Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers, Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman and Eddie Murphy as the blaxploitation hero Rudy Ray Moore. Stars playing real-life figures are a staple of the fall film season, and on Tuesday the Toronto International Film Festival unveiled a lineup of galas and special presentations filled with those biopics and more.

“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” is based on a 1998 Esquire article about Mister Rogers. “Harriet” is reportedly the first big-screen telling of the life of the 19th-century abolitionist. And “Dolemite Is My Name” explains how the 1970s action movies with Moore as the title character came to be.

Other based-on-real-story movies set for Toronto include the closing-night film, “Radioactive,” starring Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie; “Ford v Ferrari,” about the American company’s efforts to build a racecar that could compete at Le Mans; and “Just Mercy,” with Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson, the lawyer who founded the Equal Justice Initiative on behalf of poor clients.

The festival will be showing other much-anticipated titles, including “Joker,” starring Joaquin Phoenix as the DC villain; “Hustlers,” with Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Cardi B and Lizzo as strippers who steal from their clients; and “The Goldfinch,” with Nicole Kidman and Ansel Elgort in an adaptation of Donna Tartt’s novel. “Motherless Brooklyn,” Edward Norton’s take on the Jonathan Lethem novel, and “Parasite,” the top winner at Cannes, are also of note.