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The Believer (2001 film)
The Believer (2001) is Henry Bean's drama starring Ryan Gosling as Danny Balint, a Jewish yeshiva dropout who leads a neo-Nazi gang. Loosely based on Daniel Burros, it won Sundance's 2001 Grand Jury Prize but reached theaters only in 2002 via Showtime and IDP.
The Big Bull
The Big Bull is a 2021 Hindi biographical crime drama directed by Kookie Gulati, starring Abhishek Bachchan as Hemant Shah, a fictionalized Harshad Mehta; released on Disney+ Hotstar on 8 April 2021.
The Clan
The Clan (El clan) is Pablo Trapero's 2015 Argentine-Spanish thriller about the Puccio family, who kidnapped and murdered for ransom in 1980s Buenos Aires; starring Guillermo Francella, it won the Venice Silver Lion and the Goya for Best Iberoamerican Film.
The Devil's Double
The Devil's Double (2011) is a Lee Tamahori thriller with Dominic Cooper playing both Latif Yahia and Uday Hussein; based on Yahia's contested body-double memoir, it earned 54% on Rotten Tomatoes and about $1.4 million in the US.
The Falcon and the Snowman
The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), John Schlesinger's spy drama adapted from Robert Lindsey's book, stars Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn as real CIA-traitors Boyce and Lee; Orion Pictures release, R, 131 minutes.
The General (1998 film)
The General (1998) is John Boorman's black-and-white biographical crime film starring Brendan Gleeson as Dublin gangster Martin Cahill, based on Paul Williams's book; it won Best Director at Cannes 1998.
The Good Nurse
The Good Nurse (2022) is a Netflix crime drama directed by Tobias Lindholm, starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne, adapted from Charles Graeber's 2013 book about serial-killing nurse Charles Cullen and nurse Amy Loughren, who helped catch him.
The Gray Man (2007 film)
The Gray Man is a 2007 American biographical thriller film about serial killer Albert Fish, directed by Scott L. Flynn and starring Patrick Bauchau as Fish.
The Infiltrator (2016 film)
The Infiltrator is a 2016 American biographical crime drama directed by Brad Furman, starring Bryan Cranston as Customs agent Robert Mazur, who posed as money launderer Bob Musella.
The Krays (film)
The Krays (1990) is a British biographical crime drama directed by Peter Medak, written by Philip Ridley, starring Spandau Ballet brothers Gary and Martin Kemp as the Kray twins with Billie Whitelaw as Violet Kray.
The Old Man & the Gun
The Old Man & the Gun is David Lowery's 2018 Fox Searchlight film starring Robert Redford as real bank robber Forrest Tucker, based on David Grann's 2003 New Yorker article, with Casey Affleck and Sissy Spacek; Redford's announced final role.
The Polka King
The Polka King is a 2017 biographical comedy directed by Maya Forbes, starring Jack Black as Jan Lewan, the Pennsylvania polka bandleader who ran a Ponzi scheme; Sundance premiere, Netflix release January 12, 2018.
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) is Martin Scorsese's biographical black comedy starring Leonardo DiCaprio as fraudster Jordan Belfort; Terence Winter adapted Belfort's memoir. It grossed $392 million worldwide and earned five Oscar nominations.
Trial by Fire (2018 film)
Trial by Fire (2018) is Edward Zwick's biographical drama starring Jack O'Connell and Laura Dern, based on David Grann's 2009 New Yorker article about Cameron Todd Willingham's contested Texas arson conviction and 2004 execution.
True History of the Kelly Gang (film)
True History of the Kelly Gang: 2019 Justin Kurzel film adapting Peter Carey's Booker-winning novel, starring George MacKay as Ned Kelly; deliberately fictional punk take, 80% Tomatometer, IFC Films, 125 minutes.
True Story (film)
True Story is a 2015 American thriller directed by Rupert Goold, starring Jonah Hill as journalist Michael Finkel and James Franco as accused killer Christian Longo.
Veerappan (2016 film)
Veerappan (वीरप्पन), 2016 Hindi docudrama thriller by Ram Gopal Varma, a remake of his Kannada Killing Veerappan, dramatizing Operation Cocoon and the 2004 killing of bandit Veerappan, starring Sandeep Bharadwaj, released 27 May 2016.
White Boy Rick
White Boy Rick is a 2018 American crime drama directed by Yann Demange, starring Matthew McConaughey and Richie Merritt, about Detroit teen informant Richard Wershe Jr., his life sentence, and 2017 parole.