Movies (55) tagged by 'Screenwriter'
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The Invention of Lying (2009)
In an alternate reality, lying -- even the concept of a lie -- does not even exist. Everyone -- from politicians to advertisers to the man and woman on the stre...
The Player (1992)
Griffin Mill is a studio executive who is responsible for accepting or rejecting the pitches for potential feature films. With his career on the line and the i...
Adaptation. (2002)
Frequently cynical screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has just taken on a new assignment. That is, to adapt writer Susan Orlean's "The Orchid Thief" into a screenplay...
Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
Richard Quine directs George Axelrod's acerbic script (adapted from Julien Duvivier's La F?te ? Henriette) in this romantic comedy that reunites William Holde...
The Muse (1999)
What happens when a screenwriter (Brooks) loses his edge, he turns to anyone he can for help... even if it's the mythical "Zeus's Daughter" (Stone). And he's wi...
Trapped Ashes (2006)
Seven strangers on a Hollywood movie studio tour are trapped inside an infamous House of Horror and forced to tell their most terrifying stories to get out aliv...
Shadow of the Vampire (2001)
Shadow of the Vampire is a film about the making of a German all time classic silent horror-movie from 1922 called Nosferatu-Eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosfer...
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
The comedy Seven Psychopaths follows a struggling screenwriter ('Colin Farrell' ) who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld aft...
Cabin By The Lake (2000)
A screenwriter does research for his new script by actually kidnapping and drowning young girls. He then places them in his "garden" of other dead girls coming...
The Dying Gaul (2005)
Based on the play by director Craig Lucas. A gay writer (Peter Sarsgaard) attempts to sell a script about the death of his male lover who died...
Slipstream (2008)
An aging man, Felix Bonhoeffer (Anthony Hopkins), finds that the characters in a murder mystery, which he is writing as a screenplay, are inva...
I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery ...
Messages Deleted (2009)
A screenwriting teacher is forced to live out the plot of a screenplay idea he stole from a student, who now seeks revenge.
In a Lonely Place (1950)
A bungalow neighbor alibis a boozing Hollywood screenwriter accused of murder. Directed by Nicholas Ray.
Trumbo (2015)
In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs.
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.
Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008)
Harlan Ellison may be the greatest “unknown†writer of our times. Like Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut, Ellison’s work was originally shu...
The Secret Village (2013)
Two strangers research a mysterious outbreak of mass hysteria in a small village.
Broken Embraces (2009)
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blan...
A Film with Me in It (2009)
When Mark's brother, landlord and dog are killed in a series of freak accidents, he calls on friend and neighbour Pierce for help. As the series of deaths would...
The Blue Tooth Virgin (2008)
Two writers must face a dilemma that is common to anyone who has ever had an artistic friend: what happens when you have to give feedback, and the news isn't g...
Their Finest (2016)
A former secretary, newly appointed as a scriptwriter for propaganda films, joins the cast and crew of a major production while the Blitz rages around them.
Contempt (1963)
Screenwriter Paul Javal's marriage to his wife Camille disintegrates during movie production as she spends time with the producer. Layered conflicts between art...
Ghosts of Edendale (2003)
A young couple moves into a neighborhood obsessed with the frightening silent movie history that took place 80 years before. As the boyfriend also becomes obse...
The Rewrite (2014)
An Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a college on the East Coast, where he falls for a single mom taking classes there.
El sueño del mono loco (1989)
Dan Gillis, an American screenwriter living in Paris, recently abandoned by his wife, and getting used to his new life as a bachelor while trying to take care o...
The Deal (2008)
A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew's film about 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli, but can only get financing if he casts a w...
Eskimo Nell (1975)
Three young men, a scriptwriter, a producer and a director are called in by Benny U Murdoch, an exotic movie producer. He wants to make a new erotic movie starr...
Straw Dogs (2011)
L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with loca...
Staying Vertical (2016)
A film maker has to raise a child by himself whilst looking for an inspiration for his new film.
Rocket Gibraltar (1988)
An old patriarch unites for his birthday all members of his family. But the group of people is full of personal and social problems.
Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1991)
A murder mystery writer misreads the nervous man he bullies in a spooky Hollywood mansion.
Eine Nacht mit Susanne (1954)
Comedy about a struggling Hollywood scriptwriter (Dick Powell) who, one Christmas Eve, receives a very unexpected present - juvenile delinquant Debbie Reynolds.
The Lonely Lady (1983)
Jerilee Randall, a simple schoolgirl living in the San Fernando Valley, dreams of becoming a famous screenwriter. While at a party, she meets the son of a famou...
The Making of 'Alien³' (2003)
The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaustive detail. Many interviews with the cast and crew give us a...
Laissez-passer (2002)
In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Conti...
Pedestrian (2000)
A comic feature film about an underachieving writer who sets out to write his masterpiece, but is confounded when one of its characters steps into his real life...
Emerald City (1988)
A couple move to Sydney from a small town, and soon become lured by the bright lights of the big city. Colin, the scriptwriter husband, is corrupted by his edit...
Man About Town (2006)
A top Hollywood talent agent finds his cushy existence threatened when he discovers that his wife is cheating on him and that his journal has been swiped by a r...
Evil Eyes (2004)
A screenwriter is plagued by nightmares as he writes a script about a family that was slaughtered years before. Soon, the grisly murders he's writing about star...
Cannes Man (1997)
The Cannes Film Festival. It's where deals get made, producers get laid, and stars get paid. It's where all the movie industry meets to buy and sell all the mov...
Spoiled Children (1977)
Bernard, a famous filmmaker, is married to Catherine, a psychologist who cares for children with autism. In a crisis of creativity, in loss of emotions, he leav...
Mistress (1992)
A comedy about a screenwriter (Robert Wuhl), whose old movie script is read by a producer (Martin Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it se...
Speaking Parts (1989)
A struggling actor's job as a hotel custodian is a front for his real job: being rented out as a gigolo by his supervisor. A co-worker is obsessed with him,...
Pencils Down! The 100 Days of the Writers Guild Strike (2014)
The story of the Writers Guild of America strike of 2007-08 that pitted Hollywood's writers against the major studios.
The Women's Club (1987)
Patrick is a struggling screenwriter who takes a second job as a male prostitute. He is supposed to write by day and do right by his lonely clientele at night, ...
Inside Monkey Zetterland (1992)
An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay.
Déjà Vu (1985)
A writer who believes that he was reincarnated believes that his present fiancée possesses the soul of his fiancée in his previous life, a ballerina.
A Biltmore Christmas (2023)
It follows Lucy as she's hired to write the script for a remake of a holiday movie. She joins a tour of the grounds and when she knocks an hourglass over, ...
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood (2000)
This documentary, first shown on the Turner Classic Movies cable channel, tells of the life and career of screenwriter Frances Marion. By the mid 1920s, she was...
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