
10 Best Movies Like Based on a True Story
If you loved Based on a True Story, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

A Perfect Enemy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Based on a True Story for fans of Thriller & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Famed architect Jeremy Angust is approached on his trip to the Paris Airport by a chatty girl named Texel Textor who needs a ride. He obliges and after they part ways at the airpor...

The Mad Women's Ball
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Based on a True Story for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas....

Femme Fatale
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Based on a True Story for fans of Thriller & Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and...

The Night Eats the World
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Based on a True Story for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.
After waking up to find himself all alone in an apartment where a massive party was being held the night before, Sam is immediately forced to face a terrifying reality: the living ...

Swimming Pool
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Based on a True Story for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book. However, the unexpected arrival of ...

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Based on a True Story for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace....