
Docudrama: le réel romancé. Based on a true story
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Omar m'a tuer (2011)
mercredi 7 septembre 2011 - Dossiers - Dossiers Après "La Conquête", "Omar m'a tuer", "Présumé coupable"... Nombreux sont encore les films français à sortir en 2011-2012 et s'inspirant de ...Scénario : Pedro Almodóvar / Photographie : Alfredo Mayo / Montage : José Salcedo / Distribution : Verónica Forqué (Kika), Peter Coyote (Nicholas), Victoria Abril (Andrea Caracortada), Àlex Casanovas (Ramón), Rossy de Palma (Juana), Santiago Lajusticia (Pablo)… Résumé : L’auteur américain Nicholas fait venir la jeune maquilleuse Kika à son domicile afin qu’elle maquille le cadavre de son beau-fils Ramon, avant même que les autorités n’aient été informées de son décès. Mais Ramon n’était pas mort, simplement en état de catatonie : les bons soins que Kika lui prodigue lui donnent ainsi un second souffle. Kika se prend alors de sympathie pour Ramon, qui lui conte la triste histoire de sa vie, notamment les circonstances étranges de la mort de sa mère. Mais après avoir emménagé avec Ramon, Kika finit par entretenir une liaison avec son père.
Fictions sur les médias et le journalisme
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy Administration's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Written by Anonymous This was originally shot on videotape, and first shown in this format, but when it was sold to local stations, it was transferred to film.
The Missiles of October (TV 1974)
Elephant Man (1980)
Baraka (1992)
Schindler's List (1993)
Oskar Schindler is a vainglorious and greedy German businessman who becomes unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. A testament for the good in all of us. Written by Harald MayrEd Wood (1994)
Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area.
Erin Brockovich (2000)
In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in the wartime chaos, they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba.
The Road to Guantanamo (2006)
Vol 93 (2006)
On September, 11th 2001, two American Airlines and two United Airlines domestic U.S. flights are hijacked by terrorists. After the collision of two planes against the World Trade Center and one against the Pentagon, the passengers and crew of United Flight 93 decide to struggle against the four terrorist to take back the control of the airplane. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilStruggling private investigator Louis Simo treats his work more as a means to make a living than a want to do right by what few clients he has. Through connections with the investigation firm for which he used to work, Simo is hired by Helen Bessolo to investigate the death of her son, actor George Reeves . Reeves was best known for his title role in Adventures of Superman , a role which he always despised, in part since it typecast him as a "cartoon", despite it bringing him a certain fame. His June 16, 1959 death by a single gunshot wound while in his bedroom in his Los Angeles home was ruled a suicide by the police, the death which occurred when the house was filled with people. Reeves' story is told in part in flashback as Simo, who is trying to make a name for himself with this case, talks to or tries to talk to some of the players involved, most specifically the wife of MGM General Manager E.J. Mannix ...
Hollywoodland (2006)
Bobby is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Emilio Estevez . The screenplay is a fictionalized account of the hours leading up to the June 5, 1968 shooting of United States Senator from New York and former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in the kitchen of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles following his win in the California Democratic Party primary for the 1968 Presidential Election.

