Based On Memoir Or Autobiography Movies

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.

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...

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Film adaptation of the eponymous memoir by Trevor Noah.

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...

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...

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...

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...