Based On Memoir Or Autobiography Movies

Set between 1980s rural Indiana and a Dominican reform school, a white sister and her adopted black brother fight oppression, prejudice, and rigid...

A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

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,...

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.

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

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

Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she...

An assistant director investigates the authenticity of a popular autobiographical novel being adapted into a movie.

A comprehensive and definitive biopic of legendary news anchor Walter Cronkite, drawing on private papers, diaries, and interviews to reveal the man...

Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian moutain climber, escapes from a British POW camp in India and flees north across the Himalayan mountains into Tibet....

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

From a very young age, Christian Haupt displays an uncanny knowledge of baseball and vivid memories of a past life as Lou Gehrig, the famous Yankee....

Chronicles the life of Tony Volpentest, the quadruple congenital amputee who defied expectations to become one of the most accomplished Paralympic...

Adam Brown overcomes his addictions and trains to become an elite member of the SEAL Team Six.

A behind-the-scenes perspective on counterterrorism expert Erroll Southers’ career, which shaped by decades of experiences at the highest...

An account of a young Palestinian woman living in the West Bank from the early 1980s up until 2003, including a period when her mother-in-law moved...

The true story of a teenager who became a world sensation, a love story with a broken heart, laughter, love, hope and tragedy, learning to live when...

Cosmetics saleswoman Kirsi Viilonen dreams of a career as a star artist. When Kirsi meets DJ and radio journalist Paula, she decides to give in...

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,...

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