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The Doris Day Show

1968 ★ 6.2

The Doris Day Show is an American sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 1968 until March 1973, remaining on the air for five se

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Plastic Hell

1997 ★ 0.0

A stylized autobiography of the insides of a horror geek's brain and the dilemma of having a family, that would never want to be involved. Or silly exploitation

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My Husband is a Cartoonist

2010 ★ 8.5

The 82nd NHK Asadora is Gegege no Nyobo. The story is based on a 2008 autobiography by Mura Nunoe, the wife of Gegege no Kitaro mangaka Mizuki Shigeru. The stor

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To Hell and Back

1955 ★ 6.6

The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as himself in the film. A

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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

1974 ★ 6.6

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. Sh

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Merton: A Film Biography

1984 ★ 8.5

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the austere Trappis

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Love on the Run

1979 ★ 7.0

Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel is a divorced proofreader in love with a record seller. Colette Tazzi, now a lawyer, buys his first published autobiography,

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Hearts of Citizens

2010 ★ 0.0

It is an autobiography of Qi Junzao, the legendary politician, writer, calligraphist, from the age 17 to 70. It depicted his politicals fights in the late Qing

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The Two-Headed Spy

1958 ★ 6.3

Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated t

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Daddy

1973 ★ 5.6

Daddy, filmed in cooperation with movie director Peter Whitehead, discovers the connection between a father and little girl. Like the majority of Niki De Saint

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Going and Coming Back

1985 ★ 6.5

Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines

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The Lawless Breed

1952 ★ 6.8

After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation.

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Q...

1969 ★ 7.3

Q... was a surreal television comedy sketch show from Spike Milligan which ran from 1969 to 1982 on BBC2. There were six series in all, the first five numbered

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F for Fake

1973 ★ 7.4

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selli

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Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

1973 ★ 7.7

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 9 April 1974 on BBC1. It was the colour sequel to the m

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Hardcore

1977 ★ 3.8

Aka Hardcore, aka Frankly Fiona. The heavily fictionalised fantastical autobiography of the fantastic 70s sex superstar Fiona Richmond, played by Fiona herself!

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Ike

1979 ★ 7.3

Ike, also known as Ike: The War Years, is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The screenplay by Melville Shavelson is based on

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Fresh Off the Boat

2015 ★ 7.2

A '90s-set single-camera comedy about a hip-hop-loving Asian kid growing up in suburban Orlando, being raised by an immigrant father obsessed with all things Am

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Desert Flower

2009 ★ 7.6

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the

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Chaplin

1992 ★ 7.4

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life

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The Wolf of Wall Street

2013 ★ 8.0

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration.

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Confessions of Felix Krull

1982 ★ 4.8

Based on unfinished 1954 novel by the German author Thomas Mann. It is a parody of Goethe's autobiography Poetry and Truth, particularly in its pompous tone. D

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Pushpa Impossible

2022 ★ 7.0

Pushpa Impossible is the story about a feisty middle-aged woman having studied until grade 9 in a Gujarati medium school and going back to school at the age of

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Testament of Youth

1979 ★ 7.8

A dramatization of Vera Brittain's 1933 autobiography Testament of Youth—a memorial to a generation devastated by WWI—chronicles her experiences as a nurse in L

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