Autobiographical Movies

G.J. Echternkamp tells the story of his relationship with his parents, his mother Cindy and his step-father, Frank. Frank used to be a member of OXO,...

Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather be in Paris. She lives at home...

Little Pu spends a summer in Norrland with all his relatives. He and his brother get to hear the story about the watchmaker who hung himself, learns...

Danny sets out to uncover the story of his estranged father. Piecing together mementos, stories from his dad’s old friends, and hard...

The story, set in the heady post-war 50s into the early 60s , revolves around a love triangle between Tomoko, long playing the mistress to married...

When Jamie's maternal grandmother dies, he and his brother Tommy are separated - Tommy is taken off to a welfare home and Jamie goes to live with his...

João Pedro Rodrigues answers the question from the title with an autobiographical short-film.

Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. Out of economic necessity he moves with his family...

Aussie boys of Asian descent candidly discuss their status as a "minority within a minority".

Adaptation of Arthur Miller's semi-autobiographical play about Quentin, a Jewish intellectual from New York who must reexamine his life and his...

Waris Hussein’s acclaimed drama is based on the autobiography of Firdaus Kanga, who stars in the lead role of Brit, a young man born with...

Heironymus Merkin is an internationally successful singer approaching middle age who retells his life story in a series of production numbers on a...

In his first HBO comedy special, Gary Gulman offers candid reflections on his struggles with depression through stand-up and short documentary...

This is a book excerpt adaptation from Anna Akana's "So Much I Want To Tell You: Letters To My Little Sister"

Just after Isidore moves to France to study filmmaking, his best friend dies back in the US. Through documentary, performance, and animation, a...

The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he...

A lone passenger is reflected in the windows of a train crawling through layers of textures towards Minsk. During his absence, the city has not...

Iron and Silk is a 1990 movie based on the eponymous book by American writer Mark Salzman. It details his journey to China after college to study...

Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the...

Stewart Copeland, drummer for The Police, compiles his Super 8 footage to offer an intimate look at what it was like to be a member of one of the...