Semi-autobiographical films

1986 film directed by Oliver Stone

2013 film by Spike Jonze

8½ ( ) is a 1963 avant-garde comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. The metafictional narrative centers on famous Italian film director Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) who suffers from writer's block as he attempts to direct an epic science fiction film. Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele, and Eddra Gale portray the various women in Guido's life. An international co-production between France and Italy, the film was shot in black and white by cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo and features a score by Nino Rota, with costume and

1988 anime film directed by Isao Takahata

Amarcord () is a 1973 comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi-autobiographical tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the village of Borgo San Giuliano (situated near the ancient walls of Rimini) in 1930s Fascist Italy.

2002 film directed by Curtis Hanson

1959 film by François Truffaut

2018 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón

1995 film directed by Richard Linklater

1982 film by Ingmar Bergman

2017 film directed by Greta Gerwig

1973 film directed by George Lucas

2000 film by Cameron Crowe

1975 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

2023 anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Nostalghia (released as Nostalgia in the United Kingdom) is a 1983 drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and starring Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano and Erland Josephson. Tarkovsky co-wrote the screenplay with Tonino Guerra.

2003 film directed by Tommy Wiseau

1979 film directed by Bob Fosse

2022 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2021 film directed by Kenneth Branagh

2004 film directed by Richard Linklater

2014 film directed by Jon Favreau

2023 film by Celine Song

Minari (; ) is a 2020 American drama film written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung. It stars Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Youn Yuh-jung, and Will Patton. A semi-autobiographical take on Chung's upbringing, its plot follows a family of South Korean immigrants who move to rural Arkansas during the 1980s.

2013 film directed by Richard Linklater

1987 film by Woody Allen

Aftersun is a 2022 semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Charlotte Wells in her feature directorial debut. Starring Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, and Celia Rowlson-Hall, the film is loosely based on Wells' childhood and follows an 11-year-old Scottish girl on holiday with her father at a Turkish resort on the eve of his 31st birthday.

1992 film by Robert Redford

1986 film by Mike Nichols

2005 film by Noah Baumbach

1987 film by John Boorman

2021 film directed by Paolo Sorrentino

1953 film by Ed Wood

2016 film directed by John Carney

1972 film by Federico Fellini

2009 film by Xavier Dolan

2017 film directed by Michael Showalter

2019 film directed by Lulu Wang

1980 film by Samuel Fuller

2002 film by Jim Sheridan

2020 film by Judd Apatow

2005 film directed by Jim Sheridan

2012 film by Terrence Malick

Warfare is a 2025 war film written and directed by Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland. Based on Mendoza's experiences during the Iraq War as a U.S. Navy SEAL, the film depicts an encounter on 19 November 2006 after the Battle of Ramadi. The script is drawn from the testimonies of the platoon members and is presented in real time. It stars an ensemble cast including D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai as Mendoza, alongside Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Joseph Quinn, and Charles Melton. The film is dedicated to platoon member Elliott Miller, who lost his leg and ability to speak in the incident.

2019 film directed by Zoya Akhtar

1993 film by Nanni Moretti

2005 erotic drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino

2022 film directed by James Gray

1992 film by Bille August

2022 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

1999 film directed by Barry Levinson

1970 film by Raj Kapoor

2022 film directed by Richard Linklater

2016 film directed by Bruce Beresford

2019 film by Alma Har'el

1971 film by Barbara Loden

Mayrig (Mother) is a 1991 semi-autobiographical film written and directed by French-Armenian filmmaker Henri Verneuil. The film's principal cast includes Claudia Cardinale and Omar Sharif as parents of Azad (Henri Verneuil depicted as child). Mayrig means mother in Armenian. The film is about the struggles of an Armenian family that emigrates to France from Turkey after the Armenian genocide of 1915.

1996 film by Mohsen Makhmalbaf

2008 film by Aleksei Balabanov

1948 drama film directed by George Stevens