Autobiography Movies

Big Boss is the remarkable true story of Keke Palmer, a young woman from Chicago who faces immense challenges in the male-dominated music industry....

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...

They say that when they give you a name, they also assign you a destiny. The director of this documentary inherited hers from an aunt who died very...

From his cozy library inside the walls of a suburban home, an intellectual snail tells of his life’s love, loss and change.

Documentary relating Ingmar Bergman's life, from his high school graduation up until he became an established filmmaker in the latter half of the...

An animated telling of Kobe Bryant's titular poem, signaling his retirement from the sport that made his name.

An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and...

A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army return from combat and are temporarily held in a military encampment with barbed wire...

Based on the autobiography of Sonny Bono, this film focuses on the volatile relationship between Sonny and Cher during the early 60's to their messy...

In his first HBO comedy special, Gary Gulman offers candid reflections on his struggles with depression through stand-up and short documentary...

In an audacious reworking of the biopic, this ensemble drama sees jazz pianist Minami Hiroshi’s memoir cleverly reinterpreted into a surreal...

The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.

Dalibor K. is an industrial painter, amateur horror maker, the composer of angry songs, painter and a radical neo-Nazi. He is approaching 40, but he...

Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the...

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...

Nanni Moretti once again muses on the ebb and flow of life in April 1996, as he is about to become a father for the first time and finds himself...

We follow the filmmaker's struggle to reconstruct a period of her life when she lost her memory.

Kaywan Mohsen is a second-generation immigrant in Denmark. He has difficulty finding the balance between Danish culture and his Iranian-Afghan...

Claude Berri plays himself as he relates his own experiences through youth and adolescence. His father owns a profitable fur shop. Initially,...

A flock of memories activated by various musical exercises, to strike the past to the heart, to build something utopian: the future, a sonic...