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7.5
/43141/
74
/1147/
74
/733/
4.2
/153596/
95
/57/
87
/679/
87
/17/

The Long Goodbye (1973)
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
74
6.4
/6542/
67
/442/
67
/96/
3.1
/14550/
84
/147/
80
/184/
70
/35/
cc age 14+

The Friend (2025)
New York City writer Iris finds her comfortable, solitary life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor bequeaths her a Great Dane named Apollo. The huge dog immediately creates practical problems for Iris, from furniture destruction to eviction notices, as well as more existential ones. Yet as Iris finds herself unexpectedly bonding with Apollo, she begins to come to terms with her past, and her own creative inner life.
72
6.5
/31435/
66
/1288/
63
/553/
3.4
/29959/
86
/106/
62
/555/
69
/22/
cc age 16+

Sightseers (2012)
Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.
poster
69
7.0
/17619/
71
/418/
67
/290/
3.7
/22558/
75
/20/
70
/246/
54
/8/

Deathtrap (1982)
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
68
6.4
/39455/
63
/2220/
60
/767/
3.1
/97639/
87
/290/
50
/279/
73
/47/
cc age 15+

On the Rocks (2020)
Faced with sudden doubts about her marriage, a young New York mother teams up with her larger-than-life playboy father to tail her husband.
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73
68
7.2
/9971/
70
/183/
70
/183/
3.7
/11969/
77
/13/
78
/80/

Angel Face (1953)
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
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65
7.1
/31498/
75
/1817/
70
/875/
3.4
/26753/
64
/177/
71
/167/
54
/28/
cc age 10+

Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)
The behind the scenes story of the life of A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin.
poster
58
6.7
/21407/
67
/531/
66
/319/
3.2
/5907/
35
/108/
72
/4370/
48
/26/
cc age 10+

Martian Child (2007)
A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
56
6.7
/11427/
69
/494/
66
/261/
3.1
/7488/
28
/88/
63
/43/
46
/30/
cc age 13+

Rebel in the Rye (2017)
The life of celebrated but reclusive author J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel The Catcher in the Rye.
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51
6.0
/5342/
62
/139/
64
/178/
3.1
/1578/
50
/6/
59
/298/

Re-cycle (2006)
Ting-yin, a young novelist, is struggling to come up with a followup to her best-selling trilogy of romance novels. After drafting her first chapter, she stops and deletes the file from her computer. She then starts seeing strange, unexplainable things and finds that she is experiencing the supernatural events that she described in her novel-to-be.
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51
5.5
/8681/
58
/323/
53
/183/
2.9
/11501/
46
/13/
46
/188/

Communion (1989)
A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
49
6.1
/15895/
69
/1675/
62
/563/
2.7
/4529/
40
/20/
42
/57/
43
/7/
cc age 15+

Black Butterfly (2017)
Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
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49
6.3
/5771/
61
/168/
60
/118/
3.0
/2171/
54
/26/
39
/68/
42
/10/

Albatross (2011)
Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.
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44
6.0
/4000/
63
/117/
62
/83/
2.8
/1495/
36
/75/

A Dog Year (2009)
Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends him a border collie that's undisciplined because of abuse. Despite a series of mishaps, Jon decides to keep trying with the dog, and he rents a dilapidated farm house to give the dog room to run. A local handyman refers Jon to a woman who might be able to help him train the dog. Reluctantly, Jon gives her a try. Is the dog the problem, or the owner?
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43
6.7
/3038/
74
/359/
64
/102/
3.0
/599/
48
/7/

Summer Villa (2016)
Although a successful romance novelist, Terry Russell hasn't had luck in her own love life. After a disastrous first date with cocky, hot-shot New York chef Matthew Everston, she retreats to her friend's French villa for the summer to finish her latest novel, with her reluctant teenage daughter in tow.
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42
5.7
/4001/
45
/6/
57
/14/
90

A Place in the Caribbean (2017)
Gael travels to the Island of Roatan to finish his last novel and finds love at first sight. Sofia and her father missed their cruise and are forced to stay in the wonderful island. Three love stories around this magical place.
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28
6.4
/666/
64
/38/
49
/26/
2.9
/3878/

