Insights from the Cinematic World: true story

Captive

When Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo) – a man on the run from a city-wide manhunt – takes recovering addict and single mom Ashley Smith (Kate Mara) hostage in her own apartment, they are both thrust into a tense and emotional fight to survive the night.

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Pawn Sacrifice

In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire, whose players have dominated the game for decades

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Woman in Gold

Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt’s famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds), she embarks upon a major battle

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Big Eyes

Painter Walter Keane had reached success beyond belief, revolutionizing the commercialization of popular art with his enigmatic paintings of waifs with big eyes. The bizarre and shocking truth would eventually be discovered though: Walter’s works were actually not created by him at all, but by his wife Margaret.

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Kill the Messenger

“Kill the Messenger as a film is a political thriller but what Gary Webb uncovered and shared with the world still haunts us today,” says producer Scott Stuber. It has been a decade since he began developing the story as one of the first passion projects Stuber bought to produce after running production at Universal Pictures for eight years.

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Walking with the Enemy

Walking with the Enemy is inspired by a true story that is little-known to American audiences, but well-known in Hungary, where a man very much like Elek managed to successfully wage his own secret war against the Nazis while the larger struggle for Eastern Europe waged all around him.

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Heaven Is For Real

Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book of the same name, Heaven Is For Real brings to the screen the true story that has inspired millions across the globe – that of a little boy’s extraordinary, life-changing experience, and his father’s search for the courage and conviction to share his son’s discovery with the world.

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The Monuments Men

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi

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Lone Survivor

Based on The New York Times bestselling true story of heroism, courage and resilience, Lone Survivor tells the incredible tale of four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative who are ambushed by the enemy in the mountains of Afghanistan.

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Production designer Bruce Curtis recreated the physical world of Texas in 1963 with the assistance of costume designer Kari Perkins, makeup artists Randy Westgate and Jacenda Burkett, hair stylists Bridget Cook and Missy Forney, and prop master Scott Reeder.

Parkland

An extraordinary new retelling of the JFK assassination, Parkland takes a closer look at one of the 20th century’s most examined events in a unique new light. The film takes a question that defined a generation of Americans—“Where were you when John F. Kennedy was assassinated?”

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The Frozen Ground

The Frozen Ground is based on the events surrounding Alaska’s most notorious serial predator, Robert Hansen (John Cusack), a respected family man who, for over 12 years, systematically abducted more than 24 women and flew them into the Alaskan wilderness to be hunted.

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