Movies and TvShows featuring "telling-life-story" theme.

Based on the book by the best-selling author of Wonder, this uplifting movie shows how one act of kindness can live on forever.

As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining papers, but Souleymane is not ready.

The life story of a treasure hunter who lives in the countryside of Gunma in Japan. He is pure and kind, but has no communication skills and has a mind of his own. His sole friend is his co-worker. This man has never had sex. The friends find a robot one day. The robot wants to stay with the men. A bond is formed. The men resolve to change their lives.

In 'Memory Box,' a Lebanese immigrant living in Quebec, Canada, discovers a memory box filled with cassette tapes, old photographs, and a diary, which leads her to uncover repressed memories from her past. As she listens to the recorded voices and reads the diary, she revisits her painful memories, including the death of her brother and the bombing of her city during the Lebanese civil war. The story explores themes of love, loss, and the fear of death, as well as the power of memories in shaping one's identity.

Come Live with Me is a romantic comedy set in New York City. An aspiring writer, Bill Smith, falls in love with a beautiful Austrian woman, Johnny Jones. To avoid deportation, Johnny proposes a marriage of convenience to Bill. They start a journey together, facing various obstacles in their relationship. Will their love survive?

Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. Under the care of the salacious Domenico the visitors of a small cemetery recount how they arrived at eternal peace.

An author, who made a career by examining her own trauma sits down to interview her nephew for a new book about his history as a gender-nonconforming model and pansexual poster boy. Each of them reveal much more than expected and confront some of their most deeply hidden secrets.

Three Crowns of the Sailor is a 1983 movie that follows a sailor who tells the story of his life while on a ship. The story includes elements such as ghost ships, drunken sailors, doll collections, and sea voyages. Set in various locations such as Tampico, Mexico, Singapore, and Dakar, the sailor recounts his experiences, including encounters with the supernatural and the debts he owes.

Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small windfall. So the proprietor orders slightly rough around the edges Maud and Mollie, two of his American good time girls working their way around the world, to get him to spend all his money while there. As Donald ends up telling the two good time girls his life story - most specifically about the blonde he let slip through his fingers, she who was the love of his life - a few revelations and the errant coin he left at the roulette wheel betting table change his life.

Two film enthusiasts who work for a boutique distribution company called Flicker & Fade meet Vince Miller, the elusive writer/director of 1979's The Easter Sunday Massacre, who, along with his film, hasn't been seen in over 40 years.

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