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.

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

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.

Jay Parini finds himself stuck in a Morris Minor, chauffeuring the brilliant, blind Jorge Luis Borges through Scotland. Quiet and conservative,...

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

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

Film adaptation of the eponymous memoir by Trevor Noah.

The story of a lifelong swimmer-turned-artist, exploring the issues of sexuality, grief, and addiction.

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

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 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...

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

A woman born with a rare genetic mutation which caused her to lose her sight and hearing over time, beat the odds and expectations of her prognosis. ...

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...

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

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...

A thriller about one of the most infamous cult stories of all time, the Jonestown Massacre.

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...