Based On Memoir Or Autobiography Movies

Stuck in a dead-end job, Graham Merrill adopts an otter, Mij, as a pet and then moves to an isolated village in western Scotland. Together they set...

A nomadic young woman and other crew members struggle to survive aboard a delivery vessel caught in a violent storm.

A young female terrorist goes on a suicide assassination mission, but her resolve to complete it is put to the test.

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...

A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her...

The adventures and adversities of a family pioneering on the plains of Kansas. Based on the best-selling biography by John Ise.

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred...

United Kingdom, March 24, 1954. Ten years before the decriminalization of homosexuality, journalist Peter Wildeblood and his friends Lord Montagu 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.

A thriller about one of the most infamous cult stories of all time, the Jonestown Massacre.

Based on the autobiography of Sonny Bono, this film focuses on the volatile relationship between Sonny and Cher during the early 60's to their messy...

The story about the life and career of Pertti 'Spede' Pasanen, it traces the iconic entertainer's most innovative phase of filmmaking. The film sheds...

A young runaway rejects society's condemnation and dares to fulfill his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world...

Tells the thrilling, heroic and unexpectedly funny story of the six women who defied the odds, the naysayers and gravity itself to become...

A small-town couple with big dreams of making their family complete must persevere through infertility and tragedy.

Based on the bestselling memoir - Yakuza Moon - by Shoko Tendo. The author stars as herself in the film adaptation of her tumultuous life as the...

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

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

Drama about an impoverished family, a widowed mother and her two sons, trying to get by.

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