Semi Autobiographical Movies

An alienated, Americanized teenager of East Indian heritage is sent back to India where he discovers not only his roots but a lot about himself.

Larry Malone sets up his brother Dave to get rid of Murphy, a rival gang leader, and then informs on Dave to have him convicted of murder. In one...

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 middle-aged British man struggles to reconcile his homosexuality and his Catholic upbringing.

Senthil, an advertising executive, decides to invite his old friends to his wedding. His past is unraveled as he sets out on a journey to meet his...

A semi-autobiographical one-man theater show, Klass Klown (later renamed Ghetto Klown), based on his memoir Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest...

With the oppressive climate of 1970s South Africa as the backdrop, this erotic biopic tells the story of Glenda Kemp (playing herself), a former...

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...

Waris Hussein’s acclaimed drama is based on the autobiography of Firdaus Kanga, who stars in the lead role of Brit, a young man born with...

A managing director in Madras receives a letter from a childhood friend and begins to reminisce about his adolescent years, when he was growing up...

Follows a big star who brings a film crew to her remote hometown for a shoot, and while the production is afflicted by disagreements between the...

This Icelandic tale, loosely based on the real-life experiences of director Fridrik Fridriksson tells the saga of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the...

On May 2, 1998, Hide, a leading Japanese rock musician who had been active as a guitarist for X JAPAN and as a solo artist (hide with Spread...

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...

Just after Isidore moves to France to study filmmaking, his best friend dies back in the US. Through documentary, performance, and animation, a...

A diploma film portraying stages in the life of a student of cinema.

Childhood was complicated for Yoshida and he faces Japanese society as an outsider after his return from London alongside his parents. He feels...

Daisuke Bamba (Hiroki Konno) has a complex about his physical traits. He wants to become a director, but doesn't know what to shoot. Daisuke Bamba...

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

An Australian Aboriginal DJ realizes that his job at the country radio station is about more than just playing music.