The film is a docudrama about cross-dressing and transsexuality, and is semi-autobiographical in nature.

When he was six years old, his mother died and he subsequently grew up under the auspices of the English expatriate community and was particularly involved with the so-called Scorpioni, who inspired his semi-autobiographical 1999 film Tea With Mussolini.

The feature film Cowboy ( 1958 ) is an adaptation of the semi-autobiographical novel My Reminiscences as a Cowboy.

The Last Picture Show is a 1971 American drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from a semi-autobiographical 1966 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry.

Written and directed by Gordon Parks, the film is based upon his 1964 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name.

Although fictionalized, the film was semi-autobiographical, based on his childhood growing up in Bridgeport, Connecticut in the 1930s.

He has also pursued an acting career, appearing in the semi-autobiographical film Get Rich or Die Tryin ' in 2005, the Iraq War film Home of the Brave in 2006, and Righteous Kill in 2008.

Buffalo ’ 66 is a 1998 comedy-drama film that is writer-director Vincent Gallo's semi-autobiographical full-length motion picture debut.

The film, which was taken from Portland street writer Walt Curtis ' semi-autobiographical novella, featured some of the director's hallmarks, notably an unfulfilled romanticism, a dry sense of the absurd, and the refusal to treat homosexuality as something deserving of judgment.

The semi-autobiographical script that Tati wrote in 1956 was released internationally as an animated film The Illusionist in ( 2010 ).

Amarcord is a 1973 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age 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.

The semi-autobiographical Educating Rita was turned into a 1983 film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters.

It is a semi-autobiographical film starring Potter and Pablo Verón, about Argentinian Tango.

* Chopper ( film ), a 2000 Australian semi-autobiographical film by and about Mark Brandon " Chopper " Read

Born in Paris, Léaud made his major debut as an actor at the age of 14 as Antoine Doinel, a semi-autobiographical character based on the life events of French film director François Truffaut, in The 400 Blows.

In 2005, Watts starred and co-produced with director / screenwriter Scott Coffey her next film, the semi-autobiographical drama Ellie Parker, which depicted the struggle of an Australian actress in Hollywood.

Sexton subsequently wrote a semi-autobiographical film, Adult Children of Alcoholics: The Musical, which was in production in November 1993 when Sexton, who was openly gay, fell ill due to complications from AIDS.

He then wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the short film Multi-Facial ( 1994 ), a short semi-autobiographical film which follows a struggling actor stuck in the audition process, because he is regarded as either " too black " or " too white ", or not black or white enough.

* All That Jazz ( 1979 )-A semi-autobiographical film directed by famed broadway choreographer Bob Fosse.

It is a semi-autobiographical film about her life as an actress who is looked at as a sex object, so she goes through a busy phase of her life by travelling across Europe to rescue a friend from an abusive relationship and she also wins an award while in Milan, then she travels to Los Angeles to meet with greedy film producers and also falls in love with a rock and roll star, then finds out she is pregnant, then begins to use drugs to help her feel better.

The article asserted that The Painted Bird, assumed by some to be semi-autobiographical, was largely a work of fiction.

He also began publishing a series of semi-autobiographical works, the first of which was Antimémoires ( 1967 ).

A semi-autobiographical depiction of his 1940 romance with Kip Kiernan in Provincetown, Massachusetts, it was produced for the first time on October 1, 2006 in Provincetown by the Shakespeare on the Cape production company, as part of the First Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival.

Her first foray outside children's literature was Bildhuggarens dotter ( Sculptor's Daughter ), a semi-autobiographical book written in 1968.

Though still censored, she was concerned to re-construct work that had been destroyed or suppressed during the purges or which had posed a threat to the life of her son in the camps, such as the lost, semi-autobiographical play Enûma Elish.

A semi-autobiographical story of her life was depicted in Too Much, Too Soon, starring Errol Flynn as John Barrymore

Jean Genet described the experiences of a thirty-year-old prisoner at Fontevrault in his semi-autobiographical novel, Miracle de la rose, although there is no evidence that Genet was ever imprisoned there himself.

