By ew staff
Take a look back at the gold standards
for real-life stories on the big screen.
Robert De Niro's Jake LaMotta, the middleweight boxing champion of the 1940s and '50s, is an isolated figure racked with guilt.
Shekhar Kapur's 1998 film focuses on the initial years of Elizabeth's rule, as the queen struggled to form her public identity.
Adapted with a hippie-ish flair from Peter Shaffer's original play, the film succeeds because it's not merely a linear biography celebrating Mozart's brilliance.