Autobiography Movies

In his first HBO comedy special, Gary Gulman offers candid reflections on his struggles with depression through stand-up and short documentary...

In the 1970s, child prodigy Lucien Spelman was billed as the youngest professional Classical/Flamenco guitarist in the world. A documentary crew has...

Herrring shares with us his world of gonorrhea-transmitting magpies, his attempts to become successor to Pope John Paul II, and his local...

Forbidden to Wander chronicles the experiences of a 25-year-old Arab American woman traveling on her own in the occupied territories of the West Bank...

An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and...

A down-on-his-luck adult film star sees a chance to make a comeback via a lesbian documentary film-maker, but she is exploiting him to get financial...

Laci is almost ready for his great escape - standing in his way are his watchful parents, a depressed grandmother, and a cat who still has a lot to...

A candid monologue by Anastasia Reshetova in short film format. Memories of a difficult childhood. The story of an ordinary girl from a residential...

In a remote Kyrgyz village, Dzhamilya follows her parents' orders when she marries a man without loving him. Then World War II breaks out and her new...

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

Based on true events, "Dissociated Me" tells the story of a woman encouraged by a renowned film editor to turn her chaotic Beverly Hills past -...

At the risk of a 5-year prison term, Francesco Da Vinci struggles with his Virginia draft board to be recognized as a sincere conscientious objector...

The film is loosely based on real life events of Marianna de Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," whose story was made famous by the Alessandro...

Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer was on his own, looking for a...

The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.

A flock of memories activated by various musical exercises, to strike the past to the heart, to build something utopian: the future, a sonic...

An auto-documentary about a disenfranchised Everyman and his struggle to re-integrate himself into society. He fails and turns to crime.

In this "beautifully intimate and utterly unique piece of cinema", Toby Amies crosses the line between filmmaker and carer, trying to cope with the...

Dalibor K. is an industrial painter, amateur horror maker, the composer of angry songs, painter and a radical neo-Nazi. He is approaching 40, but he...