Autobiography Movies

My childhood memories carry two important symbols, a large magnet that I pulled around behind me and a dead friend.

James Lapine's tribute to a life in the theater based on Moss Hart's autobiography of the same name, starring Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin. The...

unravels the hidden struggles between mothers and daughters across generations.

Constructed from personal and public collections, this video is a moving back and forth in memory.

This film is an in-camera portrait of my niece, Mia Larose (who was six months old at the time) captured during a winter family reunion in Lac...

A semi-autobiographical short about a young man musing about the nostalgic joy of being a careless child.

12 minuted video on youtube about last moments of the celebrated actress Soad Hosny.

Torrey Pines is a stop-motion animated feature film by director Clyde Petersen. Based on a true story, the film is a queer punk coming-of-age tale,...

Start from Scratch.

Based on a true story, NO1 recalls the life of a human. Is it a special life? Is it the life of a hundred? No1 can say until they know the whole...

Just after Isidore moves to France to study filmmaking, his best friend dies back in the US. Through documentary, performance, and animation, a...

Holger Diekmann was a singer, bass player, and drummer in multiple local bands throughout his short life. Filmmaker Jonas Helmerichs sets out to...

Escaping is not as easy as you'd think.

This is a sort of documentary made by Vilgot Sjoman about Vilgot Sjoman as a sort of cinematic autobiography aired on Swedish television originally...