Based On Memoir Or Autobiography Movies

Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.

A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.

Sandy Wilcox is a pre-teen girl in rural 1950s British Columbia whose longing to be treated as an adult is roused even further when her older...

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...

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

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

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

James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who—together with his...

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...

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

1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish...

A boy, a girl, and the worst football team in Britain. You can't choose who you're going to fall in love with.

Based on Clinton’s memoir, Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You?, it is the untold story of influential...

As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, Abby Johnson was involved in upwards of 22,000 abortions and counseled...

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...

Chronicles the harrowing year the Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent Evan Gershkovich spent in a Russian prison on fabricated espionage...

A biopic detailing the meteoric rise and tragic fall of legendary boxer Héctor 'Macho' Camacho.

A biographical film about Victor Herman, based on the memoir of the same name.

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...

Nagyvárad, Hungary, 1944. From February to June, Eva Heyman, a 13-year-old Jewish girl, wrote a diary describing the harsh conditions of her...