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Movies by Lists - Writers (50 [55])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
AgathaDecember 1926, Agatha Christie's husband asks for a divorce. She leaves her car and goes missing 11 days. She books into a hotel as Mrs. Neele. Fiction: A US reporter looks for her and investigates.1979Michael AptedDrama, Mystery, Thriller6.3 (3K votes)10520211228
AgathaDecember 1926, Agatha Christie's husband asks for a divorce. She leaves her car and goes missing 11 days. She books into a hotel as Mrs. Neele. Fiction: A US reporter looks for her and investigates.1979Michael AptedDrama, Mystery, Thriller6.3 (3.1K votes)10520211228
AnonymousThe theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.2011Roland Emmerich (*)Drama, Thriller6.9 (40.4K votes)13020211228
Becoming JaneA biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.2007Julian JarroldBiography, Drama, Romance7.0 (60.7K votes)12020211228
Beloved InfidelToward the end of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also struggling against alcoholism. Into his life comes the famous gossip columnist.1959Henry KingBiography, Drama, Romance6.1 (1.1K votes)12320211228
Bright StarThe three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life.2009Jane Campion (*)Biography, Drama, Romance6.9 (26.7K votes)11920211228
Bronte Sisters, The [Les soeurs Brontë]In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.1979André TéchinéBiography, Drama, History6.5 (1.1K votes)12020211228
ByronFollowing the success of his poem ""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"", Byron becomes the toast of London.2003Julian FarinoBiography, Drama, Romance7.0 (1.1K votes)14720240228
CapoteIn 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on dea2005Bennett MillerBiography, Crime, Drama, History7.3 (130.6K votes)11420211228
CarringtonThe platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington (Dame Emma Thompson) and writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce) in the early twentieth century.1995Christopher HamptonBiography, Drama, Romance6.8 (5.4K votes)12120211228
Death in Granada [The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca]A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.1996Marcos ZurinagaBiography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller6.1 (1K votes)11420240511
DevotionGenius authors Emily and Charlotte Bronte fall in love with their curate as they seek to get their work published.1946Curtis BernhardtBiography, Drama6.6 (926 votes)10720211228
Dumas [L'autre Dumas]When Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, his ghostwriter, are at the summit of their collaboration, Auguste decides to pass himself off as Alexandre in order to seduce Charlotte, a fervent admirer of the great man.2010Safy NebbouComedy, Drama, History6.3 (668 votes)10520230328
Edge Of Love, TheTwo feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.2008John MayburyBiography, Drama, Romance, War6.2 (17.5K votes)11020211228
Finding NeverlandThe story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.2004Marc ForsterBiography, Drama, Family7.6 (203.7K votes)10620211228
GeniusA chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.2016Michael GrandageBiography, Drama6.6 (19.2K votes)10420211228
HammettFictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress' mysterious disappearance in San Francisco.1982Wim Wenders (*)Crime, Drama, Mystery6.5 (3.2K votes)9720211228
Hans Christian AndersenThe opening scene of the movie describes it best: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy tales.1952Charles Vidor (*)Biography, Family, Musical, Romance6.9 (3.8K votes)11220211228
Hours, TheThe story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.2002Stephen DaldryDrama, Romance7.5 (129.5K votes)11020211228
InfamousWhile researching his novel "In Cold Blood", Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.2006Douglas McGrathBiography, Crime, Drama7.0 (17.1K votes)11020211228
Invisible Woman, TheAt the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death.2013Ralph FiennesBiography, Drama, History, Romance6.2 (9.8K votes)11120211228
Jack LondonEpisodes in the adventurous life of the American novelist (1876-1916).1943Alfred SantellAdventure, Biography, War5.2 (371 votes)9420211228
JuliaAt the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.1977Fred Zinnemann (*)Drama7.2 (9.4K votes)11720211228
KafkaKafka works during the day at an insurance company, where events lead him to discover a mysterious underground society with strange suppressive goals.1991Steven Soderbergh (*)Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller6.9 (9.9K votes)9820211228
Last Station, TheA historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's (Christopher Plummer's) struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.2009Michael HoffmanBiography, Drama, Romance7.0 (18.4K votes)11220211228