This era and setting was described in detail in the semi-autobiographical novel, Life Amongst the Modocs, written by poet and novelist Joaquin Miller.

This was Carney's only Twilight Zone appearance but, nearly two years earlier, on January 22, 1959, he starred in Rod Serling's semi-autobiographical story, " The Velvet Alley ", the eighth of ten Serling teleplays featured on Playhouse 90, the most prestigious of the many live drama anthology series from the Golden Age of Television.

In 1953, Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman, was published.

The result of his experiences was his first, semi-autobiographical novel, The Loom of Youth ( 1917 ), in which he remembered and reflected on his schooldays.

Retaining this semi-autobiographical trend, Coupling was based on him meeting his wife, Sue Vertue, and on the issues that arise in new relationships.

Hwang decided to turn the experience into a semi-autobiographical play which pits him as the main character in a media farce about mistaken racial identity, which was ( oddly enough ) one of the main plots of Face Value.

His last major work, written after the death of his wife in 1924, was Die Frau des Steffen Tromholt (" The Wife of Steffen Tromholt ", 1927 ), a semi-autobiographical novel.

Rugby School is one of England's oldest and most prestigious public schools, and was the setting of Thomas Hughes's semi-autobiographical masterpiece Tom Brown's Schooldays.

* Author Sherman Alexie was born with Hydrocephalus, which he wrote about in his semi-autobiographical junior fiction novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

One constant in the director's early years was his interest in visual arts ( namely, painting and Super-8 filmmaking ); while still in school he began making semi-autobiographical shorts costing between 30 and 50 dollars.

His stage debut was in 1977, when he was cast as the young Steve Allen in Allen's semi-autobiographical play The Wake.

Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell ( written by Alan Moore ), Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus ( aka Deadface ), a wry adventure series about the few Greek gods who have survived to the present day.

Inside the Third Reich is written in a semi-autobiographical style.

Henry Miller assumed a unique place in American Literature in the 1930s when his semi-autobiographical novels, written and published in Paris, were banned from the US.

This movie is based on the semi-autobiographical book of the same name, written by Abagnale with the help of Stan Redding.

He has written semi-autobiographical stories and anecdotes of his time with the Gordon Highlanders in the “ McAuslan ” series.

Her directorial debut, the semi-autobiographical Channel 4 drama The Unloved, written in collaboration with Tony Grisoni, was first broadcast on 17 May 2009.

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden ( 1964 ) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Joanne Greenberg, written under the pen name of Hannah Green.

The novel is semi-autobiographical, and is written in an expressionistic style.

Nicholson's semi-autobiographical novel Romance of a Choir-Boy was written between 1896 and 1905 but not published until privately printed in 1916.

As it is written in his semi-autobiographical collection of short stories " Cerita Dari Blora ", his name was originally Pramoedya Ananta Mastoer.

Tono-Bungay is a realist semi-autobiographical novel written by H. G. Wells and published in 1909.

The Broken Hearts Club was written by Greg Berlanti about his own circle of friends at the time ; the Howie / Marshall storyline is semi-autobiographical to a relationship Berlanti once had.

Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain.

So Long a Letter ( translated from Une si longue lettre ) is a semi-autobiographical novel originally written in French by the Senegalese writer Mariama Bâ.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Dai Sijie, and published in 2000 in French and in English in 2001.

Blinko has written a fictionalised semi-autobiographical novel with horror elements, entitled The Primal Screamer.

Mayrig ( Mother ) is a 1991 semi-autobiographical film written and directed by French-Armenian filmmaker Henri Verneuil.

Desolation Angels, published in 1965, yet written years earlier around the time On the Road was in the process of publication, is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, which makes up part of his Duluoz Legend.

Johnno is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Australian author David Malouf and was first published in 1975.

America Is in the Heart, sometimes subtitled A Personal History, is a 1946 semi-autobiographical novel written by Filipino American immigrant poet, fiction writer, short story teller, and activist, Carlos Bulosan.