46 h. ago Taron Egerton knew he just had to play 'fascinating' and 'disturbing' new TV role

Taron Egerton stars as an arson investigator in the new Apple TV+ series, Smoke, which is inspired by the true crime story of a serial arsonist who set fire to businesses in Southern California

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4 d. ago An underrated true crime thriller starring Keira Knightley is airing on TV tonight

It is based on the true story of a serial killer who murdered 13 women in the 1960s

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5 d. ago Overlooked Netflix war film hailed as 'natural crowd pleaser' telling 'ignored' story

Kerry Washington stars in The Six Triple Eight, which is a historical war drama that tells the remarkable true story of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion

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6 d. ago The ‘most underrated’ thriller of the 1990s taking Netflix by storm

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

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7 d. ago Nicola Peltz is spoiled. Do they realise what their sneering sounds like?: After 'tight' accusation David and Victoria's friends call KATIE HIND and let rip

When Brooklyn Beckham turned 15, he got a job as a barista in a Kensington coffee shop where his remuneration was a modest £2.68 per hour

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8 d. 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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9 d. ago 'Most disturbing' series about 'insane' true story streaming now

Some viewers couldn't believe what they were watching

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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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2 w. 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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2 w. 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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2 w. 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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2 w. 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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2 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 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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3 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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3 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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