Movies: Based on memoir or autobiography

  • 2022
    Kikka!

    Kikka! (2022)

    Kikka!

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    Cosmetics saleswoman Kirsi Viilonen dreams of a career as a star artist. When Kirsi meets DJ and radio journalist Paula, she decides to give in completely to her dream of becoming a singer. Despite the scorn of the male-dominated music world, Paula r...

    Kikka!
  • 2020
    A Rose in Winter

    A Rose in Winter (2020)

    A Rose in Winter

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    The true story of Edith Stein, a German Jewish philosopher and feminist who converted to Christianity and became a nun, and died in Auschwitz to became Saint and Martyr, the Patron of Europe with the name Saint Theresa Benedicta of the Cross....

    A Rose in Winter
  • 1982
    Coming Out of the Ice

    Coming Out of the Ice (1982)

    Coming Out of the Ice

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

    Coming Out of the Ice
  • 2019
    The Girl with the Instagram

    The Girl with the Instagram (2019)

    The Girl with the Instagram

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    Nagyvárad, Hungary, 1944. From February to June, Eva Heyman, a 13-year-old Jewish girl, wrote a diary describing the harsh conditions of her life under Nazi occupation. How would she have told her story if she had used Instagram?...

    The Girl with the Instagram
  • 1969
    Born a Crime

    Born a Crime (1969)

    Born a Crime

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    Film adaptation of the eponymous memoir by Trevor Noah....

    Born a Crime
  • 2018
    Rocco Chinnici: May Your Kiss Lie Lightly On My Head

    Rocco Chinnici: May Your Kiss Lie Lightly On My Head (2018)

    Rocco Chinnici: May Your Kiss Lie Lightly On My Head

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

    Rocco Chinnici: May Your Kiss Lie Lightly On My Head
  • 2008
    Behind the Walls

    Behind the Walls (2008)

    Behind the Walls

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    A young runaway rejects society's condemnation and dares to fulfill his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world through the bars of "educational homes" where he is raised in conditions worthy of a penal colony, and drea...

    Behind the Walls
  • 2022
    On Thin Ice

    On Thin Ice (2022)

    On Thin Ice

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    Temporarily homeless Jarna is in the deepest trouble of his life. Debtors have come to collect old drug debts and Jarna is given 24 hours to pay up, setting off a frantic, amphetamine fueled battle against time. Manic speed, fear of killers on his ta...

    On Thin Ice
  • 1969
    Not Fade Away

    Not Fade Away (1969)

    Not Fade Away

    01969HD

    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 memoir "Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found", written by Rebecca Alexander...

    Not Fade Away
  • 2009
    The Front Line

    The Front Line (2009)

    The Front Line

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    United by an uncompromising struggle as members of the infamous 1970s far-left terrorist group Prima Linea, fugitive couple Sergio and Susanna have become increasingly alienated from the real world. Their luck runs out when Susanna is captured and th...

    The Front Line
  • 2023
    Speak Sunlight

    Speak Sunlight (2023)

    Speak Sunlight

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    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....

    Speak Sunlight
  • 2023
    Spede

    Spede (2023)

    Spede

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    The story about the life and career of Pertti 'Spede' Pasanen, it traces the iconic entertainer's most innovative phase of filmmaking. The film sheds light on behind-the-scenes events from the late 1960s to the birth story and popularity of Uuno Turh...

    Spede
  • 1998
    I piccoli maestri

    I piccoli maestri (1998)

    I piccoli maestri

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    During the 20 months before Italy's liberation from Fascism, a group of university students trade empty rhetoric for action by joining the Partisans into the mountains of Nazi-occupied northern Italy. There, group leader Gigi falls in love with his b...

    I piccoli maestri
  • 1956
    Seven Years in Tibet

    Seven Years in Tibet (1956)

    Seven Years in Tibet

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    Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian moutain climber, escapes from a British POW camp in India and flees north across the Himalayan mountains into Tibet. There he meets and befriends the young Dalai Lama....

    Seven Years in Tibet
  • 2025
    Laterna Magica

    Laterna Magica (2025)

    Laterna Magica

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    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....

    Laterna Magica
  • 1982
    The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters

    The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters (1982)

    The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters

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

    The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters
  • 2023
    Le Baron et l'Empereur : Japon, la voie de la guerre

    Le Baron et l'Empereur : Japon, la voie de la guerre (2023)

    Le Baron et l'Empereur : Japon, la voie de la guerre

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    Le Baron et l'Empereur : Japon, la voie de la guerre
  • 1969
    The Eden Express

    The Eden Express (1969)

    The Eden Express

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    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 build something good. His friends are in paradise but Mark begins hearing strange voices. Becoming incre...

    The Eden Express
  • 2018
    Back Towards Light

    Back Towards Light (2018)

    Back Towards Light

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    Marissa, a 25-year-old woman, goes through an unimaginable journey trying to maintain her sense of self after becoming a victim of human trafficking and sex slavery....

    Back Towards Light
  • 2007
    Lady Yakuza

    Lady Yakuza (2007)

    Lady Yakuza

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    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 daughter of a Yakuza boss, chronicling her many battles with drug addiction and domestic abuse. Directed ...

    Lady Yakuza