Movies and TvShows featuring "based-on-diary" theme.

The Story of Adele H. is a biographical drama set in the 1860s, based on the true story of Adele Hugo, daughter of renowned French writer Victor Hugo. Adele becomes infatuated with a British officer and follows him to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her unrequited love and obsession drive her to insanity, leading to her being committed to an asylum.

The Orphanage is a powerful movie that takes place in Kabul, Afghanistan during the 1980s. It tells the story of a teenage boy who lives in an orphanage and faces various challenges in this war-torn country. As he navigates through the difficulties of life and the brutalities of war, he discovers the true meaning of friendship, love, and sacrifice.

During World War II, a young Jewish girl named Anne Frank goes into hiding with her family in Amsterdam to escape from the Nazis. She writes about her experiences in her diary, recounting the struggles and fears they face while living in constant fear of being discovered. The story is a powerful testament to the human spirit and the resilience of those who survived the Holocaust.

A fantasy biography of Franz Kafka, bringing to life the writer's diaries and photographs.

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

In rural Afghanistan, people are storytellers who make up and tell each other tales of mystery and imagination to explain the world in which they live. The shepherd children own the mountains and, although no adults are around, they know the rules; they know that boys and girls are not allowed to be together. The boys practice with their slings to fight wolves. The girls smoke secretly and play at getting married, dreaming of finding a husband soon. They gossip about Sediqa; she’s eleven years old and an outsider. The girls think she is cursed. Qodrat, also eleven years old, becomes the subject of gossip when his mother remarries an old man with two wives. Qodrat roams alone in the most isolated parts of the mountains, where he meets Sediqa and they become friends.

The Key for Determining Dwarfs or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver is a biographical drama that follows the life of a struggling writer and filmmaker in Czechoslovakia during the 1960s. The movie explores themes of communism, Czech history, and the challenges faced by artists in a repressive political regime.

During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic above the office. The film tells the true story of Gies' struggle to keep the family hidden and safe, as the Nazis turn Amsterdam upside-down. Based upon Gies' memoirs and Anne Frank's famous diary.

Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.

In 1942, Christian writer Jochen Klepper lived with his Jewish wife and daughter in Berlin, Germany. Their applications to emigrate got rejected and they became part of the last and sad defense of the Jewish-Christian community.

War and Peace of Mind explores what war does to the human mind and how both, the individuals and the nation as a whole, survive it psychologically. Finland and WWII, locally known as continuation war, is the backdrop of this documentary.