10 Movie Biopics That Lied To Your Face

Released in 2014, The Imitation Game is a deeply flawed biopic of mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing. The film was a huge financial success and features a superb central turn from Benedict Cumberbatch, but biographers bemoaned its lack of accuracy in the genius codebreaker's tragic life.

You see, Turing was gay, a fact which the film does all it can to avoid dwelling upon. Yes, the filmmakers did eventually have to address his eventual chemical castration.

But the addition of a Soviet spy named Cairncross who threatens to out Turing for his sexuality is thrown in to add drama and, more offensively, to find a villain more unforgivable than the real life British government whose actions drove Turing to suicide. Add in a love interest (for, again, a gay man), played by Keira Knightley and the film soon became a regrettable period piece which tried and failed to fit Turing's life into a generic framework.

Fitting, given how often authorities attempted to force Turing's life to fit a pre-ordained narrative they wrote for him.