Semi Autobiographical Movies

  • 2016
    Closet Monster

    Closet Monster

    Closet Monster

    7.12016HD

    A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.

    Closet Monster
  • 1973
    Amarcord

    Amarcord

    Amarcord

    7.9061973HD

    In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd...

    Amarcord
  • 1979
    All That Jazz

    All That Jazz

    All That Jazz

    7.51979HD

    Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly...

    All That Jazz
  • 2022
    Easter Sunday

    Easter Sunday

    Easter Sunday

    5.82022HD

    Comedian and actor Joe Valencia returns home for an Easter celebration with his riotous, bickering, eating, drinking, laughing, loving family, in...

    Easter Sunday
  • 1994
    Crooklyn

    Crooklyn

    Crooklyn

    6.8161994HD

    From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living...

    Crooklyn
  • 1985
    The Time to Live and the Time to Die

    The Time to Live and the Time to Die

    The Time to Live and the Time to Die

    7.41985HD

    An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's memories of his youth growing up in Taiwan after emigrating from mainland...

    The Time to Live and the Time to Die
  • 1988
    Biloxi Blues

    Biloxi Blues

    Biloxi Blues

    6.31988HD

    Eugene, an aspiring writer from Brooklyn, is drafted into the US Army during the final months of World War II. For his basic training, the Army sends...

    Biloxi Blues
  • 1988
    Chocolat

    Chocolat

    Chocolat

    6.8761988HD

    On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories...

    Chocolat
  • 1999
    Joe the King

    Joe the King

    Joe the King

    6.11999HD

    A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing...

    Joe the King
  • 2009
    Permanent Residence

    Permanent Residence

    Permanent Residence

    5.82009HD

    The life story of a young man who has been pursuing an impossible love with his straight boyfriend and contemplating on the mortality of his loved...

    Permanent Residence
  • 2009
    The Time That Remains

    The Time That Remains

    The Time That Remains

    7.12009HD

    An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family...

    The Time That Remains
  • 2022
    Last Film Show

    Last Film Show

    Last Film Show

    7.52022HD

    A 9-year-old boy in a remote village in India begins a lifelong love affair with cinema when he bribes his way into a rundown movie palace and spends...

    Last Film Show
  • 2009
    I Killed My Mother

    I Killed My Mother

    I Killed My Mother

    7.52009HD

    Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After...

    I Killed My Mother
  • 2018
    Summer '03

    Summer '03

    Summer '03

    5.82018HD

    16-year-old Jamie Winkle and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed. As...

    Summer '03
  • 1998
    Slums of Beverly Hills

    Slums of Beverly Hills

    Slums of Beverly Hills

    6.31998HD

    In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

    Slums of Beverly Hills
  • 1993
    Dear Diary

    Dear Diary

    Dear Diary

    7.3751993HD

    Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted...

    Dear Diary
  • 1998
    Strike!

    Strike!

    Strike!

    6.41998HD

    In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. They concoct a...

    Strike!
  • 2014
    Queen & Country

    Queen & Country

    Queen & Country

    62014HD

    In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle...

    Queen & Country
  • 2021
    American Girl

    American Girl

    American Girl

    6.62021HD

    When her mother gets sick, 13-year-old Fen moves back to Taiwan, where she struggles to fit in amid the 2003 SARS epidemic.

    American Girl
  • 1990
    Avalon

    Avalon

    Avalon

    6.6351990HD

    A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a...

    Avalon