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1. Citizen X (1995)
directed by Chris Gerolmo
featuring Donald Sutherland, Stephen Rea
Stephen Rea stars as a relentless Russian investigator in this made-for-cable thriller. Based on an actual case, this taut film tells the story of ... More
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2. Brubaker (1980)
directed by Stuart Rosenberg
featuring Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith
Fact-based drama starring Robert Redford as Henry Brubaker, the new inmate at a run-down Southern prison that's become notorious for corruption and ... More
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3. A Civil Action (1998)
directed by Steven Zaillian
featuring Kathy Bates, John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H. Macy, Zeljko Ivanek
Directed by Schindler's List screenwriter Steve Zaillian, this courtroom drama is based on a true story and non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr. The ... More
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4. Zodiac (2007)
directed by David Fincher
featuring Mark Ruffalo, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey, Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox
The true story behind the murders that many crime scholars believe to be the most perplexing series of unsolved crimes in modern history comes to the ... More
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5. A Cry in the Dark (1988)
directed by Fred Schepisi
featuring Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Meryl Streep, Bruce Myles, Sam Neill, Nick Tate
A barely recognizable Meryl Streep plays the real-life Lindy Chamberlain, who for a long period in the early '80s was the most hated woman in ... More
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6. Alpha Dog (2007)
directed by Nick Cassavetes
featuring Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone, Ben Foster
A drug dealer moves on to bigger crimes in an effort to settle a score with disastrous results in this drama inspired by actual events. Though barely ... More
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7. The Informant! (2009)
directed by Steven Soderbergh
featuring Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey, Rick Overton
A rising star in the agricultural industry suddenly turns whistleblower in hopes of gaining a lucrative promotion and becoming a hero of the common ... More
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8. North Country (2005)
directed by Niki Caro
featuring Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean, Richard Jenkins, Jeremy Renner, Michelle Monaghan, Woody Harrelson, Sissy Spacek
A fictionalized account of one of America's most groundbreaking sexual harassment lawsuits comes to the screen in this hard-hitting drama. In the ... More
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9. The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959)
directed by Charles E. Guggenheim, John Stix
featuring Steve McQueen, David Clarke, Graham Denton, Molly McCarthy, James Dukas
Based on an actual bank heist (and even using the St. Louis policemen who took part in thwarting the original robbery), this fairly ho-hum caper film ... More
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10. The Bank Job (2008)
directed by Roger Donaldson
featuring Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner
Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows star in director Roger Donaldson's cinematic account of the true-life 1971 London bank robbery that baffled the ... More
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11. Conviction (2010)
directed by Tony Goldwyn
featuring Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Minnie Driver, Melissa Leo, Peter Gallagher, Ari Graynor, Loren Dean, Conor Donovan, Owen Campbell, Tobias Campbell, Bailee Madison, Clea Duvall, Karen Young, Talia Balsam, John Pyper-Ferguson, Juliette Lewis
As children, Betty Anne Waters (Hilary Swank) and her brother, Kenny (Sam Rockwell), survived bad parenting and poverty by leaning on each other for ... More
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12. Judgment in Berlin (1988)
directed by Leo Penn
featuring Martin Sheen, Sam Wanamaker, Max Gail, Jürgen Heinrich, Harris Yulin, Heinz Hoenig
In 1978, an East German waiter used a toy gun to hijack a Polish airliner heading for East Berlin and forced the pilot to land at an American Air ... More
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13. The Hillside Strangler (2004)
directed by Chuck Parello
featuring C. Thomas Howell, Nicholas Turturro, Allison Lange, Lin Shaye, Lin Shea, Molly Brenner
A real-life series of killings that held Los Angeles, CA, in the grip of fear during the late '70s provides the inspiration for this tense crime ... More
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14. Boxcar Bertha (1972)
directed by Martin Scorsese
featuring Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus, Bernie Casey, John Carradine
Produced by Roger Corman and directed by Martin Scorsese, Boxcar Bertha is a Bonnie and Clyde-like yarn set during the Depression. The title ... More
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15. Serpico (1974)
directed by Sidney Lumet
featuring Al Pacino, Tony Roberts, Jack Kehoe, Cornelia Sharpe, Barbara Eda-Young
Adapted by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from Peter Maas's book, Sidney Lumet's drama portrays the real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop ... More
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16. Fort Apache, the Bronx (1981)
directed by Daniel Petrie
featuring Paul Newman, Ed Asner, Ken Wahl, Danny Aiello, Rachel Ticotin
Paul Newman stars as an essentially decent cop patrolling that decimated, drug-and-gang-ridden borough known on the city maps as the Bronx, but known ... More
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17. American Violet (2009)
directed by Tim Disney
featuring Nicole Beharie, Tim Blake Nelson, Will Patton, Michael O'Keefe, Xzibit
Nicole Beharie, Tim Blake Nelson, Will Patton, and Xzibit headline this fact-based drama about an innocent Texas mother caught up in a high-profile ... More
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18. Reversal of Fortune (1990)
directed by Barbet Schroeder
featuring Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Uta Hagen
This film is a darkly humorous, determinedly ambiguous adaptation of Alan Dershowitz's book about his successful legal appeal of Claus von Bulow's ... More
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19. Sugartime (1996)
directed by John Smith
featuring John Turturro, Mary-Louise Parker, Elias Koteas, Maury Chaykin, Louis del Grande
This tawdry drama is based on the allegedly true-life love affair between notorious mafioso Sam Giancana and chanteuse Phyllis McGuire. ~ Sandra ... More
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20. Separate But Equal (1991)
directed by George Stevens, Jr.
featuring Burt Lancaster, Richard Kiley, Sidney Poitier
Based on the ground-breaking Brown vs. the Board of Education case, the made-for-television Separate But Equal follows a young Thurgood Marshall ... More
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21. In the Name of the Father (1993)
directed by Jim Sheridan
featuring Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave
The My Left Foot team of star Daniel Day-Lewis and director Jim Sheridan were reunited to make this political docudrama about Irish citizen Gerry ... More
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22. Heavens Fall (2005)
directed by Terry Green
featuring Timothy Hutton, David Strathairn, Leelee Sobieski, Anthony Mackie
The tragic court case that forever altered the course of American jurisprudence is dramatized for the screen in this courtroom docudrama starring ... More
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23. A Killing in a Small Town (1990)
directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
featuring Barbara Hershey
To escape from the boredom of her small-town life, Sunday School teacher Candy Morrison (Barbara Hershey) engages in an affair with a fellow ... More
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24. Billionaire Boys Club (1987)
directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
featuring Judd Nelson, Ron Silver
Billionaire Boys Club is the two-part TV adaptation of a book by Sue Horton (unpublished at the time of the film's first telecast). In flashback form ... More
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25. Innocent Victims (1996)
directed by Gilbert Cates
featuring Hal Holbrook, Rue McClanahan, John Corbett, Rick Schroder, Howard Hesseman
The cautionary phrase "It could happen to you!" was seldom more appropriate than in this two-part, four-hour TV movie, inspired by a true story and ... More
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