Memoir movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant memoir movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, captivating, crying and psychological films and TV shows about / with memoir, husband wife relationship, voice over narration, writers, society, family relations, biopic, flashback, love and father son relationship plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as memoir: Girl, Interrupted (1999), Memoir of a Murderer (2017), The Little House (2014), Porto of My Childhood (2001), My Dog Tulip (2009), Monsieur N. (2003), Any Human Heart (2010), Forest of the Gods (2005), Halloween Ends (2022), Railway Spine (2016).

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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style: psychological, depressing, serious, crying, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, coming of age, suicide, insanity, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, borderline personality disorder, female protagonist, psychiatric ward, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s
Place: usa
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Memoir of a Murderer (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A former serial killer Byung-su gets diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and when a series of murders occur near his town, he worries whether the killings are his doings. Then, he comes across Tae-ju and realizes that he’s the killer. He reports this to ...
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, twisted ...
Plot: serial killer, serial murder, serendipity, father daughter relationship, police, alzheimer's disease, doubt, vigilante, confusion, murder, daughter, tunnel ...
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The Little House (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love affair, fall in love, master and servant, family relations, secret love, letter, funeral, society, feminist, asian, biopic, love ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, year 1941
Place: japan, asia, pearl harbor, hiroshima japan
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Porto of My Childhood (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 61 min.
Story: Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.
Style: semi documentary, serious, touching, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: lifestyle, introspection, society, social relations, filmmaking, city life, first love, artists and showbiz, urban, biopic, bittersweet, river ...
Time: year 2001, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: portugal, europe
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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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 6.5
 1K
Monsieur N. (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: This film covers the last years of the Emperor's life, imprisoned by the British on St Helena, a remote island off the west coast of Africa. Napoleon retains a loyal entourage of officers who help him plot his escape and evade the attentions of ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, epic, costume drama ...
Plot: napoleon bonaparte, napoleonic wars, conspiracy, prison, heroes, dishonesty, state affairs, downfall, island, love, prisoner, exile ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, year 2003, 18th century
Place: europe, france
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Any Human Heart (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
TV show
Story: A novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - the exiled British king and his mistress Wallis Simpson.
Style: stylized, serious, realistic, sentimental, historical drama ...
Plot: introspection, writer's life, encounter, love and romance, historical character, love affair, writers, relationships, romantic relationship, world war one, chess, biopic ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 80s, 50s, 1920s ...
Place: england, london, france, usa, new york ...
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Forest of the Gods (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Lithuania, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The story about one man - an artist and an intellectual - who was imprisoned by two brutal regimes, the Nazis and the Soviets. 'The Professor' is a man who lives by his own personal version of the Ten Commandments. After miraculously ...
Style: compassionate, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: nazi, world war two, life is a bitch, scientist, artist, performer's life, writer's life, society, suppression, life turned upside down, totalitarian state, state affairs ...
Place: ussr
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 5.0
 70K
Halloween Ends (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Four years after the traumatic events of Halloween in 2018, the nightmare ends as Laurie Strode comes face to face with Michael Myers, once and for all.
Style: slasher, scary, slasher horror, bloody, sinister ...
Plot: halloween, killing spree, serial killer, homicidal maniac, babysitter, radio station, junkyard, radio dj, holiday horror, death of son, grandmother granddaughter relationship, masked killer ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: illinois
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Railway Spine (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Michael Delucca, a Vietnam veteran broken by his struggle with post-traumatic stress, recollects his violent postwar life in a raw and touching memoir for the son he never knew.
Plot: vietnam war, memoir
Place: vietnam
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Fellini's Casanova (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person? Is he really alive?
Style: surreal, erotic, art house, visual, cerebral ...
Plot: womanizer, casanova, sex, voyeurism, biopic, looking for sex, italian neorealism, passion, clergy, decadence, renaissance, sleaze ...
Time: 18th century, year 1976
Place: italy, europe, venice, france, england ...
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 7.4
 92K
Tár (2022)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Renowned musician Lydia Tár is days away from recording the symphony that will elevate her career. However, Lydia's elaborate facade begins to unravel, revealing dirty secrets and the corrosive nature of power.
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological, powerful, dorama ...
Audience: adult
Plot: orchestra, classical music, lgbt, lesbian, composer, music, musician, music conductor, orchestra conductor, female protagonist, massage parlor, infidelity ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: berlin germany, the philippines, germany, southeast asia, manhattan new york city ...
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Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
Style: melancholic, emotional, sentimental, touching, sad ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, drug addiction, single mother, small town, women, writers, grownups, teenage girl, pregnant teenager, parenthood ...
Time: year 2001, 60s, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, connecticut, usa
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 6.3
 27K
Crooked House (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
Style: suspense, enigmatic, detective, captivating, surprise ending ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: whodunit, murder mystery, private detective, mansion, murder, family secret, twists and turns, investigation, servant, poison, secret, spy ...
Time: 50s, year 1957, 1950s
Place: london, cairo egypt, scotland yard
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Cider with Rosie (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Produced for the PBS TV series Masterpiece Theatre, this adaptation of Laurie Lee's autobiographical novel follows a young man's maturation in the country town of Gloucestershire near the end of World War I. As young Laurie (Dashiell ...
Style: period drama
Plot: children, great war, youth, blended family, poet, war veteran, single parent, english countryside, young boy, voice over narration, flying a kite, auction ...
Time: post world war one
Place: england
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The Ghost Writer (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident. In director Roman ...
