Movies: Based on memoir or autobiography

Raised in the South African township of Zamelda, Johannes 'JoJo' Radebe faced prejudice as a young boy who was captivated by dance – and Barbies… rather than football and rugby, as was the norm among his peers. With the support of his mother, sister,...

Set majorly Pamplona in 1965, follows the life of American writer Alan Jolis as he awakes to a vivid sensual world and grows up emotionally....

A film by Séverine Barde, adapted from Dorian Rossel's play, based on Ingmar Bergman's fictional autobiography. A powerful self-portrait, at the crossroads of theater and cinema, from the collection De la scène à l'écran....

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 time is of the essence and learning to love when you have to say goodbye....

The film is based on the memoirs of partisan commander Peter Kružliak. Lieutenant Peter Kubiš is ordered to move with his unit to the mountains after the fall of Banská Bystrica, where he is to receive further orders. No one is waiting, on the contra...

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 in during the Israeli invasion of Ramallah in March 2000....

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

Tells the thrilling, heroic and unexpectedly funny story of the six women who defied the odds, the naysayers and gravity itself to become America’s first female astronauts, culminating in Sally Ride’s historic Shuttle journey into space....

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

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 herself. In the 1970's the US military selected women pilots for the first time, and Eileen became one ...

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

A television adaptation of the memories of one of the first important Czech actors, Jindřich Mošna, about his difficult theatrical beginnings. At that time, as a kandrdas – i.e. a beginner – he asked the director for a so-called benefit, which was a ...

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

Chronicles the harrowing year the Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent Evan Gershkovich spent in a Russian prison on fabricated espionage charges after being arrested by the Federal Security Service....

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, teasing out the complex bonds, challenges, frustrations and unexpected moments of grace shared betwe...

In 1975, Finnish President Urho Kekkonen became an internationally recognized expert on bridging the East with the West by hosting the “Conference of Security and Cooperation of Europe”. His dreams of retirement and the penwork of his newfound journa...

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 memories of his fractured family....

Described as a heist thriller that becomes “a powerful examination of systemic prejudice and economic inequality,” the stranger-than-fiction story follows Smith’s journey from teenage hacker to financial system mastermind. By 18, she had already orch...

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