fictionalized history movies

National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
6.349 / 10

Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller

Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben...

National Treasure (2004)
6.632 / 10

Adventure, Action, Thriller, Mystery

Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas...

Goya's Ghosts (2006)
6.626 / 10

Drama, History

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to...

Mrs. Chatterjee Vs Norway (2023)
5.3 / 10

Drama, Thriller

An immigrant Indian mother fights the Norwegian foster care system and legal machinery to win back custody of her children.

Satyashodhak (2024)
6 / 10

Drama, History

The film follows the life of social reformer and writer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule.

The Night Before Christmas (1968)
5.667 / 10

Animation, Family, Drama, TV Movie

Fictionalized account of how Clement C. Moore came to write "A Visit from St. Nicholas." His young daughter, stricken with pneumonia, asks for a...

The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey (2020)
2 / 10

Documentary

Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural...

Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992)
3.5 / 10

Documentary

In this revisionist documentary, actor Eric Farr re-creates the character of Rock Hudson in order to take a look back at his films. It compares the...

Last Year in Dachau (2020)
4 / 10

Documentary

Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960....

Rope’s End (2022)
1.5 / 10

Documentary

A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950).

Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna (2020)
2.5 / 10

Documentary

A tribute to actresses, approaching their presence in and out the screen, humanizing the icons. From the Ukrainian Anna Sten to the French Anna...

The Distressing Effects of Ultimate Fame: The Brett Pick Story (2023)
0 / 10

Documentary, Comedy

How does the most famous man in the world go missing overnight and is never heard from again for three years? That's what our host Leo is trying to...

Martin und Hans (2021)
1 / 10

Documentary

A fictional biography of Hollywood actors Martin Kosleck and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, both of whom fled Hitler-era Germany to live a...

Ganimi Kawa (1981)
6 / 10

Drama, History, Action

Following the victory at Sinhagad in 1670, the Moghuls began to notice the threat from the Marathas. The unique guerrilla tactics developed by...

The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein (2023)
1.5 / 10