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Sex and Lucia (2002)
A Madrid waitress, Lucia (Paz Vega), is mourning the loss of her boyfriend Lorenzo (Tristan Ulloa), who passed away mysteriously. Unable to come to terms with...
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010)
"Diary of A Wimpy Kid" follows the travails of wise-cracking middle school student Greg Heffley over the course of an academic year. ...
Pola X (1999)
Pierre, a young man of privilege, whose anonymously-published novel is a hit and who's about to marry his blond cousin, Lucie, abandons all when a dark-haired v...
Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)
Mr. Big and Carrie buy a magnificent penthouse in Manhattan and they decide to get married. Enid Frick invites Carrie to take pictures for a special edition of...
1408 (2007)
Based on the short Stephen King horror story of the same name, 1408 is about supernatural writer Mike Enslin, an author of two successful books on supernatural...
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Struggling writer Paul Varjak moves into a New York apartment building and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly's lifestyle ...
Brown Sugar (2002)
Sidney is a writer who's just left her L.A. Times music review gig to edit New York hip-hop magazine XXL. Dre is an executive with a hip-hop record company bas...
Limitless (2011)
A copywriter discovers a top-secret drug which bestows him with super human abilities. As his usage begins to change his life, he begins to consider the drug's ...
Swimming Pool (2003)
Sarah Morton is a famous British mystery author. Tired of London and seeking inspiration for her new novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher John Bosloa...
Closer (2004)
In London, the new arrival Alice Ayres meets the mediocre obituary journalist Daniel and they move together. Dan writes a book, inspired in the life of Alice, ...
The Help (2011)
Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' l...
Salem's Lot (1979)
Young novelist returning home to Salem's Lot after many years is disturbed by the strange behaviour of its people. He begins to believe that the source of the ...
After Sex (1997)
Diane, a Parisian of 50, a book editor married with two teen children, has an affair with a twenty-something engineer. He's Emilio, the flat-mate of François, a...
Stand by Me (1986)
4 young friends set out on an adventure. Geordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern go looking for the missing body of a local teenager - found by a gang of older boys. A ...
Before Sunset (2004)
When Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) met on a Eurail train, the connection between them was immediate and profound. The 14-hour relationship that f...
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Frances Mayes is a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal write...
Redwoods (2009)
An unfulfilled gay man in a stagnant relationship finds his life changed forever when he meets a struggling writer visiting the Redwoods Country.
Becoming Jane (2007)
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Strictly Sexual (2008)
In Los Angeles, the wealthy aspirant writer Donna and her best friend (also aspirant designer) Christi Ann are bored of relationships and decide to chase two e...
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years....
The Best Man Holiday (2013)
When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they will discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be ...
Sotto falso nome (2004)
A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.
Another Way (1982)
The clash of sexuality and politics provide the basis for this tragic love story set in Hungary, 1958. In the offices of magazine The Truth, two female journa...
Lolita (1962)
Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial LOLITA is a wicked satire of sexual obsession, sadomasochism, and fetishism. When mild-mannered...
Johnny Does Paris (1979)
A writer begins a dangerous, doomed-from-the-start affair with the boyfriend of a lustful socialite and photographer whom she is writing the biography of.
Ils - Them (2006)
The teacher of the French School in Bucharest Clémentine lives with her husband, the writer Lucas, in a remote real estate in Snagow. Along the night, Clémentin...
The Ring Two (2005)
Six months after encountering Samara and her killer video tape, Rachel Keller and her son Aiden leave the city to live in a small rural town where they think th...
On the Road (2012)
Young writer Sal Paradise has his life shaken by the arrival of free-spirited Dean Moriarty and his girl, Marylou. As they travel across the country, they encou...
Delta of Venus (1995)
An American writer in Paris starts writing erotic fiction. From encouragement from her friends, her lover, and her publisher she gets involved in nude modeling ...
Little Ashes (2009)
In 1922, Madrid is wavering on the edge of change as traditional values are challenged by the dangerous new influences of Jazz, Freud and the avant-garde. Salv...
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live in Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust....
Lying to Be Perfect (2010)
Based on Sarah Strohmeyer's novel "The Cinderella Pact", the movie centers on Nola Devlin who makes a pact with her two best friends to lose weight
Sinister (2012)
Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put hi...
The Lost City (2022)
A reclusive romance novelist on a book tour with her cover model gets swept up in a kidnapping attempt that lands them both in a cutthroat jungle adventure.
Duplex (2003)
A young couple has a chance to move into a gorgeous duplex in the perfect New York neighborhood. All they have to do is bump off the current tenant, a cute litt...
