Movies: Semi autobiographical

  • 1999
    Liberty Heights

    Liberty Heights (1999)

    Liberty Heights

    6.61999HD

    This semi-autobiographical film by Barry Levinson follows various members of the Kurtzman clan, a Jewish family living in suburban Baltimore during the 1950s. As teenaged Ben completes high school, he falls for Sylvia, a black classmate, creating ine...

    Liberty Heights
  • 1987
    Hope and Glory

    Hope and Glory (1987)

    Hope and Glory

    6.91987HD

    A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II....

    Hope and Glory
  • 2021
    The Souvenir: Part II

    The Souvenir: Part II (2021)

    The Souvenir: Part II

    6.52021HD

    In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction....

    The Souvenir: Part II
  • 1985
    The Time to Live and the Time to Die

    The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985)

    The Time to Live and the Time to Die

    7.41985HD

    An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's memories of his youth growing up in Taiwan after emigrating from mainland China....

    The Time to Live and the Time to Die
  • 1998
    Slums of Beverly Hills

    Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)

    Slums of Beverly Hills

    6.21998HD

    In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills....

    Slums of Beverly Hills
  • 1988
    Chocolat

    Chocolat (1988)

    Chocolat

    6.91988HD

    On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories concentrating on her family's houseboy....

    Chocolat
  • 2022
    Last Film Show

    Last Film Show (2022)

    Last Film Show

    7.42022HD

    A 9-year-old boy in a remote village in India begins a lifelong love affair with cinema when he bribes his way into a rundown movie palace and spends a summer watching movies from the projection booth....

    Last Film Show
  • 2016
    Other People

    Other People (2016)

    Other People

    6.32016HD

    David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels li...

    Other People
  • 2022
    The Fish Tale

    The Fish Tale (2022)

    The Fish Tale

    7.52022HD

    A young child is obsessed with learning about and drawing fish. The child seems a little odd, but if you are understanding and supportive you will be cheering in the end....

    The Fish Tale
  • 1998
    Strike!

    Strike! (1998)

    Strike!

    6.31998HD

    In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. They concoct a plan to save their school while dealing with everyday problems along the way....

    Strike!
  • 2021
    American Girl

    American Girl (2021)

    American Girl

    6.62021HD

    When her mother gets sick, 13-year-old Fen moves back to Taiwan, where she struggles to fit in amid the 2003 SARS epidemic....

    American Girl
  • 2012
    Chronicle of My Mother

    Chronicle of My Mother (2012)

    Chronicle of My Mother

    6.62012HD

    Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own be...

    Chronicle of My Mother
  • 2024
    In the Summers

    In the Summers (2024)

    In the Summers

    7.02024HD

    On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico....

    In the Summers
  • 2004
    Against the Ropes

    Against the Ropes (2004)

    Against the Ropes

    5.02004HD

    A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male dominated sport....

    Against the Ropes
  • 2023
    My Love Affair with Marriage

    My Love Affair with Marriage (2023)

    My Love Affair with Marriage

    5.82023HD

    From an early age, songs and fairytales convinced Zelma that Love would solve all her problems as long as she abided by societal expectations of how a girl should act. But as she grew older something didn't seem right with the concept of love: the mo...

    My Love Affair with Marriage
  • 2023
    Egoist

    Egoist (2023)

    Egoist

    7.52023HD

    A lonely magazine editor finds romance with his personal trainer until a confession changes everything. Based on the novel by Makoto Takayama....

    Egoist
  • 2016
    Coming Through the Rye

    Coming Through the Rye (2016)

    Coming Through the Rye

    6.22016HD

    Coming Through the Rye, set in 1969, is a touching coming of age story of sensitive, 16 year old Jamie Schwartz, who is not the most popular kid at his all boys' boarding school. Disconnected from students and teachers, he believes he is destined to ...

    Coming Through the Rye
  • 2017
    Meesaya Murukku

    Meesaya Murukku (2017)

    Meesaya Murukku

    6.62017HD

    A passionate youngster who dreams of making it in the music industry is on the verge of losing his love. What will happen to his career and romance?...

    Meesaya Murukku
  • 2018
    Friedkin Uncut

    Friedkin Uncut (2018)

    Friedkin Uncut

    72018HD

    An introspective insight into the life and artistic journey of William Friedkin, an extraordinary and offbeat director of cult films such as The French Connection, The Exorcist, Sorcerer, Cruising, To Live and Die in L.A. and Killer Joe. For the firs...

    Friedkin Uncut
  • 2013
    The End of Summer

    The End of Summer (2013)

    The End of Summer

    6.52013HD

    The story, set in the heady post-war 50s into the early 60s , revolves around a love triangle between Tomoko, long playing the mistress to married older writer Shitto and the new stud who comes into her life, Ryota Kinoshita. Tomoko is sick and tired...

    The End of Summer