Hello and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks, the weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves where you share three movies to fit the theme of the week each Thursday.
This week's theme is true events and since there are so many (great) movies based on true stories and it's impossible to pick three only, I went with three films whose stories are so unbelievable to be true. But they are actually true.
Alive (1993)
The plane carrying the Uruguayan rugby team crashes on the Andes Mountains, and the survivors are forced to use desperate measures to survive, like eating their dead friends. What those people went through, I can't even imagine that. This is one of those movies that are really hard to sit through but it's remarkable.
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Before even turning 19, Frank Abagnale Jr. conned million of dollars worth of checks as a pilot, doctor and legal prosecutor. I still can't believe someone could do all that in such a short time. I'm 23 and I'm still not able to take my own doctor appointment. I'm just kidding. Anyway, the film is (the) fun (one) and there's a young Leonardo DiCaprio which is always nice to see.
Changeling (2008)
Five months after a 9-year-old boy went missing, LAPD finds a boy who fits the description and brings him back to his mother. Only the woman insists he's not her boy and will keep waiting for her real son. This film left me speechless. Not because of what that poor woman went through, but because of what happened to those kids. I don't know how people feel about this film, but I love it. It's one of my favourites from Eastwood and Angelina Jolie gives such a wonderful performance.
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