Keyword: based on memoir or autobiography

Happy Face

6.8

2025

TV

HD

The story of Melissa Jesperson-Moore, who at age 15 discovered that her father, Keith Hunter Jesperson, was the serial murderer known as the Happy Face Killer.

Maid

8.5

2021

TV

HD

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All Creatures Great and Small

8.4

1978

TV

HD

The trials and misadventures of the staff of a country veterinary office in Yorkshire from the 1930s to the 1950s.

This Is Going to Hurt

8.5

2022

TV

HD

Set on Labour Ward with all its hilarity and heart-lifting highs but also its gut-wrenching lows, the show delivers a brutally honest depiction of life as a junior doctor on the wards, and the toll the job can take back home.

The Durrells

8.3

2016

TV

HD

Louisa Durrell raises her four children single-handedly after her husbands death. Following a financial crisis, the family moves to the Greek island of Corfu and tries to adapt to life there.

Girlboss

7

2017

TV

HD

Sophia, a misfit, discovers a passion for fashion, becoming an unlikely businesswoman in the process. As her business grows, however, she has to learn to cope with life as her own boss. This show is loosely based on the true story of Nasty Gal Founder, Sophia Amoruso.

Beautiful People

8.5

2008

TV

HD

The story of the flamboyant and ambitious 14-year-old Simon Doonan, who has dreams that stretch beyond his hometown of Reading.

Love, Nina

7.1

2016

TV

HD

A glimpse of 80s literary London based on Nina Stibbes letters to her sister.

Yo, adicto

7.8

2024

TV

HD

A man in his 30s voluntarily checks into a detox center in Barcelona to overcome his addictions to drugs, alcohol, and sex, beginning a journey of self-discovery and redemption.

Beautiful Boy

6.6

2018

Movie

HD

Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.

Jarhead

8.2

2005

Movie

HD

A psychological study of Marines state of mind during the Gulf War. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Marine sniper who struggles to cope with boredom, a sense of isolation, and other issues back home.

BlacKkKlansman

6.4

2018

Movie

HD

Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.

The Outrun

6.6

2024

Movie

HD

After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. Hoping to heal, she returns to the wild beauty of Scotlands Orkney Islands where she grew up.

Priscilla

7.5

2023

Movie

HD

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.

The Basketball Diaries

7

1995

Movie

HD

A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

12 Years a Slave

7

2013

Movie

HD

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

The Theory of Everything

7.3

2014

Movie

HD

A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.

A Prayer Before Dawn

7.4

2017

Movie

HD

The true story of an English boxer incarcerated in one of Thailands most notorious prisons as he fights in Muay Thai tournaments to earn his freedom.

We Bought a Zoo

7.4

2011

Movie

HD

Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.

My Sassy Girl

8.1

2001

Movie

HD

A young man sees a drunk, cute woman standing too close to the tracks at a metro station in Seoul and pulls her back. She ends up getting him into trouble repeatedly after that, starting on the train.

The Penguin Lessons

7.3

2024

Movie

HD

A disillusioned Englishman who goes to work in a school in a divided Argentina in 1976 finds his life transformed when he rescues an orphaned penguin from the beach.