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Henning Carlsen Director

Per Oscarsson as Pontus

Carl Ottosen as Sailor

Frimann Falck Clausen as (uncredited)

Gunnel Lindblom as Ylajali

In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.

The Love Letter

1998

7.2

♡ 8

78%

Dan Curtis Director

David Foster as Conductor

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Elizabeth Whitcomb

David Dukes as Everett Reagle

Campbell Scott as Scott Corrigan

20th century computer games designer Scott, Civil War buff, buys an antique desk from that era and, while polishing it, he discovers a secret compartment in which sits an unmailed letter--a letter written by a young poet named Lizzie over a century earlier. Touched by her yearning for passion, he writes her back, egged on by his mystically inclined mother. Magically, his letter reaches Lizzie and they begin a correspondence that threatens Scott's impending marriage but promises to bring fulfilment to Lizzie. Spanning the Civil War to the present, the perils of Lizzie's war-torn situation threaten her safe passage into the future. Will their love endure the test of time?

Gentlemen Broncos

2009

6.2

♡ 6

20%

Jared Hess Director

Michael Angarano as Benjamin

Sam Rockwell as Bronco / Brutus

Jennifer Coolidge as Judith

John Pleshette as Merve

A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.

Sylvia

2003

6.3

♡ 10

37%

Christine Jeffs Director

Jared Harris as Al Alvarez

Julian Firth as James Michie

Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath

Daniel Craig as Ted Hughes

Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

Flannery

2019

7.3

♡ 3

74%

documentary filmmaking

Mark Bosco Director

Mary Steenburgen as Flannery

Conan O'Brien as Self

Tommy Lee Jones as Self

Brad Dourif as Self

Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, newly discovered journals, and interviews with Mary Karr, Tommy Lee Jones, Hilton Als, and more.

Housewife

1934

6.1

♡ 3

11%

Alfred E. Green Director

Bill Elliott as Clerk

Bette Davis as Patricia Berkeley

John T. Murray as Salesman

Harrison Greene as Sambo

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986

7.8

♡ 37

92%

Woody Allen Director

Daniel Stern as Dusty

Michael Caine as Elliot

Dianne Wiest as Holly

Christian Clemenson as Larry

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

Baghead

2008

6.0

♡ 12

79%

Mark Duplass Director

Elise Muller as Catherine

Steve Zissis as Chad

David Zellner as Festivalgoer

Greta Gerwig as Michelle

Four actors go to a cabin in the woods to write, direct, and act in a film that will jump-start their careers. Their idea is a horror film about a man with a bag over his head, but what happens when that man mysteriously shows up?

Stuck in Love.

2012

parent child relationship

7.2

♡ 88

Romance

thanksgiving

writing

Josh Boone Director

Jennifer Connelly as Erica

Glen Powell as Good Looking Frat Guy

Logan Lerman as Louis

Kristen Bell as Tricia

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 year.

The Brontë Sisters

1979

French

6.5

♡ 4

André Téchiné Director

Peter Martin as

Isabelle Huppert as Anne Brontë

Marie-France Pisier as Charlotte Brontë

Isabelle Adjani as Emily Brontë

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.

An Old Fashioned Christmas

2010

5.9

♡ 4

Don McBrearty Director

Leon Ockenden as Cameron

Jacqueline Bisset as Isabella

Ian McElhinney as Sean

Catherine Steadman as Tilly

Isabella takes her granddaughter to Ireland to stay with a famous family friend for the holidays, only to discover that the best Christmases are simply spent with each other.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2007

French

8.0

♡ 30

94%

92%

Julian Schnabel Director

Michael Wincott as Fashion Photographer

Marie-Josée Croze as Henriette Roi

Mathieu Amalric as Jean-Do

Max von Sydow as Papinou

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.

Submission

2017

5.7

♡ 17

51%

50%

teacher student relationship

writing

Richard Levine Director

Addison Timlin as Angela Argo

Alison Bartlett as Angela's Mother

Peter Gallagher as Len, the agent

Stanley Tucci as Ted Swenson

A well-respected professor who is a celebrated novelist and loving husband loses himself when he becomes obsessed with an ambitious and talented student.

All Tied Up

1993

4.5

♡ 5

18%

John Mark Robinson Director

Melora Walters as Bliss

Viviane Vives as Carmen

Teri Hatcher as Linda Alissio

Abel Folk as Max

Brian Hartley has finally found the girl of his dreams in Linda. Unfortunately, he can't convince her or himself that it's really true. When she catches him with another woman, she finally decides she's had enough and vows to never see him again. Frenzied from the loss, Brian breaks into her house to try to talk her into seeing him again, but Linda and her roommates Kim and Sharon instead bind him to the bed.

Naked Lunch

1991

6.9

♡ 35

73%

77%

David Cronenberg Director

Peter Weller as Bill Lee

Nicholas Campbell as Hank

Ian Holm as Tom Frost

Julian Sands as Yves Cloquet

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.

Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll

2019

Japanese

7.5

♡ 30

Animation

Naoko Yamada Director

Takehito Koyasu as Claudia Hodgins

Azusa Tadokoro as Luculia Marlborough

Kira Buckland as Luculia Marlborough

Erika Harlacher as Violet Evergarden

Violet Evergarden comes to a private women's academy to tutor Isabella in the ways of being a lady. Heir to the York family, Isabella feels trapped in this new and uncomfortable world. She still grieves for the only person to ever bring her happiness – now lost to her. Violet's lessons do give her a brief respite from the melancholy but with the absence of joy, how long does it take to truly heal?

The Secret in Their Eyes

2009

Spanish

8.2

♡ 111

89%

Juan José Campanella Director

Ricardo Darín as Benjamín Esposito

Javier Godino as Isidoro Gómez

Carla Quevedo as Liliana Coloto

Guillermo Francella as Pablo Sandoval

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.

Best Friends

1982