Stuck in love (2012)
An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous yea...
Martian Child (2007)
What's the nature of being a parent and of being a child? David is a widower grieving for two years. He writes science fiction and was considered weird as a bo...
Borstal Boy (2000)
Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old republican, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when...
Finding Neverland (2004)
Set in London in 1904, the film follows playwright J.M. Barrie's journey to bring Peter Pan to life, from his first inspiration for the story ...
La dolce vita (1961)
Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domestic...
Shattered Glass (2003)
SHATTERED GLASS recounts the rise and fall of Stephen Glass, the real-life journalist who ruined his career by writing fictional articles for The New Republic...
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Three witchy New England women innocently conjure up the perfect man (Jack Nicholson), who is much more than he seems.
Death on the Nile (1978)
Almost everyone on the S.S.Karnak, cruising the Nile, has a reason to want heiress Linnet Ridgeway dead. Her jewels are coveted by elderly Mrs. van Schuyler, h...
Secret Window (2004)
Mort Rainey, a successful author, is passing through a hard period in his life. After catching his wife sleeping with another man, they separate and he moves a...
The Ghost Writer (2010)
An unremarkable ghost-writer has landed a lucrative contract to redact the memoirs of Adam Lang, the former UK Prime Minister. After dominating British politics...
Tamara Drewe (2010)
A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale
Naked Lunch (1992)
Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burrough's novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with e...
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
A novelist (Emma Thompson) struggles to complete her latest, and potentially finest, book ??? she only has to find a way to kill off her main ...
The Break-Up (2006)
The Break-Up starts where most romantic comedies end: after boy and girl have met, fallen in love, moved in to start their happily-ever-after......
Conversations with God (2007)
"Conversations with God" tells the true story of Neale Donald Walsch that inspired and changed the lives of millions worldwide. The journey begins after he une...
Anything Else (2004)
In medias res: narrator Jerry Falk, a fledgling comedy writer with an inept agent, is about to celebrate an anniversary with his girlfriend Amanda. There's tro...
Alex & Emma (2003)
ALEX AND EMMA is the perfect date movie, courtesy of veteran comedy director Rob Reiner (THE PRINCESS BRIDE). Luke Wilson plays Alex, a struggling writer who ...
In the Land of Women (2007)
Carter Webb, a young soft-core porn writer living in California, has just broken up with by his actress girlfriend. He decides to take a time out and visit his...
Puccini for Beginners (2007)
Allegra, an opera-loving writer in New York, eschews commitment, so her girlfriend, Samantha, leaves her. Allegra misses Sam, and resents the accusation that sh...
The Stepford Wives (2004)
Joanna Eberhart is a successful TV producer on the verge of yet another Emmy-winning streak of TV shows when she is fired from her job at a prestigious network...
Deadline (2009) (2009)
Alice, 32, a writer recovering from a psychological breakdown retreats to a remote Victorian house to convalesce and focus on finishing her screenplay in time f...
Moonlight Mile (2002)
A young man lingers in the family home of his fiancee, after her accidental death. While grieving along with her parents and drawn into legal issues presented ...
Snow Cake (2006)
Alex Hughes, an ex-convict, is on a road trip to Winnipeg to see an old friend. Along the way, he meets the annoying, but vivacious, Vivienne Freeman who manage...
The Third Man (1949)
Visiting postwar Vienna, Austria, a pulp writer (Joseph Cotten) probes the death of a shady friend (Orson Welles) .
Breakin' All the Rules (2004)
Qunicy Watson, after being unceremoniously dumped by his fianc?e, pens a "how to" book on breaking up and becomes a best-selling author on the subject. Not wan...
Bamboozled (2001)
Dark, biting satire of the television industry, focusing on an Ivy-League educated black writer at a major network. Frustrated that his ideas for a "Cosby Show...
House (1986) (1986)
Roger Cobb is a Vietnam vet. Whose career as a horror novelist has taken a turn for the worse when his son Jimmy mysteriously disappears while visiting his aunt...
Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996)
Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram,...
Suburban Girl (2007)
Based on stories from the bestselling book The Girls' Guide To Hunting And Fishing, Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Grudge) stars in this f...
Twixt (2011)
A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a...
The Human Stain (2003)
The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England tow...
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Director Dario Argento's debut feature film was a huge success all over the world and served to codify the classic giallo thriller formula lik...
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a de...
The Words (2012)
Layered romantic drama The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great Americ...
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice decides to murder his wife for her money and because she had an affair the year before. He blackmails an old college associate to st...
Vaastu Shastra (2004)
When the Rao family move into their new bungalow, they soon realise that their home is not as perfect as they first thought. Indeed, their new home is still i...
