Favorite movies about real people?

[ohiosmith]

Man on the Moon

[tk2kewl]

1. 2: Erin Brockovich & Silkwood

[ohiosmith]

2. Great movies!

[zbdent]

3. I will honestly admit it ... it took me probably 20 years to get many of Andy's bits ...

and now I understand how good he really was ...

[jobycom]

83. Even his naughty bits?

Sorry... Really, I am.

[zbdent]

85. never got to run in that crowd ...

[sarge43]

4. There is none other

[ohiosmith]

5. Outstanding!

[geardaddy]

6. Sid and Nancy

Pierrepoint
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462477/

[ohiosmith]

8. Never saw Pierrepoint. Sid and Nancy is great.

[Honeycombe8]

50. Excellente! Sid and Nancy. I forgot they were actors. What sad lives the real

Sid and Nancy had. Eaten up by heroin.

[banned from Kos]

7. Amadeus --- about ...........

Salieri and his obsession with a true genius.

[ohiosmith]

9. Brilliant!

[Art_from_Ark]

45. I had a friend from Vienna who told me that the Hapsburgs killed Mozart

Mozart died less than 3 months after the premier of The Magic Flute, an opera which embraced the ideals of the Enlightenment and was in stark contrast to the views of the ultraconservative Hapsburgs of the Holy Roman Empire (Austria). The French Revolution had started just two years earlier, and the Austrian Hapsburgs did not like the way that it was progressing and certainly did not want it spreading to Austria. On top of that, Mozart's body was unceremoniously dumped into a mass grave, with not even a marker to denote where he was buried. If the Hapsburgs had approved of Mozart, they almost certainly would have allowed him to have a proper burial, especially considering that Mozart was probably the biggest name in music at the time.

[geardaddy]

10. Pee Wee's Big Adventure

[ohiosmith]

14. No points for you.

[geardaddy]

60. Just making sure you were paying attention.

[Honeycombe8]

51. I wish there were a Pee Wee. But alas, geardaddy, there is no Pee Wee...

and there is no Santa Claus.

It was a good movie, though!

[KamaAina]

11. Good Morning Vietnam

Sgt. Adrian Cronauer.

Another Robin Williams vehicle, "Patch Adams" goes at the opposite end of this category.

[ohiosmith]

15. Good one.

I kinda liked Patch Adams.

[Tom Ripley]

12. Auto Focus

"it's an orgy, Bob...group grope..."

[ohiosmith]

17. Very good!

[RiffRandell]

21. That was a great movie. n/t

[hifiguy]

13. I always liked "Scott of the Antartic"

(which was my first exposure to the music of my now favorite composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams) and Werner Herzog's "The Story of Kaspar Hauser."

I definitely second Sid and Nancy. Wow, that was a bleak and frightening, but brilliantly done, film.

[ohiosmith]

23. Outstanding!

[Moondog]

16. "The Lion in Winter" and

"A Man for All Seasons"

[ohiosmith]

24. Both great movies.

[siligut]

18. Lady Sings The Blues

I remember I loved the music, we really didn't listen to much music while I was growing up. I was young and didn't know that much about drugs. Some say she wouldn't have been as great if she stayed sober, I don't know.

[ohiosmith]

25. Good one.

[KamaAina]

19. Malcolm X

Denzel really disappeared into the character. It really felt like I was watching Malcolm.

[ohiosmith]

28. Excellent!

[Auggie]

76. Great film shunned by the Academy Awards

Was nominated for best actor and best costume design only (lost both). Spike Lee deserved better.

[taterguy]

20. Field of Dreams

Moonlight Graham was a real person and more or less accurately portrayed in the movie, except for the ghost crap.

[ohiosmith]

33. Cool!

[RZM]

22. Probably 'Andrei Rublev'

Although it's completely fictionalized, since we very little about his life. Great stuff from Tarkovskii though.

