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86
8.2
/239811/
81
/4223/
79
/2764/
4.2
/175912/
89
/137/
93
/2238/
80
/36/

The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
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.
poster
YouTube TV
83
7.8
/279833/
78
/10335/
78
/6689/
4.2
/2572000/
95
/441/
92
/3346/
91
/57/
cc age 10+

Little Women (2019)
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
poster
Peacock Premium
80
7.8
/262300/
78
/8021/
77
/5073/
4.0
/565807/
87
/150/
90
/6660/
75
/23/
cc age 17+

Misery (1990)
After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.
poster
77
7.7
/31944/
74
/424/
72
/357/
3.7
/10947/
95
/41/
87
/338/
63
/8/
cc age 12+

The Caine Mutiny (1954)
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
poster
77
8.1
/524484/
81
/12198/
82
/8841/
3.9
/637055/
75
/231/
89
/7629/
62
/41/
cc age 12+

The Help (2011)
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.0
/24659/
70
/635/
67
/312/
3.5
/20265/
95
/58/
79
/548/
75
/28/
cc age 16+

Croupier (1998)
Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose. Inevitably, he gets sucked into the world of the casino which takes its toll on his relationships and the novel he is writing.
poster
Disney Plus
72
7.4
/441444/
77
/14977/
75
/8719/
4.0
/3422125/
72
/93/
69
/987442/
70
/26/
cc age 13+

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own.
poster
71
6.9
/111018/
71
/3690/
68
/1984/
3.4
/74959/
86
/56/
70
/1794/
63
/17/
cc age 12+

Romancing the Stone (1984)
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
6.8
/12351/
68
/216/
67
/228/
3.9
/15716/
89
/18/
89
/270/
63
/12/

Until the End of the World (1991)
In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.
poster
70
6.7
/51049/
66
/1114/
64
/770/
3.5
/37403/
84
/153/
67
/1158/
70
/37/
cc age 18+

Swimming Pool (2003)
A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book. However, the unexpected arrival of the publisher's daughter induces complications and a subsequent crime.
poster
MUBI
69
7.3
/24817/
72
/456/
72
/446/
3.9
/32119/
78
/27/
90
/818/
56
/15/

Betty Blue (1986)
A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
67
7.1
/6993/
71
/242/
69
/371/
3.6
/11101/
84
/37/

The Magnificent One (1973)
A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time at the publisher's demand.
poster
Pluto TV
67
5.6
/5476/
59
/423/
52
/159/
3.1
/4518/
92
/38/
53
/45/
75
/10/

Nina Forever (2016)
Holly loves Rob and tries to help him through his grief – even if it means contending with his dead girlfriend Nina, who comes back, bloody and broken, every time they make love
poster
62
6.3
/14880/
63
/368/
60
/217/
3.2
/6963/
60
/25/
68
/277/
62
/24/

Henry & June (1990)
While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her husband. Then, when June returns to France, an unexpected, and sometimes contentious, threesome forms.
poster
Kanopy
62
7.1
/240475/
71
/6849/
69
/4249/
3.6
/277318/
56
/79/
64
/3001/
43
/28/
cc age 17+

Basic Instinct (1992)
Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.
poster
76
61
7.4
/2404/
65
/54/
70
/36/
3.7
/1732/
93
/15/
84
/52/

The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, changing the lives of everyone involved.
poster
Kanopy
58
5.5
/26415/
58
/1529/
57
/547/
3.3
/72526/
58
/127/
41
/354/
55
/31/
cc age 17+

The Beach Bum (2019)
An irreverent comedy about the misadventures of Moondog, a rebellious stoner and lovable rogue who lives large.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
59
58
6.3
/13381/
64
/352/
58
/169/
2.8
/7043/
67
/21/
50
/257/
57
/8/

Daydream Nation (2011)
Forced to move to a boring backwater town, a teenager embarks on affairs with a teacher and a stoner classmate.
poster
68
57
6.9
/7057/
72
/557/
70
/853/
3.5
/42763/
50
/8/
79
/6/

Love at Second Sight (2019)
A man tries to make his wife fall in love with him again, after waking up in an alternate reality where she never knew him.
poster
Kanopy
66
57
7.0
/4783/
65
/86/
67
/102/
3.5
/5907/
60
/15/
68
/35/

House by the River (1950)
Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Stephen's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Marjorie.
poster
Kanopy
57
5.3
/9486/
55
/488/
50
/176/
2.9
/11544/
75
/79/
37
/204/
70
/28/
cc age 17+

Happy Christmas (2014)
After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
55
5.3
/1561/
68
/117/
63
/46/
2.3
/1809/
31
/26/
68
/72/
40
/11/
cc age 10+

