Jake Speed

1986

English

4.9

♡ 8

20%

Andrew Lane Director

Ken Lerner as Ken

Monte Markham as Mr. Winston

Sal Viscuso as Newsstand Attendant

John Hurt as Sid

Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves lives on paper, but when a young girl is kidnapped and her sister (Karen Kopins) begs the real-life Speed for help, he must find a way to be as gallant as the book hero whose creation he's inspired. Accompanied by the victim's sibling, Speed flies to Africa to see if he's up to the task.

Mr. Write

2016

English

6.0

♡ 4

Rick Bota Director

Charlotte Sullivan as Dori

Corey Sevier as Michael

Leanne Lapp as Robyn

John Shaw as Zev

When the executives at Heartstrings Press wants to drop Michael Rothchild’s next romance book, junior editor, Dori Shephard, argues her way into working as the lead editor. But Dori’s dream job becomes her nightmare as she realizes Michael isn’t everything she imagined. Dori breaks the news to Michael that the executives think he’s an ill-mannered, washed up novelist and want to terminate his contract. Not wanting to be dropped from Heartstrings Press, Michael agrees to work with Dori for 30 days. While Dori wrestles with Michael’s languorous behavior she’s also in the midst of planning her wedding to her fiancé, Philip. However, things go awry for Dori when work becomes an obstacle in her relationship. Dori must learn what true love really means before it’s too late.

Beloved Infidel

1959

English

6.1

♡ 7

52%

Henry King Director

Ron Nyman as Attendee at Preview

Kenneth Gibson as Attendee at Preview

Gregory Peck as F. Scott Fitzgerald

George Ford as Party Guest

In the late 1930s, Sheilah Graham’s Hollywood column quickly becomes popular for its biting tone. At a party, she meets author F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the two begin a torrid affair. Scott laments that his writing has fallen out of fashion, and when he is fired from his screenwriting position, he begins drinking heavily. Soon his intrusive, volatile behavior threatens their relationship and Sheilah's career.

Good Posture

2019

English

5.7

♡ 14

95%

34%

Action

break-up

brooklyn, new york city

Dolly Wells Director

Emily Mortimer as Julia Price

Condola Rashad as Laura

Martin Amis as Martin Ames

Norbert Leo Butz as Neil

After breaking up with her boyfriend, Lillian moves in with married couple Julia and Don only to overhear them arguing in the night. The front door slams as Don moves out, and the following days sees Lillian, selfish and irresponsible, having to earn her keep by cooking for Julia, a reclusive, distrustful writer who rarely emerges from her room. Though communicating largely through notes, the odd couple gradually forge a bond and help one another to negotiate the foibles, phobias and obstacles that have long hindered their happiness.

Old Acquaintance

1943

English

7.4

♡ 5

77%

Vincent Sherman Director

Frank Mayo as Army Officer

Virginia Patton as College Girl

Bette Davis as Katherine 'Kit' Marlowe

Ann Doran as Music Store Saleslady

Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

Neverwas

2005

English

6.5

♡ 12

14%

Joshua Michael Stern Director

Vera Farmiga as Eleanna

Ian McKellen as Gabriel Finch

Brittany Murphy as Maggie Paige

Aaron Eckhart as Zach Riley

Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, T.L. Pierson, spent many years of his life.

Writer's Block

2019

English

3.5

♡ 1

Jeff Kerr Director

Mike Gassaway as Chester Everett McGraw

Chris Warner as Digger Haskell

Ron Oliveira as News Anchor

Craig Nigh as Skip Larson

A struggling writer accepts a once-in-a-lifetime offer to collaborate with a best-selling novelist at his remote Texas ranch.

Impromptu

1991

English

6.8

♡ 8

74%

James Lapine Director

John Savident as Buloz

Emma Thompson as Duchess D'Antan

Julian Sands as Franz Liszt

Hugh Grant as Frederic Chopin

In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

The Wind

1986

English

5.1

♡ 4

Nico Mastorakis Director

Robert Morley as Elias Appleby

David McCallum as John

Steve Railsback as Kesner

Meg Foster as Sian Anderson

Mystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the isolated Greek town of Monemvassia. Upon her arrival in the ancient, deserted, walled-in fortress, she is met by Elias Appleby, the round eccentric landlord who guides her through mysterious underground passageways to the house where she will work. He warns her to stay inside at night because of the killer winds that arrive after dark.

Another Man's Poison

1951

English

6.8

♡ 7

65%

Action

based on play or musical

older woman younger man relationship

seductress

Irving Rapper Director

Emlyn Williams as Dr. Henderson

Gary Merrill as George Bates

Bette Davis as Janet Frobisher

Anthony Steel as Larry Stevens

Mystery novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly returns, Janet poisons him, but just as she's about to dispose of the body, one of her husband's criminal cohorts also shows up.

