Mind-Blowing Films That Are Based on Real People

Out of Africa

This 1985 biopic is based on the memoir of Baroness Karen von Blixen (who is also known as Isak Dinesen). Meryl Streep plays the Danish aristocrat who purchases a coffee plantation in Africa, where she meets a big-game hunter (played by Robert Redford) with whom she falls in love. This movie won Best Picture in 1985. 

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