Keyword: based on memoir or autobiography

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

7.5

2005

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In order to support her ten children, Evelyn Ryan enters a commercial jingle-writing contest.

Fellini's Casanova

7.1

1976

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The myth of Giacomo Casanova, the notorious womanizer is presented as a pitiable and terrifying figure. A sex scandal lands him in prison, but an escape to Paris provides him a new lease of life.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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1979

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Based on writer Maya Angelous childhood, this story is about a young girl in the South who is sent to live with her grandmother after her parents divorce.

For a Lost Soldier

7.7

1992

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Set in The Netherlands at the end of WW II, this touching story, told in flashbacks, explores the complex and romantic relationship between an adult soldier and a displaced, lonely adolescent boy.

Alone on the Pacific

7.1

1963

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Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination.

King of the Hill

7.6

1993

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A young boy struggles on his own in a run-down hotel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression-era Midwest.

Unplanned

3.9

2019

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All Abby Johnson ever wanted to do was help women. As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, she believed in a womans right to choose. Until the day she saw something that changed everything.

The C-Word

6.3

2015

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A woman writes a blog about her experience with terminal cancer.

Waltzing with Brando

7.6

2024

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Movie star Marlon Brando recruits a Los Angeles architect to build the worlds first ecologically perfect retreat on a small, uninhabited island in Tahiti.

The One That Got Away

6.1

1996

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An army unit, conducting reconnaissance deep within enemy territory, is disclosed and defeated. Several surviving soldiers desperately run to the border.

A Sense of Freedom

6.9

1981

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The life and imprisonment of Glasgow hard man and gangster Jimmy Boyle.

The Counterfeiters

7.6

2007

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The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII.