Based On Memoir Or Autobiography Movies
- 1987
84 Charing Cross Road
84 Charing Cross Road7.1141987HD
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail...
- 2014
Life Itself
Life Itself7.5122014HD
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling...
- 2001
The Other Side of Heaven
The Other Side of Heaven6.2512001HD
John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island...
- 1976
Fellini's Casanova
Fellini's Casanova6.971976HD
Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person? Is...
- 2017
Same Kind of Different as Me
Same Kind of Different as Me6.92017HD
International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams...
- 2022
Rhinegold
Rhinegold6.732022HD
Xatar’s way from the ghetto to the top of the charts is as dramatic as it is daring: Fatih Akin’s new film is based on the...
- 2002
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress6.8612002HD
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful...
- 1983
Never Cry Wolf
Never Cry Wolf6.9541983HD
A scientific researcher, sent on a government study: The Lupus Project, must investigate the possible "menace" of wolves in the north. To do so, he...
- 2015
Waffle Street
Waffle Street6.1292015HD
The true story of Jimmy Adams, a V.P. of a $30 billion hedge fund, who loses his job and winds up working as a waiter at a waffle shop. Amidst the...
- 1990
An Angel at My Table
An Angel at My Table7.0451990HD
Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the author at various stage of her life. Afflicted with...
- 2024
The Outrun
The Outrun02024HD
Rona, fresh out of rehab, returns to the Orkney Islands; a place both wild and beautiful right off the Scottish coast. After more than a decade of...
- 2019
J.T. LeRoy
J.T. LeRoy5.4482019HD
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...
- 2005
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio6.72005HD
A Midwestern housewife supports her large family by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies, while dealing with...
- 2020
Moffie
Moffie6.82020HD
A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the...
- 1948
The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit7.0471948HD
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions...
- 2018
Blaze
Blaze6.22018HD
Re-imagining the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting Texas legend.
- 2023
Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window72023HD
This engaging series of childhood recollections tells of an unconventional school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun,...
- 2002
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys6.62002HD
A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them...
- 1970
The Wild Child
The Wild Child7.0621970HD
In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor...
- 1980
Playing for Time
Playing for Time71980HD
When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible...