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Oedipus, a figure commonly considered a tragic hero. A tragic hero (or sometimes tragic heroine if they are female) is the protagonist of a tragedy. In his Poetics, Aristotle records the descriptions of the tragic hero to the playwright and strictly defines the place that the tragic hero must play and the kind of man he must be. Aristotle based ...
The true story of the Titanic ... Amazon Prime. Hearst Owned. My Girl (1991) ... Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet evoke tears in this tragic story—based on a 1961 book of the same name—of a ...
7 Days in Hell (2015) – sports mockumentary television film inspired by the Isner–Mahut marathon men's singles match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships [1]; 10 Days in a Madhouse (2015) – biographical film about undercover journalist Nellie Bly, a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World who had herself committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island to write an ...
Based on the non-fiction novel “A Long Way Home” by Saroo Brierley, “Lion” tells the story of Saroo, portrayed by Dev Patel, who gets lost on a train and ends up thousands of miles away ...
The Impossible Spy (1987) – biographical drama television film based on the true story of an Israeli civilian spy, Eli Cohen, who was recruited into Israel's secret intelligence agency (the Mossad) in the 1960s to become a spy in Damascus [441] In Love and War (1987) – war thriller film based on the true story of James Stockdale and Sybil ...
Based on the 2016 New York Times Magazine article "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare" by Nathaniel Rich, ... In this movie based on a true story, a mime named Marcel Marceau, played ...
2 Hearts (2020) – romantic drama film based on the true story of Leslie and Jorge Bacardi and Christopher Gregory [1]; 18 Presents (Italian: 18 regali) (2020) – Italian drama film based on an actual Italian woman, Elisa Girotto, who had planned and allocated 17 years of birthday gifts for her daughter Anna before her death in September 2017 due to a terminal breast cancer.
Hidden Figures. Loosely based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s book of the same name, Hidden Figures follows a trio of Black female mathematicians who worked at NASA’s segregated—by race and gender ...