Rich and Famous (1981)
Liz and Merry Noel become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected "serious" novelist. Merry Noel marri...
Russian Dolls (2005)
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
During a Thanksgiving Day party we make aquaintance with a numerous and problematic family. The leading characters are three sisters: Lee, the woman of Frederi...
Beautiful Boy (2010)
Their already strained marriage is tested as they realize all they have left with each other is their shared grief and confusion
Clara's Heart (1988)
David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to ...
The Marsh (2007)
The successful children's writer Claire Holloway is troubled by scary nightmares and is under psychological treatment. While working out watching television, sh...
Sexo con amor (2003)
In Santiago, Chile, the schoolteacher Luisa proposes a debate about sex with the parents of her students with the intention of giving classes about sex educatio...
Time After Time (1979)
H.G Wells' famous time machine transports its youthful inventor and Jack The Ripper, to modern day San Francisco. The legendary butcher of prostitutes quickly...
The Answer Man (2009)
Everyone wants to meet Arlen Faber, the world famous author of the best-selling spiritual book "Me and God", but crotchety, disgruntled Arlen simply wants to be...
Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara (2005)
Professor Uttam Chaudhary is a retired Hindi teacher who lives with his daughter and young son in the city of Mumbai. He is suffering from what is laughingly ...
Beloved Sisters (2014)
The aristocratic sisters Charlotte and Caroline both fall in love with the controversial young writer and hothead Friedrich Schiller. Defying the conventions of...
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
A magazine writer (Gregory Peck) poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
Shortcut to Happiness (2007)
In Manhattan, the aspirant writer Jabez Stone is a complete loser: he is not able to sell his novels, he lives in a lousy apartment and he does not have success...
The Banger Sisters (2002)
In Los Angeles, when the bartender Suzette is fired from the club where she works, she decides to travel to Phoenix and visit her friend and also former groupi...
Permanent Midnight (1998)
Comedy writer Jerry Stahl, whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant daughter along on his drug runs and doing smack during TV script conference...
Capturing Mary (2007)
A young man ushers an older woman into a dark exploration of her past - back to the time when, as a young girl, she met a stranger who affected her life forever...
The Majestic (2001)
Peter Appleton is an ambitious young screenwriter working for HHS Studios during Hollywood's Golden Age, 1951 in particular. "Ashes to Ashes" is about to be rel...
Half Light (2006)
Rachel Carlson, a successful novelist moves to a small Scottish village to move on with her life after the death of her son. Strange things start to happen when...
The L-Shaped Room (1962)
A woman faces life in a shabby, suburban bed-sit after being jilted and left pregnant. Sharing her desperation with an assortment of neighbours, they help her...
Mansfield Park (2000)
Sent to live with relatives by her impoverished parents, a girl grows up, becomes a writer and falls in love.
Croupier (1998)
Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer going nowhere fast. To make ends meet, and against his better judgement, he takes a job as a croupier. He finds himself drawn...
The Love Garden (1971)
Mike, a freelance journalist, falls head over heels for Claire, a pretty blonde who lives in his apartment building. His bubble is instantly burst when he disco...
Black Ribbon (2007)
Black Ribbon revolves around the life of prominent writer Ken Richardson, who decides to move to the country with his wife Beth in order to live in a serene en...
The Sea Wolf (1941)
Humphrey van Weyden, a writer, and fugitives Ruth Webster and George Leach have been given refuge aboard the sealer "Ghost," captained by the cruel Wolf Larsen...
Portrait of a Marriage (1990)
Melodrama detailing the real-life love affair between feminist writer Vita Sackville-West and novelist Violet Keppel against the backdrop of post-World War I En...
The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972)
Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his f...
The Squid and the Whale (2006)
The patriarch (Jeff Daniels) of an eccentric Brooklyn family claims to once have been a great novelist, but he has settled into a teaching job. When his wife (...
Black Butterfly (2017)
Outside a mountain town grappling with a series of abductions and murders, Paul (Antonio Banderas), a reclusive writer, struggles to start what he hopes will be...
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (2010)
Jesse (Alyssa Milano, Charmed) is a sassy, intelligent woman who has yet to find "Mr. Right"until she bumps into Ethan (Christopher Gorham...
It Came from Outer Space (1953)
It Came From Outer Space is one of a handful of science fiction films from the 1950s that plays as well today as it did on its original release, this despite ...
As Good as It Gets (1997)
New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized...
Suffering Man's Charity (2007)
Jonathan Vandermark, is a music teacher with a weakness for young men with great aspirations and without a penny to his name. When one man, Sebastian enters h...
