11 h. ago The Waterfront: The true story behind Netflix drama inspired by creator’s family ties to drug smuggling

Eight-episode series, starring Holt McCallany, is loosely based on creator Kevin Williamson’s childhood

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15 h. ago 'Most disturbing' series about 'insane' true story streaming now

Some viewers couldn't believe what they were watching

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44 h. ago Lovestuck at Stratford East review: 'a cheerfully brainless scatological musical'

Based on a true story about a woman who was trapped upside down in a toilet, this musical from the team behind My Dad Wrote a Porno doesn’t come out smelling of roses

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45 h. ago ‘Most underrated’ thriller of the 1990s takes Netflix by storm

Intense film is finding a new lease of life 30 years on

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68 h. ago Netflix thriller leaves viewers 'gripped' with retelling of true story

Directed by Thomas M. Wright, The Stranger is a psychological crime thriller that is inspired by the real-life investigation of 13-year-old Daniel Morcombe

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3 d. ago Red Path review – Tunisian drama tells traumatic story of Islamic State’s horrific cruelty

Based on the true story of the brutal murder of a teenage shepherd, Lotfi Achour’s sombre film honestly attempts to encompass the unbearable grief suffered by the familyA low cloud of misery and horror settles on this sombre movie from Tunisian writer-director Lotfi Achour, inspired by a brutal event in his country from 2015. A teenage shepherd called Mabrouk Soltani was murdered and beheaded on Mount Mghila in central Tunisia by members of Jund al-Khilafah (“soldiers of the caliphate”), the Tunisian branch of Islamic State, which habitually hides out in that remote, rugged region. They videoed their grotesque homicide, claiming the boy was an army spy and ordered his terrified 14-year-old cousin, who was with him, to carry the severed head back to his village as a brutal “message” – and this boy obeyed, in a stricken state of trauma that can only be guessed at. This horrifying event was to assume the status of national scandal in Tunisia two years later when the victim’s elder brot...

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8 d. ago Bombshell discovery in soil at 'site of Noah's Ark' that has convinced me Bible story is TRUE

A mysterious geological formation perched high in the mountains of Turkey could be the site where Noah's Ark landed around 4,300 years ago.

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8 d. ago American Gangster film based on true story that's a 'must watch' if you love the Godfather

The gangster film, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime, has been hailed as very "underrated" and the "best true crime drama out there".

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8 d. ago John Palmer: the true story of The Gold Season 2’s Tenerife criminal

From running a timeshare empire to commanding a bevy of thugs known as The Sharks, Palmer’s life was certainly colourful

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1 week ago Hugh Bonneville in gripping bank robbery drama inspired by true story airs on BBC1 tonight

The Gold on BBC1 returns for a second series, following the aftermath of the shocking real life Brink's-Mat robbery on 1983

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1 week ago Tragic true story of 'the other Harry Potter' whose life changed forever after a catastrophic injury on set

The now 44-year-old, from Romford, was rehearsing a fight scene for The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 film in 2009 when he fell and plummeted to the ground.

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1 week ago 'Incredible' period drama fans can't stop talking about now streaming on BBC

Fans are going wild for the BBC drama, which tells the true story of landowner and industrialist Anne Lister - who was known as the first 'modern lesbian'

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2 w. ago The London socialite. His aristocrat killer. And a mother’s search for justice

The brutal, ketamine-fuelled killing of public schoolboy Alex Morgan shocked the world. In our new chart-topping true-crime podcast, we tell the real story

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2 w. ago The true story behind A Widow’s Game is even wilder than the Netflix film

A Spanish true-crime drama about the so-called ‘Black Widow of Patraix’ is a firm favourite with Netflix viewers. Katie Rosseinsky looks at the harrowing case behind the streaming hit

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2 w. ago 'Charming and unusual' film based on true story axed by BBC in just days

The Phantom of the Open is a biographical film based on the life of Maurice Flitcroft, who notoriously shot the worst round in the history of the Open Championship in 1976

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2 w. ago America's most notorious prison escapee is now in love with an everyday mom... who is allowed extraordinary access to her 10

A cop killer renowned for an audacious jailbreak is now escaping the hell of solitary confinement by playing the doting father figure to his lover's little girl on the outside, the Daily Mail can reveal.

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2 w. ago Extraordinary story of America's most notorious prison escapee, the mom who loves him... and her daughter, 10, who hangs his creepy art on her walls

A cop killer renowned for an audacious jailbreak is now escaping the hell of solitary confinement by playing the doting father figure to his lover's little girl on the outside, the Daily Mail can reveal.

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2 w. ago Emotional true story behind BBC's What It Feels Like for a Girl as fans praise 'electric' drama

The eight-episode series explores escape, self-discovery and self-destruction

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2 w. ago Dark true story behind hit drama What It Feels Like For a Girl: Transgender author Paris Lees endured horrific sexual abuse and was jailed at 16

Critics have commended the BBC 's adaptation of journalist Paris Lees' memoir, What It Feels Like for a Girl, which looks at the British writer's tumultuous history and at times dark journey.

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2 w. ago A Family Matter by Claire Lynch review – powerful debut about lesbian mothers in the 80s

A woman is forced to rethink her childhood after she learns that her mother was denied custody, in a decade blighted by homophobiaFor a writer, the 1980s bear rich, dark fruit. The social and political turbulence of the decade provides the perfect landscape for Claire Lynch’s dual-timeline debut novel A Family Matter, which alternates between 1982 and the present day. On the surface, it is the story of a father-daughter relationship. Heron – an elderly man deeply fond of rules and routine – has recently received a terminal cancer diagnosis, but rather than share it with his grownup daughter, Maggie, who now has a family of her own, he chooses to bear the burden alone. As we learn that Heron raised Maggie by himself, it’s clear this urge to shield his only child from harm is a continuous theme. There is no mention of another parent, just that Heron was divorced many decades ago; it’s only when Lynch takes us back to 1982 that we discover the true story.When Maggie was a toddler,...

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