clooney
“ If you destroy history of any culture , the culture become vanished from earth.(Line from the movie). It looks like it was never there.

They saved our history.A very good movie. ” - arun-tumi
 
76.
Amistad (1997)
  7.2/10 
About a 1839 mutiny aboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the northeastern coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the free man who led the revolt. (155 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
 
77.
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014 Documentary)
  8.2/10 
The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26. (105 mins.)
 
78.
The First Grader (2010)
  7.4/10 
The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford. (103 mins.)
Director: Justin Chadwick
“ Learn something.
There is always time to start new.
"BASED ON TRUE STORY" ” - arun-tumi

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