Based On Memoir Or Autobiography Movies
- 1987
Cry Freedom
Cry Freedom71987HD
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods...
- 2013
Behind the Candelabra
Behind the Candelabra6.6452013HD
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
- 1999
Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes7.1991999HD
Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they t...
- 2015
A Walk in the Woods
A Walk in the Woods6.12015HD
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appa...
- 1966
Born Free
Born Free6.7781966HD
At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are s...
- 1990
Postcards from the Edge
Postcards from the Edge6.5651990HD
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continu...
- 2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People6.0122008HD
Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, attra...
- 2007
The Counterfeiters
The Counterfeiters7.3682007HD
The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during...
- 1986
Heartburn
Heartburn5.9861986HD
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reser...
- 2019
Unplanned
Unplanned7.032019HD
As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, Abby Johnson was involved in upwards of 22,000 abortions and counseled count...
- 1990
Reversal of Fortune
Reversal of Fortune6.6251990HD
Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
- 2019
A Million Little Pieces
A Million Little Pieces6.2612019HD
A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.
- 2014
Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth7.2722014HD
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classi...
- 1990
My Father's Glory
My Father's Glory7.3561990HD
Raised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young Marcel grows up during the turn of the century in awe of h...
- 1956
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Somebody Up There Likes Me7.2031956HD
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
- 2010
Toast
Toast6.562010HD
An adaptation of celebrity chef Nigel Slater's bestselling memoir, 'Toast' is the ultimate nostalgic trip through everything edible in 1960's Britain....
- 2016
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank7.2822016HD
The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.
- 2015
Abzurdah
Abzurdah6.4452015HD
A disenfranchised 16-year-old girl connects to an older man on the internet and after a brief one-sided affair descends into obsession and anorexia.
- 1992
For a Lost Soldier
For a Lost Soldier6.6061992HD
Separated from his family in the Dutch countryside, young boy Jeroen crosses paths with Walt, a Canadian soldier who takes him under his care.
- 1997
The Truce
The Truce6.1741997HD
After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.