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...
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
Sidney Young is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamor. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review...
Happythankyoumoreplease (2010)
Six New Yorkers juggle love, friendship, and the keenly challenging specter of adulthood. Sam Wexler is a struggling writer who's having a particularly bad day....
Barton Fink (1992)
Barton Fink is a troubled New York playwright obsessed with bringing his new idea of "Theater of the Common Man" to the producers he loves to hate. After his f...
In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that reall...
Shabd (2005)
The marriage of writer Shaukat is placed in jeopardy when his wife Antara meets Yash. In an effort to inspire his next novel, however, Shaukat encourages Anta...
California Split (1974)
Bill Denny and Charlie Waters meet when they are both on the same end of a fellow gambler's wrath at a Southern California gambling club. Bill is a casual gamb...
Losing Control (1998)
Kim is suffering from writer's block. A chance encounter with a handsome stranger opens her to a world of risky sexual experimentation. However, she becomes wor...
Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
A young kid from Kansas moves to New York to work on a magazine. He gets caught up in the world of drink and drugs, and starts a steady decline. The only hope i...
Penthouse (2010)
Three lifelong friends inhabiting a penthouse apartment find themselves at odds when one of them attempts to move in with his girlfriend and another's litt...
Sleep with Me (1995)
A romantic comedy tale revolving around a circle of friends whose lives are studied through a series of social gatherings.
I Remember Mama (1948)
Irene Dunne stars in this nostalgic picture directed by George Stevens as the mother anyone would love. Chronicled by her aspiring-writer daughter (Barbara Be...
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
A mystery writer named Leyden is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He...
Hush (2016)
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
Game of Werewolves (2011)
After 15 years, Tomas, a not very succesfull writer, comes back to the village in Galicia where his family comes from, Arga, apparently to get an award. But he ...
Playing It Cool (2014)
Unrequited love motivates a guy to write about his experiences.
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
Alex is not like other girls. She is a 15-year-old with a secret, one that no other can claim. Her parents keep her hidden away at a coastal town in amongst the...
Delirious (1991) (1991)
Jack is the head writer for a successful soap opera, and he's sweet on the show's star, lovely Laura. It's easy for everyone but Jack to see that she's playing ...
Miss Austen Regrets (2008)
A passionate and emotional story of Jane Austen’s romantic life, inspired by the great writer’s own novels, letters and diaries. As Jane Austen approaches her...
The New Daughter (2009)
A single father moves his two children to rural South Carolina, only to watch his daughter exhibit increasingly strange behavior
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been "on the wagon" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a ...
Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizi...
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Writer Richard Harland meets the stunning and self-assured Ellen Berent on a train and she takes him to meet her family. She sweeps him off his feet with the f...
Look Both Ways (2005)
Opening with one man being hit by a train whilst another is diagnosed with testicular cancer, you'd be surprised to find that what follows is actually a love ...
Ma femme est une actrice (2001)
A "normal" guy who is married to a hot actress gets worried that she is involved with her costar. This worry turns into jealousy and causes problems in their re...
Before Midnight (2013)
We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
Inju: The Beast in the Shadow (2008)
The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer Shundei Oe,...
The Lonely Guy (1984)
When shy Larry Hubbard finds his girlfriend in bed with another man he is forced to begin a new life as single. But since he can't bear being on his own he trie...
The Tomb (2009)
Successful writer and scholar Jonathan Merrick falls under the spell of the irresistible, bewitchingly beautiful Ligeia. She's fighting a fatal illness and she ...
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
This film is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton. In his teens, Orton is befriended by the older, more reserved...
The Best Bar in America (2014)
A whiskey-fuel writing assignment takes one man on an epic motorcycle road trip through the bars and taverns of the American West. Sanders is a down-on-his-luck...
Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
When Stuart Shorter - a homeless alcoholic with a violent past - meets writer and charity worker Alexander Masters, they strike up an unlikely friendship. As Al...
The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
In this sophisticated saga, Andy Garcia (who also produced) plays a struggling author who reluctantly (at first) takes a job as a high-priced male escort to s...
Top Model (1988)
Gloria works as a top nude model and prostitute, but she has a secret. In reality she is writer and social critic Sarah Asproon researching her new book. Peter ...
Carnage (2011)
All kids get into fights, but not all parents are willing to take things to the next level. When Zachary hits someone in the face with a stick, they bring his p...
Closet Land (1991)
A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes...
The TV Set (2006)
A television network is making a pilot of Mike's quirky comedy based on the aftermath of his brother's suicide. As the network suits ask for change after change...
The City of Your Final Destination (2009)
28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to thre...
