Semi Autobiographical Movies

From an early age, songs and fairytales convinced Zelma that Love would solve all her problems as long as she abided by societal expectations of how...

Coming Through the Rye, set in 1969, is a touching coming of age story of sensitive, 16 year old Jamie Schwartz, who is not the most popular kid at...

Based on true events. On the edges of Las Vegas, 17-year-old Andrew's life is spiraling out of control. Unable to cope with the loss of his father,...

A stroke-afflicted filmmaker is manipulated by a notorious con man.

A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He...

A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid...

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the...

Follows a big star who brings a film crew to her remote hometown for a shoot, and while the production is afflicted by disagreements between the...

The story, set in the heady post-war 50s into the early 60s , revolves around a love triangle between Tomoko, long playing the mistress to married...

Frank, a gay school teacher, has a very active sex life and an interest in making films. One evening, he meets Bernd and they become lovers. But...

Seventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on England's east coast in the 1950s. Julia, a teenage...

College student Sandy's new boyfriend meets all the criteria for a good partner according to her dad's best-selling dating handbook titled "Most Guys...

An adaptation of Connie May Fowler's 1996 novel tracing the unlikely friendship between a young white girl, daughter of an alcoholic mother and a...

Senthil, an advertising executive, decides to invite his old friends to his wedding. His past is unraveled as he sets out on a journey to meet his...

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...

Just after Isidore moves to France to study filmmaking, his best friend dies back in the US. Through documentary, performance, and animation, a...

Through a series of auditions, a young actor in New York City struggles with his identity.

Michael Landon's semi-autobiographical sketch of his earlier life. It's the story of Gene Orowitz, a high school student struggling with his...

A fatherless family immigrates to Israel from Egypt during the British Mandate period. The film traces the hardships the family suffers in the...

As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.