Life of Emile Zola, TheThe biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.1937William Dieterle (*)Biography, Drama7.2 (8K votes)11620211228
Little AshesAbout the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.2008Paul MorrisonBiography, Drama, Romance6.4 (9.1K votes)11220211228
Lorca, Death of a Poet [Lorca, muerte de un poeta]Biography of the Spanish poet and playwright Lorca, who was executed by followers of Franco in 1936.1987Juan Antonio BardemBiography, Drama6.6 (122 votes)020211228
Mark Twain and MeDorothy Quick, a young girl, befriends the famous writer, Samuel ""Mark Twain"" Clemens, during the final years of his life.1991Daniel PetrieBiography, Drama6.8 (193 votes)9320240622
Mary ShelleyLife and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein.2017Haifaa Al-MansourBiography, Drama, History, Romance6.5 (14.9K votes)12020211228
Miguel and William [Miguel y William]A romantic comedy inventing a friendship between Cervantes and Shakespeare, who both fall in love with a Spanish woman.2007Inés ParísComedy, Romance5.2 (302 votes)10220231013
Miss Austen RegretsIn the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband.2007Jeremy LoveringBiography, Drama, History, Romance7.1 (3.3K votes)9020211228
Miss PotterThe story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness, and success.2006Chris NoonanBiography, Drama, Romance7.0 (29.3K votes)8820211228
MoliereWho was Moliere? He is known everywhere as one of the world's greatest playwrights. But who was he? Born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622, the son of a prosperous tapestry maker. His mother died when he was a boy. Growing up in the tee1978Ariane MnouchkineBiography, Drama, History7.6 (810 votes)26020211228
MoliereTo satisfy his creditors, a witty actor reinvents himself as a satirical playwright, with uproarious, yet bittersweet, results.2007Laurent TirardBiography, Comedy7.2 (6.2K votes)12020211228
NoraDublin, 1904, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste.2000Pat MurphyBiography, Drama6.0 (1.7K votes)10620211228
Out of AfricaIn 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.1985Sydney Pollack (*)Biography, Drama, Romance7.2 (77.6K votes)16120211228
Outlaw, The [Lope]A chronicle of the life of Lope de Vega, the Spanish playwright who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of theater.2010Andrucha WaddingtonBiography, Drama, History6.1 (1.1K votes)10620211228
QuillsIn a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.2000Philip Kaufman (*)Biography, Drama7.3 (53.5K votes)12420211228
Roughing ItA teenaged Mark Twain travels to the American West during the ""Gold Rush"" days in search of fortune and his destiny.2002Charles Martin SmithDrama7.0 (345 votes)18520240427
Rowing with the Wind [Remando al viento]Lord Byron, poet Percy Shelley, his future wife, Mary Shelley (writing Frankenstein) and others spend the summer of 1816 together.1988Gonzalo SuárezDrama, Horror, Mystery, Romance5.7 (1.1K votes)10520221116
Saving Mr BanksAuthor P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.2013John Lee HancockBiography, Comedy, Drama7.5 (158.7K votes)12520211228
ShadowlandsC.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S.1993Richard Attenborough (*)Biography, Drama, Romance7.3 (18.6K votes)13120211228
Shakespeare in LoveThe world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.1998John MaddenComedy, Drama, History, Romance7.1 (221.3K votes)12320211228
SylviaStory of the relationship between poets Edward James "Ted" Hughes (Daniel Craig) and Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow).2003Christine JeffsBiography, Drama, Romance6.3 (10.8K votes)10020211228
This Boy's LifeThe story about the relationship between a rebellious 1950s teenager and his abusive stepfather, based on the memoirs of writer and literature Professor Tobias Wolff.1993Michael Caton-JonesBiography, Drama7.3 (58.3K votes)11520240419
Trials of Oscar Wilde, TheA chronicle of Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it.1960Ken HughesBiography, Drama, History7.1 (921 votes)12320211228
WildeThe turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality.1997Brian GilbertBiography, Drama, Romance6.9 (16.9K votes)11820211228
Will ShakespeareBiography of William Shakespeare.1978Mark Cullingham, Robert Knights, Peter WoodBiography, Drama7.6 (123 votes)120240205
Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, TheThe story of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, and three of their stories...1962Henry Levin, George PalAnimation, Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance6.3 (1.8K votes)13520220731
Cervantes1967Vincent ShermanAdventure, Biography, Drama, History5.6 (Unkn) Excluded
Cervantes1981nanBiography, Drama7.8 (Unkn) Excluded
Cervantes contra Lope2016Manuel HuergaBiography, Drama, History6.8 (Unkn) Excluded
Balzac1999Josée DayanBiography, Drama, Romance6.7 (Unkn) Excluded
In Love and War1996Richard AttenboroughBiography, Drama, Romance, War5.9 (Unkn) Excluded
Viento del pueblo (Miguel Hernández)2002nannan6.1 (Unkn) Excluded