Movies and TvShows featuring "personal-narrative" theme.

In a small Southern town during the Great Depression, a young orphan named Collin is taken in by two eccentric spinsters. Together, they form an unlikely family and embark on a series of adventurous and heartwarming experiences. As Collin discovers the power of love, friendship, and individuality, he learns to navigate the ups and downs of life in a close-knit community.

Maria by Callas is a biographical documentary that explores the life of legendary opera singer Maria Callas. With rare footage, interviews, and performances, the film provides an intimate portrait of one of the greatest voices in the history of opera.

A compilation of an independent Asian American Artist, Ethan Trinh, and all of his 11 short films.

Coming back during Winter, Alex Powell explores both the places and personal connections found in his hometown and how they've changed. “Guide to a Midwest Hometown” explores what makes the barren places at home feel sentimental and special, and the good and bad feelings that come when being back home. Inspired by "How To With John Wilson".

Award-winning French writer Christine Angot goes on a business trip to Strasbourg where her father lived before dying several years ago. It is the city where she met him for the first time at the age of 13, and where he sexually abused her over the following years. His wife and children still live there. Angot takes a camera and knocks on the doors of her family to push them to clarify their attitudes to her father’s crime that stretched over so many years. A cinematographic journey that challenges social norms and family perspectives in dealing with incest.

In The Steel Trap, a bank executive named Jim Osborne plans a meticulously detailed bank heist in order to escape his unsatisfying life. As he carries out the plan, he faces numerous challenges and unexpected obstacles, leading to a thrilling race against time. Will Jim be able to pull off the robbery and achieve his desired freedom, or will his carefully crafted plan crumble?

Giulia, a correctional officer, finds herself falling in love with a mysterious woman while dealing with the complexities of her husband-wife relationship.

Midnight Traveler is a documentary that follows an Afghan family's harrowing journey as they flee their home country and seek asylum in Europe. The film captures the family's struggles, fears, and hopes as they navigate through dangerous terrains and encounter various obstacles on their way.

Little White Lie is a personal documentary about Lacey Schwartz, a woman who grows up believing she is white, only to discover her African-American heritage and confront the lies her family has told her. Through interviews and personal narrative, Schwartz explores themes of race, family secrets, and personal identity.

In 'The Self-Made Man,' a father shares his personal narrative of grappling with the idea of assisted suicide after the death of his loved one. This thought-provoking documentary explores the complexities surrounding this controversial topic and sheds light on the emotional journey of the self-made man.

Khtobtogone begins as a love story between protagonist Zine and the girl of his dreams, Bulma. But in introspective narration, Zine reflects more broadly on masculinity and coming of age in Marseille’s Maghrebi community.

In Swole I continue to document my commitment to an intensive and transformative gym and diet regimen, as well as the communities that form around such activities, sustaining themselves through texting and sharing videos and photos on social media. I learn the vocabulary of my new community.

In search of the archival, Carmen-Sibha Keiso re­-imagines theatre and film through personal narrative in her conceptual debut: Love & Fascism In The 21st Century. "... if Rappaport was in an art school." - Ferran Pla

The recollections of a shattered and traumatised man, a former escapee from the advancing Japanese army relates the horrors of war, his doubts and misgivings of the support of comrades, his fear for the loss of his best friend, and of course, his own fear of dying. "Journey to the End of Night" is the diary of a soldier. Although it was filmed forty years after the event, it is a timeless universal testimony because of its power and emotion. It is the voice of an individual raised against the violence, the horror and the futility of war. The film raises one question which continues to haunt us: a soldier is trained to kill, but not to commit murder. Who can draw the line?

Edgar is here for the last time to rant about social media and how it pours out the evilness for everyone in the world.

Edgar returns for a second time to discuss his problems with social media, soon finding something help him with that dilemma.