Autobiography Movies

Big Boss is the remarkable true story of Keke Palmer, a young woman from Chicago who faces immense challenges in the male-dominated music industry....

A down-on-his-luck adult film star sees a chance to make a comeback via a lesbian documentary film-maker, but she is exploiting him to get financial...

During the last years of World War II, Hermie, Oscy, and Benjie are coming of age. They went their separate ways when they graduated from high school...

Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the...

A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment...

An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and...

In a remote Kyrgyz village, Dzhamilya follows her parents' orders when she marries a man without loving him. Then World War II breaks out and her new...

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

James Lapine's tribute to a life in the theater based on Moss Hart's autobiography of the same name, starring Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin. The...

The film is loosely based on real life events of Marianna de Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," whose story was made famous by the Alessandro...

Second entry in Ukrainian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in...

From his cozy library inside the walls of a suburban home, an intellectual snail tells of his life’s love, loss and change.

Claude Berri plays himself as he relates his own experiences through youth and adolescence. His father owns a profitable fur shop. Initially,...

A flock of memories activated by various musical exercises, to strike the past to the heart, to build something utopian: the future, a sonic...

Torrey Pines is a stop-motion animated feature film by director Clyde Petersen. Based on a true story, the film is a queer punk coming-of-age tale,...

Documentary relating Ingmar Bergman's life, from his high school graduation up until he became an established filmmaker in the latter half of the...

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

A compilation of images co-creator Frank Mouris had collected from magazines interwoven with two narrations, one giving a mostly linear autobiography...

Filmmaker Cam Archer examines and explores his ordinary, suburban neighborhood in search of hidden truths, new narratives and a better understanding...

At the risk of a 5-year prison term, Francesco Da Vinci struggles with his Virginia draft board to be recognized as a sincere conscientious objector...