Based On Memoir Or Autobiography Movies

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

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...

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

Based on the autobiography of Sonny Bono, this film focuses on the volatile relationship between Sonny and Cher during the early 60's to their messy...

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...

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

Explores achievements of Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft, paving the way for the next generation of female space...

Based on Oscar- and Grammy-winning DJ Mark Ronson's memoir Night People: How to Be a DJ in ’90s New York City; plot TBA.

An Italian magistrate leads a crusade against organized crime which ultimately costs him his life in this biopic told through his daughter's eyes.

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...

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

Raised in the South African township of Zamelda, Johannes 'JoJo' Radebe faced prejudice as a young boy who was captivated by dance – and...

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,...

In 1950's Hollywood, a gay aspiring writer forms an intimate bond with his roommate, James Dean. Together they navigate their careers and concealed...

In war-torn 1970s Vietnam, a resourceful young boy navigates his place in a chaotic world, guided by his grandmother’s wisdom while haunted by...

Tells the thrilling, heroic and unexpectedly funny story of the six women who defied the odds, the naysayers and gravity itself to become...

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

In the 1950s, young revolutionary Ernesto Guevara meets Peruvian economist, intellectual and activist Hilda Gadea, whose sharp political vision and...

Described as a heist thriller that becomes “a powerful examination of systemic prejudice and economic inequality,” the...

In 1975, Finnish President Urho Kekkonen became an internationally recognized expert on bridging the East with the West by hosting the...