Semi Autobiographical Movies
- 2016
Closet Monster
Closet Monster7.12016HD
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
- 1973
Amarcord
Amarcord7.9061973HD
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd...
- 1979
All That Jazz
All That Jazz7.51979HD
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...
- 2022
Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday5.82022HD
Comedian and actor Joe Valencia returns home for an Easter celebration with his riotous, bickering, eating, drinking, laughing, loving family, in...
- 1994
Crooklyn
Crooklyn6.8161994HD
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living...
- 1985
The Time to Live and the Time to Die
The Time to Live and the Time to Die7.41985HD
An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's memories of his youth growing up in Taiwan after emigrating from mainland...
- 1988
Biloxi Blues
Biloxi Blues6.31988HD
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...
- 1988
Chocolat
Chocolat6.8761988HD
On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories...
- 1999
Joe the King
Joe the King6.11999HD
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...
- 2009
Permanent Residence
Permanent Residence5.82009HD
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...
- 2009
The Time That Remains
The Time That Remains7.12009HD
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...
- 2022
Last Film Show
Last Film Show7.52022HD
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...
- 2009
I Killed My Mother
I Killed My Mother7.52009HD
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...
- 2018
Summer '03
Summer '035.82018HD
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...
- 1998
Slums of Beverly Hills
Slums of Beverly Hills6.31998HD
In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
- 1993
Dear Diary
Dear Diary7.3751993HD
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...
- 1998
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...
- 2014
Queen & Country
Queen & Country62014HD
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...
- 2021
American Girl
American Girl6.62021HD
When her mother gets sick, 13-year-old Fen moves back to Taiwan, where she struggles to fit in amid the 2003 SARS epidemic.
- 1990
Avalon
Avalon6.6351990HD
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...