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Tag: based on memoir or autobiography

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On Thin Ice

On Thin Ice

Temporarily homeless Jarna is in the deepest trouble of his...

I Am Zlatan

I Am Zlatan

Coming-of-age story depicting Zlatan Ibrahimovic's upbringing in a rough Swedish...

Hillbilly Elegy

Hillbilly Elegy

An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back...

A Nice Girl Like You

A Nice Girl Like You

Lucy Neal is thrown for a loop when she is...

Moffie

Moffie

A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his...

A Rose in Winter

A Rose in Winter

The true story of Edith Stein, a German Jewish philosopher...

The Basketball Diaries

The Basketball Diaries

A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after...

Sepidar

Sepidar

This piece is inspired by the memoirs of Sepideh Gholian....

Girlboss

Girlboss

Sophia is a rebellious, broke anarchist who refuses to grow...

The Durrells

The Durrells

In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has...

Love, Nina

Love, Nina

Twenty years old and from Leicester, Nina moves to North...

The Kennedys

The Kennedys

Multi-generation family sitcom set in the 1970s, loosely based on...

Maria Graham: Diary of a Residence in Chile

Historical drama adapted from the diary of the famous British...

J.T. LeRoy

J.T. LeRoy

A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending...

A Million Little Pieces

A Million Little Pieces

A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent...

When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes

When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes

When Satoshi was little, his mother Akiko always took good...

Unplanned

Unplanned

As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in...

St. Louis

St. Louis

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner...

Breakthrough

Breakthrough

Tragedy strikes when a woman named Joyce's son falls through...

The Girl with the Instagram

The Girl with the Instagram

Nagyvárad, Hungary, 1944. From February to June, Eva Heyman, a...

My Husband is a Cartoonist

My Husband is a Cartoonist

The 82nd NHK Asadora is Gegege no Nyobo. The story...

A Prayer Before Dawn

A Prayer Before Dawn

The amazing true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer...

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident,...

Blaze

Blaze

Re-imagining the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung...