Movies: Based on memoir or autobiography

The adventures and adversities of a family pioneering on the plains of Kansas. Based on the best-selling biography by John Ise....

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?...

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....

A small-town couple with big dreams of making their family complete must persevere through infertility and tragedy....

A boy, a girl, and the worst football team in Britain. You can't choose who you're going to fall in love with....

Sportswriter George Plimpton poses as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a "Sports Illustrated" article....

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred German Jews who, desperate to escape the atrocious persecution to which they are subjected by the Nazi re...

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...

The C Word is an adaptation of Lisa Lynch's inspiring and candid book, based on her blog, about her battle with cancer....

A young female terrorist goes on a suicide assassination mission, but her resolve to complete it is put to the test....

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

When Elsa's three mischievious cubs begin wreaking havok on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve....

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination....

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

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...

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...

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...

A thriller about one of the most infamous cult stories of all time, the Jonestown Massacre....

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....

Jay Parini finds himself stuck in a Morris Minor, chauffeuring the brilliant, blind Jorge Luis Borges through Scotland. Quiet and conservative, 23-year-old student Parini dreams of becoming a writer but is at a loss to make sense of the wild, irrepre...