Movies based on real events on Netflix about the lives of different families

Many of the films based on real eventsS. that Netflix has in its catalog tell stories of families, most focused on how they manage to deal with situations of adversity such as natural phenomena or generational trauma. All managing to leave a message across the screen, the same for which it was decided that these stories should be in cinemas.

The impossible

One of most exciting movies based on true events that Netflix has in his catalog there is ‘The Impossible’, which tells the odyssey that a family experiences when they go on vacation to Thailand and unfortunately suffers the arrival of a tsunami on the coast. Before this scenario, everyone will be separated, but somehow they manage to meet. Tom Holland, Ewang McGregor and Naomi Watts star in this JA Bayona film.

Paternity

With a very different story, “Paternity”, a Netflix original film; It is based on the book “Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love” written by Matt Logelin, a man who recounts his experience as a single father following the death of his wife after giving birth to their only child.

Hillbilly: a rural elegy

In the case of ‘Hillbilly: A Rural Elegy’ it is also an adaptation, based on the book of the same name by JD Vance. It tells of the author’s journey to become a great lawyer but as this is a little frustrated after a family accident occurs which forces him to return to his hometown which will make him face his past.

First I killed my father

Another of the movies based on true events that tell a family story is that of ‘First The Killed My Father’ by Angelina Jolie. It tells the life of Loung Ung, who at the age of five lived through the civil war in Cambodia at the hands of the Jerem Rouge; a phase in which he grows up surrounded by violence, together with his family and his parents.

The boy who harnessed the wind

The story of ‘The Boy Who Tamed the Wind’ is a story that seems almost a miracle, because it shows how William Kamkwamba managed to create a windmill as a child, in the middle of Malawi, a rural area of ​​Africa where he lived with his family and that he saved from drought and famine, thanks to his creation.

The pianist

In a similar way to ‘First The Killed My Father’, in ‘El Pianista’ the life of one person is narrated: Wladyslaw Szpilman, a musician specialized in piano who lives the Second World War with his family … until the same war situation ends up separating them. This along with many of the films that are part of this top, shows how families try to survive adversity.