Writer Movies

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles...

The Colossal Failure of the Modern Relationship is a smart, sexy comedy that explores the truth about relationships today.

Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an...

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

In 1962, Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl retreat to the English countryside to bring up their young family. The seemingly unlikely pair find their...

Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

During a book tour in the United States, Max meets and falls in love with a young woman. Many years later, Max returns to the United States, hoping...

The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon which his mother accidentally fell.

Interviews and archival footage weave together to tell the story of the Master of Suspense, one of the most influential and studied filmmakers in the...

On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence, leaving behind a legacy of...

Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film...

A successful, young writer's first pregnancy is overshadowed by her complicated relationship with reality.

Shadow is a screenwriter who can't sell. Yuri, who was a popular actress, retired after marrying her girlfriend, Kagechu. She lives a poor life, and...

Largely considered to be the greatest American author, Mark Twain is celebrated in this exhaustive documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns.

A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola...

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...

Hypnotherapy and drugs are used to help an amnesiac horror writer, but are the terrifying images that surface real or imagined?

A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.

Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and...