[progressoid]

26. Pollock

and Ed Wood

[Kaleva]

27. "Hamsun" & "Seraphine"

[jakeXT]

29. The Pianist, The Right Stuff, Beyond the Sea, Valkyrie

The Pianist - Wladyslaw Szpilman
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253474/

The film stars Scott Glenn as Shepard, Ed Harris as Glenn, Fred Ward as Grissom, Dennis Quaid as Cooper and Sam Shepard as Yeager.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_%28film%29

Beyond the Sea is a 2004 biographical film based on the life of singer/actor Bobby Darin. Kevin Spacey, who stars in the lead role and used his own singing voice for the musical numbers,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Sea_%28film%29

The film depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country. Valkyrie was directed by Bryan Singer for the American studio United Artists, and the film stars Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, one of the key plotters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie_%28film%29

[Honeycombe8]

52. The Pianist....marvelous. The Right Stuff...couldn't take my eyes off the screen.

I'm uncertain about my feelings about Beyond the Sea with Spacey. It was good. Spacey nailed it (natch). But I didn't like the talking-to-his-younger-self thing.

Valkyrie - an unbelievable story. How different things would've been if the plot had succeeded.

[Initech]

30. Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas

It's not technically a movie about a real person as Hunter Thompson isn't mentioned by name but its based somewhat on real events.

"We were somewhere around Barstow when the drugs began to take hold..."

If that doesn't work - I'll nominate the Johnny Cash flick "Walk The Line" and it's hilarious parody "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story".

[Shrek]

31. "Patton"

The King's Speech

Enemy at the Gates

Apollo 13

Schindler's List

[Neoma]

40. Patton's voice is squeaky compared to the actor in that movie.

[DutchLiberal]

32. I'm Not There, about Bob Dylan

Also The Last King of Scotland with Forest Withaker as Idi Amin Dada, though it uses a fictional main character to portray Amin's cruel rule over Uganda.

Also A Beautiful Mind, about mathematician John Nash

[one_voice]

34. Malcom X...

Schindler's List

[mucifer]

35. The Diary Of Anne Frank

[IcyPeas]

36. Lust for Life (Vincent Van Gogh)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049456/

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[greendog]

37. Louie Bluie

A film about African American string band/blues musician Howard Armstrong.

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[sarge43]

38. Another favorite

Young Mr Lincoln - Henry Fonda

[Neoma]

39. Gangs of New York

[Graybeard]

41. Eleanor and Franklin

1976 made for TV movie is wonderful. Jane Alexander and Edward Herrmann portray Eleanor and FDR in "The Early Years" and "The White House Years". Superb screenplay by James Costigan.

(It won 18 Emmy Awards.)

[crunch60]

42. Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia--one favorite. Love Julia Child's passion for cooking. She was a Hoot.

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[Honeycombe8]

53. I've seen that movie at least 5 times. I can't get enough of it.

I SWEAR Streep was Julia Child in an earlier life. It was an amazing movie in every way.

[daligirl519]

43. Coal Miner's Daughter

Sissy Spacek is just the best ever in that movie! "Duuu. . yur just lak a big ol' baaaaaaar!

[alphafemale]

69. I don't know how the movie would have went down if her early life had shown her married at 13.

To a man in his twenties. The movie implies maybe 16 and he encouraged her music right away.

He married her at 13 and he bought her her first guitar when she was 24.

[sakabatou]

44. A Brilliant Mind

[DearHeart]

46. Immortal Beloved

[graywarrior]

87. Same here.

I just ordered the soundtrack.

[PassingFair]

47. Frances Farmer

Kim Stanley's performance as Frances Farmer's mother is
about the best acting I've ever seen.

Years later, I'm still shaken.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

48. Lady Jane

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091374/

[Broken_Hero]

49. Superman The Movie....

I think I'd have to go with Band of Brothers.....

[Honeycombe8]

55. "Hero" names "Superman"? Clever, Mr. Hero. nt

[Joe Shlabotnik]

54. with a few big grains of salt, a few favs come to mind,

George Jung, Henry Hill, Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate

[fishwax]

56. nobody has mentioned Raging Bull?

Then I will

[provis99]

57. The French Connection.

yes, Popeye Doyle was real.