Love Stories Only Last 90 Minutes (2009)
In Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, the idle aspirant writer Zeca has been living with Arts Professor Júlia for five years. He is stuck on page 50 of his novel for a long time and Zeca claims lack of inspiration to conclude the plot. He leads a comfortable life from inheritance left by his mother and administrated by his father Humberto. When Zeca sees Júlia alone with her best friend Carol in his flat, he believes that they are having a love affair and becomes obsessed with Carol, following her. Júlia travels to São Paulo with work giving Zeca the perfect opportunity to have an affair with Carol. So begins his complicated life: while Júlia works and studies for her doctorate, Zeca has sex with Carol during the days and with Júlia during the nights. Zeca plots a scheme to stay with either Carol or Júlia but his plan does not go as he hoped.
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24
6.2
/1222/
65
/87/
66
/24/
2.9
/389/

The Winter Palace (2022)
A novelist with a severe case of writer’s block is given the chance to finish her book at an empty winter chateau. She's surprised when the property's owner, a prince, decides to come stay as well.
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22
4.7
/1192/
60
/101/
51
/56/
2.3
/681/
21
/9/
cc age 10+

Rodeo and Juliet (2015)
Juliet heads to her grandfather’s ranch with her mother for Christmas, where she meets a horse named Rodeo and young cowboy who change her life.
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20
6.5
/764/
70
/61/
63
/16/
3.1
/633/

Christmas on 5th Avenue (2021)
Eve, A Christmas loving professional wish granter, takes on the task of decorating the high-end condo for a reclusive writer who is spending the holidays out of town. But when the handsome writer turns out to be home for the holidays after all, Eve will have to pull out all her tricks to make him fall in love with Christmas all over again – and maybe find romance along the way.
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18
5.6
/1300/
49
/13/
59
/23/
3.1
/472/
38
/12/

My Dear Secretary (1948)
A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.
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4.2
/528/
48
/19/
41
/10/
24
/4/

Sun Kissed (2008)
Teddy, a young writer, ventures to an isolated desert house to complete his first novel, where he meets and seduces the mysterious caretaker, Leo. Layers of memory and hallucination unfold that intertwine the two men.
poster
36
10
4.3
/629/
45
/25/
47
/21/
12
/8/

Stalker (2010)
When novelist Paula Martin retreats to the seclusion of her family home Crows Hall she hopes to clear her mind and focus on her new book. The arrival of an assistant, Linda, should take the pressure off... but as the bodies pile up, Paula finds herself trapped in a terrifying nightmare of murder and madness.
poster
53
9
7.1
/459/
54
/11/
61
/10/
29
/9/

Rosie (2013)
Lorenz Meran, a successful gay author suffering acute writers' block, has to leave Berlin and return to eastern Switzerland to provide care for his aged mother, Rosie. But it is not only his mother's battle against being dictated to and losing her dignity that he is struggling with. It's also his own midlife crisis.
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5
4.9
/323/
61
/13/
38
/11/
11
/4/

Presumed Dead (2006)
A famous crime novelist's protigie disappears before the release of author's first new book in years. Is the seeming crime an elaborate publicity stunt, or was this author so desperate for material that he created his own sinister inspiration? Despite his cunning defense on trial (the trial that made his book a best seller), Detective Cooper suspects the latter. She's determined to separate fiction from reality, but the deeper she gets in the story, the more twisted the plot becomes.
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4.8
/155/
52
/4/
45
/2/
94
/5/

Meeting Ms. Leigh (2024)
A young writer in desperate need of inspiration begins an affair with an enchanting, enigmatic older woman during a weekend in Santa Monica. True feelings emerge, and they must decide whether to continue their torrid romance or go their separate ways.
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53
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6.5
/107/
35
/2/
60
/2/

Strange Factories (2013)
A writer, possessed by a terrifying story hunts for its secret heart in a mysterious landscape. He journeys into unknown, dreamlike places, haunted by the infamous Hum emitted from a strange factory.
57
?
5.6
/402/
62
/35/
53
/10/

Scentsational Christmas (2022)
Ellie decides to go back home for Christmas, and help her dad with the candle-making business. Little does she know, however, that her father has charming, writer Logan staying with him, looking for inspiration for his writings.
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7.8
/33/
40
/2/

Last Chance Charlene (2022)
Reeling from her brother's suicide, a writer/actress tries to put her complicated life back together and finally make a break in her career.
poster
33
?
4.5
/251/
33
/3/
20
/3/

