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highest grossing true-story movies
how many of the 15 highest-grossing movies based on (allegedly) true stories can you identify?
this list is adjusted for inflation!
includes movies that were indirectly based on true stories, for example movies based on books based on true stories
not counting movies that are entirely fictional but set in real-life scenarios, e.g. Titanic
source: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross_adjusted/?adjust_gross_to=2022
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gross
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1965
Julie Andrews
$1.33 billion
The Sound of Music
2023
Cillian Murphy
$975 million
Oppenheimer
2018
Rami Malek
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1973
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1962
Peter O'Toole
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Gary Cooper
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1998
Tom Hanks
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2014
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1968
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1995
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1970
George C. Scott
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1986
Willem Dafoe
$332 million
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1979
Margot Kidder
$322 million
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jhithepanda
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Level 50
Jan 6, 2026
Titanic?
annettehas
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Jan 15, 2026
I didn't include that one because, while the disaster itself clearly happened, the story of the characters themselves isn't based on anything from reality
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