My Husband is a Cartoonist
2010 ★ 8.5The 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
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013 ★ 8.0A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration.
The Doris Day Show
1968 ★ 6.2The 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
Call the Midwife
2012 ★ 7.5Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jenni
Ike
1979 ★ 7.3Ike, 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
Plastic Hell
1997 ★ 0.0A 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
Memoir of a Snail
2024 ★ 8.0Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of misfortun
The Witness
2026 ★ 6.3With their 2-year-old as the sole witness to her murder, Rachel Nickell's partner fights to protect him amid a flawed investigation. The Witness is a 2026 telev
The Pianist
2002 ★ 8.4The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto,
Fresh Off the Boat
2015 ★ 7.2A '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
Confessions of Felix Krull
1982 ★ 4.8Based 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
To Hell and Back
1955 ★ 6.6The 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
Going and Coming Back
1985 ★ 6.5Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines
The Two-Headed Spy
1958 ★ 6.3Wartime 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
Trapp Family Story
1991 ★ 6.8Trapp Family Story is a Japanese anime series by Nippon Animation. It was based on the memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, which h
Pushpa Impossible
2022 ★ 7.0Pushpa 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
The Lawless Breed
1952 ★ 6.8After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation.
The Durrells
2016 ★ 7.4In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter)
Les Nouvelles Aventures de Vidocq
1971 ★ 7.9Based on the memoirs of Eugène-François Vidocq, this series follows the adventures of this former convict turned policeman in the early 19th century. In these n
Reading Lolita in Tehran
2024 ★ 7.3In revolutionary Iran, as fundamentalists tighten their grip on society, a professor secretly gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to read and di
Diagnosis: Dissent
2024 ★ 7.9The protagonist Andrii Dovzhenko finds out a horrible truth, that has been hidden in USSR for years - most of those accused of «anti-Soviet propaganda» were nev
Line of Demarcation
1966 ★ 6.2It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert Renault under his pseudonym Colonel Rémy. A s
Gypsy
1962 ★ 6.3Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of
Testament of Youth
2015 ★ 7.3Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimon