From period pieces like 'I'm Still Here' and 'The King' to quippy action comedies like 'Hit Man' with Glen Powell, here are the 29 best Netflix movies based on true stories.

This Oscar-nominated thriller is now streaming on Netflix.

Discover What’s Streaming On: Steve on Netflix—which began streaming today—definitely seems like the kind of movie that would be based on a true story. This is in part because much of the movie is ...

Netflix’s new crime thriller The Rip is now streaming, with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck starring as two Miami cops who stumble upon a massive stash of cash at a cartel house. The film is inspired by an ...

Netflix K-drama, The Art of Sarah, premiered on February 13, 2026, and has become one of the most-streamed non-English dramas ...

With all the social and political turmoil of the era, the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic sure did feel like the Wild West. With his new film Eddington, now on digital, director Ari Aster takes this fact and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These based on a true story movies are pretty accurate — aside from their fictionalized main characters. Does knowing that lead ...

Every weekend, there’s at least one new show added to Netflix that seems like a can’t-miss binge-watch. This weekend, it’s No One Saw Us Leave, a gripping true story of a wealthy Jewish family that is ...

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck don’t know who to trust—and that includes each other—in their new crime thriller, The Rip, which began streaming on Netflix today. Written and directed by Joe Carnahan—a ...

All too often, folks see the phrase "based on a true story" and focus far too much on the "true story" part while skipping over the "based on." It's a problem that's existed practically since the ...

The drama in Tell Me Lies can sometimes feel too extreme to believe — but as it turns out, some of the characters are rooted in real-life experiences. In an April 2019 essay for The Cut, Lovering ...

EXCLUSIVE: After Peacock canceled Based on a True Story, Kaley Cuoco reveals the potential for the show to be revived for a ...