Spanish Fly (1998)
A woman journalist, Zoe, knows better than to go into a story with her mind already made up. But that's exactly what she does when she heads off to Spain to write about its men and their macho take (as she sees it) on relationships. As she tries to prove her thesis, she soon realizes that she doesn't know as much about the male sex as she thought. She also finds herself involved in relationships with the wrong men.
poster
?
6.8
/73/
70
/1/

Mind-Set (2023)
Lucy, a failed actor who lives in a dysfunctional relationship with agoraphobic screenwriter Paul, is surprised to find herself on the cusp of a none-too-secret affair with her new work colleague, Daniel. The thrill of the chase for a shred of affection takes her mind off her problematic life but she's not sure that she'll ever leave Paul, or that sex with someone else is the true answer to her problems.
poster
?
6.4
/10/
62
/7/
100
/1/

Collin (1981)
N/A
poster
36
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6.0
/245/
15
/2/
35
/2/

Dead by Monday (2001)
Dead by Monday is a darkly comic tale of love and death... but not necessarily in that order. Julie is a sweet, vulnerable young woman who lacks confidence and is obsessed with the memory of her dead husband whom she idealizes. Alex is an angry writer. Talented but unable to repeat the success of his first novel, he has nothing left to say. Or live for. He just wants to die. Fate introduces these two lost souls at the edge of a cliff. While picking flowers Julie accidentally falls off. Alex, who has come to blow his brains out, is interrupted by her cry for help, just before he pulls the trigger.
poster
48
?
6.4
/186/
10
/2/
60
/2/
61
/9/

Lovely by Surprise (2007)
Lovely by Surprise follows the journey of novelist Marian Walker as she attempts to finish her first novel. Facing the age-old problem of writer’s block, Marian seeks advice from a mentor and ex-lover. His seemingly innocent advice to kill the book’s protagonist unleashes chaos in her life as a willful protagonist escapes from her novel and appears in the unresolved corners of her past.
poster
48
?
5.3
/430/
35
/4/
58
/8/

Happy We (1983)
Three friends who haven't seen each other for seventeen years reunite and have a lot to tell about what has happened in the meantime. The film follows the friends for some time afterwards and then moves another twenty years in the future...
poster
36
?
4.6
/308/
45
/7/
42
/4/
10
/5/

Grave Misconduct (2008)
A fledgling mystery writer sees an opportunity to advance her career after the death of a novelist/friend but faces dire consequences when a series of vicious murders occur that seem to implicate her.
poster
51
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5.8
/346/
65
/5/
40
/5/
14
/7/
80
/4/

Windy City (1984)
The lives of a group of young Chicago men, as seen through the eyes of one of them, a writer.
41
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5.3
/532/
45
/8/
26
/7/

Her Married Lover (1999)
Film editor Katie and suspense novelist Richard share an erotically charged moment during a hostage crisis, before embarking on a rapturous affair. When Richard’s wife is killed in a suspicious accident, the lovers are accused of murder.
poster
?
3.9
/50/
35
/2/
65
/1/

Woman of Wonders (1985)
In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a writer/director approaching the hill though not yet over it, director Alberto Bevilacqua has used his own experiences to fashion a conventional tale about a search for the "perfect woman." His mettlesome neighbor Luisa (Lina Sastri) just will not leave him alone; she was the reason why he ended his marriage to Maura (Claudia Cardinale), but Alberto considers their affair dead and buried. Recently, an anonymous "dream woman" has been calling him for some seductive phone exchanges. As he searches out the identity of the mystery caller he is also distracted by Luisa who starts to insinuate herself back into his affections. Sooner or later, Alberto will just have to decide how to handle his love life, which in the end may only be mesmerizing to himself alone.
poster
60
?
5.9
/317/
71
/46/
51
/11/

My Secret Partner (2011)
A single father struggling to make his comeback as a screenwriter falls in love with one of his students. Meanwhile his son, studying to become a chef, falls in love with his teacher. Love is great for creativity, but it comes with a price.
poster
?
4.9
/34/
10
/1/
50
/2/

She Has a Broom, He Has a Black Hat (1987)
A Baba Yaga's grand-daughter gets into the argument with the young son of Kashchey and decides to leave the magic forest.
poster
?

Blanco (2017)
A young ambitious screenwriter struggles with keeping his sanity as he tries to overcome his writers-block.


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