Based on memoir movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant based on memoir movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, serious, touching, emotional and disturbing films and TV shows about / with biopic, friendship, husband wife relationship, family relations, bare chested male, marriage, male nudity, kiss, father son relationship and death plots mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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based on memoir movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as based on memoir: Unorthodox (2020), Beautiful Boy (2018), The Case Study of Vanitas (2021), A Prayer Before Dawn (2017), Testament of Youth (2014), This Boy's Life (1993), The Theory of Everything (2014), Being Flynn (2012), Mommie Dearest (1981), A Street Cat Named Bob (2016).

List of based on memoir movies

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 8.0
 92K
Unorthodox (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story: A Hasidic Jewish woman in Brooklyn flees to Berlin from an arranged marriage and is taken in by a group of musicians -- until her past comes calling.
Style: uplifting, social, touching, suspense, anthology ...
Audience: teens
Plot: judaism, jewish family, orthodox jew, female protagonist, escape, women, jewish woman, husband wife relationship, feminist, follow your dream, new life, musician ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york, berlin germany, brooklyn new york city
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 7.4
 97K
Beautiful Boy (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son Nic, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
Style: disturbing, rough, captivating, sentimental, sad ...
Plot: addiction, drug addiction, drug addict, teenage boy, father son relationship, methamphetamine, teenager, boy, divorce, coming of age, stepmother stepson relationship, drug ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, los angeles, new york
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The Case Study of Vanitas (2021)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: In 19th-century Paris, young vampire Noé finds the Book of Vanitas in human hands. Calling himself Vanitas, this doctor wields its power and tempts Noé with a plan to “cure” all vampires. Allying with him may be dangerous, but does he have a ...
Style: anime, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: supernatural, showdown, supernatural ability, supernatural power, secret, magic, vampire, vampire hunter, steampunk, magical creature, magical, revenge ...
Time: 19th century
Place: paris france
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A Prayer Before Dawn (2017)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, France, China, Cambodia, USA, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Based on the true life experience of Billy Moore who survived his Thai prison ordeal by becoming a Muay Thai boxing champion.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: prison, boxing, male rape, prison rape, male nudity, brutality, friendship, boxing match, violence, tattoo, suicide, martial arts ...
Time: year 2017, 2000s, year 2010
Place: bangkok thailand, thailand
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Testament of Youth (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Denmark, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: 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 testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and ...
Style: touching, period piece, captivating, serious, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: world war one, wartime, war, aspiring writer, women, death, poetry, nurse, life is a bitch, wartime life, love and romance, love affair ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s, edwardian era, 2010s ...
Place: england, oxford university, london, yorkshire, france ...
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This Boy's Life (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries ...
Style: depressing, realistic, emotional, touching, epic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, child abuse, small town, single parent, domestic violence, dysfunctional family, biopic, childhood, husband wife relationship, teenager, abusive stepfather, friendship ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1993, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: seattle, washington state, salt lake city utah, washington d.c., usa
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The Theory of Everything (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Style: touching, uplifting, inspirational, compassionate, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens
Plot: disability, genius, love, physicist, cambridge university, mathematics, prodigy, husband wife relationship, supportive spouse, scientist, against the odds, biopic ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 60s, 90s ...
Place: oxford university, england, united kingdom
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 6.4
 18K
Being Flynn (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: During his twenties, a young man works at various homeless shelters in Boston, where he often intersects with his brilliant but troubled father.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: homeless, father son relationship, absent father, homeless shelter, writer's life, poet, writers, estrangement, family relations, life is a bitch, social misfits, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, boston, massachusetts, new york
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 6.6
 18K
Mommie Dearest (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In this biographical film, glamorous yet lonely star Joan Crawford takes in two orphans, and at first their unconventional family seems happy. But after Joan's attempts at romantic fulfillment go sour and she is fired from her contract with MGM ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, factual, intense, talky ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: child abuse, adoption, dysfunctional family, abusive mother, single mother, bad mother, mother daughter relationship, mansion, hollywood, borderline personality disorder, mother, storytelling ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 60s, 1950s ...
Place: usa, new york, los angeles
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A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the international best selling book. The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.
Style: touching, feel good, sincere, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: cat, homeless, human animal relationship, street musician, pet cat, guitarist, addiction, drug addict, friendship, animal actor, singer, moral transformation ...
Time: year 2016
Place: london
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 6.8
 3K
Borstal Boy (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Based on Irish poet Brendan Behan's experiences in a reform school in 1942. A 16 year-old Irish republican terrorist arrives on the ferry at Liverpool and is arrested for possession of explosives. He is imprisoned in a Borstal in East ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, touching, political ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, gay teenager, prison, boarding school life, lgbt, homosexuality, friendship, teenage love, gay slur, youth, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe, england
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 6.8
 2K
My Dog Tulip (2009)
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The story of a man who rescues a German shepherd and how the two become fast friends.
Style: adult animation, atmospheric, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot: dog, pets, rescue, friendship, german shepherd, dog sex, puppy love, lgbtq, friends, bittersweet, cartoon dog, old man ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: england, europe
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 7.3
 5K
All About Me (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dramatised origin story of one of Germany's most beloved contemporary comedians.
Style: sincere, thought provoking, captivating, humorous, light ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: father son relationship, brother brother relationship, death of mother, fame, comedian, ambition, friendship, society, monkey, summer, lgbt, traumatic childhood ...
Time: year 1972, year 1971, year 1973
Place: germany
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Christopher and His Kind (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1931 budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. Whilst working as an English teacher his housemates include bewigged old queen Gerald Hamilton and ...
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, sexual, crying ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gender, lgbt, self discovery, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, lifestyle, writers, homosexual, sadomasochism, fall in love, society ...
