Paul W.S. Anderson is not a director known for producing artistic films and this is no exception, but what he does deliver in Event Horizon is one of the most original and terrifying horror movies of the 1990s. Starring Laurence Fishburne as Captain Miller, Sam Neill as Dr. William Weir, Kathleen Quinlan as Peters, Joely Richardson as Lt. Starck, Richard T. Jones as Cooper, Jack Noseworthy as young Justin and Jason Isaacs as DJ who are all on-board a ship at some point in the future whose purpose is search and rescue.

The best of the best, here are presented the ten best movies about crime which are based on true stories.  They are listed in alphabetical order and each is generally a quite good movie, but what makes them especially interesting, and in some cases, very, very terrifying, is that this is not complete fiction; in fact, most of what is being portrayed really did happen…
1.  Blow 2001 – Directed by Ted Demme
Starring Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente, Paul Reubens, Jordi Mollà, and Ray Liotta, this Ted Demme directed picture tells us the story of George Jung (Depp) who goes from being the son of a lower-middle class plumber (Liotta) to drug dealer, to drug trafficker, to basically cocaine king of the United States, to inmate, to parolee trying to get back into his daughter’s life, and finally to permanent inmate.  The movie is heart-wrenching and the kind of movie men will in which men watching will tear up at the end because George finally realizes that the advice his father gave him long ago, when his father’s business was in trouble, was the truth, and George has realized it too late to do anything about it.  It is as tragic as it is brilliant with fantastic acting, a great cast and the never-changing excellence in direction of Demme.

The story of the last few years of the Dalai Lama residing in Llasa, Tibet as seen through the eyes of two Westerners stranded there by World War II is the story presented in Seven Years in Tibet by director Jean-Jacques Annaud.  The movie is based on the true story written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer about his time spent in Tibet while unable to return to Austria due to the war.

Breast Men is directed by Lawrence O’Neil and aims to tell the story of the two men responsible for creating and marketing the silicone and saline breast implants.  Loosely based on the real story Dr. Kevin Saunders (David Schwimmer), while studying cosmetic surgery under Dr. William Larsen (Chris Cooper) begins to think of cosmetic surgery not just as something re constructive, but also as something that may be able to enhance a woman’s self-image.

The Game (1997) – The Game slipped under the radars of many appreciators of movies.  It is a very good thriller from Fincher in which Nicolas Van Orton (Michael Douglas), a propserous San Fransisco investment banker receives a gift from his screw-up brother Conrad Van Orton (Sean Penn) along with generic instructions to call a number listed for more information.  What follows is a twisting storyline that weaves very delicate plot layers into a complex and thoroughly enjoyable web.  Nicolas must find out the meaning of the game in order for it to end.