No Longer Human

2019

Japanese

6.0

♡ 7

Action

based on novel or book

Mika Ninagawa Director

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Ango Sakaguchi

Rie Miyazawa as Michiko Tsushima

Shun Oguri as Osamu Dazai

Kengo Kôra as Yukio Mishima

The story of Osamu Dazai, one of Japan's most celebrated novelists, absorbed in alcohol and love; married and in a relationship with two other lovers.

The Method of Repulsing the Dove

2021

Japanese

5.7

♡ 3

based on novel or book

Mystery

novelist

violence mystery

Hideta Takahata Director

Aimi Satsukawa as

Shunsuke Kazama as Hideyoshi Kochi

Tao Tsuchiya as Nahomi Torikai

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Shinichi Tsuda

Shinichi Tsuda, a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves around Tsuyama, a driver for a call girl business in Toyama Prefecture, who comes across a mysterious counterfeit bill and has his life targeted by underworld kingpin Kurata. Is his story fact or fiction? His editor, Nahomi Torikai, decides to verify whether his latest work is mere fiction based on real-life experiences. She looks into a family that vanished, a post office worker who went missing, a shady load of cash, the whereabouts of the doves, and the fateful encounter from that night... A series of shocking facts are revealed from Tsuda’s stories. Why did the counterfeit money end up in Tsuda’s hands? What is the “ending” that Tsuda wished to portray?

American Masters Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'

2008

English

7.7

♡ 2

Nancy Porter Director

Daniel Gerroll as Bronson Alcott

Lewis D. Wheeler as Ladislas 'Laddie' Wisniewski

Elizabeth Marvel as Louisa May Alcott

Ellen Adair as Teen Anna Alcott

Louisa May Alcott, author of "Little Women," leads a literary double life, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, an identity that remains until the 1940s.

Genius

2016

English

6.5

♡ 92

51%

Michael Grandage Director

Nicole Kidman as Aline Bernstein

Guy Pearce as F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jude Law as Thomas Wolfe

Vanessa Kirby as Zelda Fitzgerald

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.

Dark Room

1983

Japanese

5.1

♡ 5

Kirio Urayama Director

Toshiyuki Kitami as Bartender

Yuki Kazamatsuri as Keiko - Author's Wife

Kotoe Hatsui as Natsue's Mother

Usagi Asô as Tae

A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his lovers uses his affairs for the subjects of his novels.

The Ghost Beyond

2018

English

3.1

♡ 13

R. Michael Givens Director

Steven Paul as Benjamin

Vail Bloom as Jennifer Burrows

Silvio Wolf Busch as Johannes

Trevor Donovan as John Burrows

A struggling novelist moves his wife and young son to an old country home, but when a presence begins to communicate with his son, the family must escape an evil that threatens to doom them to the house for eternity.

RangiTaranga

2015

Kannada

8.1

♡ 1

77%

Anup Bhandari Director

Shankar Ashwath as

Srinath Vasista as

Chethan Raj as Garnal Babu

Roshni Kore as Panchami / Panchali

Mysterious events begin to unfold after a reclusive novelist and his wife move back to her ancestral village, followed by a journalist.

A Novel Romance

2015

English

6.4

♡ 3

35%

Mark Griffiths Director

Michael Karl Richards as Liam's Dad

Amy Acker as Sophie Atkinson

Emily Tennant as Tabitha

Chris Shields as Ted Gordon

Romance novelist Liam Bradley (Dylan Bruce) has already found massive success with three books written under the pen name Gabriel August, but he's mysteriously unknown to his legions of readers. With his first book written as a way to heal after a broken relationship, Liam has slowly become disheartened with writing strictly for romantic fantasy, something evident to a sweet, but honest, journalist who reviews books, Sophie Atkinson (Amy Acker), whom he meets by chance on a plane. The two begin a tentative relationship in Sophie’s home town of Portland, Oregon, where Liam has come to find inspiration for his newest entry. Liam’s agent puts him on the spot with a long-planned reveal of Gabriel August’s true identity, but Sophie doesn’t know of his public persona. The longer Liam avoids telling her the truth, the deeper a hole he digs for himself. Will their romance survive once his true identity comes to light?

To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters

2016

English

7.4

♡ 2

Sally Wainwright Director

Charlie Murphy as Anne Brontë

David Prosho as Bailiff

James Norton as Duke of Wellington

Jonathan Pryce as Patrick Brontë

To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.

Paperback Hero

1999

English

6.4

♡ 6

61%

queensland, australia

romance

Romance

trucking

Antony J. Bowman Director

Douglas Hedge as George West

Andrew S. Gilbert as Hamish

Hugh Jackman as Jack Willis

Tony Barry as Mack

An Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best friend's name, Ruby Vale, is unasked used as author. Complications arise when his novel takes off. Will they remain friends or...?

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