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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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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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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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Call the Midwife

2012 ★ 7.5

Drama 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

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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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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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Memoir of a Snail

2024 ★ 8.0

Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of misfortun

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The Witness

2026 ★ 6.3

With 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

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The Pianist

2002 ★ 8.4

The 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,

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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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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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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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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 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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Trapp Family Story

1991 ★ 6.8

Trapp 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

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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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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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The Durrells

2016 ★ 7.4

In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter)

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Les Nouvelles Aventures de Vidocq

1971 ★ 7.9

Based 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

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Reading Lolita in Tehran

2024 ★ 7.3

In revolutionary Iran, as fundamentalists tighten their grip on society, a professor secretly gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to read and di

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Diagnosis: Dissent

2024 ★ 7.9

The 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

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Line of Demarcation

1966 ★ 6.2

It 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

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Gypsy

1962 ★ 6.3

Gypsy'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

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Testament of Youth

2015 ★ 7.3

Testament 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

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