Time: 1930s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1931, year 1933 ...
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany, england, hamburg germany ...
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 7.2
 117K
Fences (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
Style: emotional, depressing, talky, stylized, motivational ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: african american, racism, working class, violent, twists and turns, black, brutality, husband wife relationship, greed, character study, social commentary, life ...
Time: 1950s, year 2016, 2010s, 20th century
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, indiana, usa
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 7.6
 8K
Pistol (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
TV show
Story: The story of a band of spotty, noisy, working-class kids with “no future,” who shook the boring, corrupt Establishment to its core, threatened to bring down the government and changed music and culture forever.
Style: semi autobiographical, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: punk rock, punk, punk band, career, rock, punk music, musician's life, music band, music, punk rocker, musician, lifestyle ...
Time: 70s
Place: england
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 7.2
 85K
Papillon (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Spain
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Henri "Papillon" Charrière is convicted in Paris for a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he becomes obsessed with escaping. After planning and executing a series of treacherous ...
Style: suspense, factual, psychological, art house, homoerotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prison, prison escape, island prison, friendship, life sentence, escape, thief, solitary, survival, wrongful conviction, human spirit, jungle ...
Time: year 2017, year 1931, 1930s, year 1969, year 1970 ...
Place: south america, colombia, france, venezuela, paris france
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 5.8
 105K
Eat Pray Love (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Liz Gilbert had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having – a husband, a house and a successful career – yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced ...
Style: inspirational, romantic, touching, road movie, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot: self discovery, travel, midlife crisis, lifestyle change, love, female protagonist, journey, starting over, introspection, changing lives, life, fall in love ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: italy, india, indonesia, bali, rome italy ...
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Black Butterflies (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Low on inspiration for his second book, a gloomy novelist agrees to write a memoir for a dying man — and swiftly becomes part of his bloodstained past.
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: serial killer, female nudity, love story, confession, serial murder, murder, husband wife relationship, family relations, couples, secret, family secret, killings ...
Place: switzerland
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Adults in the Room (2019)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic ...
Style: political, tense, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Plot: biopic, financial crisis, politics, debt, politician, economic crisis, bankruptcy, political conspiracy, political unrest, money problems, financial problem, world politics ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s
Place: greece, paris france, frankfurt germany, london, europe
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 6.6
 13K
No Entry (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Kishen is a newspaper baron married to Kaajal, a housewife who suspects her husband of having numerous non-existent affairs. Pooja is the believing wife of ever-philandering globe-trotting businessman Prem. Kishen and Prem are thick pals. Sanjana ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, funny
Plot: prostitute, womanizer, friendship, couple relations, love affair, couples, love and romance, fall in love, husband wife relationship, adultery, politician, marriage ...
Place: south africa
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Fifty Shades Darker (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When a wounded Christian Grey tries to entice a cautious Ana Steele back into his life, she demands a new arrangement before she will give him another chance. As the two begin to build trust and find stability, shadowy figures from Christian’s ...
Style: sexy, romantic, sexual, sensual, intense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: bdsm, sex scene, billionaire, sex, proposal, masquerade, sexual harassment, bondage, female nudity, relationships, revenge, love story ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: seattle
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The Infiltrator (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
Style: suspense, realistic, dramatic, factual, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: drug lord, drug cartel, money laundering, drug, addiction, federal agent, money, investigation, biopic, undercover agent, organized crime, drug addiction ...
Time: year 2016, 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: colombia, middle east, florida
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 6.6
 28K
Priscilla (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological, period drama
Plot: career, male female relationship, life, love affair, couple relations, friendship, friends, relationships, elvis presley, mansion, jealousy, female protagonist ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1967, year 1960 ...
Place: las vegas, memphis, west germany, los angeles
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 7.6
 10K
Manhunt (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of London Metropolitan police detective Colin Sutton's manhunt for serial killer Levi Bellfield.
Style: detective, suspense, exciting, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: police detective, serial killer, murder, police, true crime, criminal, victim, brutality, blood, who done it, law, law enforcement ...
Time: future
Place: london
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 7.3
 122K
The Way Back (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film ...
Style: epic, realistic, inspirational, road movie, rough ...
Plot: survival, escape, prison escape, wilderness, war, freedom, journey, world war two, desert, gulag, pow, convict ...
Time: 2010s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: himalaya, russia, soviet union, asia, mongolia ...
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 6.6
 28K
A Mighty Heart (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, factual, political ...
Plot: loss of spouse, murder, jihad, journalism, execution, friendship, justice, storytelling, faith, new love, terrorism, death ...
Time: year 2007, september 11 2001, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: pakistan, middle east, manhattan new york city, new york, los angeles ...
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, ...
Style: emotional, harsh, rough, intense, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, friendship, urban ghetto life, street kid, loss of friend, depression, foul language, anger, life is a bitch, teenage boy, teenager ...
Time: 80s, y2k, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, america, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, los angeles
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 6.9
 2K
Cross Creek (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The portrait of a woman who, at the edge of survival, found a world of meaning.
Style: touching, realistic, atmospheric, serious, captivating ...
Plot: writers, swamp, biopic, friendship, suburbs, deep south, art, romantic relationship, past, poet, rural setting, backwoods ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, 1930s
Place: florida, usa
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 6.6
 10K
Toast (2010)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An adaptation of celebrity chef Nigel Slater's bestselling memoir, 'Toast' is the ultimate nostalgic trip through everything edible in 1960's Britain. Nigel's mother was always a poor cook, but her chronic asthma and ...
Style: tragicomedy, sentimental, semi serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cooking, chef, cooking and food, food, youth, coming of age, lgbt, teenage life, homosexual, family problems, maid, lifestyle ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, london
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