Autobiography Movies
- 2011
Their Houses
Their Houses02011HD
Filmmaker Cam Archer examines and explores his ordinary, suburban neighborhood in search of hidden truths, new narratives and a better understanding o...
- 2023
Between the White and Black Keys
Between the White and Black Keys82023HD
In an audacious reworking of the biopic, this ensemble drama sees jazz pianist Minami Hiroshi’s memoir cleverly reinterpreted into a surreal and playf...
- 2004
Virginia, la monaca di Monza
Virginia, la monaca di Monza52004HD
The film is loosely based on real life events of Marianna de Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," whose story was made famous by the Alessandro...
- 1971
Le Cinema de Papa
Le Cinema de Papa6.31971HD
Claude Berri plays himself as he relates his own experiences through youth and adolescence. His father owns a profitable fur shop. Initially, Claude's...
- 1969
Dzhamilya
Dzhamilya61969HD
Based on the novel of the same name by Chinghiz Aitmatov. The action takes place during the days of World War II in one of the villages of Kyrgyzstan...
- 1973
Class of '44
Class of '445.91973HD
During the last years of World War II, Hermie, Oscy, and Benjie are coming of age. They went their separate ways when they graduated from high school...
- 1986
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Portrait: Werner Herzog7.31986HD
An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and commenta...
- 2024
Another in the Fire
Another in the Fire02024HD
On May 22, 1980, Michael Sinclair Walter was in a near fatal car accident in Redondo Beach, California. In a coma, paralyzed, blind in one eye, and wi...
- 2019
Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh
Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh6.22019HD
In his first HBO comedy special, Gary Gulman offers candid reflections on his struggles with depression through stand-up and short documentary interlu...
- 2020
South
South6.22020HD
What kind of power is accessible through the discovery of a voice? Morgan Quaintance interlinks two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation move...
- 2018
Liam
Liam02018HD
Just after Isidore moves to France to study filmmaking, his best friend dies back in the US. Through documentary, performance, and animation, a ghostl...
- 1988
Camp de Thiaroye
Camp de Thiaroye7.21988HD
A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment w...
- 1939
My Apprenticeship
My Apprenticeship5.91939HD
Second entry in Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Go...
- 1973
Frank Film
Frank Film5.81973HD
A compilation of images co-creator Frank Mouris had collected from magazines interwoven with two narrations, one giving a mostly linear autobiography...
- 2020
Flowers And Rain
Flowers And Rain9.52020HD
Childhood was complicated for Yoshida and he faces Japanese society as an outsider after his return from London alongside his parents. He feels displa...
- 2020
Self Portrait
Self Portrait7.42020HD
The documentary is a portrait of an artist and a portrait of a deadly disease. Lene Marie Fossen was a gifted photographer who suffered from severe an...
- 2019
Ghosts: Long Way Home
Ghosts: Long Way Home7.52019HD
After a spell cast by Grandma Faraway, the oldest son of a small family encounters the ghost of his late Grandma Maria still living in her old house,...
- 2024
Bob's Funeral
Bob's Funeral02024HD
Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director takes a camera into his estranged grandfather’s funeral.
- 2016
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street3.32016HD
The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.
- 2014
Hidden Memory
Hidden Memory8.82014HD
We follow the filmmaker's struggle to reconstruct a period of her life when she lost her memory.