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81
7.3
/89261/
71
/1601/
70
/1200/
4.1
/123550/
89
/133/
78
/2505/
87
/38/

Caché (2005)
George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.
poster
78
7.8
/52069/
78
/1027/
75
/883/
3.8
/47708/
71
/38/
85
/1476/
63
/6/
cc age 12+

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.1
/10720/
69
/342/
67
/219/
3.7
/51603/
91
/126/
74
/14/
82
/28/

Afire (2023)
Self-important author Leon joins his best friend on a summer holiday near the Baltic Sea to complete his novel. When they arrive, they find their house is already occupied by a carefree woman who challenges Leon to open up. Meanwhile, forest wildfires rage around them and impending disaster looms.
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80
76
7.6
/10692/
73
/245/
73
/171/
3.8
/10407/
100
/10/
84
/102/

The Big Clock (1948)
George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.
poster
75
7.2
/170112/
73
/9051/
70
/4785/
3.5
/218177/
88
/401/
74
/1418/
83
/51/
cc age 13+

The Post (2017)
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.5
/243431/
75
/6387/
72
/2428/
3.6
/163676/
73
/176/
85
/29389/
67
/35/
cc age 13+

Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.
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Hoopla
74
6.9
/1866/
65
/18/
59
/27/
3.4
/886/
86
/14/
75
/14/

Betrayal (1983)
An affair between a literary agent and his best friend's wife, unfolding in reverse-chronological order.
poster
Kanopy
68
7.0
/21059/
73
/1506/
68
/838/
3.3
/17301/
79
/170/
78
/296/
60
/32/
cc age 8+

The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
67
7.1
/6938/
71
/241/
70
/367/
3.6
/10140/
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.
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Criterion Channel
65
7.1
/87144/
72
/3021/
72
/1809/
3.8
/163282/
58
/53/
73
/1389/
53
/17/

In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.
poster
fuboTV
61
6.3
/63732/
65
/1298/
61
/973/
3.0
/31520/
61
/62/
43
/933/

Wolf (1994)
An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his job.
poster
Kanopy
72
59
6.7
/5169/
68
/356/
64
/471/
3.3
/7023/
92
/12/
77
/4/

The Mystery of Henri Pick (2019)
In a bizarre Breton library that collects rejected, never published manuscripts, a young editor discovers a novel that she considers a masterpiece. It was written by a certain Henri Pick, a cook who died two years earlier and who, according to his widow, had never read a book in his life or written anything but a shopping list... Did he have a secret life? When the book becomes a huge best-seller, Jean- Michel Rouche, a skeptical and stubborn literary critic, teams up with Joséphine, Pick’s daughter, to unravel the mystery.
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Kanopy
58
57
6.2
/7432/
63
/490/
63
/148/
3.0
/8132/
53
/57/
52
/39/
54
/11/
cc age 15+

Best Sellers (2021)
A cranky, retired author reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher.
poster
68
56
7.0
/4181/
66
/52/
67
/53/
3.4
/2484/
70
/1060/

Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
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Kanopy
58
56
6.3
/14654/
59
/279/
59
/222/
3.0
/3724/
69
/75/
50
/537/
49
/16/
cc age 16+

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
poster
69
48
7.0
/2763/
71
/47/
68
/29/
3.6
/4035/
69
/30/

Come Live with Me (1941)
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
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Amazon Prime Video
48
47
4.9
/12559/
56
/475/
54
/443/
2.5
/10813/
31
/389/
cc age 15+

Labor Pains (2009)
A young woman pretends to be pregnant in order to avoid being fired from her job. When that gets her a bunch of special treatment by everyone involved in her life, she tries to keep up the lie for nine months.
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Hoopla
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45
6.1
/5328/
62
/239/
58
/130/
2.8
/3153/
33
/15/
37
/22/
cc age 15+

Not Another Happy Ending (2013)
When a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked, he knows he has to unblock her or he's finished. With her newfound success, she's become too happy and she can't write when she's happy. The only trouble is, the worse he makes her feel, the more he realizes he's in love with her.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
36
6.8
/2188/
60
/26/
66
/29/
3.3
/656/
57
/969/

The Naked Truth (1957)
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
poster
Amazon Prime Video
58
28
6.3
/1415/
55
/16/
53
/23/
3.1
/626/
56
/1159/

The Animal Kingdom (1932)
Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is bored with the social scene and the obligations of his life. He publishes books that will sell, not books that he wants to write. Even worse, he has his old friend working as a butler and Cecelia wants him fired. When Tom tries to get back together with Daisy to renew the feelings that he once felt, Daisy turns the tables on him and leaves to protect both of them.
poster
65
27
6.8
/1486/
67
/16/
62
/23/
3.4
/660/
64
/20/

The Lost Moment (1947)
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis Venable rents a room from Juliana Bordereau, once Jeffrey Ashton's lover, now an aged recluse. Running the household is Juliana's severe niece, Tina, who mistrusts Venable from the first moment. He realizes all is not right when late one night he finds Tina, her hair unpinned and wild, at the piano. She calls him Jeffrey and throws herself at him. The family priest warns Venable to tread carefully around her fantasies, but he wants the letters at any cost, even Tina's sanity.
poster
YouTube TV
62
27
6.5
/1563/
66
/14/
67
/9/
3.4
/981/
45
/58/

When Ladies Meet (1941)
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
poster
YouTube TV
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24
6.8
/1250/
65
/14/
53
/16/
3.4
/608/
42
/64/

When Ladies Meet (1933)
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
poster
Hoopla
58
24
6.1
/1040/
63
/28/
59
/21/
3.2
/460/
43
/1477/

