Keyword: based on memoir or autobiography

Playing for Time

7.7

1980

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Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.

The Truce

6.6

1997

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Based on Primo Levis autobiographical The Reawakening.

Patients

7.3

2016

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Patients is the story of a rebirth, a chaotic journey of victories and defeats, tears and bursts of laughter, but above all encounters: we do not heal alone.

The Iron Curtain

6.4

1948

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The story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada.

Quartet

6.4

1981

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Marya Zelli finds herself penniless after her art dealer husband, Stephan, is convicted of theft. Marya accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who lets her live in their house.

Paper Lion

6.3

1968

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Sportswriter George Plimpton poses as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a Sports Illustrated article.