Here we've displayed a list of the best Memoir films : 12 Years a Slave(2013), Hopscotch(1980), Killer: A Journal of Murder(1996), Nelly(2016), The Last Mitterrand(2005), The Truth(2019), Cleveland Abduction(2015) ... ...
Biography, Drama, History
USA|UK
2013
134 Minutes
Chiwetel Ejiofor Michael Fassbender Benedict Cumberbatch Paul Dano Garret Dillahunt Paul Giamatti Scoot McNairy Lupita Nyong'o Adepero Oduye Sarah Paulson Brad Pitt
slave slave trader abolitionist master african-american love interest dark powerful gripping touching gritty new york state american south plantation hideout secret hideout slave market slavery abolitionism underground railroad
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1980
104 Minutes
Walter Matthau Glenda Jackson Sam Waterston Ned Beatty Herbert Lom David Matthau George Baker Ivor Roberts Lucy Saroyan Severn Darden George Pravda
cia agent kgb agent rescue worker mentee publisher playful amusing munich georgia bermuda london airport vacation home espionage cold war government secrets retirement manhunt memoir revenge
Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.
Drama
USA
1996
90 Minutes
James Woods Robert Sean Leonard Ellen Greene Cara Buono Robert John Burke Steve Forrest John Bedford Lloyd Lili Taylor
killer prison guard judge warden cop writer dark chilling creepy leavenworth prison courtroom cell kansas minnesota carl panzram henry lesser psychology serial murders memoir prison life
Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him ... See full summary »
Drama
Canada
2016
101 Minutes
Mylène MacKay Marie-Claude Guérin Emmanuel Schwartz
prostitute writer somber striking canada prostitution memoir depression metamorphosis transformation 2000s
Inspired by the life and works of Nelly Arcan, a sex worker turned international literary star, lost between irreconcilable identities, whose life ended tragically.
Biography, Drama
USA
2005
115 Minutes
Michel Bouquet Jalil Lespert Philippe Fretun Anne Cantineau Sarah Grappin Catherine Salviat Jean-Claude Frissung Geneviève Casile Gisèle Casadesus
president biographer wife in-law doctor engaging powerful france eiffel tower train french history politics socialism betrayal memoir discovery rise 1990s
Melanie decides that one of her tenants would be perfect as her husband and decides to eliminate everyone who might interfere in her plans.
Drama
2019
106 Minutes
Catherine Deneuve Juliette Binoche Ludivine Sagnier Roger Van Hool Ethan Hawke Clémentine Grenier Laurent Capelluto Jackie Berroyer
movie star screenwriter family family matriarch emotional heartwarming moving paris family estate mother/daughter relationship memoir family dysfunction growing up love 2010s
Crime, Drama
2015
88 Minutes
Taryn Manning Raymond Cruz Pam Grier Joe Morton Katie Sarife Samantha Droke Sam Porretta Jean Zarzour
captive single mother captor disheartening emotional cleveland ohio imprisonment abduction sexual abuse memoir escape transformation 2010s
A single mother (Taryn Manning) becomes Ariel Castro's (Raymond Cruz) first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.