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.

Netflix has plenty of new arrivals this week for fans of the thriller genre, including an Oscar-winning classic based on a Stephen King novel.

From medieval skirmishes to trench warfare to modern missiles, these war films showcase both the atrocities and humanity of ...

This article contains mature, upsetting, and potentially triggering material, including (but not limited to) violence, sexual assault, and other serious crimes. Over the last decade, true crime has ...

Netflix just added a brand-new documentary that might just be your next true crime binge. Murder in Monaco tells the absurd true story of murdered billionaire Edmond Safra, whose body was found in his ...

Yusra and Sara Mardini saved a boatful of fellow asylum seekers from drowning in the Aegean Sea. Now a Netflix movie tells ...

Netflix has confirmed the movies it's removing at the start of March 2026, and I've picked out five flicks you need to watch before then.

Helmed by Maciej Pieprzyca, Netflix’s ‘Lead Children,’ also called ‘Olowiane Dzieci,’ follows a young doctor named Jolanta Wadowska-Król, who in the early 1970s makes a horrific discovery: the sharp ...

Joel Courtney, Stephanie Szostak and John Corbett in "Soul on Fire." Soul On Fire, a faith-based movie based on the true story of author and motivational speaker John O’Leary, is coming soon to ...

This film stars Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes and Downton Abbey star Lily James, with the story based on the 1939 excavation ...

An ‘enthralling’ movie set during the war in Afghanistan has quietly been added to Netflix. Released in 2013, the action war drama Lone Survivor was based on the 2007 nonfiction book by Marcus ...