Based On Memoir Or Autobiography Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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,...

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

Film adaptation of the eponymous memoir by Trevor Noah.

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...