Writer Movies

When her steamy Ph.D. thesis becomes a best-selling movie property, Julie Todd discovers that Hollywood wants more than just her book. She herself is...

Two documentary filmmakers become the plaything of writer Peter Stamm and subject of the novel whose creation they actually wanted to document.

Ariel, an insecure writer tortured by her own desires, can’t seem to stop seeing “The Poet,” an older, volatile cinematographer who...

Made in the sunset years of Paul Bowles’ life, the film sees the eccentric author and composer reminisce on how he ended up in Morocco.

In his exploration of the cultural dynamic between East and West, Adolf Muschg, the most significant Swiss writer since Frisch and Dürrenmatt,...

Time moves slow, fast. A Korean-American woman who chose to follow her dreams now finds herself an undecorated writer at age 32, living a life far...

In this artistic exploration of the life and work of writer Henry Miller, filmmaker Joe Kishton skillfully weaves clips of films and interviews of...

Mateo invites his friends for a weekend and proposes they play an unconventional game. They’ll each share their best memory of him, and then...

Louis, a Flemish writer, decides to isolate himself at the Côte d’Azur, hoping this place will bring him inspiration.

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the...

A biographical documentary of musician/author Kinky Friedman.

Celebrated crime writer Colin Knowles finds himself at the centre of a baffling real-life mystery when his estranged wife Louie asks for his help....

Well-known Croatian author Pero Kvesić, who has been struggling with a severe lung disease, documents his death from his own point of view....

Jebin is a writer who is trying to get his work published. He comes to understand his financial status after his father's death. There is also a...

Having won 250 tournaments, including 83 without losing a single game, 3 Olympic medals, 6 Wimbledon titles and only suffered 7 defeats, Suzanne...

Joy and her family fly to help her mother-in-law Loraine with the difficult move from her home in Louisville, Kentucky 600 miles away to a retirement...

Portrait of Marceline Loridan-Ivens, a writer and filmmaker who survived the Holocaust.

A documentary recreating the life and writings of celebrated Irish author James Joyce with readings from his most famous works filmed on location in...

Ezz, A writer from a wealthy family, aspiring to achieve literary fame, finds unexpected muse in a poor young man—an isolated figure with no...