[Tabasco_Dave]

58. All The Presidents Men

[Va Lefty]

59. The Insider and Eight Men Out

[Graybeard]

61. The Young Victoria

Beautiful love story and by all accounts very accurate. Queen Victoria was madly in love with Prince Albert and Emily Blunt is wonderful in the role.

[HopeHoops]

62. "What's Eating Gilbert Grape."

[Bertha Venation]

63. Norma Rae

Based loosely on real life. Worth seeing, if you haven't already. Sally Field's first Oscar.

[LeftishBrit]

64. The Madness of King George

[Ikonoklast]

65. The World's Fastest Indian.

Starring Anthony Hopkins as New Zealander Burt Monro, who's life ambition to set a world motorcycle speed record led him to Bonneville.

Some of Munro's speed records still stand to this very day, almost fifty years later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Fastest_Indian

Hopkins gives a performance well worth seeing in this movie.

[Mopar151]

73. Heart Like a Wheel

The Shirley Muldowney biopic

Whole movie is up on You Tube as well

[Iris]

66. Silkwood

Meryl Streep and Cher!

[BlueIris]

71. Jinx! I was just coming here to post that.

I also love Milk and Pollock.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

67. The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005)

Hilary & Jackie - about famous cellist of the 1960s Jacqueline du Pre. Jackie is played by emily watson.

It's about her rivalry with her sister & her tragic decline from neurological disease.
I was lucky enough to see Jacqueline du Pre play the Elgar Cello Concerto live in 1968.

Kinsey - Liam Neeson plays Dr. Kinsey, the first modern sex researcher of the 1940s and 50s.

Diva - a young man stalks a beautiful opera singer. The role was played by Wilhelmina Wiggins-Fernandez. It was based on a real life stalker of Jessye Norman.

Milk - excellent biography of Harvey Milk, city supervisor of San Francisco, his assassination and the assassination of Mayor Moscone, by Dan White. Uses original news footage of Diane Feinstein announcing the deaths of both men in San Francisco City Hall.
Harvey Milk is played by Sean Penn and Mayor Moscone is played by Victor Garber.

Juarez- Story of Benito Juarez and his revolution in the 1860s; the French import Emperor Maximilian of Austria to rule, and he is a Hapsburg; his wife Carlotta is played by Bette Davis. Juarez is played by Paul Muni. Saw this a while back on Turner Classic Movies and it was quite historically accurate.

Serpico -NYC police officer Frank Serpico played by Al Pacino.

Carnegie Hall--semi fictional but has performances by many musical stars such as Rise Stevens and Ezio Pinza, Arthur Rubinstein, Bruno Walter,Lily Pons, Gregor Piatigorsky, Jascha Heifetz.

[JonLP24]

68. Off the top of my head

Fair Game

&

Ray

[alphafemale]

70. The Right Stuff nt

[Rhiannon12866]

72. The Miracle Worker

[unapatriciated]

75. seems we think alike.

This and Grapes of Wrath were two of my favorites in my youth.

[unapatriciated]

74. Miracle Worker

Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke

[murielm99]

77. Milk. n/t

[dogknob]

78. Reds

[peekaloo]

79. Ed Wood

but Poodles

[Iterate]

80. Camille Claudel

Too good to be forgotten.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094828/

I gasped when I saw how time has passed since its release. It has always been fresh.

[Graybeard]

81. Door To Door

This remarkable 2002 made for TV movie has a great cast including Kyra Sedgewick, Helen Mirren and a great performance by William H. Macy. Macy plays Bill Porter who despite having Cerebral Palsy becomes a successful door-to-door salesman.

[MrScorpio]

82. The Doors

I love that movie

[jobycom]

84. The Aviator. nt

[lutefisk]

86. Two recent films: Carlos and Mesrine

Three part movie based on Ilich Ramírez Sánchez. Edgar Ramirez is great in the lead role!

http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/carlos

Two part movie based on Jacques Mesrine. Vincent Cassel does a pretty good acting job, too!

http://www.mesrinemovie.com/

[MISSDem]

88. Monster and Boys Don't Cry

[opiate69]

89. Motorcycle Diaries....

great movie