Style: serious, political thriller, captivating, atmospheric, political ...
Plot: writers, twists and turns, politics, political conspiracy, investigation, betrayal, writer's life, spy, espionage, cia, conspiracy, suspicion ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new england, new york, massachusetts, britain, oxford university ...
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Fireflies in the Garden (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The semi-autobiographical story centers on the complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart when faced by an unexpected tragedy.
Style: emotional, sincere, realistic, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, life is a bitch, family problems, family in crisis, unsupportive parent, parents and children, college graduate, children, youth, child abuse, father son relationship ...
Time: 20th century
Place: greece
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Burn After Reading (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of Linda Litzke and Chad Feldheimer, the two gym employees see a chance to make enough money for her to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of ...
Style: dark comedy, funny, black comedy, absurd, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: stupidity, espionage, paranoia, farce, divorce, infidelity, spy, gym, violence, online dating, great ending, ambition ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, virginia, persia, america ...
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Call the Midwife (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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 Jennifer Worth.
Style: sincere, touching, realistic, stylized, costume drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midwife, childbirth, pregnancy, convent, nurse, doctor, nursing, friends, medical, family life, hospital, friendship ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 1950s, year 1961, 2020s ...
Place: england, london, europe, britain
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Father Knows... (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Father Knows... is a bittersweet comedy-drama that tells the story of Love Family and personal estrangements spanning over 15 years in the life of what seem like a simple American Family. Not so. The story is told from the view point of hunky Brad ...
Style: independent film, queer cinema
Plot: gay, parent child relationship, nudity, voice over narration, sex talk, breakup, card playing, hugging, grownups, getting home, 18 year old, gay romance ...
Place: chicago, san francisco
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche ...
Style: stylized, sentimental, bad ending, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: obsession, high society, social differences, love triangle, loneliness, love story, millionaire, unfulfilled love, love and romance, love, destructive relationship, infidelity ...
Time: 1920s, year 2013, 90s, 1900s, 2010s ...
Place: new york, usa, los angeles, long island, midwest
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The Unburied Man (2004)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 127 min.
Story: One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary. She portrays it through the fate of the former prime minister and national hero, Imre Nagy. The script is based on the diary written by ...
Plot: inhumanity, war for independence, josef stalin, crime against humanity, hate, revolution, death sentence, husband wife relationship, exhumation, jail, grave, disease ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1956
Place: budapest, romania, central europe, hungary, italy ...
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 7.3
 83K
Youth (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Switzerland, UK, France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: YOUTH explores the lifelong bond between two friends vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing ...
Style: melancholic, talky, philosophical, touching, psychological ...
Plot: aging, composer, screenwriter, father daughter relationship, hotel, life & death, sex scene, husband wife relationship, existentialism, spa, art, orchestra ...
Time: year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: switzerland, swiss alps, italy, venice, alps
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Black Shack Alley (1983)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Martinique
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning a living. The overseer can fine a worker for the smallest infraction. The way to advance is to do well in ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: black, youth, women of color, african, international relations, blaxploitation, racial issues, woman, boy, grandmother, school, poverty ...
Time: 1930s, year 1983
Place: indiana, africa, europe, france
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 6.9
 1K
Elvis and Me (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: The story of Priscilla's life with rock and roll star Elvis Presley.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot: elvis presley, biopic, rock and roll, unhappy ending, couples, rock, music, couple relations, artists and showbiz, musician's life, desire for fame, introspection ...
Time: 60s
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 7.1
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In Custody (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, India
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of extinction as political trends and modernization obscure its contributions to Indian culture. ...
Style: parallel cinema, insightful, biting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: poetry, poet, tradition, progress, writer's life, artists and showbiz, society, unfulfillment, alcohol abuse, culture clash, second wife, publisher ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place: india
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 6.1
 298
Along the Way (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A funny, gripping and powerful drama about the post graduation summer of four lifelong friends and one night that changed the course of their lives... forever. Like Crash , Saint Elmo s Fire and it s inspiration Stand By Me, Along the WAY is a ...
Style: touching, offbeat, gloomy, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: best friend, college, friendship, friends, youth, hopes, redemption, buddies, coming of age, showbiz, partner, doctor ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, year 1983, 21st century
Place: new york, connecticut, madison square garden manhattan new york city
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As Time Goes By (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Two lovers are reunited after decades apart following a mutual misunderstanding.
Style: sitcom, humorous, satirical, game show, uplifting ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: elderly, love, secretary, psychiatrist, ex-lover, second chance, misunderstanding, power relations, couples, workplace, love and romance, boss and employee ...
Time: 90s, year 1953, 2000s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place: europe, england, london, los angeles, kenya
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 6.9
 15K
Zero Effect (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Daryl Zero is a private investigator. Along with his assistant, Steve Arlo he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Though a master investigator, when he is not working, Zero doesn't know what to do with himself. He has no social skills, writes ...
Style: detective, neo noir, dark comedy, cult classic, witty ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, murder, private investigator, eccentricity, blackmail, ugly duckling, hidden truth, whodunit, fall in love, accountant, dating ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: oregon, usa, los angeles, portland oregon, san francisco
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My Father's Glory (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: French adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's memoirs of his childhood in the countryside, early in the century.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, serious, uplifting ...
Audience: date night
Plot: summer, coming of age, countryside, childhood, children, brother brother relationship, childhood memory, country house, childhood friend, cottage, boy, heartwarming ...
Time: 1900s, turn of the century, year 1990, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place: france, marseille, south of france, europe, provence
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