Lifetime/Odyssey/Original/Infinity - True Movies
Everyone loves movies that are based on a true story, because it means you can say things like: "What a great movie... and it's based on a true story!" For some reason, we human beings like it when we know that things have happened in real life at some point - if said "true story" ended in a happy way, it helps us to inject a little hope into our lives; if it ended in a bad way, well... we've all got a morbid fascination with the sick and perverse, too, right?" Ranked from best to worst.
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- DirectorPaul SchneiderStarsJames FarentinoJill ClayburghBilly WarlockBased on true events, the story of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who murdered their wealthy parents in Beverly Hills in 1989, claiming they were acting self-defense after years of abuse.
- StarsSidney PoitierBurt LancasterRichard KileyA dramatization of the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
- DirectorLarry ElikannStarsGary ColeMarg HelgenbergerGregg HenryA woman places an ad in the "Soldier of Fortune" magazine to hire a contract killer.
- DirectorJeffrey W. ByrdStarsJon VoightLouis Gossett Jr.Joe MortonIn 1998, a stunning crime thrust Jasper, Texas into the spotlight. What happened on that summer evening - the death of black hitchhiker James Byrd, Jr. by three white men - became a flash-point for the state of race relations in America.
- DirectorJerry JamesonStarsMichael TuckerJill EikenberryJames MarsdenTwo teenage kidnappers keep their victim hidden away from the world but her health condition is getting worse every second.Who will find her and save her before the tragic end and would the boys show some compassion afterall?She desperately needs help!
- StarsAnnette O'TooleCasey AffleckSteven WeberThis sweeping mini-series profiling the Kennedy family ran three nights. The film chronicles 55 years in the lives of the family opening in 1906 with the marriage of Joseph P. Kennedy, a Harvard graduate, to Rose Fitzgerald, the daughter of Boston's Mayor. The first night focuses on the marriage's troubled years and Rose's strength in developing a real family. The second night covered the years of 1928 - 1940 and Jospeh's years as working as a movie producer and then an ambassador. The final night follows the Kennedy's tragedies during World War II and follows the post war years political successes of John Kennedy.
- DirectorJames A. ContnerStarsMichele GreeneWilliam R. MosesLynda CarterA sleazy dentist sexually assaults his patients while they are under heavy sedatives after he performs dental surgery on them. One woman gets impregnated from such an incident and decides to fight back. The dentist denies the rape allegations claiming they had an affair. The woman's marriage and life fall apart trying to prove she was raped.
- DirectorEric LaneuvilleStarsDenzel WashingtonLynn WhitfieldAkosua BusiaHe risked it all to make the grade.
- DirectorRobert DornhelmStarsHayden PanettiereMarcia Gay HardenVincent RiottaBased on the events surrounding the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsRaquel WelchMichael GrossBonnie BartlettA successful woman's life is irrevocably changed when she is diagnosed with A.L.S. and ultimately finds her living situation impossible to endure.
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyStarsCybill ShepherdKen OlinChristopher McDonaldA rich woman plots the murder of her adulterous husband's mistress through a series of elaborate schemes, but soon falls under the suspicion of the investigating detective, who must prove her involvement.
- DirectorTom ToporStarsKeith CarradineBlythe DannerJack WardenFact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church.
- DirectorNicole L. ThompsonStarsCandice KingMichael RoarkWendie MalickA dramatization of the romance and marriage of the McGuires, the 2004 murder of Bill, the investigation, and the subsequent trial of Melanie, who who dismembered and disposed of her husband's body in suitcases.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsMercedes RuehlJD PardoLupe OntiverosThe true story of Gwen Araujo, a young trans woman who was brutally murdered by four men in 2002.
- DirectorNoel NosseckStarsAri MeyersSoleil Moon FryeMark KassenA pregnant teen is murdered and a popular high-school senior is suspected. But will his girlfriend stick by him to prove his innocence despite the fact that she has bonded with the victim's mother?
- DirectorDon McBreartyStarsSusan ClarkPeter MacNeillCatherine FitchA couple operates a shady maternity home in 1930s/1940s Nova Scotia. Based on a true story.
- DirectorArmand MastroianniStarsJaclyn SmithBrad JohnsonHilary SwankHooked on steroids and unable to control his bursts of sudden rage, a police officer keeps his wife under his thumb and routinely abuses her behind the closed doors of their house.
- DirectorDick LowryStarsRichard ThomasLenora MayLiane LanglandTV movie based on the singer's life, under his mother's thumb, competing with the ghost of one of the most famous singers in C&W music history, and aspiring to rise above it all.
- DirectorPhilippe MoraStarsJames CoburnBill HunterReb BrownBased on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The accused killer claims to have killed 3 women in order to possess their voices. Despite the defense lawyer's concerns that the killer is not fit to stand trial, the US military presses forward with the case and its desire to have the killer executed in order to strengthen the shaky alliance. The real person who did this was Eddie Leonski.
- DirectorArmand MastroianniStarsAlly SheedyMeat LoafNia PeeplesJane Alexander, an attractive, athletic San Francisco woman, is enjoying a comfortable life in Pacific Heights with the man she loves, handsome, charismatic Tom O'Donnell. Jane's idyllic life is shattered when her beloved Aunt Gertrude McCabe is brutally murdered in San Jose. Jane's heartbreak turns to horror when a brilliant police detective, Jack Morris, finally convinces her that the killer is none other than her beloved boyfriend, Tom O'Donnell. Jane embarks on an epic journey to track down and convict the wily and resourceful O'Donnell, astonishing both police and prosecutors for her shrewdness and tenacity.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsKaren AllenBarry BostwickJulie FultonNew Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe joins six other astronauts on the tragic 1986 space-shuttle flight.
- DirectorAlan MetzgerStarsMare WinninghamFelicity HuffmanChelcie RossInspired by a true story, Mare Winningham stars as a young widowed mother who finds herself on trial for child pornography and abuse after she allows her daughters and friends to be photographed by her friend (Felicity Huffman).
- DirectorPaul ShapiroStarsBilly CampbellBarbara HersheySuki KaiserWhile working at a Seattle clinic for women in the 1970s, aspiring crime writer, Ann Rule, unwittingly becomes friends with serial killer Ted Bundy.
- DirectorErik S. WeigelStarsAveri WhiteKyle WilliamsKara Robinson ChamberlainWhen 15 year-old Kara Robinson is abducted in broad daylight, she plots her escape from a serial killer.
- DirectorPaul SchneiderStarsLisa HartmanWilliam RussAnne FrancisA woman fears for her son's health when her ex-husband kidnaps him.