Little Women (2018)
A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, we follow the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood. Despite harsh times, they cling to optimism, and as they mature, they face blossoming ambitions and relationships, as well as tragedy, while maintaining their unbreakable bond as sisters.
poster
Netflix
60
54
6.5
/7007/
62
/368/
62
/281/
3.2
/6620/
60
/20/
49
/10/
58
/4/
cc age 17+

The Motive (2017)
Álvaro, a man obsessed with the idea of writing what he brands as “high literature,” manipulates the lives and feelings of the people around him to write about the consequences caused by his devious acts.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
54
6.1
/9187/
61
/439/
58
/316/
2.9
/5591/
44
/36/
55
/66/
45
/6/

Madame (2017)
Anne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid as a noblewoman to even out the number of guests. When the maid runs off with a wealthy guest, Anne must chase her around Paris to thwart the joyous and unexpected love affair.
poster
Kanopy
53
5.9
/5350/
64
/273/
68
/213/
3.2
/23793/
41
/96/
55
/19/
43
/18/
cc age 13+

Vita & Virginia (2019)
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the two forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly contemporary marriages.
poster
Kanopy
52
6.0
/44585/
59
/1060/
56
/882/
2.9
/30415/
47
/152/
34
/523/
56
/32/
cc age 17+

On the Road (2012)
Sal Paradise is a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his girl, Marylou. Traveling cross-country, Sal and Dean venture out on a personal quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of “it” -- the pure essence of experience.
poster
62
52
6.6
/2730/
63
/100/
62
/55/
3.1
/3201/
67
/6/
56
/62/

Bad Ronald (1974)
When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from the law by creating a concealed room in their home for him to live.
poster
Netflix
62
51
6.7
/3913/
71
/304/
65
/97/
2.6
/3875/
55
/13/

The Christmas Contract (2018)
It’s Jolie’s first time going back home to Louisiana since her devastating break-up with Foster Burke. Seeing him is inevitable as their parents run the town’s annual Christmas Market together, but when she discovers Foster is bringing home a new girlfriend, Jolie cannot bear the thought of going home alone and seeing them together. Her best friend Naomi suggests that Jolie bring her flaky brother, Jack, home for Christmas as he has no plans this year. Jolie, a professional web designer, is hesitant; so, Naomi, a lawyer, creates a Christmas contract to give them both something they want—a buffer for those awkward moments around Jolie’s ex and a website to help sell Jack’s upcoming novel. Unbeknownst to them, the Christmas contract proves to be so much more than what they signed up for.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
58
51
6.2
/5522/
64
/150/
64
/117/
3.1
/5988/
42
/51/

House of the Long Shadows (1983)
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in 24 hours. However, upon his arrival he discovers that the apparently empty manor has several rather odd inhabitants.
poster
57
50
6.1
/5194/
64
/200/
57
/421/
3.0
/3173/
44
/33/

Love Lasts Three Years (2011)
A heartbroken literary critic turns his despair into creativity following a bitter divorce, only to encounter an enchanting beauty who poses a major challenge to his newfound cynicism. Marc Marronnier thought his marriage was going well until his wife deemed him immature, and left him for a high-profile writer. Devastated, he began filtering all of his heartache into a misanthropic manuscript decrying the virtues of true love. But later, when Marc falls hard for his cousin's radiant and gorgeous wife, his entire life is turned upside down. Louise Bourgoin and Gaspard Proust star in a film by actor and author-turned-director Frederic Beigbeder.
poster
The Roku Channel
49
5.6
/3204/
52
/46/
49
/57/
2.9
/1077/
29
/7/
27
/19/

Year of the Gun (1991)
American novelist David Raybourne accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend must struggle to stay alive.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
72
47
6.3
/2656/
65
/160/
60
/188/
3.2
/3139/
80
/10/
100
/1/

My Dog Stupid (2019)
Henri is a middle-aged writer with fading inspiration who has published nothing worthy of note in years. Feeling increasingly misunderstood by his wife and four grown up deadbeat kids, he dreams of running away to start over again. Yet when he discovers an unattractive, bad-mannered dog in his garden, he decides to adopt him and both start developing an unexpected friendship that inevitably upsets Henri’s family and neighbors.
poster
AMC+
44
3.7
/390/
45
/34/
44
/9/
2.6
/666/
55
/33/
43
/8/

A Nightmare Wakes (2020)
Inspired by her marital troubles and the suffering caused by her miscarriages, Mary Shelley writes about Frankenstein. But she loses her grip when the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.
poster
50
44
5.8
/5787/
54
/91/
55
/139/
2.8
/2219/
50
/22/
32
/224/

Angel (2007)
Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters an aristocratic brother and sister, both of whom have cultural ambitions, and both of whom fall in love with her.
poster
43
42
4.8
/13325/
52
/419/
50
/319/
2.7
/16907/
39
/23/
19
/210/
40
/6/

