Semi Autobiographical Movies

Australia, 1953. Thirteen-year-old Tom Allen attends a strict Catholic seminary for boys administered by De La Salle Brothers. The adolescent...

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 examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family...

Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his...

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...

After being hit in the head, a distraught woman must come to terms with herself on if her injury will be fatal

Glen doesn't dare tell his fiancée Barbara that he is a transvestite known as Glenda; in addition, Alan is undergoing medical treatment to...

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...

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 young child is obsessed with learning about and drawing fish. The child seems a little odd, but if you are understanding and supportive you will be...

When her mother gets sick, 13-year-old Fen moves back to Taiwan, where she struggles to fit in amid the 2003 SARS epidemic.

A boy who no longer speaks, shaped by a tyrannical father and a mother he both resents and loves, grows up on Japan's northern coast. With nowhere to...

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

On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits...

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...

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

1982, a film inspired by true events at the onset of the crack epidemic in Philadelphia, tells the story of a father and his efforts to protect his...

The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events...

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

Sandy Wilcox is a pre-teen girl in rural 1950s British Columbia whose longing to be treated as an adult is roused even further when her older...