Movies: Based on memoir or autobiography

  • 2009
    An Education

    An Education (2009)

    An Education

    6.92009HD

    Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a ta...

    An Education
  • 2024
    Beautiful Rebel

    Beautiful Rebel (2024)

    Beautiful Rebel

    6.82024HD

    The origin story of one of Italy's greatest rock stars, Gianna Nannini, who chased her dream despite obstacles from her family and the music industry....

    Beautiful Rebel
  • 2019
    Unplanned

    Unplanned (2019)

    Unplanned

    6.82019HD

    As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, Abby Johnson was involved in upwards of 22,000 abortions and counseled countless women on their reproductive choices. Her passion surrounding a woman's right to choose led her ...

    Unplanned
  • 1956
    Somebody Up There Likes Me

    Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

    Somebody Up There Likes Me

    7.31956HD

    The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ....

    Somebody Up There Likes Me
  • 2012
    Chronicle of My Mother

    Chronicle of My Mother (2012)

    Chronicle of My Mother

    6.62012HD

    Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own be...

    Chronicle of My Mother
  • 1990
    An Angel at My Table

    An Angel at My Table (1990)

    An Angel at My Table

    6.91990HD

    Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the author at various stage of her life. Afflicted with mental and emotional issues, Frame grows up in an impoverished family and experiences numerous trage...

    An Angel at My Table
  • 1997
    The Truce

    The Truce (1997)

    The Truce

    6.21997HD

    After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace....

    The Truce
  • 1966
    Born Free

    Born Free (1966)

    Born Free

    6.81966HD

    At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When...

    Born Free
  • 1956
    The Thick-Walled Room

    The Thick-Walled Room (1956)

    The Thick-Walled Room

    7.11956HD

    A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole....

    The Thick-Walled Room
  • 1999
    Angela's Ashes

    Angela's Ashes (1999)

    Angela's Ashes

    7.31999HD

    An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions....

    Angela's Ashes
  • 1970
    The Confession

    The Confession (1970)

    The Confession

    7.31970HD

    The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement....

    The Confession
  • 2002
    The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

    The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)

    The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

    6.62002HD

    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 local legends....

    The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
  • 1990
    My Father's Glory

    My Father's Glory (1990)

    My Father's Glory

    7.31990HD

    Raised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young Marcel grows up during the turn of the century in awe of his rationalist dad. When the family takes a summer vacation in the countryside, Marcel becomes frien...

    My Father's Glory
  • 2001
    The Other Side of Heaven

    The Other Side of Heaven (2001)

    The Other Side of Heaven

    6.12001HD

    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 kingdom during the 1950's. He leaves behind a loving family and the true love of his life, Jean. Through le...

    The Other Side of Heaven
  • 1992
    For a Lost Soldier

    For a Lost Soldier (1992)

    For a Lost Soldier

    6.71992HD

    In the occupied Netherlands near the end of WWII, a young teenager, Jeroen Boman (Maarten Smit) is sent to the Dutch countryside to avoid the war in Amsterdam. While living with his adopted family, Jeroen meets and becomes friends with a Canadian sol...

    For a Lost Soldier
  • 2019
    A Million Little Pieces

    A Million Little Pieces (2019)

    A Million Little Pieces

    6.12019HD

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

    A Million Little Pieces
  • 1956
    Actress

    Actress (1956)

    Actress

    01956HD

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

    Actress
  • 1999
    And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story

    And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story (1999)

    And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story

    5.51999HD

    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 divorce in the late 70's....

    And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story
  • 2010
    The Wife of Gegege

    The Wife of Gegege (2010)

    The Wife of Gegege

    02010HD

    A woman from rural Japan marries a struggling cartoonist in Tokyo. Their life is difficult before he finds success, but at least they're together....

    The Wife of Gegege
  • 2024
    Kensuke's Kingdom

    Kensuke's Kingdom (2024)

    Kensuke's Kingdom

    6.82024HD

    A young boy and his family set off on a sailing trip of a lifetime until a violent storm erupts, sweeping Michael and his dog overboard. After washing up on a remote island, terrified, they struggle to survive and adjust to life alone, One day, Micha...

    Kensuke's Kingdom