The recent addition of 'Responsible child' to the Filmin catalog led us to look for other films that, as with this BBC dramatic thriller, were based on real life and they would have reached the streaming platform's catalog in recent months.
We were surprised by the number of movies based on real events that we found. But we couldn't bring you all of them, so we've taken four. Four stories that have received a good note from users they have already seen them. Which one do you want to start with?
moffie
- Direction: Oliver Hermanus
- Cast: Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Hilton Pelser, Shaun Chad Smit
Called "a masterpiece" by the prestigious publication Variety, "Moffie" is the new film from the Oscar-winning producers of "Ida". Presented at the last edition of the Venice Film Festival, the new film by Oliver Hermanus is based on the memoirs of André Carl van der Merwe, a well-known author who recounts his experience as a conscript in military service in South Africa in the early 80s, in the middle of Apartheid and being gay.
The Border War between South West Africa (present-day Namibia) and Angola led many young and white South Africans to fight in the border area. "Moffie" brings us closer to the story of an 18-year-old who enlists in the army where he is subjected to brutal training and where he feels, from his concealment, the most cruel forms of racism, brutality and homophobia. It also illustrates how military service instilled the ideology of white supremacy and racial intolerance hundreds of thousands of young people, barely eighteen years of age. Also the need to eliminate homosexuality from South African society.
The invisible ones
- Direction: Louis-Julien Petit
- Cast: Audrey Lamy, Corinne Masiero, Noémie Lvovsky, Déborah Lukumuena, Sarah Suco, Pablo Pauly, Quentin Faure
The highest grossing French comedy of the year is the true story of a group of social workers that, before the closure of their municipal center, they organized to continue fighting.
Following a municipal decision, a social center for homeless women, “l'Envol”, is about to close. With only three months to reintegrate into society the women they care for, social workers do everything they can: pulling contacts, telling half-truths, and even outright lies… From now on, anything goes! They deserve it.
The Wizard
- Direction: Kitty Green
- Cast: Julia Garner, Matthew Macfadyen, Dagmara Dominczyk, Kristine Froseth, Mackenzie Leigh, Juliana Canfield, Noah Robbins, Alexander Chaplin
The definitive thriller about Me Too. From a suggestive style and settled in the off-field to make her object of study invisible, the director Kitty Green investigates the sewers of the Harvey Weinstein case through the figure of a discreet production assistant who begins to take her first steps in the industry. With an overwhelming stylistic sobriety, "The Assistant" is a brave and urgent gesture of cinematographic poetic justice that has delighted Sundance and has already been hailed as one of the best films of 2020 by prestigious media such as IndieWire or the BBC.
Jane (Julia Garner) is a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer who lands a seemingly ideal job as assistant to a powerful entertainment industry executive. Her day is very similar to that of any other housekeeper: making coffee, changing the paper at the copier, ordering lunch, organizing trips, receiving phone messages, etc. But as Jane goes about her daily routine, she becomes increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her workday, an accumulation of degradations against which Jane decides to take a stand, perhaps only to discover the true depth of the system at work. the one that she has entered.
A guilty child
- Director: Nick Holt
- Cast: Billy Barratt, James Tarpey, Michelle Fairley, Tom Burke, Neal Barry
Winner of the Emmy Awards for Best Film and Best Actor. A dramatic thriller inspired by a real case where a 12-year-old boy was charged with murder.
Twelve-year-old Ray, barely a teenager, must face all the fury of the British legal system when he is accused of murder, without really understanding the reasons for it. Can a child commit the crime of an adult?
After reading the synopses of these films based on real events, which one do you want to see?