Twixt (2011)
A washed-up horror novelist arrives in a sleepy town on a book tour, only to stumble into a string of eerie murders. Haunted by dreams of a ghostly girl named V and guided by the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe, he’s drawn into a nightmarish world where fiction and reality blur—and the story he’s chasing leads back to his own buried guilt.
poster
fuboTV
64
34
6.6
/2298/
70
/202/
66
/65/
3.0
/584/
62
/1/

One Winter Weekend (2018)
Cara, a women’s magazine writer, who gets burned by her boyfriend on New Years’ Eve, decides to go on a dating detox. Challenged by her employer to write about it, she hopes a spontaneous ski getaway with her best friend will spark inspiration. Complicating matters, they discover they’ve double booked their chalet with two eligible men, including Ben, an entrepreneur. When the share-mates get snowed in, Cara and Ben are thrown together.
poster
Netflix
70
33
6.8
/740/
71
/49/
73
/18/
3.5
/8603/

A Balloon's Landing (2024)
A frustrated Hong Kong writer, Tian-Yu, meets a Taipei street gangster, Xiang, and the two of them embark on a journey to find the Bay of Whales, a place that leads to paradise.
poster
71
33
7.3
/1022/
66
/23/
73
/52/
3.6
/792/

Boys' School (1938)
In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them sees a man coming out from a wall. The next day, after he talks about it, he disappears. Then, the second one vanishes. Are they gone to their dreams? That's when the art teacher is murdered. Suspicions now are too high so the third one decides to investigate.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
33
5.9
/1712/
57
/14/
48
/15/
3.1
/244/
83
/6/
58
/37/

The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)
Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
32
6.6
/1184/
68
/20/
58
/26/
3.4
/1105/
83
/6/
39
/3/

The Wedding Night (1935)
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett develops romantic feelings for Manya Novak, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik Sobieski. After a snowstorm, Tony and Manya get trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists that her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
poster
Pluto TV
59
31
5.7
/1229/
57
/95/
60
/108/
2.8
/2368/
67
/1/

The House (2022)
Emma, a French novelist aged 27, decide to go to Berlin and join a brothel to uncover the prostitution world, the subject of her new book. Such as gonzo journalism, Emma become a prostitute and her experience, which was supposed to last a few weeks, will last two years. Was writing her book an excuse for Emma to live a shameful fantasy?
poster
fuboTV
62
30
6.5
/1929/
71
/142/
64
/46/
2.9
/498/
55
/3/

Hope at Christmas (2018)
Sydney Ragsdale, recently divorced, decides to spend Christmas in a house she inherited with her young daughter. As Sydney begins to spend more time at the local bookstore, she meets a teacher, Mac, who also fills in for the town Santa. Mac tries to make Christmas wishes come true, and this year Sydney is at the top of his ‘nice’ list. As a new opportunity with the bookstore unfolds, Mac helps Sydney open herself up to life, love, and believing in the spirit of Christmas again.
poster
65
29
6.4
/561/
62
/12/
64
/13/
3.5
/2404/
68
/18/

Anna Magdalena (1998)
Two young men fall for the woman staying upstairs when she practises J.S. Bach's "Notebook for Anna Magdalena".
poster
Kanopy
54
29
6.1
/698/
68
/71/
56
/210/
3.5
/6915/
17
/6/
56
/4/
cc age 14+

Lou! (2014)
Lou, a creative and dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives alone with her mother in an orange building with tons of little balconies that give access to the roof. Mina has been her best friend since kindergarten, and Lou has been in love with Tristan, one of her neighbors, since elementary school. Her mother has relinquished her own personal happiness of late so as to devote herself to her daughter, but their little bubble bursts when Mom meets a man and Lou at last dares speak to Tristan.
poster
fuboTV
60
29
6.5
/1984/
70
/162/
62
/42/
3.0
/358/
43
/2/

All for Love (2017)
When a romance novelist is teamed with a Navy SEAL as research for her book, by a mandate from her publisher, she is less than thrilled and he is more than honest. However, as she works with the SEAL, she has a change of heart and learns to look at her life and writing with a different point of view.
poster
Hoopla
63
28
6.6
/1284/
69
/119/
60
/30/
3.0
/415/

The Christmas Chalet (2019)
A recently divorced mother books a chalet in a beautiful Christmas village in Vermont to try and rekindle Christmas magic for her teenaged daughter who feels like her family is ruined forever. When they arrive, they find that the house has been double booked and now they must share their family holiday with a grumpy writer who hates Christmas. Together, they’ll learn that a little Christmas magic heals even the most broken heart.
poster
63
28
6.6
/1773/
66
/21/
66
/21/
3.3
/1182/
51
/12/

The Great Sinner (1949)
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
poster
45
26
5.4
/1595/
53
/49/
48
/40/
2.8
/1598/
17
/12/

Exposé (1976)
A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.


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