Movies: Based on memoir or autobiography

  • 2019
    J.T. LeRoy

    J.T. LeRoy (2019)

    J.T. LeRoy

    5.42019HD

    A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law....

    J.T. LeRoy
  • 1957
    Gejagt bis zum Morgen

    Gejagt bis zum Morgen (1957)

    Gejagt bis zum Morgen

    01957HD

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

    Gejagt bis zum Morgen
  • 2015
    Abzurdah

    Abzurdah (2015)

    Abzurdah

    6.42015HD

    A disenfranchised 16-year-old girl connects to an older man on the internet and after a brief one-sided affair descends into obsession and anorexia....

    Abzurdah
  • 2023
    NYAD

    NYAD (2023)

    NYAD

    7.02023HD

    Athlete Diana Nyad sets out at 60 to achieve a nearly impossible lifelong dream: to swim from Cuba to Florida across more than 100 miles of open ocean....

    NYAD
  • 2023
    Priscilla

    Priscilla (2023)

    Priscilla

    6.72023HD

    When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend....

    Priscilla
  • 1997
    The Truce

    The Truce (1997)

    The Truce

    6.11997HD

    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
  • 2018
    BlacKkKlansman

    BlacKkKlansman (2018)

    BlacKkKlansman

    7.42018HD

    Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan....

    BlacKkKlansman
  • 1957
    Muhō Ichidai

    Muhō Ichidai (1957)

    Muhō Ichidai

    01957HD

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

    Muhō Ichidai
  • 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
  • 2015
    Tab Hunter Confidential

    Tab Hunter Confidential (2015)

    Tab Hunter Confidential

    7.22015HD

    Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter was gay, and spent his Hollywood years in a precarious closet that repeatedly threatened to implode an...

    Tab Hunter Confidential
  • 2025
    Never Alone

    Never Alone (2025)

    Never Alone

    6.22025HD

    1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish State Police to hand over Jewish refugees directly to the Gestapo....

    Never Alone
  • 2019
    When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes

    When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes (2019)

    When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes

    72019HD

    When Satoshi was little, his mother Akiko always took good care of him. She was gentle, but mentally strong. However, two years ago she was diagnosed with cancer and now it's Satoshi's turn to comfort and care for her. However, despite his best effor...

    When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes
  • 1952
    Room for One More

    Room for One More (1952)

    Room for One More

    6.41952HD

    Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once....

    Room for One More
  • 1969
    Untitled George Clinton Biopic

    Untitled George Clinton Biopic (1969)

    Untitled George Clinton Biopic

    01969HD

    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 pioneer of funk and his tumultuous journey to founding musical collective Parliament-Funkadelic. Known for their outla...

    Untitled George Clinton Biopic
  • 1973
    Papillon

    Papillon (1973)

    Papillon

    7.81973HD

    A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape....

    Papillon
  • 2007
    Lady Yakuza

    Lady Yakuza (2007)

    Lady Yakuza

    02007HD

    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
  • 2017
    Patients

    Patients (2017)

    Patients

    7.42017HD

    After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized crania), all victims of accidents, as well as ...

    Patients
  • 1986
    Heartburn

    Heartburn (1986)

    Heartburn

    5.91986HD

    She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will....

    Heartburn
  • 2014
    The Theory of Everything

    The Theory of Everything (2014)

    The Theory of Everything

    7.82014HD

    The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde....

    The Theory of Everything
  • 2007
    The Counterfeiters

    The Counterfeiters (2007)

    The Counterfeiters

    7.42007HD

    The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II....

    The Counterfeiters