Based On Memoir Or Autobiography Movies

Shows William Reich and his young son Peter on top of a hill trying to make his cloudbusting machine work. Reich leaves Peter on the machine and...

A boy, a girl, and the worst football team in Britain. You can't choose who you're going to fall in love with.

Jay Parini finds himself stuck in a Morris Minor, chauffeuring the brilliant, blind Jorge Luis Borges through Scotland. Quiet and conservative,...

Temporarily homeless Jarna is in the deepest trouble of his life. Debtors have come to collect old drug debts and Jarna is given 24 hours to pay up,...

In 1974. Shogo was suddenly called back by his father, Haruo Yuge who was the leader of Hakusan-gumi in Wakayama. What awaited him was the crisis of...

An average student in average small-town America, inspired by the astronauts she saw on TV, Eileen Collins nurtured a secret dream to fly to space...

An Italian magistrate leads a crusade against organized crime which ultimately costs him his life in this biopic told through his daughter's eyes.

Film adaptation of the eponymous memoir by Trevor Noah.

In the 1970s, Mark Vonnegut, son of renowned sci-fi author Kurt Vonnegut, leads his friends out of Nixon's broken America to Eden, where they can...

During the 20 months before Italy's liberation from Fascism, a group of university students trade empty rhetoric for action by joining the Partisans...

My American Cousin is a Canadian drama film, released in 1985. Written and directed by Sandy Wilson based on her own childhood, the film stars...

Based on Clinton’s memoir, Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You?, it is the untold story of influential...

Based on a fictionalized 2015 memoir from psychiatric nurse Mary Dorsan, the text embeds within a teenage psychiatric ward over the course of a year,...

When Satoshi was little, his mother Akiko always took good care of him. She was gentle, but mentally strong. However, two years ago she was diagnosed...

An adult Ralphie Parker narrates several humorous stories about his teen years in an Indiana steel town.

Marissa, a 25-year-old woman, goes through an unimaginable journey trying to maintain her sense of self after becoming a victim of human trafficking...

This piece is inspired by the memoirs of Sepideh Gholian. A prisoner of conscience at 26 years old in Bushehr prison, Iran.

Enzo, still not over the death of his grandmother Yiyi, returns to her house, almost abandoned, with the aim of taking some elements.

Raised in the South African township of Zamelda, Johannes 'JoJo' Radebe faced prejudice as a young boy who was captivated by dance – and...