Based On Memoir Or Autobiography Movies

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

The C Word is an adaptation of Lisa Lynch's inspiring and candid book, based on her blog, about her battle with cancer.

A television adaptation of the memories of one of the first important Czech actors, Jindřich Mošna, about his difficult theatrical...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Brilliant and deeply troubled Jewish teenager Deborah Blau retreats into an elaborate kingdom she's constructed within her own mind. As Deborah loses...

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

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

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

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,...

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

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...