Semi Autobiographical Movies

Through a series of auditions, a young actor in New York City struggles with his identity.

On May 2, 1998, Hide, a leading Japanese rock musician who had been active as a guitarist for X JAPAN and as a solo artist (hide with Spread...

A young child is obsessed with learning about and drawing fish. The child seems a little odd, but if you are understanding and supportive you will be...

A stroke-afflicted filmmaker is manipulated by a notorious con man.

An only child's meditative, impressionistic account of an American family's rise and fall over two decades.

Australia, 1953. Thirteen-year-old Tom Allen attends a strict Catholic seminary for boys administered by De La Salle Brothers. The adolescent...

Tells the story of a young boy and his family who are terrorized by an unseen presence.

An adaptation of Connie May Fowler's 1996 novel tracing the unlikely friendship between a young white girl, daughter of an alcoholic mother and a...

The life story of a young man who has been pursuing an impossible love with his straight boyfriend and contemplating on the mortality of his loved...

An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family...

An old-fashioned young man meets a modern girl in a theatre class, and their connection slowly unravels, leading him through unrequited love, faith,...

The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events...

After unearthing the camcorder his dying father gave him at his bar mitzvah, a Long Island teenager claws his way into a Manhattan film school...

1982, a film inspired by true events at the onset of the crack epidemic in Philadelphia, tells the story of a father and his efforts to protect his...

Seventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on England's east coast in the 1950s. Julia, a teenage...

On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits...

Frank, a dedicated schoolteacher, embraces the sexual freedoms of the city’s underground scene—navigating a double life in public...

When her mother gets sick, 13-year-old Fen moves back to Taiwan, where she struggles to fit in amid the 2003 SARS epidemic.

A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He...

A woman's journey of self-discovery and the dynamics of her zany family. Alexis Fish is left broke and broken-hearted after the death of her...