Best Movies based on real life on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Movies based on real life on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 100 titles in category code 920. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. Working Title (2019)
Rated 9.4/10 on IMDb, from 2019, 1h 50m. In the '70s, a graduate student works with three incarcerated women from the Manson Family as they look back at their lives.
2. Schindler's List (1993)
Rated 8.9/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1993, 3h 15m. Oskar Schindler becomes an unlikely humanitarian, spending his entire fortune to help save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz during World War II.
3. GoodFellas (1990)
Rated 8.7/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1990, 2h 25m. This gripping gangster opus follows real-world mobster Henry Hill, who dreamed of making it big but landed in the Witness Protection Program instead.
4. Ani... Dr. Kashinath Ghanekar (2018)
Rated 8.7/10 on IMDb, from 2018, 2h 37m. From his singular career to his personal demons, this biopic chronicles the short yet prolific life of the Marathi dentist-turned-superstar.
5. Mallesham (2019)
Rated 8.6/10 on IMDb, from 2019, 2h 11m. A self-trained engineer risks debt, love and reputation in his quest to improve the grueling work conditions of his mother and her weaving community.
6. Vita & Virginia (2019)
Rated 8.6/10 on IMDb, from 2019, 1h 50m. In the 1920s, Vita Sackville-West was a free-loving pop writer.
7. The Pianist (2002)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2002, 2h 28m. Famed Polish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman struggles to survive the onslaught of Nazi tyranny during World War II in this drama based on his memoirs.
8. Black Friday (2004)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, from 2004, 2h 41m. This docudrama based on the same-titled book tracks the aftermath of a 1993 bombing in Bombay through the eyes of a journalist covering the story.
9. Dangal (2016)
Rated 8.4/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2016, 2h 40m. A once-promising wrestler pursues the gold medal he never won by training two of his daughters to compete at the Commonwealth Games.
10. Harishchandrachi Factory (2009)
Rated 8.4/10 on IMDb, from 2009, 1h 38m. Against a backdrop of burgeoning social unrest, a neophyte filmmaker makes history in 1913 as the director of India's first feature-length film.