Films based on memoirs

Temple Grandin

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 8.2

A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling.

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Raging Bull

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 8.1

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

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12 Years a Slave

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 8.1

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not on...

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Beautiful Boy

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.4

After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

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Angela's Ashes

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic...

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Spoiler Alert

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Journalist Michael Ausiello embarks on a rollercoaster ride of emotions when Kit Cowan, his partner of 14 years, is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

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Girl, Interrupted

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 7.3

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 st...

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Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1991 IMDB Rating: 7.2

A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a death-defying "diving girl," but Doc refuses her pleas. Un...

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Firebird

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 7.1

At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.

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