Untitled Ernest Hemingway Project (2012)
A drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and WWII correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls and the onl...
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Darius is a young intern at a Seattle-based magazine and jumps at the chance to investigate the author of a classified ad seeking someone to travel back in time...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
A correspondence begins between Juliet Ashton and members of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, with them sharing their experiences of Nazi Occu...
The Dog Problem (2006)
In Los Angeles, a depressed writer named Solo has writer's block after a successful first book of which he's ashamed, and he's broke, thanks to a year in class...
The Clink Of Ice (2010)
Here is yet anther romantic yet confrontational movie. Charles Faulque an alcoholic writer is forced to confront morality and attempts to out wit it. His addict...
The Principles of Lust (2003)
Crippled by his writer's block, Paul enters into a new, exciting relationship with risk-taking Billy and super-sexy Juliette. As it becomes increasingly tangled...
Big Driver (2014)
A famous mystery writer sets out for revenge after a brutal attack.
Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, A (2006)
Dito, a writer in L.A., goes home to Astoria, Queens, after a 15-year absence when his mother calls to say his father's ill. In a series of flashbacks we see th...
Chinese Coffee (2000)
When Harry Levine, an aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, ostensibly ...
Midnight in Paris (2011)
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
Wake Up Sid (2009)
A spoiled young adult living in Mumbai experiences a change in his lazy ways when he meets a woman at a party, who inspires him to "wake up".
Tetro (2009)
When teenage Bennie (Alden Ehrenreich) arrives in Argentina to look for his long-estranged brother, Tetro (Vincent Gallo), he finds not the id...
Kiss of the Damned (2012)
The vampire Djuna resists the advances of Paolo, but soon gives in to their passion. When her trouble-making sister unexpectedly comes to visit, Djuna's love is...
The Uncanny (1977) (1977)
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots...
The Great Beauty (2013)
The story of an aging writer who bitterly recollects his passionate, lost youth. A portrait of today's Rome.
Trading Christmas (2011)
Widow Emily (Faith Ford) calls her BFF Faith (Gabrielle Miller) for sympathy when Emily's daughter Heather won't return to Oregon from college in Boston for Xma...
Parzania (2005)
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An Angel at My Table (1991)
Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the other kids. She gets an education as...
Different for Girls (1996)
Karl Foyle and Paul Prentice were best mates at school in the Seventies. But when they meet again in present-day London things are definitely not the same. Karl...
Fixing Pete (2011)
fashion writer Alexis Boyd who is given the extreme makeover assignment of turning messy, chauvinistic, sports journalist Pete Mallion (Dylan Bruno) into a suav...
The Great Sinner (1949)
A young writer goes to Monte Carlo to write about gambling and gamblers, only to ultimately become a compulsive gambler himself. Losing all his wealth, as well ...
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.
Prem Sutra (1974)
Writer Sagar Sharma is in love with a much younger woman named Barkha. When Sagar meets his ex-wife, Neelima, she tells him that Barkha is her daughter. Perturb...
Alexis Zorbas (1964)
An aimless Englishman finds he has a small inheritance on a Greek island. His joyless existence is disturbed when he meets Zorba, a middle aged Greek with a re...
The Owl and the Pussycat (1970)
Can a bickering odd couple in Manhattan become friends and maybe more? Owlish Felix is an unpublished writer who vents his frustration by reporting to the super...
Bonsái (2011)
A young writer recounts an earlier romance in hopes of attracting his new love interest.
Murder in Three Acts (1986)
Hercule Poirot's assistant, Hastings, calls him down to Acapulco in Mexico where he can write his memoirs but Hastings drags him to a party populated with Hast...
The Wife (2017)
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Extra Man (2010)
A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.
Seizure (1974)
Jonathan Frid portrays a horror novelist who has a recurring nightmare about three figures out of his book who terrorize him and his family and friends during a...
I Hate Blondes (1980)
She was depraved, debauched, lying, conniving, cheating, scheming, lewd, shrewd... Everything he ever wanted in a woman!
Some Girls (2013)
Based on his play by the same name, Neil LaBute's script follows a successful writer who, on the eve of his wedding, travels across the country to meet up with ...
Magnifique, Le (1973)
Francois Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can met in his book. In his book, he is Bob Saint Clar, his neighbour Chri...
The Hoax (2006)
Early in 1971, McGraw-Hill passes on Clifford Irving's new novel. He's desperate for money, so, against the backdrop of Nixon's reelection calculations, Irving...
Fathers and Daughters (2015)
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connec...
A Girl Cut in Two (2007)
A black comedy centered around a TV weather girl and the two very different men who pursue her.
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...
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...
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