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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.

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#1
A Perfect Enemy

A Perfect Enemy

2021★ 6.4

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...

#2
The Mad Women's Ball

The Mad Women's Ball

2021★ 7.0

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....

#3
Femme Fatale

Femme Fatale

2002★ 6.2

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...

#4
The Night Eats the World

The Night Eats the World

2018★ 6.0

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 ...

#5
Swimming Pool

Swimming Pool

2003★ 6.5

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 ...

#6
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

2018★ 6.7

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....

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