All in a Night's Work (1961)
After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.
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65
23
6.4
/1087/
68
/8/
46
/8/
3.2
/506/
82
/28/

The Feminine Touch (1941)
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Russell), to New York where he plans to publish a book on the subject. Meeting with publisher Elliott Morgan (Van Heflin), who falls head over heels for Julie, John is assigned to his assistant Nellie (Kay Francis), who only has eyes for her boss. Working closely with Nellie, who Julie thinks is after her husband, John continues his high-minded ways while his angry spouse schemes to make him so jealous he'll knock Elliott's block clean off.
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69
23
7.2
/507/
56
/10/
76
/24/
3.6
/679/

Corruption (1963)
Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with a young woman to take this idea out of his mind...
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62
22
6.9
/1146/
62
/14/
64
/8/
3.3
/457/
52
/82/

The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
poster
58
22
6.1
/1208/
71
/91/
63
/24/
38
/2/

Perfect on Paper (2014)
Portland book editor Natalie Holland has chosen the wrong guy – another underachiever – once again. With her life going nowhere fast, she accepts a job offer from publisher and friend Avery Goldstein and moves to Los Angeles. A woman of depth and principle, Portland chic Natalie is a fish out of water in LA. Things only get worse when she learns she’s been hired to edit the latest romance novel from bestselling author Beverly Wilcox, a powerful, glamorous and intimidating figure straight out of "The Devil Wears Prada".
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55
20
5.7
/1405/
55
/10/
49
/25/
3.1
/593/

Curtain Call (1998)
A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment.
poster
57
16
6.0
/870/
50
/18/
51
/21/
3.3
/418/

False as Water (1985)
John and Carl have a small publishing company. One day John meets the poet Clara who recently made her debut, and Clara's fiancé Stig. John and Clara fall in love with each other, and she moves into an apartment owned by John. John breaks up with his wife and moves in with Clara. But Clara has a nervous breakdown.
poster
57
15
6.4
/566/
70
/2/
38
/7/
3.3
/208/
47
/74/

Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
poster
62
12
6.1
/482/
60
/11/
62
/14/
3.3
/264/

The Scoundrel (1935)
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.
poster
32
6
3.3
/188/
45
/4/
28
/6/
20
/84/

The House That Screamed (2000)
A recently widowed writer rents a haunted house in which to write his latest novel and is soon beset by the various ghosts in the house bent on claiming him as their next victim.
poster
?
5.9
/44/
50
/1/

One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer (1947)
When Inga Brantemo goes on a business trip to Italy, her husband Bertil gets romantically involved with Christina Lovén, whose father is a book publisher. When Inga returns, Bertil has a difficult time trying to explain who the woman the neighbors saw in the Brantemo home was. Bertil is an author and it doesn't get easier when he and his wife gets invited to Christina's father to talk business.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
?
7.2
/24/
60
/3/

What Was Virginia Woolf Really Afraid of? (2020)
A look back at the troubled life of genius British writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).
poster
?
5.6
/27/

The Beautiful Cheat (1945)
The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juvenile-delinquent mindset. Not surprisingly, he ends up taking a post-grad course in amour from the winsome Ms. Granville.
poster
51
?
6.4
/286/
40
/2/

Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939)
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried woman would engage in such amoral activity. The comic plot develops as Ellen argues her case for women's freedom and independence, trying to win over her mother, grandmother, and other dubious relatives.
poster
56
?
5.7
/493/
60
/2/
57
/3/

My Life with Caroline (1941)
A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
?
5.6
/86/
50
/1/
60
/2/

Honeymoon Limited (1935)
A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.
poster
43
?
5.6
/113/
60
/2/
20
/1/

Black Milk (2000)
Alekos is a young writer, who faces a creative block, can not find any meaning and redemption in his reality, wasting himself among adventurous romances and dangerous friendships.
poster
61
?
6.5
/627/
60
/2/
55
/4/
3.3
/212/

One More Tomorrow (1946)
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine that opposes everything his family represents. As Tom and Christie's relationship deepens, love blooms and he proposes to her. Realizing that she could never fit in with Tom's social circle, Christie says no, a decision she later regrets. But Tom isn't left alone for long — scheming gold-digger Cecelia Henry wastes no time in catching Tom on the rebound and forcing him into a disastrous marriage.
poster
?
10
/2/

Great Contract: Paju, Book, City (2022)
During the pre-democracy era when publications were under oppression, some people dreamed of a city for books and some architects came along to dream together. Then, they created an one-and-only ecological city for books in an abandoned swamp in the military border of Paju. This is the story of book and culture that dreams of peaceful unification, and its building process over 30 years.
poster
51
?
5.5
/268/
50
/1/
50
/5/

Make Way for a Lady (1936)
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.
poster
66
?
6.6
/558/
74
/7/
62
/6/
3.3
/272/

The Affairs of Martha (1942)
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
poster
66
?
6.4
/424/
68
/9/
56
/7/
78
/2/

Thanks for the Memory (1938)
Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
poster
59
?
6.2
/203/
65
/2/
52
/5/

Age of Indiscretion (1935)
A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance novelist decides to publish her new book with his firm. In the meantime, his ex-wife has married the millionaire, and she and her new mother-in-law come up with a plan to sue her ex-husband for custody of the boy.
poster
51
?
5.9
/535/
60
/4/
44
/5/
33
/6/

Mary, Mary (1963)
Sparks fly when a recently-divorced couple is forced to get together to sort out a tax matter.
poster
?
4.9
/20/
10
/1/
10
/1/

This Freedom to Have... Wet Wings (1971)
A writer attempts to blackmail a publisher into printing his latest book


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