Semi Autobiographical Movies

A middle-aged British man struggles to reconcile his homosexuality and his Catholic upbringing.

Waris Hussein’s acclaimed drama is based on the autobiography of Firdaus Kanga, who stars in the lead role of Brit, a young man born with...

A flock of memories activated by various musical exercises, to strike the past to the heart, to build something utopian: the future, a sonic...

With the oppressive climate of 1970s South Africa as the backdrop, this erotic biopic tells the story of Glenda Kemp (playing herself), a former...

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...

Daisuke Bamba (Hiroki Konno) has a complex about his physical traits. He wants to become a director, but doesn't know what to shoot. Daisuke Bamba...

Childhood was complicated for Yoshida and he faces Japanese society as an outsider after his return from London alongside his parents. He feels...

An Australian Aboriginal DJ realizes that his job at the country radio station is about more than just playing music.

On May 2, 1998, Hide, a leading Japanese rock musician who had been active as a guitarist for X JAPAN and as a solo artist (hide with Spread...

Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given...

A managing director in Madras receives a letter from a childhood friend and begins to reminisce about his adolescent years, when he was growing up...

An only child's meditative, impressionistic account of an American family's rise and fall over two decades.

This Icelandic tale, loosely based on the real-life experiences of director Fridrik Fridriksson tells the saga of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the...

A woman's journey of self-discovery and the dynamics of her zany family. Alexis Fish is left broke and broken-hearted after the death of her...

A diploma film portraying stages in the life of a student of cinema.

A semi-autobiographical one-man theater show, Klass Klown (later renamed Ghetto Klown), based on his memoir Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest...

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

Larry Malone sets up his brother Dave to get rid of Murphy, a rival gang leader, and then informs on Dave to have him convicted of murder. In one...

Director Allan King's 1981 drama, based on true events, stars Ellen Burstyn as a strong-willed woman struggling to survive with her family in the...

An auto-documentary about a disenfranchised Everyman and his struggle to re-integrate himself into society. He fails and turns to crime.